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Customize Your Online Business Review: Upload photos and videos, to your Business Review. Emphasize your professional affiliations, certifications and awards, tell consumers about your hours of operation, refund/exchange policy and service area. Offer coupons and allow consumers to "Request a Quote" through your Business Review. Download a PDF about how to Customize Your Online Business Review.

Google™ Priority Placement Program: With our BBB Priority Placement Program, you can have your Accredited Business listed in the top of the Google™ search page, above the regular listings.

Let your potential customers know they are buying with trust: Use the BBB logo on all of your printed material, signage, offline advertising and TV commercials.

Tell your online customers you belong to BBB: Apply to use our free, interactive and dynamically delivered customizable online seal, on your website.

Website Linking: If your business has a website and/or an email address, we’ll link to it from your Business Review in our Accredited Business Directory, on our main Edmonton website. We also have mirror sites at reddeer.bbb.org, grandeprairie.bbb.org and fortmcmurray.bbb.org.

Let Your Customers Find You Easier: To assist consumers to find our Accredited Businesses, BBB Serving Central and Northern Alberta, has developed our Alberta Capital Region, Central Alberta, Northern Alberta & NWT, Northwest Alberta & British Columbia Peace Country, Yellowhead East Alberta and Yellowhead West Alberta information pages.

Multiple Types of Business Listings: Select from over 5000 categories, to describe the products and services your company provides. All your categories are searchable in our Accredited Business Directory.

Search Engine Listings: With the implementation of our search engine optimized Accredited Business Directory, Business Reviews and listings of category rosters of BBB Accredited Business' Reviews, appear in Google™ searches. For example, BBB Accredited Businesses can search for "bbb your business your town/city" and find direct links to your Business Review (smaller locations may have to add the two letter province/territory designator after the location)

Accredited Business Employee Discount Program: Use this free service to offer standing discounts on your products and services, as an employee benefit, to other Accredited Business’s owners, employees and their families. This service also is a great employee benefit for your business.

e-Northerner: Receive our monthly electronic newsletter, by email, with a listing of both new and renewed accredited businesses, top 10 inquiries and complaints, a list of businesses that have failed to respond to complaints, seasonal announcements, corporate and employee discounts, tips and scam warnings.

Request-a-Quote: Your business can receive free requests for prices and information, by e-mail, from potential customers that visit your Business Review.

Annual BBB Consumer Guide: All BBB Accredited Business receive an alphabetical listing, as well discounted opportunities to advertise in our Annual Consumer Guide, with a distribution of over 300,000 copies. For added exposure for Accredited Businesses, The Consumer Guide, is now online and interactive.

Google™ Local Maps Listings: Free updateable listings in the Google™ Maps area of their search engine say you are an Accredited Business, how long you’ve been an Accredited Business and links to your online BBB Business Review. Updating this service may place your business’s information in the top “Local Results” area of the main Google™ Search Results pages, depending on the keywords you add to the listing.

Corporate Discounts: BBB Accreditation provides your business with a number of discount programs, from other businesses that include:

Group health benefits
Website design and hosting
Photocopying, printing and scanning equipment
Private brand labled bottled water
Long distance calling, business lines, cellular service, high-speed Internet, broadband phoning and online data backup
Bank merchant card processing
Automated Teller Machines
Gasoline, oil, and car washes