FindTheBiz.com Guidelines

Updated: 9-26-2023

Respect the FindTheBiz.com Website

FindTheBiz.com was designed solely for more effective promoting and marketing of legal and legitimate businesses and services within their local community. Please respect the website. Your video uploads must be respectful to users and viewers of our website. We are asking for the kind of respect reserved for kids, the elderly, and your place of worship. To maintain the integrity of our service, we have adopted the community monitoring policy where we expect business owners and users alike to report violations which may compromise the and legitimacy of our service. 

FindTheBiz.com Acceptable Video Size and Format Specifications

Your video postings are regulated by length, quality, clarity, format, message and content. Our Website Terms and Conditions (TC's) which you agree to follow speak the appropriate content and message of the FindTheBiz Community. Please adhere to these guidelines and the regulations contained within our TC's. All video uploads should be a maximum length of 60 plus a few seconds. Video uploads well beyond this length will automatically be rejected. Remember that users will be more likely to watch a shorter 25-40 secs. video, entirely. A well-produced and informative 30 secs. video can be just as or even more effective than one that lasts 60 seconds. Remember the attention span of the average consumer is short and a video that seems dull or tends to drag and may not be viewed in its entirety, thereby losing its effectiveness.

Additionally, there are many formats in which to shoot your video(s). Whichever format you use will be converted to the appropriate one, for the FTB Website once your video completely uploads. The FTB video converter will automatically reject any video uploads that are less than 1280/720p resolution. The conversion and upload may take several minutes so please be patient. Video resolutions of 1280/720p and higher HD quality will upload simply fine, although those 4K or slightly less HD will upload at a slower rate. The specifications stated above are to help ensure quality, consistency and uniformity of videos displayed throughout the FTB website and FTB Apps.  

Note: For our Gold and Platinum members, the specs and size limitations stated above apply to any video(s) included in your profile including those for sales and events promotions. iPhone videos are recorded in MOV which is an invalid file type when you attempt to upload into your FindTheBiz profile. Please convert your MOV video file to one of the other common files like MP4, MPEG-4, or AVI before attempting to upload it.  

How to Post Specials

Posting a sale or event is easy. - In your dashboard select “Specials” - It takes you to your Specials page. - Select the business address you want to display your special post. - Select “Add Special” - Click the type of Special you want to post, sale or event. - Title your Sale/Event - Give a description or your sale or event with 140 characters maximum. - Choose your file and upload your photo or video. (Silver members can only upload a photo). - Select your start date and start time. - Select your end date and time. - Click the Save button and wait for your special to display. - Within your profile sales display in pink and events in blue. - Be sure your specials switch shows green for on. This green position means the appropriate blinking icon will display within the search display. - When the switch is off it displays red which means your sale or event will not blink within a search, indicating you are not having a sale or event. Note: It is a clever idea to include a promo code with a sale or event post to keep statistics on people who find you on FTB.

Points of Note: The default position is “on” with the switch showing in green. This switch is there for you to pause or turn off a sale or event for whatever reason.

There is a pencil icon within your post. Clicking this icon allows you to edit your post. Great for correcting a mistake, fixing a typo, reposting, or extending the special(s) notice.    

Notice the Share Button within the post. Clicking it allows you to quickly share your special to your social media, namely Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest.  

Expired sales and events will remain within your profile until you delete them although sales will display with “Deal is Expired” and events will display with “Event is Expired”.

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 Logo Uploads

Now our silver, gold and platinum members can upload their logo in one of three shapes - oval, square or rectangular. The maximum size is 1MB and the file types can be gif, jpeg, jpg or Png. To upload your logo, go to your dashboard and click on “Businesses” then choose edit. Scroll down until you see “Upload Logo”. Click on “Choose file” and then double click on your selected logo file. Then choose the shape that best fits your logo and select it. Scroll to the bottom of the page and choose “Save” to upload your logo to your biz file.

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Photo and Video Restrictions

Here are the rules for to observe when posting photos and producing your video for your FindThebiz.com Profile Page.

FTB is not for pornography, sexually explicit content, vulgarity or profanity, blood, gore, indecent and unlawful video displays. If this describes your video don't attempt to post it on FTB. It will be rejected and your account with FTB may be removed for repeated violations of this rule. Also, be advised that we work closely with law enforcement, and we report child exploitation. Below is a more thorough description of what is unacceptable for video displays for FTB

• Don't attempt to post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making.
• Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone being physically hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don't attempt to post it.
• FTB is not a shock site. Don't attempt to post gross-out videos of accidents, dead bodies or similar things intended to shock or disgust.
• Respect copyright. Only upload videos that you made or that you are authorized to use. This means don't upload videos you didn't make or use content in your videos that someone else owns the copyright to, such as music tracks, snippets of copyrighted programs, or videos made by other users, without necessary authorizations. See our Terms and Conditions regarding Copyright Infringement for more information.
• FTB is not a site that condones or permits hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).
• Things like predatory behavior, stalking, threats, harassment, intimidation, invading privacy, revealing other people’s personal information, and inciting others to commit violent acts or to violate the Terms and Conditions are taken very seriously. Anyone attempting to post these videos to our site may be permanently banned from FTB.
• Everyone hates spam. Therefore, don’t create misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails in order to increase views. It's not okay to post large amounts of untargeted, unwanted or repetitive content, including comments and private messages.
• At FTB we believe a picture is worth a thousand words and a video is worth a million words and both will be screened and regulated by these same rules and restrictions.

Please take these rules seriously. Don't try to look for loopholes or try to lawyer your way around the guidelines—just understand them and try to respect the spirit in which they were created.

We Enforce these Guidelines

FTB is a friendly community marketing service, and we expect business owners and users to help police the site and report violations of Community Guidelines, Terms of Service and Privacy Policy concerns to us, as we will uphold the rules and regulations that were agreed to to be part of this service. Listed businesses in violation of any of these agreements will be reviewed and have the offending contents removed without question if we find this to be the case. Sometimes a video or photo doesn’t violate our Community Guidelines but may not be appropriate for everyone. These types of videos and photos may be age restricted. Therefore, please be mindful and cautious about posting things with push the boundaries of what is tasteful for all. Accounts are penalized for Community Guidelines violations and serious or repeated attempts to violate these rules can lead to account termination without recourse and without refund. If your account is terminated, you won’t be allowed to create any new accounts. Additionally, although videos go through a screening process, occasionally some videos in violation may slip by or be missed. If you catch or notice this within any video content displayed on FTB please contact us by email: customerservice@findthebiz.com.

Additionally, if violations and or abuse of these guidelines become rampant and out of hand FTB will begin to monitor and regulate any and all video and photo uploads. Videos and photos deemed to be in violation of these guidelines will be rejected or removed once discovered. Again, we ask that you respect and cooperate with all written guidelines, policies and terms of the FTB community marketing service. Remember, FTB is all about successful, rewarding and fulfilling marketing of legal and legitimate businesses.

FindTheBiz.com is for and about Your Business

Remember that this reaches your patrons, clients, patients and customers. By all means, please make a video which you enjoy and that reaches out and grabs and captures your audience attention and effectively creates more business for you. As business owners these should be the commercial(s) we all wish we could have year around on TV. The wonderful thing is, if your video is being watched it is your services they are seeking, and you have the opportunity to draw them in. Change your video seasonally or as often as you wish and keep stats, so you know which one(s) drums up the most business for you. So please have fun and enjoy FindTheBiz.com.