Plugging small business owners into who and what they need to have the business and life of their dreams.

Let’s ALL go get that money!

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We BULLieve that the best way to do business is a way where everyone wins. This is it.

BULLish Market Members will be able to create sustainaBULL, scalaBULL, legacy companies through:

The days where only a select few get all the opportunities are OVER.

We’re all in this together. We’re all gonna eat & eat good.

The BULLish Market is a greener pasture where all businesses thrive.

Right out the chutes, you need to know

the BULLish Market Membership is for locally owned small businesses in Durham, NC, and the surrounding area.
Some folks call this the Triangle, NC.

Are you a small business owner with:

1 to 1000 employees
A business owned and operated in Durham, NC or the surrounding area (AKA The Triangle, NC)
A passion and appreciation for collaboration
A vision for your business
Go-getter attitude and a BULLief you can have a business AND a life

We BULLieve that it’s possiBULL to build a sustainaBULL, scalaBULL, dare-we-say recession proof, legacy company AND still have quality of life and time with your loved ones. That the best way to do business is a way in which everyone wins.

That’s the herd mentality around here. Are you in?

The BULLish Market Membership will:

Give you a robust professional network you can leverage.

Fill in the knowledge gaps that are holding you back.

Connect you to grant and small business loan opportunities.

Put your business in front of 1000s of local-supporting consumers.

★★★★★

Sheila Amir and The Bulls of Durham are special. Through her work and the platform, they are truly modeling what it means to "SERVE" a community. And what I mean by serve, they have set the tone for Supporting, Educating, building Relationships, navigating the Vision of many community partners, in the hope to Expand the services based on the needs of the Durham community.

Sheila’s workshops teach strategy AND implementation. I am a graduate of several of Sheila’s workshops. In each, I recovered my tuition money, plus more. There is so much you don’t yet know, the knowing of which will make so much more possible for your business. Who you do know is Sheila, and she will help you bring a prosperous mindset to your work, get more done in less time (schedule those posts!), and help your small business thrive!

Sheila has helped me grow my business by helping me clearly define my goal of creating a social media community - not just by adding followers or collecting likes. Her clear content strategy for organic growth has helped me create invaluable relationships and gain clients - repeat clients - because they know exactly who and what they are getting thanks to reliable, understandable, and engaging content. I can’t recommend this program enough!

The Bulls of Durham is an amazing asset to our local community of artists. It is a place where locals and visitors can go to learn about all of the amazing things that our great city has to offer! It is a one stop shop to find the newest and greatest the city has to offer!

As a business new to the area, during a pandemic, it is difficult to gain awareness. Partnering with the Bulls of Durham is a good way to gain that awareness. Thank you!

Being featured on the Bulls of Durham platform extended our footprint with the local community. Sheila is knowledgeable, proactive, and creative all of which helped to extended our brand awareness and sales!

Monthly Membership
ApproachaBULL price + zero commitment.

$49

Annual Membership
Enjoy two-free months.

$490

The BULLish Market Membership connects local, small business owners to (1) each other, (2) opportunities, and (3) our incrediBULL audience.

Connections

The BULLish Market Membership creates connections in 3 incrediBULL ways! BULLieve the hype – Durham takes community VERY seriously.

You can create connections on your own by searching the unBULLievaBULL directory.
Our Community Manager will be playing match maker based on your intake information and what we get to know about you over time.
There are curated spaces for connection like our Farm to Table Room where farmers can share what they have availaBULL and restaurant owners can share what they need. Meaningful connection to reduce food waste and increase revenue.

Opportunities

Right out the chutes we’re offering two Major types of opportunities: business education and financial inroads to grants and small busines loans. Our educational opportunities are online (at this time) and pack a double whammy as they’re PAID opportunities for members!

Educational Opportunites

1%ers – 15 minutes is 1% of your day. Our 1%ers are VERY niche 15-minute bite-sized, business briefings with 3 actionaBULL, measureaBULL takeaways you can implement right away to make your business 1% better. These are paid opportunities for members.
Two Monthly Workshops – 1 for product based businesses and 1 for service based businesses. Again these are paid opportunities for members. If you can’t make the live, you can find the recording in the library.
Quarterly Work Sessions – Day long learn and implement sessions on the most pressing/requested topics that will make big impacts on your business’s bottom line.

Financial Opportunities

We come across small business grants and loans ALL THE TIME.

Long gone are the days when we pass them along to businesses we can remember off the top of our heads. The BULLish Market Membership has a designated space with grant and loan listings. As well as the information you need on HOW to apply for these opportunities.

Access to our IncrediBULL Community

Going forward, only BULLish Market Members can market their goods and services to our incrediBULL audience. What’s more, the membership opens up new avenues of marketing.

We’ll continue to have packages to be featured on our website, social media, and email marketing list. And now members can market directly to BULLish Market Insiders (Consumers).

Members are listed in THE UnBULLievaBULL local, small business directory for Insiders to search through on their own PLUS members can list change of hours, new location, living wage job opportunities, and Insider exclusive specials for FREE. Yes, the very information you want to share directly to your ideal customers.

The BULLish Market Membership is a very real solution to the very real problems facing small business owners in the Triangle today. How do we know?

We built this based on years of feedback from 100s of small business owners.

A community of small business owners. WA-PAM! We got you.
Education in bite-size pieces to make owning a business not suck. BANG BISCUIT! We SO got you and it’s a paid opportunity to share your genius.
HOURS of your time back because you’ve finally stopped having to reinvent the wheel. PREACH PREACH PREACH! Welcome. We’re morally opposed to reinventing wheels. WE GOT YOU!
Clutch connections you can leverage. BOOM! Our middle name is connection.
Marketing opportunities to the most loyal and loving audience, who are VIGILANT about supporting local. OH, BABY! We got what you neeeeeed.
A designated space and place to work through your hiring challenges. RAWR! Oh, we very much so got you.
Info, access, and support to grants and small business loans. CH-CHING! You got it.

Access to all of this on your time wherever you roam. POOF! Got you. Access The BULLish network from your smartphone, tablet, and/or computer 24/7/365.

All this to say, that enroll now button, push it. Push it real good. Push it.

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★★★★★

We believe that being featured on The Bulls of Durham platform is awesome, this platform has a truly organic following with supporters that value Durham, its people, and its businesses; we resonate with all of that!

Being featured on the Bulls of Durham platform provides exposure and adds the to love we all share for our city. Durham is a unique city with businesses reflecting its core values. The Bulls of Durham highlights and gives voice to the tenacity and soul of the small businesses in Durham.

We absolutely love features by The Bulls of Durham because it allows us to feel seen! We are super passionate about our brand and providing healthy alternatives to our community. It means a lot to have an amazing brand like The Bulls of Durham promoting small businesses!

As a new business owner it was amazing to feel that I could join a community that welcomed me.

The work the Bulls of Durham is doing is great and being included is an amazing honor.

FAQ's

What’s all included in The BULLish Market Membership?

The BULLish Market Membership is our mission statement in living form. The Bulls of Durham connects local, small business owners to (1) each other, (2) opportunities, and (3) our incrediBULL audience.

What does that mean?

Oh?! Is it time for a list? I think it’s time for a list.

Connections to each other will happen 3 ways:
1. By Small Business Owners searching the directory. More on this directory later.
2. Via our Community Manager matchmaking
3. In designated spaces within the membership like the “Farm to Table” room where local farmers can share what produce they have availaBULL and restaurant owners can share what they’re looking for.

Opportunities

1. Educational. We will have prerecorded and live educational resources, which are all paid opportunities for members to teach what they know!
  1. Introducing 1%’ers. 15-minute niche business lessons with 3 actionaBULL, measuraBULL takeaways you can implement in the same day. 15 minutes is 1% of your day. Theory is if you
2. Financial. We’ll be working with local and national entities to bring members opportunities for grants and lending, as well as education on how to prepare to apply for grants and small business loans.

Our IncrediBULL Audience

1. Going forward, BULish Market Members can market to our audience. This includes both paid and free opportunities to be featured to our audience.
2. It’ll be free for BULLish Market Members to share job postings (living wages+ only), changes in hours and/or location, and specials within the membership with our audience.

Hold up. There are PAID opportunities for members within the BULLish Market Membership?!

Yup. Our educational opportunities are taught by members to members. Your membership can literally pay for itself. This is one of the ways we built in our BULLief that a rising tide floats all boats.

Can I cancel my membership at any time?

Yup. You can cancel your membership at any time and your membership will end at the end of the billing period you selected – monthly, annual, or 3-year membership.

I have more than one business. Do I need to have separate memberships for each?

Yes and no. You’ll have one login for you and pay your regular membership rate plus $10 per month or $100 a year for each additional business and/or organization.

I’m not a small business owner. I want to support local businesses. Can I still join the BULLish Market Membership?

Yes, for FREE as a BULLish Market Insider. Click HERE to become an Insider and get access to THE local, small business directory, heads up on special deals, first details on grand openings, job postings, and so much more.

I’m the Executive Director of a non-profit organization. Can we join the BULLish Market Membership?

Yup! We’d love to have you. You sign up the exact same way as a small business owner.

What is The Bulls of Durham refund policy?

We don’t have a refund policy. We have a NO refund policy. Digital services can’t be returned. If you find for any reason that the BULLish Market Membership isn’t meeting your needs, reach out to us at TheHerd@TheBullsOfDurham.com and let’s find a solution.

I own a business in the Triangle, NC but outside of Durham, NC. Can I still join the BULLIsh Market Membership?

Yup! We’d absolutely love to have you. We know the strength of our city is directly related to the strength of our region. A rising tide floats all boats.

Still thinking about it?

Okay. You’ve made it this far you are interested but have some reservations.

You see that the BULLish Market Membership is BUCKing loaded with genuine value. You see that it can help your business and thus your quality of life. You’re eager to connect with the right people to leverage your success. You want to be part of a meaningful community that will forever change the way business is done in the Bull and beyond.

So what’s holding you back?
Please DON’T say it’s because you BULLieve in yourself and your genius. Please DON’T say it’s because you’re not ready to invest in you and your business. You’re valuaBULL. What you’re bringing into this world is valuaBULL. We need you. The world needs what you’re creating. Join the herd. We’re eager to cheer you on.

Seriously. We’re a whole bunch of Freudenfreude junkies around here eager for another fix of celebrating the success of others.

★★★★★

We love that The Bulls of Durham is locally minded and community oriented. We were featured before in the past and gained more social media followers and had more clicks than ever before in a very short amount of time! We were really grateful for that exposure.

Our feature on The Bulls of Durham platform was awesome! Working with the team was easy and made an impact to create awareness for business.

Being featured on The Bulls of Durham is always an adrenaline hit for my business. It frees up my mental space so I can focus on creative work and I know my art is finding likeminded folks who will appreciate it.

I am very excited to be a part of the host of wonderful Entrepreneurs and Businesses in Durham. Thanks so much to The Bulls of Durham for allowing this venue for us to be able to display what we have and do.

I think it’s a great way to connect with all the amazing people of the Bulk City! Helps us reach new customers as more and more folks flock to our city every day!

We love The Bulls of Durham community! As a small social enterprise, we notice when a new customer decides to support second chances of formerly incarcerated women. We appreciate this platform's role in elevating our mission and having tangible impacts on women's lives in our community.

The platform gives businesses like mine an opportunity to reach people. By reaching more people gives us an opportunity to sell more and build within the community.

Hey there. Sheila, here.

Owner and Creative Director of The Bulls of Durham.

You prolly guessed from all the BUCKing BULL puns I was writing this. Writer hack: always write as if you’re writing directly to one person. I wrote this directly to you.

To the aspiring small business owner whose not sure when to start and struggling with money and time as it is. Namaste, I see you. I was you. That’s a hard place and I want to cheer you on to a higher level where you can find joy and afford the life you want.
To the overwhelmed and BUCKing exhausted small business owner who’s struggling to make payroll and calling your credit card companies to see how much “room” you have on your cards. I created the BULLish Market Membership for you. How’s about calling your credit card companies to pay off your balance in full? Maybe tell the really crappy one to BUCK off.
To the brick-and-mortar business owner who has hit a plateau and wondering how to get more foot traffic in the door. We’re eager to shout your name from our digital rooftops and have the most loyal, loving, local-supporting customers stampede through your doors.
To the thriving small business owner who’s about to lose it all including your sanity because you can’t find employees. Pull up a seat at the digital family taBULL right next me. The first order of business ‘round here is a family meeting to find positive, sustainaBULL solutions to the labor shortage. It’s BYO(LS)B – bring your own locally sourced bourbon or beer.

I made this for you. I made this for US.

Entrepreneurship has always been Durham’s bloodline.

I’ve got 322 years of Durham history + data from several 100 local, small business owners to back that up. It’s on us, right here, right now to preserve that history and make it Durham’s future. To ensure that entrepreneurial opportunities are the legacy we leave.

What’s more, we need to make sure there’s food on the table in our homes and our neighbors. That’s really what supporting local businesses comes down to.

I created the BULLish Market Membership to meet the needs that have been flooding my inbox for years. To remove me as the bottleneck to your progress.

Join me. Let’s build this community together. Should to shoulder. Let’s create job opportunities, dope products and services, and an equitaBULL future for all. Let’s BUCK the status quo some mo’.

LET’S DO IT LIKE DURHAM.

See you inside the BULLish Market.
Have the best rest of your day ever, yet,

— Sheila *Throws up horns*

You want to join today and be one of the first out the chutes to capitalize on our momentum. PLUS join ASAP to get the once-in-a-lifetime deal of a 3-year membership that comes with loads of savings and perks.

Monthly Membership
pay as you go

$49

Annual Membership
and enjoy 2 months free

$490

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