Own a Business.
Build a Community.
Create Recurring Revenue.
Community Business Directory Network gives entrepreneurs, organizations, schools, chambers of commerce, community organizations, nonprofits, and agencies everything they need to own and grow a successful business directory.
Our Mission
The mission of Community Business Directory Network is to connect, equip, encourage, and mobilize local business owners to grow successful businesses, build meaningful relationships, live out their purpose in the marketplace, support one another, and work together with community organizations and nonprofits to serve and impact their communities for community.
Our Vision
To build a connected Local Business marketplace in every community where purpose, business, and service come together—helping people discover and support local businesses, equipping business owners to live out their purpose in the marketplace, strengthening relationships between businesses, community organizations, and nonprofits, and mobilizing the marketplace to serve and impact the community for community.
Built for the people building their cities.
Every Community Business Directory Network directory is a Community Directory — one owner, one community.
Own your community's business directory with recurring revenue.
Give your community a modern guide to its locally owned businesses.
Champion the values-driven businesses inside your congregation and city.
Give the local business community in your community one home online.
Fund your mission through your community directory.
Add a recurring-revenue community directory to what you already do.
Build it part-time in your own community, on your own schedule.
A local business you can run from anywhere in your community.
A modern business model with lasting impact.
Generate annual recurring income through business listings, sponsorships, featured placements, and advertising.
Create a business that grows in value over time — an asset you own, operate, and can eventually sell.
Help local businesses gain visibility while encouraging people to support the merchants they know and trust.
Technology, support, training, and continuous innovation — all in one national platform.
From idea to launched directory in four steps.
Pick the category and audience your directory will serve.
Add your name, logo, colors, and domain — you're the brand.
Go live with a complete, hosted, ready-to-run directory.
Onboard businesses, sponsors, and advertisers month after month.
Backed by a national platform. Owned by you.
Everything you need to run a directory business in one place.
A modernized approach to the tested directory playbook.
Enterprise-grade infrastructure, security, and performance.
Onboarding, playbooks, and continuous learning for owners.
Templates, campaigns, and assets to accelerate growth.
A dedicated success team standing behind every owner.
Ready to Own Your Own Business Directory?
Join the growing Community Business Directory Network and start building a recurring revenue business that serves your community.
What you get as a community directory owner.
A complete, ready-to-launch directory platform plus the training and marketing tools to grow it in your community.
Own your community's directory
Each owner runs a single community directory — your own domain, your own listings, and full control of the businesses you feature and the categories you open.
Built-in revenue tools
Free, premium and featured listing tiers, sponsorship slots and Stripe checkout are already wired in, so you can invite local businesses and collect payments from day one.
Backed by the network
Every community directory is promoted on Find a Business Directory, sharing traffic, marketing resources and owner training across the Community Business Directory Network network.