bizHive

Hi, I’m Dave Walker, co-founder of bizHive.

I’ve spent my career in local marketing. 

I’ve planned and placed over $20Bil in local marketing on behalf of brands like WalMart & Toys R Us & Home Depot.

Most recently, I founded Geomentum, Media Magazine’s 2010 Agency of the Year.

In 2012, our bizHive team went to work on solving a huge local marketing problem.

It's a problem faced by millions of Small Business Owners across the US who know they need smart marketing. 

These same Small Businesses spent $75Bil last year on what they really, really hoped was smart marketing.

The trouble is it’s hard for Small Businesses to come by smart. 

New marketing & new media change around the Small Business Owner every day, an overwhelming marketplace of new and unfamiliar choices.

It’s made crazier by a jungle of sales reps promising the “next big thing.”

So it’s really easy to make expensive mistakes, especially when Time and Trust are in short supply.

The irony here is that Sellers suffer, too.  They pay hundreds of dollars to even reach a single Small Business, much less close a sale.

They get lost in that same jungle.

The $75Bil problem is a broken marketplace.

It’s why we invented bizHive.

bizHive is where smart small businesses meet smart Marketing.

bizHive is a simple & smart way for millions of Small Businesses to learn about, shop & buy the resources they need to get the jobs of smart marketing done. 

Our thousands of Small Biz Members learn what works, how to do it, what to pay and most importantly, who to trust.

Our proprietary bizMatch system intelligently connects the Small Biz Buyer to the resources and Suppliers right for them. 

We then offer Sellers pre-qualified appointments with a better prepared Small Business Buyer who wants help now. 

Our bizMatch Suppliers pay for these Premium Referrals, at a price one-fifth of average inbound marketing costs.

Making bizHive a disruptive value proposition for all players in our re-invented marketplace.

So here’s where we are:

We’ve won the trust of thousands of Small Biz Members in just a few months.

We’ve made hundreds of job referrals since launching bizMatch in mid-December.

Our conversion rate >18% and rising every week. 

We’re agile with a boot-strapped mindset, but funded/backed by some very big names in our space. 

We collectively have a precise plan for building our business on a scale of a Constant Contact or a Groupon. 

Meaning we're on our way to over 800K Small Business Members within 3 years.

We're looking to the Built in Chicago community to form the backbone of our Expert Supplier offering. 

If you are fellow start-up or an established firm with marketing, advertising, or media service(s) or app(s) that would appeal to our Small Business Members, we want to talk to you. 

We hope you share our mission to re-invent this $75Bil marketplace!

Interested?  Please contact me directly at [email protected], or at 630-338-7681!