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For Accredited Businesses, BBB.org is a portal for potential customers to visit your business profile, a landing page where you can share your story, website, contact information, images, videos, and more.

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With hundreds of on-demand courses on a variety of business topics, BBB Learning gives you the tools you need to advance your skills while keeping ethical business practices top of mind. Accredited Business receive a 25% discount on courses.

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Customers use BBB’s Get a Quote tool because they know they’re ready to engage with a trusted business. These are leads - ones that can convert to sales quickly, delivered straight to your inbox or cell phone. 

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BBB's dispute resolution services are more cost-effective, less time-consuming, and more convenient than traditional legal channels, offering businesses and consumers a streamlined approach to resolving conflicts. Accredited Businesses recieve discounted rates for the services.    

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Business events

BBB hosts a variety of networking and educational events, some exclusively offered to BBB Accredited Businesses. See the calendar below for upcoming webinars, networking opportunities and more!

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BBB Trust Monitors: maximizing your website, search rankings and customer reviews

Now more than ever, trust starts with online searches, business directories, and reviews. While you're taking care of business, BBB Online Trust Monitors are taking care of your reputation management online. You're notified if we find broken links, inaccurate contact info on sites like Google, and more.

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Our research into thousands of businesses showed that BBB, Facebook, Yelp, Google, and YP were consistently the highest ranked directory sites in search engine results. BBB uses AI-driven technology to help Accredited Businesses ensure their information is accurate on these directories.

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BBB offers monitors that help Accredited Businesses improve their website. The monitors ensure that the ABs websites are credible and secure, delivering the professionalism their customers expect.

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Your one-stop customer review monitor

BBB's Customer Review Monitor provides Accredited Businesses an overview of customer review traffic from five of the major review sites. See your customer sentiment at a glance to monitor & manage your customers' needs    . 

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Over 70% of responses from Accredited Businesses agreed that BBB is a helpful business resource, and 77% agreed that BBB helps connect customers to trusted businesses. 

When asked about the value of BBB services to their businesses, over 80% of Accredited Businesses responses said that BBB customer reviewsbusiness profiles, and complaint resolution services have good value. Better yet, over 90% identified BBB Ratings as the most valuable BBB service.

Accredited Businesses identified their top three business challenges this year as (1) managing increasing costs, (2) growing the business, (3) and hiring and retaining employees. BBB has helpful resources to help navigate these obstacles.

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Speakers from BBB of Greater Maryland are available to lead community presentations, professional workshops, and educational seminars on various topics related to consumer awareness and ethical business practices.

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