Yes. The Buy Black Movement only showcases the products and services of our Suppliers. We do not offer any other advertising.

The Supplier Program benefits your Black business by having our talented team handle many aspects of your business and generate income for you. We warehouse your products, promote your products, sell your products, ship your products to Black consumers and send you money each month. This saves you an enourmous amount of time, money and effort, and frees you up to do what you do best,... produce great products. It's a dream come true for Black business owners.

The Buy Black Movement Supplier Program not only warehouses and ships your products, but we also sell them for you. Many fulfillment companies offer warehousing and distribution (at much higher cost), however, none that we know offer to promote, market and sell your products for you as well. It is usually up to you to drive sales yourself. Furthermore, the cost of marketing, warehousing and distributing your products is usually enourmous.

Also, it has taken us many years to develop a loyal base of dedicated Black consumers who are committed to buying from Black-owned businesses like yours, each and every month (Supporters). By becoming a Supplier, you get your products promoted to this exclusive group of Black consumers, which can produce great results for your business.

In the Buy Black Movement, we warehouse and ship all of the products, rather than having Suppliers ship them themselves. This is of great benefit to our Suppliers and customers. First, it's much less work for our Suppliers. Second, when one of our customers orders five products from five different Black-owned businesses, instead of being charged five different shipping fees by five different companies, they pay only one shipping fee. We pack all the products into one box and ship them directly to our customer. By shipping all of our products from one location, we are able to reduce costs, ensure the high quality of the shipment and are even able to offer FREE shipping for orders over a certain size.

We do not purchase inventory from you. Instead, we hold your inventory on 'consignment' (consignment is a business arrangement where a business (like us) agrees to pay you for merchandise AFTER it sells).

When you become a Supplier, you send us an initial supply of inventory (enough for one month of sales). As orders come in, we ship your products directly to our customers and pay you each month for what we sell. You can track your sales, earnings and inventory numbers with our online tools, and as your inventory gets low, you send us more. Each month, you should send us enough inventory to last another month.

No. To become a Supplier, you have to commit to the program for at least one year. Promoting and selling your products is a process that takes time. We have to train our Marketing team to sell your products. They have to introduce it to their customers, educate them on what it is and how it works, and promote the results others have received from your products. Some customers may decide to buy it for a birthday or a holiday months away. If our team does months of promotion and then your product is not available 60 or 90 days later, it defeats the purpose. We need at least a year to adequately promote your products and deliver sales.

What the Buy Black Movement Supplier Program offers is an awesome opportunity for you to have your products promoted by our marketing team to lots of Black consumers, sold to those that are interested and shipped to the customers for you. You can be assured that we will do our best to promote and sell your products.

You determine how much you get paid for each of your products.

When you become a Supplier, we go over each of your products and you give us your wholesale price (how much you want get paid for each one sold). We use that to help us calculate a retail price (how much we sell it for). We research and survey the retail price to make sure the product will sell at that amount.

Your wholesale price can be up to 50% of the retail price of each product. The remainder of the money from each sale we make is used to handle our expenses including sales commissions for our Marketers, rewards dollars for our Supporters, credit card transaction fees, administration expenses and so forth. The lower your wholesale price, the higher commissions we can pay to our Marketing team, which generally leads to more sales.

Each month we send you a check for the wholesale price of each product we sold for you, minus a $2.00 processing fee for each check we issue.

No, we do not require an exclusive relationship with you. You can feel free to sell your products anywhere else, as long as your published price(s) are the same or more than our published retail price(s).

No. That's not possible in any advertising or marketing program, since there are many factors that determine how many sales are made. These factors include: what your product or service is, if it's needed and wanted by the public, the price of your product, the reviews of your product, current market conditions, etc.

What the Buy Black Movement Supplier Program offers is an awesome opportunity for you to have your products promoted by our marketing team to lots of Black consumers, sold to those that are interested and shipped for you. You can be assured that we will do our best to promote and sell your products.

We go through a detailed application process to make sure that each product:

• was created and is owned by the potential Supplier
• is safe to be used
• does what it says it does
• uplifts and does not degrade the Black-race
• is family-friendly and safe for all ages
• is in sufficent demand from our customers
• can be sold in sufficient quantity by our marketing team

Furthermore, we get to know the business owner as well. In a cause-based program like the Buy Black Movement, personalities are important. Our staff, marketing team and our customers have to believe in the Black business owner in order to promote them, sell for them and buy their products. If we don't get along with the business owner or they don't share our philosophy or priority of uplifting the Black race, then the relationship will not work.

By taking the time up-front to properly vet each new Supplier and each product, we ensure that we can deliver on our promise of top-quality Black-made products to our customers and sufficient sales for the Supplier.

In the Buy Black Movement, we only accept as many Suppliers as we know we can deliver impressive sales for. As our TAG TEAM Marketing team grows, we also grow our capacity to sell more products and therefore we accept more Suppliers. This important balance is vital to the long-term success of the Buy Black Movement program.

Let's say we had 100 TAG TEAM Marketers and yet accepted 10,000 Suppliers. Each Marketer would have to deliver enough sales each month to generate full-time income for 100 Suppliers each. That would be unreasonable, out of balance and would lead to many Suppliers not receiving enough sales or earning enough income to be profitable. While many other advertising programs are happy to accept fees from businesses they don't deliver enough sales for, we don't do that here.

In our business model, we prefer to have far less Suppliers, so that each Supplier receives more than enough sales from our marketing team. The good news is, our marketing team is constantly growing, leading to more capacity to accept new Suppliers. In time, we will be able to deliver consistent, impressive sales for tens of thousands of Black business Suppliers all over the world, which will change the history of our race.

The purpose of the Buy Black Movement Supplier program is to provide marketing and distribution for Black businesses who have been traditionally underserved. The program is here to inspire us as Black people to create our own products, manufacture our own products and hire our own people, thereby creating jobs, wealth and economic freedom in our own Black community. While other companies may focus on money alone, our focus is on uplifting the Black race by creating self-sufficiency.

Furthermore, TAG TEAM Marketing International, Inc. who produces the Supplier program, is a Black-owned and operated company that specializes in marketing the products of Black-owned businesses to Black consumers. TAG TEAM Marketing's expertise is in filling the Black consumer need for products and services made by their own race. As a result, we look for Black-owned businesses who make top-quality products and services that fill that need.

To become a Supplier, you must be a Black business owner with a product that you created and own all rights to. Your product must be of high quality, work as advertised, be of benefit to and be in demand by Black consumers. Your product must be family friendly (for Black people of all ages), cannot be offensive in any way, or contain any negative, derogatory, profane or explicit content. For a full list of qualifications, click here.

The purpose of the Buy Black Movement is to get Black people buying from Black-owned businesses in the movement, consistently. As we all buy Black consistently, we 'recycle our Black dollars' back into the race, over and over again. This creates continuous income, long-term prosperity and keeps our money in the race.

As our marketing team works hard to generate sales for a Black-business owner, we naturally expect that Black business owner to use some of their income to purchase products and services from the other Black businesses in the movement, consistently. We are only interested in working with people who genuinely believe in this fundamental purpose of the Buy Black Movement, rather than anyone who simply wants us to make them money so they can spend it outside of the race.

For details about our Supporter Program, click here.

No. Our program is for Black business owners who create and own all rights to their product(s). We will not sell a product for you, that is owned by a 3rd party. A Supplier must own all rights and assume all liability for the product they supply to us.

For instance, let's say a Black business owner buys dresses from China and then resells them to the Black community. If we sold a million of those dresses, we would simply be making lots of money and jobs for China. That is not our purpose. The purpose of this program is to put Black people to work inventing and manufacturing products, thereby creating jobs, wealth and freedom for our own people.

Yes, if your product is shelf-stable and has a shelf-life of at least 6 weeks. We do not yet offer cold storage or ship refrigerated products.

No. The Buy Black Movement Supplier program is for Black-owned businesses who create and own their product. So, products made by another company that you sell as a distributor do not qualify.

Yes, you may qualify, as long as you created the product, you own all the rights to it and it is not a private labeled product (a product being manufactured for other companies as well, just with your label on it). Though we prefer to work with Black manufacturers who make their products and hire Black people, we understand that in today's world of limited Black resources, you may have to get your product manufactured elsewhere. If you become a Supplier, our hopes are that as you grow with us, you will hire Black people to manufacture your product(s).

If you are on a monthly membership, you card will be charged one month from the day that you sign up for a business membership and then each month afterwards.

Not necessarily. If you are paying for your Supplier membership on monthly installments, then once your initial one-year contract is complete, your membership will continue month to month. If you purchased your annual membership all at once, then you will automatically be billed for another year after your initial year is up. You can change from monthly payments to annual payments anytime.

If your credit card declines, you will receive an email letting you know that it did. You should immediately log into the website and update your card or choose a different card and pay your bill online. In the days to follow the decline, if it is not resolved, we will attempt to re-run your credit card again. If your bill is not resolved in a resonable period of time, your membership will be automatically suspended and any scheduled payments to you will be held. If it is not resolved shortly afterwards, your membership will be cancelled and any balance due on your contract will be due immediately.

Yes, you can pay for an entire year membership or settle a past due balance by mailing in a check or money order, but monthly billing must be done automatically by credit card.

You can change your credit card at any time by clicking on YOUR ACCOUNT, then under MONTHLY ORDERS, click on SUPPLIER MEMBERSHIP, then update your card.

No, all billing for the Buy Black Movement Supplier program is done online. You can view your next due date by logging into the website, clicking on YOUR ACCOUNT, then under MONTHLY ORDERS, clicking on SUPPLIER MEMBERSHIP.

Yes you can, once your initial contract obligation is fully paid. For example, if you are two months into your 1 year monthly installment agreement, you would first pay the remainder of your monthly installment contract off early, and then switch to annual billing. Contact our Supplier Services Department to make changes to how you are billed.

To cancel your Supplier membership, just log in, click on YOUR ACCOUNT, then under MONTHLY ORDERS, click on SUPPLIER MEMBERSHIP, then click CANCEL and follow the directions. If you are within your first year contract, there will be a penalty for early termination (equal to all unpaid months of first year contract). After your first year, your contract converts to month-to-month or annual (depending on how you signed up), so you can cancel at any time. There are no refunds for unused contract time.

If you cancel your Supplier membership, then you lose access to your sales and earnings history. You will also forfeit receiving any future wholesale commissions. Your products will automatically be removed from the Buy Black Movement online store. You can choose to pay to have any remaining inventory shipped back to you.

It is our intention to develop a productive and profitable long-term working relationship with you and that you will remain a Supplier for many years to come.

Yes, however, we would have to repeat the application process and determine if you, your company and your products are a good fit for the Buy Black Movement at that time.