LOCAL COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORIES

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.

100%
Directory Ownership
200+
Categories Supported
24/7
Platform & Support
Community Business Directory Network

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.

Community Business Directory Network

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.

Who We Serve

Built for the people building their cities.

Every Community Business Directory Network directory is a Community Directory — one owner, one community.

Entrepreneurs

Own your community's business directory with recurring revenue.

Community Leaders

Give your community a modern guide to its locally owned businesses.

Community Organizations

Champion the values-driven businesses inside your congregation and city.

Business Networks

Give the local business community in your community one home online.

Nonprofits & Leadership Programs

Fund your mission through your community directory.

Marketing Pros

Add a recurring-revenue community directory to what you already do.

Bi-vocational Leaders

Build it part-time in your own community, on your own schedule.

Retiring Professionals

A local business you can run from anywhere in your community.

Why Own a Business Directory

A modern business model with lasting impact.

Recurring Revenue

Generate annual recurring income through business listings, sponsorships, featured placements, and advertising.

Build a Valuable Digital Asset

Create a business that grows in value over time — an asset you own, operate, and can eventually sell.

Strengthen Your Community

Help local businesses gain visibility while encouraging people to support the merchants they know and trust.

Powered by Community Business Directory Network

Technology, support, training, and continuous innovation — all in one national platform.

How It Works

From idea to launched directory in four steps.

Step 1
Choose Your Directory

Pick the category and audience your directory will serve.

Step 2
Customize Your Brand

Add your name, logo, colors, and domain — you're the brand.

Step 3
Launch Your Platform

Go live with a complete, hosted, ready-to-run directory.

Step 4
Grow Your Recurring Revenue

Onboard businesses, sponsors, and advertisers month after month.

Why Community Business Directory Network

Backed by a national platform. Owned by you.

Complete Business Platform

Everything you need to run a directory business in one place.

Proven Business Model

A modernized approach to the tested directory playbook.

Premium Technology

Enterprise-grade infrastructure, security, and performance.

Training & Education

Onboarding, playbooks, and continuous learning for owners.

Marketing Resources

Templates, campaigns, and assets to accelerate growth.

Ongoing Support

A dedicated success team standing behind every owner.

Why owners join

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.

Included with every Community Directory

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.

Included with every Community Directory

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.

Included with every Community Directory
Take the next step

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.