Create your own community or regional directory and showcase your supporters with global publicity inexpensively while you increase visits to your own site. Add listings to the local directory as rewards for donations and optionally earns fees. Create jobs for employees or volunteers. INQUIRE

Standard

Typically a local nonprofit organization (NGO) with listings by sponsors who may be businesses, other nonprofits or individuals. Standard affiliates include religious groups, political parties, sports programs or many other types of associations.

Regional

Normally organized at a national or metropolitan level focusing on commercial activity, but they may also include nonprofit listings. Regional affiliates may recruit and assist standard affiliates within their regions.

Creative services include simple composition, graphic design, image processing, and WWW formatting. Actual services can be provided by employees or volunteers, and content is managed on line. Only minor technical skill is required, and we teach that in a short online course.

Agent (representative)

A representative solicits participation and earns a listing fee and a share of creative service revenue.

Content managers

A content manager (editor) keeps users' listings timely and accurate and earns fees for design services such as enhancing listings with textual, graphic, audio-visual elements.

Commercial affiliates

A commercial affiliate manages the directory, and relationship with AABL and listed organizatioins.

Nonprofit affiliates

Our nonprofit affiliate program manages its own directory and offers structured sponsorship with progressive rewards for donors, including enhanced listing content and acknowledgment of the donor's generosity.

Your own directory can also syndicate your listings with a regional directory provider and the AABL's regional and national directories. These roles are flexible and can be performed by an individual or a team.

Revenue from listing fees, or in the case of nonprofits, donations, is equitably shared between the operator of the directory, the representative-editors who create the listings and other publicity, and the web host. In this way, a local directory can serve a nonprofit while also being part of a regional affilation.

By default there are three levels of sponsorship for an affiliated organization, identified as Neighbors, Friends and Heroes. You can also relabel the levels to suit your organization's goals or because your local constituency uses another language.

Neighbor

At the (1) Neighbor level, each sponsor is rewarded with a listing in the directory, which is a superset that also contains the sponsor directory of the affiliate. Your sponsor's information appears in your own directory and in the global directory and is searchable in both. We suggest a minimum donation of $10 monthly or $100 annually to your organization, but you can set your threshold donations at any level.

Friend

At the (2) Friend level, a sponsor is rewarded with Neighbor benefits plus a banner that appears randomly on pages of the directory. Banners may accompany search results if the criteria of the sponsor match the criteria of the search query, or if unmatched randomly on directory pages. We suggest a minimum donation of at least five times the amount of the Neighbor level ($500).

Hero

At the (3) Hero level, the sponsor is rewarded with all the Friend benefits, plus inclusion of the Friends banner in a set of graphical links on the Directory's home/search page, with eligibility limited to the top ten percent of donors by dollar amount. We suggest a minimum donation of ten times that of the Neighbor level ($1,000), PLUS potential service fees for copywriting and graphics if requested by sponsor.

All views except simple listings are randomized within categories, giving each member of a category an equal chance of being displayed whenever any given page is loaded. For an example, refresh this page and note that the banners at right change. Banner locations may contain a single /link or a group.

As a very simple example, imagine a community of sponsors of 1,000 local businesses and organizations. If all donate $100, one quarter (250) upgrade to Level 2 ($500) and one tenth (100) upgrade to Level 3 ($1000), then the total annual donations will be $290,000.

IMPLEMENTATION AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT: We charge $2,500 one time plus one-quarter of receipts from listings and upgrades, minimum $100 per month which is your affiliate fee, to initialize and maintain the service. We work with you to refine the general model to serve your communbity. In the simplified example, after subtracting our fees, the affiliate could earn $217,500 (75% X $290,000) in its first year.

Of course, you should create your own estimate based on local factors. Multiply through the actual Neighbors level in your donation structure to see the actual potential in your community.