Deadline: 17-Jun-22
The Comcast RISE has announced the Marketing & Technology Services Program to provide marketing, creative, media, and technology services to small businesses owned by people of color or women.
Comcast RISE is committed to supporting small businesses who have been hit the hardest by the economic impact of the pandemic.
Benefits
Comcast RISE recipients will receive one or more of the following business services:
- Consultation: general business and marketing consulting providing insights on how to grow their business
- Media: a linear TV media schedule, over a 90-day period from Effectv
- Creative Production: turnkey :30 TV commercial production for their business
- Technology Makeover: This will include some combination of Comcast Business Internet, Voice, cybersecurity malware protection and video surveillance services with no monthly service charge for up to a 12-month period and computer equipment form a selection of desktops, laptops or tablets. Tech Makeover services can only be awarded to one business location for a 12-month consecutive period.
- Additional Benefits: marketing and data insights via the Comcast RISE monthly newsletter, as well as a virtual listing, including contact information on the Comcast RISE website to all eligible applicants.
Eligibility Criteria
There are variations between eligibility requirements for the levels of support. You do not need to be a Comcast or Xfinity customer to be eligible.
- Small and medium-sized businesses owned by people of color,including Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and Asian American owners, among others
- Owner is at least 18 years of age or older, and is the primary decision maker for, and is actively engaged in the day-to-day operation of the business
- No more than 25 full-time and part-time employees for the Tech Makeover
- No more than 100 full-time and part-time employees for the Consultation, Media and Creative
- For the Tech Makeover, cannot be a home-based business, a business operating at a residential address or a business that does not have a permanent, fixed location (e.g., a food truck)
- Established business operations for at least one calendar year
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Registered to conduct business in one of the contiguous United States or the District of Columbia excluding the following:
- For Comcast Business Services: Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming
- For Effectv Services: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming
- Business is independently owned-and-operated
- Employees and independent contractors of Comcast Corporation, and each of its respective parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are not eligible to enter or win
For more information, visit Comcast RISE.
For more information, visit https://www.comcastrise.com/