City Business Directory Network
Own a City Business Directory
Build a meaningful business. Serve your local community. Keep 100% of the revenue.
City Business Directory Network is expanding with locally owned local business directories across the country. Own and operate the directory for your local community — this is not a franchise.
Annual platform fee
$997
per year
- No revenue sharing
- No percentage taken from your sales
- No franchise royalties
The opportunity
What is a City Business Directory?
A City Business Directory is an online business directory designed to connect local consumers with locally owned businesses in a specific city or local market. Your directory can become the trusted local resource for people who want to support businesses that share their values.
You are not building the technology from scratch. The directory platform has already been created and can be branded for your city — so you can focus on building relationships, promoting the directory, and growing recurring revenue.
Independent ownership
Individually owned — connected through a national network
While some directories are currently owned by City Business Directory Network, our goal is to have each City Business Directory individually owned and operated. If you see a City Directory with the City Business Directory logo, it is available for an ownership opportunity.
You are not purchasing a franchise, and you are not becoming an employee of City Business Directory Network. You are purchasing annual access to a proven directory platform that allows you to operate your own local business directory.
Your directory will also be promoted as part of the larger City Business Directory Network, helping people discover local businesses and local city directories throughout the country.
Your revenue
You receive 100% of the revenue
When a business purchases a listing through your directory, the revenue goes to you. City Business Directory Network does not take a percentage of your listing sales. Use the recommended pricing structure or develop pricing that works best for your local market.
Free Listings
No cost
Allow local businesses to create a basic presence in your directory.
Premium Listings
$240 / year
Enhanced visibility, additional business information, website links, images, and other upgraded features.
Featured Listings
$360 / year
Greater exposure and priority placement throughout the directory for selected businesses.
Example revenue potential
Your results will depend on your effort, market, pricing, and ability to build relationships with local businesses. The following example is for illustration only and is not a guarantee of income.
- 50 Premium Listings at $240 annually
- $12,000
- 25 Featured Listings at $360 annually
- $9,000
- Total annual revenue
- $21,000
- Your annual platform fee
- $997
The directory owner would retain the listing revenue after normal business expenses and payment-processing fees. As listings renew each year, your directory has the potential to create recurring annual income.
Recurring by design
A business that can grow year after year
Unlike a one-time fundraiser or short-term sales campaign, a City Business Directory can continue producing revenue as long as you maintain and grow it. Each year, you can:
- Renew existing business listings
- Add new locally owned businesses
- Develop relationships with community organizations
- Promote the directory through social media
- Connect with local organizations
- Highlight local business owners
- Offer advertising and sponsorship opportunities
- Create local networking opportunities
- Encourage people to support local businesses
Turnkey technology
The platform is already built
Building a professional directory platform from the ground up can cost thousands of dollars and require months of development. With City Business Directory Network, the technology and foundation are already in place — customized for your city without changing the core system.
Your directory can include
- Your city name and local branding
- Your logo and preferred colors
- Business categories
- Searchable business listings
- Free, Premium, and Featured listings
- Business profile pages
- Online listing registration
- Online payment collection
- Administrative tools
- Listing management
- Mobile-friendly design
- Local contact information
- Promotion within the City Business Directory Network
What City Business Directory Network provides
- A professionally built business directory platform
- Branding for your city or local market
- Website hosting and platform access
- Directory software and functionality
- Business categories and listing structure
- Administrative access
- Payment integration capabilities
- Platform maintenance and updates
- Training and guidance
- Marketing ideas and promotional resources
- Inclusion within the City Business Directory Network
What you control
- Choose which businesses to invite
- Build relationships with local organizations
- Promote your directory within your community
- Set or adjust your listing prices
- Approve and manage listings
- Create local promotions
- Feature selected businesses
- Develop sponsorship opportunities
- Build your own local audience
- Receive the revenue generated through your directory
You bring the local relationships, passion, and leadership. We provide the platform and structure.
Is this you?
Who is this opportunity for?
- local entrepreneurs
- local business owners
- Community leaders and connectors
- Community members who enjoy networking
- Sales and marketing professionals
- Community leaders
- Retirees seeking a flexible business
- Couples building a business together
- People passionate about supporting local businesses
- Individuals looking for recurring annual income
- People with existing community or business relationships
You do not need to be a website developer.
You do not need to know how to code.
You do not need to build a platform from the ground up.
You need a desire to serve your community, connect with local business owners, and consistently promote your directory.
Work from anywhere
Your City Business Directory can be operated from home or from anywhere you have internet access. You can build it full-time, part-time, alongside another business, as a retirement business, as a family business, or as an additional source of income.
More than revenue
Help people support local businesses
A City Business Directory can help strengthen the local business community by making it easier for believers to find and support one another. Your directory can help:
- local business owners gain greater exposure
- Consumers find trusted local professionals
- Local organizations connect members with local businesses
- Business owners build relationships
- Money remain within the local community
- Local entrepreneurs grow
- Community and business grow together in a practical way
Simple annual platform fee
$997
annually
Your annual fee provides continued access to the directory platform, technology, hosting, updates, and the City Business Directory Network. There is no required revenue split, and no franchise royalties.
You receive 100% of the revenue generated through your directory.
Normal payment-processing fees, taxes, marketing expenses, and other operating expenses remain the responsibility of the individual directory owner.
Secure checkout — $997.00. You'll be redirected to our payment processor.
Reserve your city
Check availability for your city
Cities are awarded one owner at a time. Tell us where you serve and we'll confirm whether your city is still open.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Your city. Your relationships. Your revenue.
You do not have to spend months building software, pay a developer thousands of dollars, or give away a percentage of every sale. For only $997 annually, you can receive the platform you need to begin building a valuable local business.
- Own your City Business Directory
- Serve your community
- Promote locally owned businesses
- Receive 100% of the revenue