As a BlackPages.com Affiliate Publisher you will have unlimited potential to generate income by providing a variety of business related products and services to businesses and consumers in your area. Income opportunities are available in several of the following areas:

African American Business Listings
There are more than one million African American owned businesses in the United States. BlackPages.com is the number one address on the Internet to find these businesses. We feature the world's largest database of African American businesses. Consumers may search for businesses by business name, city, state, zip code, or metropolitan area. Major corporations may also search for businesses and minority suppliers by federal SIC code. You will be able to sell Standard Business Listings and Priority Business Listings to businesses in your community. And what better place for these businesses to be listed than at the Internet's leading African American business address, BlackPages.com. As an example our Priority Business Listing sells for $19.95 per month. If five hundred businesses in your market sign up, you would generate approximately $10,000 per month (500 x $19.95).

Website Design Hosting
As a BlackPages.com Affiliate Publisher will be able to provide website design and hosting services for businesses. We have made it very simple for you to sell websites. You will be able to sell award winning, professional, commercial quality web sites from our design gallery. Business owners will always be more than satisfied with their completed websites because they will be able to sign up for a free 10 day trial prior to purchase. All they have to do is visit our design gallery, select a website design an insert their unique information. Most sites can be completed within an hour. We offer various theme sites for restaurants, florists, realtors, etc. We also offer numerous sites that use flash technology with entry movies, pictures and creative fonts. As an Affiliate Publisher you essentially will have all of the websites as part of your professional website portfolio. You'll have many professional looking websites to offer that will really impress your clients. If you or your sales force sell three hundred websites you would generate approximately $12,000 per month in revenue (300 x $39.95).To see examples of the website designs click here.

Online Credit Card Processing
Affiliate Publishers are authorized to sell our e-commerce solutions. These services allow businesses to accept credit card transactions. The businesses who sign up for these services may accept credit cards by telephone, fax, mail, or online by using our "Virtual Terminal". With our virtual terminal the business owner may accept credit card transactions from any computer in the world with an Internet connection. No old fashioned hardware terminals are needed. Our e-commerce solutions also include Internet "shopping carts" such as those used to purchase products at Amazon.com. Lastly, our e-commerce solutions also allow businesses to accept credit card orders directly on their website via secure online order forms. All transactions using the virtual terminal, shopping carts, or online order forms are completed in "real-time" (authorizations take place immediately, in a matter of seconds). All transactions also take place on our secure servers making all transactions totally safe. E-commerce is the number one growth area of the Internet. We believe that almost all businesses will eventually have a website, and that all websites will eventually require the ability to accept electronic payments via the Internet. This represents a tremendous income opportunity. For example, three hundred e-commerce solutions sold would generate approximately $18,000 in revenue per month (300 x $59.95).

Banner Advertising
Banner advertising targeted in local areas actually generates much higher rates than advertising placed in national advertising campaigns. There are quite simply more businesses in local areas who desire to have a strong local presence in their respective markets. Affiliate Publishers may sell banner ads to these local corporations and small businesses. You may sell banner advertising to local businesses such as restaurants, auto dealerships, entertainment venues, non profit organizations, etc. As an Affiliate Publisher, you determine the banner advertisng rates, $250, $500, $1,000 per month etc.

Corporate Sponsorships
Many corporations in your local area may have an interest in reaching out to the online African American community. As an Affiliate Publisher of a local BlackPages.com website you will be in a position to offer sponsorships either in the form of multiple banner ad packages or sponsorships of various sections within the site. Sponsorships may be sold for as little as a few hundred dollars to as much as several thousand dollars per month or per year, based on what you as the Affiliate Publisher negotiate with the sponsoring entity. As an example, thirty sponsorships sold for $300 per month would generate revenue of approximately $9,000 per month.

Event Advertisng
As an Affiliate Publisher, you will be able to allow businesses and organizations in your metropolitan area to advertise thier events for free on your black pages website. Whether it is a business event, social, cultural, religous, or sporting event businesses and organizations will all be using your site and referring others to it to find out more detailed inforamtion from the local events calendar on your site.

Become A Business Leader In Your Community
As the Affiliate Publisher of the local BlackPages online business directory and search engine, your job is to help African American business owners and professionals use technology to grow their businesses. You will be a consultant, publisher, and Internet entrepreneur. Your company will help businesses with advertising, establishing an Internet presence, accepting credit cards and other forms of electronic payments. You will network with many of the successful business owners and professionals in your area in your efforts to reach out to local area businesses, and with success you will eventually be recognized as a leader in the local business community.

The Details
BlackPages.com offers each Affilaite Publisher a license to have a local version of our blackpages.com website and market our business services and products such as business listings, black search engine capability, website design and hosting, credit cards processing, event advertising, etc. in your respective city. The license agreement allows the Affilaite Publisher the ability to make money and operate the business in the way most productive to their unique market. There is a one time Affiliate Publisher licensing fee for the set up and design of your local blackpages.com website which varies depending on the size, population, and demographics of your respecive market and a small monthly administrative and maintenance fee.

Lets Work Together
BlackPages.com's is already the number one African American search engine, online directory and business website on the Internet. As an Affiliate Publisher you can own the number one African American search engine, online directory, and business website for your city or metropolitan area. Each year the Internet continues to grow and become a more important and intergral part of our lives. The individuals who pioneered radio and television years ago are successful and financially secure today because they saw an opportunity and acted on it. The Internet certainly represents a similar opportunity and at a fraction of the cost. BlackPages.com's goal is to have successful Affiliate Publisher relationships in every city and metro area throughout the United States, together we will grow blackpages.com and our network of Affiliates Publishers to become a household word and powerful force in the African American community. The Internet holds opportunities and resources beyond expectations, together we can tap into this revolution a prosper. There will be only one license available for each city or metropolitan area, so contact us now for more details and grab this fantastic opportunity to cash in on the explosive growth of the Internet before someone else in your market beats you to it.

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