BBB Serving Central California & Inland Empire Counties: Benefits of being a BBB Accredited Businesses

All this is available to you and your employees as a BBB Accredited Business:

ACCREDITATION DECAL & CERTIFICATE

The BBB logo is a long-established sign of ethical business. Proudly promote your honest, reliable business practices by displaying your BBB decal and certificate in your business, or wherever you are operating.

 

BBB® DYNAMIC SEAL

If you have a website, you need a BBB Dynamic Seal! It assures your customers that your company meets strict BBB standards, and that yours is a site they can trust! Apply for a Dynamic Seal by contacting Cindy at cindy@ccie.bbb.org.

 

PERSONALIZED BUSINESS PROFILE

You can customize your BBB Business Profile to reflect the description of your business, products/ services, refund policies, hours of operation, and service area. Add multiple photos, company logo, and videos, to create a unique and long lasting first impression! Photos, videos and links are critical for marketing on the internet.

 

BBB® CUSTOMER REVIEWS

Take full advantage of BBB Customer Reviews. Ask your customers to post their review for you! We review the submissions to make sure they are truly your customer before they are posted.

 

START WITH TRUST®

Start With Trust—BBB’s official Accredited Business publication—provides you and your employees with up-to-the-minute news, intriguing features, new Accredited Business lists, unanswered complaints and more. All this is published monthly via e-mail, in a lively, easy to read format.

 

BBB® GET-A-QUOTE

Is a lead generating program consumers may access through our website to request price estimates for products and services. We send the actual proposal to Accredited Businesses that could fulfill the request for an opportunity to gain a new customer.

 

BBB® LOGO ADVERTISING

BBB® Serving Central California & Inland Empire Counties is the first BBB nationwide to allow its Accredited Businesses to display the BBB logo in any offline advertising in our eleven-county service area: display ads, phone directories, business cards and letterheads are just a few examples of how you can use your BBB logo to your best advantage.

 

WWW.BBB.ORG

Our website features our New Unified Directory, where Accredited Businesses will display the BBB Seal and their Company Logo. We provide the Accredited Business Portal, Customer Reviews, and Get-A-Quote Logos for your website, in addition to scam alerts and links to other sites of interest.

 

ACCREDITED BUSINESS GUIDE, THE SOURCE OF BBB TRUSTED BUSINESSES

Published annually, the Accredited Business Guide is a current list of the Accredited Businesses of your BBB. It is distributed to our Accredited Businesses, through our community outreach programs, and is available to the general public. A digital version can be found here.

 

ACCREDITED BUSINESS LISTS

Callers ask us for the names of honest companies every day. While we can’t recommend a specific company, we can provide lists of our Accredited Businesses in your business category. Your very next customer might find you that way.

 

BETTER BUSINESS TOOLBOX

A business management system that keeps multiple digital tools in one platform to easily manage your online presence. This system is a-la-carte, which allows businesses to customize digital products and only pay for what they need without getting tied into contracts with pricing at or below market rate!

Services include:

  • Website Builder
  • Social Media Manager
  • Lead Generation
  • Email Marketing
  • E-Commerce Plug-ins
  • SEO & CRM Tools

Visit BBB.org/Toolbox to learn more

 

THE CEO FORUM GROUP

BBB has a new program that allows Accredited Businesses the benefit of thought leadership content and insight. Through in-depth interviews with over 1,000 top CEOs, The CEO Forum Group brings expertise from across the nation that you can use in your business. Included with your FREE membership at The CEO Forum Group:

  • Access to thousands of interviews with Top CEOs
  • New CEO interviews every week
  • Weekly CEO Survey Report
  • Access to special quarterly CEO Summit events
  • The CEO Forum Magazine

Visit The CEO Forum Group to learn more.

 

MEDIATION SERVICES PROVIDED BY BBB®

This service is offered when disputes between two parties cannot be resolved. Informal proceedings are held before the mediator, and both parties work to reach an agreement. The program can save Accredited Businesses court costs, time and money in settling complaints. This service is available to all employees of the Accredited Business.

 

ARBITRATION SERVICES

This service is offered when phone and other channels of communication fail to bring resolution to the problem. Arbitration is a formal process where the parties involved sign a binding agreement. Both parties will have the opportunity to state their case before a trained, professional arbitrator who will make a final, binding decision.

 

INTERVENTION PROGRAM

Though we are NOT a collection agency, we can assist you with those difficult accounts. This service is free, and you receive 100 percent of any monies retrieved.

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Smarter Living for Students/Seniors is an hour-long presentation designed to help become a better informed consumer, and to learn how to identify ways to protect yourself from questionable transactions, or from falling victim to a potential scam.

BBB Military line is a consumer education program. We work to bring financial literacy training and tips, fraud alerts, and smart investing resources. We seek to equip those who serve, have served, and their families with the tools they need to navigate an ever changing and often complex marketplace. Speakers are available upon request during regular business hours.

You can request a speaker by phone at 559-256-6329 or email liliya@ccie.bbb.org