Become a Grapevine Owner

What is a Grapevine Community?

Grapevine Communities are Social Networking websites geared for local cities & townships across America. Each Grapevine Community is independently owned and operated. Grapevine owners earn revenue by selling Banner Advertising, Business Directory Listings and sometimes charge for Classified Listings. While some owners handle the Banner Advertising sales themselves, others have chosen to hire Advertising Agents. This is your business and you are welcome to run it as you best see fit.

Grapevine Overview?

For a demonstration, please visit one of the over 200 Grapevine Communities that are already owned by someone just like you. To see all the features and functions of a Grapevine Community visit sites like www.sacramentograpevine.com, www.pittsburghgrapevine.com, or even www.spokanegrapevine.com.

We currently have 200+ Grapevine Communities open at this time and will be pushing to 1200+ as quickly as possible.

In a nut shell, our job and commitment to the owners is the daily hosting and support on the back end. We are the IT Guys/Gals. This frees up the owners (owner being you) to then focus on running and growing their Grapevine business. .


PROFITpotential

Your Company... Your Profits... 100%

You have many options to choose from for making money with a Grapevine Community. As the owner you have full control over pricing and marketing structures.

Banner Advertising

There are five advertising positions on every Grapevine Community with a recommended 10 ad rotations per position. As an owner, you decide how many ads you want to rotate per position and what your pricing structure will be. With the recommended default, the profit potential crosses over $10,000 per month in banner advertising sales.

Check the Advertising Section for more details on the pricing structure.

Business Directory

Advertising in the yellow pages can get real expensive real quick and not much room to promote a company. With the growth and expansion of the internet, online advertising continues to increase. The Grapevine Business Directory will allow local businesses to post and display their logo, hours of operation, videos, images, address with a geo map displaying their location, unlimited space to share information about their company and much much more.

You set the monthly price, you want to charge, and keep 100% of the profits. Oh and the great thing is that this can be completely automated so you can be hands off.

The Business Directory is database driven and therefore has no limit to the number of business members your site can have and thus no limit of income potential from the Business Directory.

With our recommended sale of $199 per year, the cost is less than $17 per month to the business owner yet means over $50,000 a year to you with just 1 sale per day!

Do you want a raise? Can you sell two business directory spots per day?

Coupons

Tied into your Business Directory is a coupon section which you can allow your Business Members to use. You decide if you want to charge a premium for this or if you will be throwing it in free of charge with every Business Directory Listing.

Classifieds

To charge or not to charge, that is the question. Many websites now offer free classified listings in smaller cities, while it is still the norm to charge in larger cities. For this reason, you as the admin can decide what is best for your location. As an owner you can charge on a per listing basis for a specific category or charge a flat monthly fee for unlimited postings.

Monthly Subscriptions

Now take it one step further and offer up package deals for those who use the classifieds, business directory, coupon listing and banner advertising.

Check the Subscription Section for more details of ideas on structure and what you can charge.

 

Want to make even more?

No problem, do as other owners have already done and pick up another Grapevine Community. There is no limit to the number of Grapevine Communities you can own.

 

PAYitFORWARD

If you grow with us, please continue to treat others with respect, and to always Pay-It-Forward.

By giving others this opportunity to take control of their own financial future, our hope is that greed will not become an issue and that each of you will always keep what is most important in your own lives in perspective.

 

 

If you like what you have seen so far, contact us so we can discuss this further with you. Be sure to include the community you live in or are interested in purchasing.

sales@grapevinecommunities.com

Or, if you just want a real live person to talk to:
Just Call Doug @ 509-487-1508




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  • We take care of all the back end details so you can focus on the day to day growth of your company.

  • We provide continuing phone and email support as well as provide you with an online forum where you can chat with all the other Grapevine Owners!

  • We provide hosting, unlimited email addresses, business development and IT support.

  • Heck, we even set you up to receive your first 250 business cards – FREE.

Pricing?

Well, let's start with your no risk FREE Trial.

Let's just make sure this is the right business for you before you spend any money at all! Every new owner starts out with two weeks free, this way you can test the water and make sure this is the right opportunity for you.

No reason to beat around the bush. We are in business to make a few dollars and want to help you do the same. So let's break it down for you real quick on how we make our money.

  • The monthly fee for everything is only $250 per month after your two week trial period.

  • Where else will you find hosting, unlimited email’s, business development, IT support and a turn-key company for such a great rate?
FREQUENTLYasked

We have been asked why we don't just keep it all and run all the Grapevine Community sites ourselves. Several factors have made up our reasoning to run the Grapevine Communities as we do and thus we have several answers for you.

  • We are programmers and support technicians. We would rather stay behind the scenes making sure that things are running smoothly.

  • What is our purpose in life? Is it a greed factor where we make all the money and have others serve us? Or... Should we instead make a comfortable living and help others make a great living as well so they can go out in life and have the time and finances to share and pay it forward making a difference in lives of others?

  • Owners have a vested interest and as an owner you will do everything in your power to make sure your Grapevine Community succeeds.

  • We are based out of Redmond, Oregon and thus don't have local contacts in every community across America. If we did, one of us would not be needed in this equation.

Think you can do it better? Cheaper?

We bring this up not only as a challenge, but also to make a point of what is involved. This is not a Mickey Mouse operation. It will cost you an arm, a leg and lots of time if you think you can find something better and cheaper to get started. There are over 8500 files that make each Grapevine Community possible.

  • Programming will take you 4-6 months. Calculate the going rate of $120/hour for a good programmer, a single site will cost you a minimum of $153,600 to mirror the quality and content we have put together. That is a low end estimate. Don't believe us, start asking around.

  • The licensing agreements we have in place will cost you a minimum of $3,905 to launch and $3,000 per month to operate. If you notice we are only charging $250 per month for our support and hosting fees. We are dealing in volume and thus can bring this price down for you so you don't have to pay $3K plus per month for the same service.

  • Hosting can add up real quick. A minimum hosting package need to run a Grapevine Community will start around $159/mo. There are support plan upgrades also starting around $99/mo for those who have no idea of how to manage your server. If your site grows, your monthly hosting will also increase. Of course you can hire your $120/hr programmer to help you out when you need it. All of this is being said to prove a point and to justify the small fee of $250 per month we charge for licensing, hosting and support.

  • Here is another question. Will your programmer still be there after the job? We are available by phone, email and in the owners forums to assist you with technical support issues.

  • You will be coming into a great support network of other Grapevine Community Owners. You will not be in business by yourself with no support? The great thing is that you are not alone. Not only do you have us for support, you also have a forum to tap into with other active owners to share ideas, see what is working, what isn't working and how others are best promoting and growing their business. No one owner views another as competition, rather partners who know that the better you do, the better they will do by growing and branding the Grapevine into a household name.
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