Discover Bradenton gives local businesses a listing, an audience, and a circle of owners who show up for each other.
Show me how it works ↓ From $24 a month. Monthly plans cancel any time. Annual plans have a 7-day refund window.You're ready for more locals to know your name.
You've built something good. But every week you meet someone who lives ten minutes away and has never heard of you.
You're good at what you do. Getting enough of the right people to notice is a different skill, and it takes hours nobody has.
"I'm not sure why I waited to join. It's definitely a great value and we've seen additional sales as a result of the connections I have made with this group."
Karen Jordan, Chicken Salad ChickLocals can't choose a business they've never heard of. And they forget the ones they only see once.
Discover Bradenton handles both. We put your business where locals already look, keep your name in front of them all year, and put you in a circle of local owners who show up for each other.
A full listing with photos, video, and booking links, on a site that showed up in 258,000 Google searches last month. Plus SEO backlinks that help your own website rank.
A welcome post to our followers, your events on our calendar, and a seat at our monthly Happy Hour. Your name keeps coming up, month after month.
A circle of about 290 local businesses and nonprofits who answer each other's questions and show up for each other's events. Ultimate adds 1:1 onboarding and a one-on-one, personalized strategy session.
Most local marketing stalls for the same few reasons: no audience, no time, and nobody repeating your name. Membership goes after all three.
Most owners have tried a few of these. Here's the honest take on each.
Great for meeting other owners, and most come with a member directory. But how often does a customer actually go looking through a networking group's directory?
Our directory is built for customers, not just members. We put it in front of locals every day through Facebook posts, Google search, and AI search tools. And you still get to network at our Happy Hours, mastermind lunches, and member-only events.
Posting on your own page mostly reaches people who already follow you. Reaching new locals takes an audience you haven't had years to build.
We've spent 7 years building that audience: 20,000+ Facebook followers and 3,900+ newsletter subscribers. Membership puts your business in front of them.
Ads show up, then vanish the day the budget runs out. Next month you pay again to be seen again, and it's hard to tell what worked.
Membership is one price for a full year of showing up. No bidding, no surprise bills.
A good marketer is worth it. They still need somewhere local to put your name, and a trusted local audience takes years to build.
Membership gives your marketer, or you, a local stage that's already full.
This is a good moment. You haven't spent a year scattering money across things that don't connect.
Start with a foundation: a strong listing, a local audience, and a circle of owners who've already figured out what works here.
found, remembered, supported
One post, one flyer, one Chamber meeting: each puts your name in front of somebody, once. Discover Bradenton is built so your name comes up more than once, in more than one place, without you doing more work.
Press play to watch an example year. Switch levels to compare.
That's the difference. One membership price, and your name keeps coming up all year.
Most members start with one level and adjust as they go.
Want more visibility and support? Consider Ultimate: a featured article about your business, done-for-you event promotion, and a one-on-one, personalized strategy session. See what Ultimate adds →
Think about what a typical customer spends with you over a year. This is revenue, not profit, so give yourself some cushion.
The foundation. Everything here comes with both levels.
Everything in Business Essentials, plus the work most owners never get around to.
Your story, written and published on Discover Bradenton. We interview you and write a real feature: the kind people share, customers read before they visit, and Google keeps showing for years.
For owners who like doing their own marketing and want a bigger local stage.
For owners who want it handled, plus more exposure and a plan.
| What you get | Essentials | Ultimate |
|---|---|---|
| Full directory listing with photos, video, and booking links | ✓ | ✓ |
| Welcome post on our member Facebook and Instagram pages | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unlimited event posting on the calendar | ✓ | ✓ |
| High-value backlinks to your website | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tips from the Pros, published | ✓ | ✓ |
| Member-only promotions and perks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Happy Hour tickets | 1 per month | 2 per month |
| Featured article about your business | – | ✓ |
| Done-for-you event posting and promotion | – | ✓ |
| Professionally created and optimized listing | – | ✓ |
| 1:1 onboarding and personalized strategy session | – | ✓ |
| Opportunities to be featured in our seasonal guides | – | ✓ |
| Priority consideration for newsletter + online publication | – | ✓ |
| Monthly email check-ins | – | ✓ |
Essentials or Ultimate. Monthly or annual. Annual saves you two months.
Add your photos, video, and booking links. On Ultimate, we build it for you.
We post a welcome on our member Facebook and Instagram pages, and your name starts showing up.
As a very small business, my budget is tight, but I have found excellent support and greatly increased exposure. I feel like I am getting valuable help from a very knowledgeable friend of my business.
"Beth has been so helpful to connect me to other business owners and point me in the right direction and assist me to grow my business."
"Joining Discover Bradenton has been one of the best decisions I could make."
"Discover Bradenton's unique and creative marketing offerings have been so valuable to me and my business."
"I left feeling connected and thankful for the time we spent together and being a member of Discover Bradenton."
"Discover Bradenton takes networking out of the “30 second elevator speech” box. The events are well planned, well advertised and well attended."
"I even got some business out of that first meeting. I later joined Discover Bradenton and it's been one of the best networking groups for my business."
"When you join, you're not buying ad space from some agency. You're getting a spot in a community I've built one member, one blog post at a time."
Beth Deyo started Discover Bradenton in 2019 and has grown it from a blog into a guide, a directory, and a community of about 290 local businesses and nonprofits.
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Most of this works without you leaving your business. If you run a restaurant or a shop and can't get away for a Happy Hour, your listing, your posts, and your published tips keep introducing you anyway.
Networking is part of it, and a fun part. Most of the value happens online, all year: your listing, your events, your published tips, and your name showing up in front of locals who follow Discover Bradenton to find places to go, things to do, and professionals they can trust.
Not at all. We cover all of Manatee County, including Palmetto, Parrish, and Anna Maria Island.
Business Essentials is the foundation: a full listing with photos, video, and booking links, a welcome post to our followers, unlimited calendar events, SEO backlinks, Tips from the Pros articles on our website, member perks, and a ticket to every monthly Happy Hour. Ultimate is where we do more of the work for you. The biggest piece is a featured article about your business. You also get done-for-you event posting and promotion, a professionally created listing, a shot at having your best tips in the newsletter and publication, a one-on-one strategy session, a half-page ad in the Holiday and Summer Guides, monthly check-ins, and two tickets to every Happy Hour.
You'll get your listing set up and your welcome post scheduled. On Ultimate, we build the listing for you and book your strategy session.
Yes. Monthly memberships can cancel anytime with the cancellation form in our site footer, or by emailing us. Annual memberships get a full refund if you let us know within 7 days of joining. Memberships renew automatically until canceled.
Yes, just email us. Upgrades take effect right away, and we credit what you've already paid toward the new level. Downgrades take effect at your next billing date on monthly plans, or at renewal on annual plans, with no partial refunds. That annual commitment is why the annual price is lower.
Not while you're a member. When our prices change, current members keep the rate they joined at.
Nonprofits have their own membership. See nonprofit memberships →
Pick a plan, sign up, and your benefits start right away.
Membership prices go up in October. Join now and lock in today's rate for as long as you stay a member.