Black business boxes is giving consumers
an easier way to find support and
buy from black-owned businesses.
The company was created by
Savon Gray and Robbie Dobbs,
who are from right here in Louisville
and they're working to help introduce
you to Black brands and products
that you will grow to know and love.
And already guys like just catching
up with you all learning about
like the background you guys went
to mail together and now you're
doing business together, I mean.
Tell me a little bit more about,
you know, why you wanted to
get into business together,
especially this kind of business.
Yeah. So we met each other
first day in high school,
didn't like each other.
I don't think somehow no.
Through that grew and became,
you know, my right hand man here.
2020 is kind of the start of our business
and this story for black business boxes.
Obviously we live in Louisville,
the whole Brianna Taylor and all
the protesting that was going on.
Was dangerous and I think that's that.
We realized quickly that protesting
and being out in the streets and wanted
to make that change is important,
but it's dangerous.
People are getting arrested and tear
gassed and pepper sprayed and there has
to be another way to kind of go about
bringing change and a form of protest.
So we, you know,
went to the drawing board,
brainstormed and figured out that.
The real way to bring change is kind
of through economic empowerment.
And to do that,
we have to get people's businesses
in front of people and their
products in people's hands.
How do we do that?
Let's just take away all the the
the middle process of you having to
find the business and screen it and
order it and wait for it to come.
We'll do all that work for you.
Put all these great products from
different black-owned businesses in a box,
literally
go to our site
and a minute that I heard the
story idea I was like I thought
of Instagram immediately right.
How easy is it?
We've seen people online unboxing
the box boxes and to bring a product
directly to somebody's door that
otherwise I mean I'm just thinking
even from the business owners
perspective that's an audience and
and income otherwise it just kind
of lifts up their business Robbie.
Bandit. It kind of shines a light
on to smaller businesses that.
Wouldn't have had the opportunity
to kind of work with larger
groups or crowds of people.
And essentially that's
what we're trying to do,
show businesses that there are
unique and creative ways to market
and advertise themselves and just
kind of spread and share the love.
We're watching some of the video of the
boxes, somebody opening up the boxes.
How do you select and go through?
Because I'm sure especially after this too,
like the number of people that are
going to approach you and say,
hey, I've got a product,
can you put me in your box,
can you put me in your?
Blocks, how do you go about selecting
the businesses to highlight within
the box and then make sure you're
rotating fresh and new businesses
all the time. So the video that you guys
were just watching was US packaging.
We actually got an order from the PAC
12 Conference, which is crazy, OK.
We were actually packaging
our bath and body boxes.
So we kind of have a theme for our boxes.
So this one was like shampoo,
conditioner, soap lotion,
things everybody uses in their,
you know, daily life.
And that's kind of one thing that we
do want to focus on is products that.
People will use that.
We know have a wide use because a lot of
times we buy things out of just habit,
you know like we just go to the grocery
store and buy what we've been buying.
But if I can introduce you to something
it can kind of change your you're
now going to the the future and you
know you're shopping purchases there.
So how are you like kind of curating
the selection of businesses so to play
to make sure OK are going to be able
to keep up with the orders like because
they may launch right after this, right.
They may they could suddenly be
a product that's in an Airbnb
everywhere definitely. Yeah.
So that's something that we work with
our vendors on and just let them know.
Yeah, we're in the growth
phase and you're growing with us, right.
So if you want to get in on this crazy idea
that we got going, no, come on, please.
It's it's a journey and.
We're just glad to be a part
of the rod realistically.
Like there's a lot of different
ways that spices OK, spices
from like hair, body to spices.
I love all the variety of everything.
So hair, kitchen,
bathroom items like paper doll items,
like really unique items, books.
There's so many black-owned
businesses out there that we'd
haven't even experienced or
got exposed to yet. So. So if
you want, you want to get on a
list to to get the box and start
ordering or maybe I'm a business
and I want to gift my employees
with something like that.
How? How can we do that?
Yeah. So Black History Month is a
perfect time for your business to
consider purchasing a black business box.
You can go to our website,
blackbusinessboxes.com.
All of our social medias
are black business boxes.
So Instagram, Facebook, shoot us.
E-mail info@blackbusinessboxes.com.
And yeah, really,
that's the easiest way to reach out to us.
It's me and this guy here.
So you're looking at the team
we're gonna get to. Yeah,
this is like working to box up,
you know? But I feel like,
guys, this is just the
beginning of what you're doing.
I mean, it's such a unique, great idea.
I did mention it's so instagrammable
and that's half the time where
that word starts to spread.
So you all probably have
to be thinking like,
how can we expand from here
into other things too.
So we're actually a part of
the vase entrepreneurship.
Program going on at the University
of Kentucky right now I'm really
just doing trying to do a lot of
networking and make key relationships
with people at these companies.
And you know just looking towards
the future and building out our
path or where we want to go.
We have, we have huge plans
for the future that
only imagine what like like the
chart looks like, yeah you know
the road map for business, the
road map and all the ideas, right.
We can say we had you on TV first.
Definitely. Please come back
and giving us absolutely
congratulations on all your success.
So to learn more or to order your box,
just go to blackbusinessboxes.com.