Merchants
Mission
Black/Minority small businesses, Business Dreamers™ and BizKidz™ who want to become entrepreneurs IS our community. We want to invest in your resources with a world-class, affordable community based solution. At Shop Black Enterprise® (SBE) we want each business to keep its autonomy–it’s always the merchant’s business. SBE wants every merchant to maintain direct connection to their customers–in effect SBE wants to be as transparent as possible. We do not want to be Amazon and attract the loyalty of our merchant’s customers–they always belong to our merchant and to the community. Every shopper will have the very best experience enriching themselves as they support minority enterprise everywhere. What you get:
- 30-day free trial with no financial information required
- 100% of your sale always belongs to you
- Major access to global consumers through our state-of-the-art website
- Your own listing page pre-constructed on SBE waiting for you to customize
- Not just a competitive but also a cooperative business development website featuring financial support through the member cooperative association emergency/growth opportunity fund offering you a member only, zero interest, no fee loan program
- Scale is the issue for success to get grants, loans and government contracts, so we encourage, support and provide resources for partnership opportunities with other Black/Minority small business members
- The SBE BlackOffice™ providing you with a full AI business management toolkit to improve your bottom line and to increase sales revenue
- Media exposure for your business on the Shop Black Enterprise Showcase™
- 24/7 broadcast on the SORC® Radio Network live and recorded with access that can reach 30 million shoppers.
- As a merchant member your business will be showcased on a rotational basis
- You never have to wait around hoping shoppers find you, we data mine our shopper profiles daily to push shoppers to your products/services and provide them with SBE Black Coins™ for discounts and events at your business.
Promise
Our promise is to remove persistent barriers to access that have hindered minority businesses from competition especially critical AI platforms that heretofore have limited growth and sustainability. These important resources include proprietary integrated enterprise platforms providing much needed business analytics, a quantifiable customer acquisition and loyalty platform including gift cards and a digital wallet with SBE coins for discount and direct transactions.
We support e-commerce businesses and we grow brick and mortar merchants that are under assault from the ravages of Covid. Brick and Mortar merchants are readily recognized on SBE by city and when a shopper clicks on your business, a mobile map