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Get Exposure For Your Black-Owned Business, And Use Powerful Online Tools To Promote Directly To Black Consumers
Whether you own a retail store, an online business, are based out of a home or office, offer a product service, are an independent agent or a network marketing distributor, a Networker membership is a great way to let the Black community know about your business.
- Potentially connect with over 45,000 Black Business Network members.
- Promote your business to consumers specifically interested in supporting Black-owned businesses.
- Network with other Black business owners interested in Business-To-Business networking.
- Promote your products and services to potential consumers frequently, using powerful online tools.
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Price
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Networker memberships are for one full year of service, renewable automatically at the end of your contract term until cancelled. |
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$49 per month
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+ $49 one time activation
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$573 for year
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$99 per month
(one year contract)
+ $199 one time activation
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$1159 for year
(save 10%)
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| ** purchase products from our online store worth XX points, place them on autoship to receive them every month, and get awarded your advertising FREE, with no contract or cancellation penalty. |
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| ONLINE ADVERTISING FEATURES |
| Black Business Profile |
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| Video Commercial |
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| ONLINE NETWORKING FEATURES |
| Promote on Message Boards |
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| Publish a Blog |
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| Gain Followers Online |
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| Send Messages To Individual Followers |
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| Publish News Articles |
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Post Events
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| Post Help Wanted Ads |
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| Included In Automatic Follower Suggestions |
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| Send Message Blasts To Followers |
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| LIVE EVENT FEATURES |
| Speak On Stage |
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| Vend At Networking Events |
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Black Business Profile
A Black Business Profile gives information about your Black-owned business to Black people who visit to the Black Business Network website.
You can display your business name, address, phone number(s), email address and website link, plus company logo or photograph.
You can also display a description of your business, detailed information about the purpose of your business, your recommended products and information about yourself.
You also can customize an additional full page of your own with more information, as well as a page about your business opportunity if you offer one. You can update your Black Business Profile as often as you like. |
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Banner Advertisement
A banner advertisement is a very effective way to get Black Business Network website visitors interested in your business. Banner advertisements appear on many pages on the website and 'rotate' (change to a new ad every few seconds. This keeps your Black businesses out in front of our visitors and can lead to contacts and sales.
When a user clicks your banner ad, it can either go to your Black business profile or directly to your product in the Buy Black Today online store.
You can supply us with your own website banner:
- Your banner should measure 320 x 310 pixels.
- The banner should include positive, Black people in the photo (if people are shown)
- It should direct the user to "click here" for more.
- Your ad should be in the JPG format.
- It should NOT contain too much information, since it only stays on the screen for 6 seconds at a time.
We can also design and produce a professional banner advertisement for you, for an additional charge. |
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Contact Me Button
A very powerful feature of the Black Business Network website is that a "Contact Me" button can be placed in your profile. When a website visitor views your profile and is interested in doing business with you, they press the button. When pressed, our system will immediately send you a text message with the name, phone number and email address of the potential customer. You can then call the potential customer immediately, answer his or questions, and close the sale.
Customers are most interested in doing business with you at the moment that they are reading about your company or watching your video on the Black Business Network website. If it takes days for you to reply to a question, the potential sale could be lost. The ability to respond to customer inquiries immediately, while they are interested, gives you a great advantage in converting interested visitors into paying customers. |
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Video Commercial
Video commercials are a powerful way to get people to know about your company, products, services and/or opportunity. The best commercial features you speaking about your company. When Black consumers see your Black face and hear you passionately describe your Black company in your own voice, they gain an immediate connection with you. This can greatly increase your sales.
We can film a 60-second video commercial of you speaking about your products at one of our live events, or you can send us a video you've filmed yourself. Your video commercial will be edited and then made available for our members to view on this website.
We can also produce more elaborate promotional videos, presentations and even infomercials about your Black-owned business that can be played on this website and/or made into DVDs, for an additional charge. |
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Promote On Message Boards
One of the most exciting features of the Black Business Network are the various message boards found throughout the website. Members use the message boards to communicate with one another, socialize and find out about Black-owned businesses.
As a business member, you can post messages promoting your business on almost all of the message boards, giving you great exposure throughout the website. |
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Blog
Blogs are personal diaries of experiences, views and opinions of the writer. Blogs are written by ordinary people about everything from politics to cooking. Blogs are relatively new and have become an Internet SENSATION. Millions of people return to particular websites to read Blogs they like, every single day. Good blogs are very effective at gaining a fan base. For a Black business, this can be tremendously valuable. By publishing a blog, the business can gain thousands of readers who develop an emotional attachment to the business owner, and become loyal customers to the business.
You can publish a Blog about your Black-owned business. By adding new entries to your Blog often (weekly, preferably daily), you can gain a lot of readers, fans, and eventually loyal customers. |
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Gain Followers
Users of the Black Business Network website can choose to "Follow" your business. By becoming a Follower, they will receive your communications directly to their mailbox. By building a big group of Followers, you can promote your business directly with lots of Black Business Network members.
Anytime you post Blog entries, news articles, event, special offers, help wanted ads, or send blast messages, your Followers get notified immediately. Your Followers can choose to be notified via email or even by text message.
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Publish News Articles
Let people know the latest news about your company by publishing news articles. Articles will appear on your business page, as well as on the main news page, and will be viewable by your Followers. By publishing news articles regularly, you can gain a fan base that can turn into paying customers. |
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Post Events
Add your upcoming events to the Black Business Network website so that all of your Followers can see it. Black Business Network members will be able to register online for your event, and refer the event to their friends. |
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Post Special Offers
Got a special sale happening in your company? Post your special offer on the Black Business Network website where thousands of website visitors can see it. |
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Post Help Wanted Ads
Looking for employees? Post your job listing on the Black Business Network Help Wanted page, where it can be seen by lots of members. Your Followers will also be notified that you posted a new Help Wanted Ad. |
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Automatic Follower Suggestions
As members use the Black Business Network website, certain businesses in their fields of interest will be recommended to them to Follow. Once they are Following that business, the Black business owner can communicate with them directly through the Black Business Network.
With this feature, your business will automatically be included at random in Follower suggestions to members. |
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Send Message Blasts To Followers
With this feature, you can send messages to ALL of your Followers at once, rather than one at a time. This feature is an invaluable time saver for communicating with the members of your network. |
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Speaking at Events
Black Business Network events are held weekly in Atlanta, Georgia at TAG TEAM Marketing headquarters and soon in other cities as well. Black Business Network Networkers get to speak on stage and promote their products and/or services to the entire audience (higher positions first, on a first come, first served basis). These presentations are priceless because Black Business Network members get to show/demonstrate their product/service and share exciting success stories from their customers. This can lead to lots of great networking and sales at the event afterwards. |
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Vending
Vending is a fantastic way to generate instant sales and revenues for Black business owners. The Black Business Network hosts live events where members can set up vending tables and sell their products to the attendees.
The most unique and powerful aspect of vending at Black Business Network events is that it is a team effort. Black Business Network members bring and display their merchandise, and offer part of the sales price as a sales commission. Members of TAG TEAM Marketing's "Black Star" Opportunity in turn bring lots of people to the events and encourage them to shop with the vendors, so they can earn those commissions. As a result, the two groups work together to make each event a great success.
Only Black Business Network members can vend at Black Business Network events. Vending space is included free at Platinum Networker and all Supplier membership levels, and can be purchased at all other business membership levels. At each event, tables are made available on a first come, first served basis. |
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