bizHive

<p class="heading-subtitle">&nbsp;</p><p class="heading-subtitle"><strong>Hi, I’m Dave Walker, co-founder of bizHive.</strong></p><p>I’ve spent my career in local marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>I’ve planned and placed over $20Bil in local marketing on behalf of brands like WalMart &amp; Toys R Us &amp; Home Depot.</p><p>Most recently, I founded Geomentum, Media Magazine’s 2010 Agency of the Year.</p><p>In 2012, our bizHive team went to work on solving a huge local marketing problem.</p><p>It's a problem faced by millions of Small Business Owners across the US who <strong><em>know</em></strong> they need smart marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>These same Small Businesses spent $75Bil last year on what they really, really <em><strong>hoped</strong></em> was smart marketing.</p><p>The trouble is it’s hard for Small Businesses to come by smart.&nbsp;</p><p>New marketing &amp; new media change around the Small Business Owner every day, an overwhelming marketplace of new and unfamiliar choices.</p><p>It’s made crazier by a jungle of sales reps promising the “next big thing.”</p><p>So it’s really easy to make expensive mistakes, especially when Time and Trust are in short supply.</p><p>The irony here is that Sellers suffer, too.&nbsp; They pay hundreds of dollars to even reach a single Small Business, much less close a sale.</p><p>They get lost in that same jungle.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><em>The $75Bil problem is a broken marketplace.</em></strong></p><p class="heading-title"><em><strong>It’s why we invented bizHive.</strong></em></p><p>bizHive is where smart small businesses meet smart Marketing.</p><p>bizHive is a simple &amp; smart way for millions of Small Businesses to learn about, shop &amp; buy the resources they need to get the jobs of smart marketing done.&nbsp;</p><p>Our thousands of Small Biz Members learn what works, how to do it, what to pay and most importantly, who to trust.</p><p>Our proprietary bizMatch system intelligently connects the Small Biz Buyer to the resources and Suppliers right for them.&nbsp;</p><p>We then offer Sellers pre-qualified appointments with a better prepared Small Business Buyer who wants help now.&nbsp;</p><p>Our bizMatch Suppliers pay for these Premium Referrals, at a price one-fifth of average inbound marketing costs.</p><p>Making bizHive a disruptive value proposition for all players in our re-invented marketplace.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p class="heading-subtitle"><strong><em>So here’s where we are:</em></strong></p><p>We’ve won the trust of thousands of Small Biz Members in just a few months.</p><p>We’ve made hundreds of job referrals since launching bizMatch in mid-December.</p><p>Our conversion rate &gt;18% and rising every week.&nbsp;</p><p>We’re agile with a boot-strapped mindset, but funded/backed by some very big names in our space.&nbsp;</p><p>We collectively have a precise plan for building our business on a scale of a Constant Contact or a Groupon.&nbsp;</p><p>Meaning we're on our way to over 800K Small Business Members within 3 years.</p><p><strong><em>We're looking to the Built in Chicago community to form the backbone of our Expert Supplier offering.&nbsp; </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>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.&nbsp; </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>We hope you share our mission to re-invent this $75Bil marketplace</em></strong>!<em><strong> </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Interested?&nbsp; Please contact me directly at [email protected], or at 630-338-7681!</strong></em></p>