Funky People online is a unique portal that ties users' business, news, entrepreneurial and creative art form sources together in an online network. Targeting an audience of 25-55 year old professionals, business owners, artists and social activity seekers from many backgrounds, Funky People Online is designed to let users reference and share content and participate in activities that are relevant to their personal, cultural and family development. The site features include an eClassifieds Directoy, Small Business Directory, Stock Updates, Financial News, Message Board and Chat Forums in its "Info Biz" section. There is also an Artform Gallery showcasing creative talent, an Events Calendar, Internet Radio Station and a monthly Newsletter E-Zine publication.

History:

Funky People Online was conceptualized by a group of information technology professionals who saw the need to reduce the amount of mail forwards from their colleagues and contacts. Most importantly, they wanted to devise a personal, more interactive way to connect the very savvy Internet users to other individuals as it relates to information on news, health, wealth, politics and social awareness.

In March of 2006, Terry E. Alford, Founder and CEO of Funky People, LLC, coined the banner (which was originally named for his 1990s music entertainment company, Funky People Records) and re-branded the collective with a wider vision. This time, Funky People would not just represent the creativity and interests of local artists and musicians, but would use the internet medium to also include the broader and equally talented group of professionals, business proprietors, and community service organization members. In the Spring of 2006, the first member newsletter was published, followed on August 1st, 2006 by the beta launch of the member website, FunkyPeopleOnline.com.

As member interest and popluarlity increased over the first six months, Terry Alford and his team unvieled the expanded Funky People Online network, highlighting the subscriber features that you now see, like the Forum Message Board, Small Business Directory, Artform Gallery, Trip & Events Calendar, and independent web radio station, www.FunkyPeopleRadio.net.

To increase social activities for members, the Funky People Entertainment moniker was used for music concerts, performance shows, mixer parties and travel events. All three divisions are comprise the collective business of Funky People, LLC.

Mission:

Funky People Online's vision is to become a community of professionals, entrepreneurs, artists and social activity seekers. The site continues to provide visitors and members an environment where they can communicate and collect information pertaining to services, products, small business, entrepreneurship, careers, family education, finance, health, media entertainment and travel. What has and will continue to make our organization unique is in the "non-mainstream" or "diverse" activities that we create, produce and promote for our audience. Quite simply, our Funky People members drive the personality of the site, with a certain intellectual mindset and trendsetting outgoing attitude. Funky People Online welcomes a wide ranging, multi-cultural audience that finds value in the site's content and users that contribute resources, ideas, feedback, and differing perspectives of their own to the online community. Subscribe to our site directly or join our Facebook Group.

FunkyPeopleOnline.com - - "Connecting you to Information, Business and Artform."

Contact us at: staff@FunkyPeopleonline.com