Why BusinessBalls exists
First and foremost, BB is a free and ethical resource for the personal development of anyone around the world who needs it. That has been our cause ever since our foundations in 1999, before the possibilities of the internet as a learning resource had truly been realised.
But to keep giving you a comprehensive learning management system, with new and updated resources and all the functionality a modern system requires, we need to be able to fund ourselves. As we do not believe in unnecessary advertisement as that negatively impacts the learning experience, we needed to find another way to keep us up and running.
Keeping BB ethical, sustainable, and free
The answer we settled on was to offer, for below-market rates,
more, interactive content and even the option of a
custom learning management system for your organisation. This meant that we could protect all of our free materials and even continue to provide additional articles, tools, and templates to everyone, whilst also tapping into the experience of our partners at
Accipio with developing learning management systems for businesses and educational establishments, and authoring custom eLearning materials.
This was the birth of
BB Premium and
BB Enterprise. They both allow you to take your learning to the next level.
Premium vs. Enterprise: the basics
In the case of
BB Premium, that means expanding our content library with additional engaging materials, providing diagnostic tools, compliance training, CPD certificates, discounted webinar sessions, cut-price qualifications from the
Chartered Management Institute and more.
For
BB Enterprise, that meant our organisational solution, opening ourselves up to businesses and educational providers of all sizes, from 2 to 2000, giving them an all-in-one learning management system (LMS), already populated with both of our 1000+ modules from two eLearning catalogues (C30 Leadership, and Compliance & Soft Skills), with no lead time and annual rates far below what you would normally pay for a Moodle Workplace LMS (the world's most popular open source LMS) at another provider – and they don't come with the content! Once you've whizzed through your onboarding, you can create users for your staff, group them into teams, departments, functions and more, and allocate our courses to your people accordingly. You can then use the system to track their development and really see the skills grow within your organisation.
NB: we will soon be rebranding BBE as SkillsCircle for Business to ensure it is abundantly clear which is the option you are looking for.
We truly believe we have created something for everyone, and at the same time have ensured our free and ethical site is sustainable and will last the long term.