BBSVT online community is for the uplift, growth, and interaction of community members, advertisers, and sponsors of the tour. The goal is to develop ongoing relationships between these entities. In this light there is NO ADVERTISING on this community unless you are an official advertiser or sponsor of the BBSVT.
Member's comment boxes ARE NOT ADVERTISING SPACES. The goal and purpose is for you to interact and get to know one another, to build trust. You can solicit via mail (maybe you'll personalize your outreach), signature (and it shouldn't take up half the page), in the forums, your blog, your page. There are plenty of opportunities to solicit.
We want to respect other people's personal spaces. Allow them to brand and showcase themselves. HOPEFULLY, our family will use this structure to implement good marketing tactics;
- (1) to get to know people, their business, and what's important to them,
- (2) to use gained knowledge to find points of interest and commonality,
- (3) build relationships and trust,
- (4) to reach out to people on a consistent basis and to post your offerings ona consistent basis in different manners (sometimes via mail, someties via blogs, forum posts, PAID ADVERTISING, etc).
THIS WAY WHEN PEOPLE EXPERIENCE YOUR OFFERING THERE WILL BE SOME FAMILIARITY & TRUST; THEREBY, MAKING PEOPLE MORE WILLING TO BUY.
If you would like to advertise or sponsor call 215.74.1237 or email sponsor@bbsvaluetour.com. Remember, BBS Value Tour is also part of Black Business Space which has almost 8,000 members. BBSVT is also on over 30 targeted social networking sites and microblogs, and has an internet TV station, which in its infancy averages over 1500 minutes viewership per month.