What NAVU Is and What a Membership Includes
NAVU is an app that keeps local life organized in one place, rather than spread across multiple platforms and dozens of social media accounts. When someone opens NAVU, they're looking to find local businesses, go to local events, or buy local products. There are three main places for your business on NAVU:
The discover page is the directory home for all of our businesses. Here, we recommend businesses that fit what a person is interested in, and it's where people go when they're looking for a specific business: they find you, follow your profile, and start getting your notifications.
The events calendar holds your events, and it's where people look to see what's going on around them.
The marketplace holds your products, and it's where people go when they want to buy something local.
Your profile works two ways at once. It introduces you to new customers while keeping regulars informed. Anyone who saves and follows your profile gets a notification the moment you add something new — "Wildrye Coffee just added a new menu item" or "Sage Brewing just added a new event." NAVU is built to help you grow while sustaining the audience you already have.
What's on Your Profile
Your photos, your description, and your links
Your hours and location, with a directions button built in
Your services or menu items, each with their own section
Your products, which also appear on our marketplace
Your events, which also appear on our events calendar
The other businesses you work with, tagged as collaborators or suppliers
What It Costs and Why It's a Membership
One membership, one price: $29.99 a month, or $299 for the year.
NAVU runs on memberships because we don't sell sponsored spots, and we don't take a commission on anything you post or sell. It's a flat fee, the same for every business on here, whether you're a one-person operation or a shop with twelve employees.
That's what lets us put people and businesses together based on what actually fits. We match a person to the businesses that fit their interests best, and we match you to the customers who are looking for what you offer. If ad spend were part of it, whoever paid the most would sit on top, and the person on the other end would be looking at businesses that aren't what they came for.
How Do We Decide What Businesses to Recommend?
When someone downloads NAVU, they build a profile and select tags for their interests. Businesses select those same tags to describe what they do. We recommend by matching those tags.
How to Join
Fill out the form on our website. You'll hear from us within 48 hours. Then you'll get a link to build your profile.
