BlackPages.com - Business Servies

A Variety of Business Services
BlackPages.com is the leading provider of business and Internet services to the African American business and online community. Whether you have a well established business with hundreds of employees, or are just starting a new, small, or home based business we can help. We can help by putting your business on the information super highway or supplying many of the services you will need to advertise and promote your business properly allowing you the greatest chance of success in an increasingly competitive business environment. We provide all of the following business services:

Internet Advertising
Internet advertising is growing exponentially. By the year 2000, Internet advertising alone is expected to exceed $4 billion dollars. Advertising on the Internet is growing exponentially because it has proven to be extremely effective and allows targeting like never before. BlackPages.com is one of the leading Internet sites targeting the African American online community. If you are interested in advertising information about your business, product, or service to the millions of consumers surfing the world wide web check out our advertising information.

Print Advertising
The Yellow Pages has demonstrated that directory advertising is extremely effective and efficient for businesses who use it. When consumers are interested in using products and services from business they don�t already have relationships with, they tend to find those businesses in the Yellow Pages. Consumers who wish to support and patronize African American owned businesses use the Black Pages to identify businesses providing the products and services they need. If you own a business and are interested in placing print advertising in either of the Black Pages directories or Black Business directories we are associated with, please contact us at adsales@blackpages.com and we will refer your information to the Publisher of the respective directory. Currently the printed publications we refer advertising request to, cover the following metropolitan areas: Baltimore, Hampton, Los Angeles, Memphis, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Richmond, St. Louis, and Washington, DC.

Mailing Lists
Through our association with BlackLists.com, the Internet�s leading provider of African American mailing lists, business owners can target direct mail campaigns to African Americans covering specific states, regions, groups, and other businesses throughout the U.S. BlackLists.com also provides mailing list of African American business owners, high income households, and opportunity seekers. For more information on developing a direct mail or marketing campaign targeted at the African American.

E-mail Accounts (Free)
We offer all visitors to our web site free web based e-mail. The e-mail is free to anyone wishing to use it. Business owners may also assign an e-mail address to all of their company�s employees. One major advantage of our web based e-mail is that unlike traditional e-mail, that may only be checked from your own computer, our web based e-mail may be checked from any computer anywhere in the world that has a connection to the Internet.

Business Listings
The BlackPages.com business database is the largest database in the world of African American owned businesses. Anyone owning a business may have consumers find their business simply by searching our comprehensive database. If your business is not part of the Internet�s largest database of African American owned businesses you are missing a great opportunity. To list your business, go to our list your buisness page.

Premier Business Listings
Businesses may be listed in our searchable business database, however in order to have your business appear first in our search results, you should purchase our Premier Listing Package. The Premier Listing package includes: priority listing � your business comes up first before other non Premier listings, a link from our web site to yours, a BPA web page/site that you create, e-mail account, and map to your location. To sign up for a Premier Listing click here.

Web Site Design
If you are interested in establishing an Internet presence for your business you�ve come to the right place. We have our own Internet web developers and are associated with many other web development firms. Whether you are interested in a very basic, low cost site or a more complex and multifunctional site we can get you online with an affordable and timely solution. For more detailed information visit get a web site.

Web Site Hosting
Web design is only part of developing an Internet presence. Not only must you have your web site designed, but your web site must be hosted on a computer server that has a dedicated, 24 hour a day, 365 day a year connection to the Internet. We have dedicated servers available to host your site with full backup redundancy so that you don�t experience down time. The purpose of designing a site is to drive visitors to you site. By hosting your site at blackpagesofamerica.com you�ll be hosting at the largest African American business search engine on the Internet. We can also register your site at other top ten web sites like Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, etc.

Event Advertising (Free)
Blackpagesofamerica.com allows anyone planning an event to list information regarding their event in our unique "Event Database". Having information related to your event in our database is a form of advertising that is free to you. Anyone, anywhere in the world will be able to search for events in your city or state and have specific detailed information about your event available to them. For more information about searching or adding information visit our Event Database.

Merchant Bank Accounts
In order to provide credit card acceptance for customers, businesses must have what is called a merchant bank account. This is an account issued by a registered representative of a bank which allows you to accept credit. We have relationships with the top merchant banks in the industry and can get almost anyone a merchant bank account, even individuals who may have experienced credit problems in the past. If you want to accept credit cards we can get you set up in no time guaranteed.