What is Get Nigerian Businesses Online?

Get Nigerian Businesses Online is a Google-led initiative to help drive the economic success of small and medium businesses in Nigeria by enabling them to tap into the online marketplace.

Why is Google Doing this?

Small and medium businesses are vital to Nigeria’s economy; there are approximately 43 million Nigerians online and that number is expected to continue grow.  In the past 10 years the number of Nigerians online has grown at an explosive 82% year-over-year.  For businesses to continue to play a vital role in the Nigerian economy, they need to go where their customers are going and that is – online!

You can learn more about us here

Who are your partners?

You can read about our partners here.

Who are your partners?

We are engaging both commercial and non-commercial entities in our campaign to Get Nigerian Businesses Online.Each entity brings unique values to the campaign in support SMB growth in Nigeria.

You can read more about our partners here.

What is the value in becoming a partner?

Our partners can benefit from the Get Nigerian Businesses Online campaign by

• Playing a major role in developing the online business ecosystem
• Co-branding and benefit from Google’s national PR & marketing campaign efforts
• Connecting directly with target SMBs either as existing or new clients
• Bringing new or driving usage of existing propositions of relevance to SMBs

What role do partners play?

Our partners are invited to participate actively in the campaign through:

Campaign Endorsement

• Publicly endorse the campaign and participate in events
• Permit use of your brand on the campaign website and other outreach collateral to show support

SMB Outreach

• Promote the campaign and your participation to your own customer/membership base
• Provide value-added products/services relevant to SMBs in support of the movement

Grassroots engagement

• Host an event and drive participation among your customers/members

How can my company become a partner?

If your organization works with or supports small and medium businesses in your local area or nationally across Nigeria, and is interested in joining Google in this campaign, please have a representative complete the partnership application form.

Who are your vendors?

How do vendors support small businesses?

How can my company become a vendor?

How do I register my domain?

1. Login to your website administration console, www.businessname.gnbo.com.ng/admin, with your gmail username and password
2. When site builder completes loading (may take up to 5mins), locate and click the settings tab
3. Under publishing section, you should see “You do not have a custom domain name for your site. Purchase one”
   • Click the ‘Purchase one’ link
   • Choose preferred Domain registrar –Upperlink OR Whogohost and click the OK button to continue domain registration
4. Go to next step depending on which domain registrar you’ve selected

If you’ve selected Upperlink as your domain registrar:  

• You will be directed to the Upperlink domain registration page
• Click the ‘Login with your Google account’ button
• Grant access to Upperlink, when requested
• Enter a preferred domain name (NOTE: domain name can not be changed afterwards)
• Choose one domain extension(.com, .com.ng, .org, .org.ng)
• Click Check availability button to check whether domain is available, if not, refine website/domain name. Check tips on choosing a domain name
• Click the ‘continue’ button and fill the domain details
• Click continue to choose payment method

If you’ve selected Whogohost as your domain registrar: 

• You should be redirected to Whogohost GNBO domain registration page. 
• Enter a preferred domain name (NOTE: domain name can not be changed afterwards) 
• Choose one domain extension(.com, .com.ng, .org, .org.ng) 
• Click ‘Check availability’ button to check whether domain is available, if not refine website/domain name. Check tips on choosing domain name 
• Click the blue ‘Click here’ words, within the availability statement
• Fill the domain registration details and enter email address/password field correctly.
• If details are correct, you should be redirected to a payment instruction page, else you need to re-check the fields and enter correctly
• Click the second blue ‘Click here’
• Login with the email address and password, used for domain registration in earlier steps

How do I pay for my customised domain?

Payment process will depend on the domain registrar you've selected.

Upperlink payment:

Online payment: 

1)    Choose Interswitch, and click Proceed 

2)    Choose Card type, Enter Card number, expiry date, PIN, CVV (3-digit code at the back of the card) 

3)    Click the pay button to submit 

4)    If you get an error message, review the card details and try again. Or read online payment FAQ. 

Offline payment - Upperlink Branchcollect PIN or bank deposit 

1)    Choose Upperlink, and click Proceed 

2)    Purchase PIN from any ECOBANK or make payment to bank and send scanned copy of deposit slip to gnbo@upperlink.com.ng, including email address 

3)    Check your mail for PIN, if you made bank deposit or copy PIN from Scratch card. 

4)    Enter PIN correctly in the field and click Ok 

You will be re-directed to the payment confirmation page.

You have now completed the payment process. 

Whogohost payment:

Online payment - CashEnvoy or Interswitch/Mastercard 

1)    On the invoice page, choose CashEnvoy/Interswitch/Mastercard from the drop down list 

2)    On the secured payment page, choose Interswitch/Mastercard 

3)    Click card type, and enter card number, expiry date, PIN and CVV (3-digit code at the back of the card) 

4)    Click the ‘Pay’ button to submit 

Offline payment - Bank deposit/CashEnvoy 

1)    Make payment to bank and send scanned copy of deposit slip to support@whogohost.com, including email address 

2)    On the invoice page, choose CashEnvoy/Interswitch/Mastercard from the drop down list 

3)    On the secured payment page, choose CashEnvoy 

4)    Login to cashenvoy account, with email and password of account setup 

5)    Select domain and click Pay 

You will be re-directed to the payment confirmation page.

You have now completed the payment process. 

When will my domain registration be complete?

Upperlink

Once you have completed the payment process, simply click the ‘Continue’ button

Your website is now registered, but not active, this should take 1-2hrs; Wait while your domain propagates

Tip: To ensure you can return to this domain status page, copy and keep the page link (http://upperlink.com.ng/gnbo)

Return to the domain status page, and check the action column for the statement “Verify and Map to Google Sitebuilder”

Click the ‘Verify and Map to Google Sitebuilder’ link

If domain propagation is complete, you should get a congratulations message and a link to your website; If you do not see this message, click the ‘Click here’ to try again till you get the congratulations message.

Whogohost

Once you have completed the payment process, your website is registered, but not active; it should take 1-2hrs, kindly wait patiently while your domain propagates

Check email inbox for website confirmation (NOTE: At this point, your website is fully functional and you may visit the site, from a link in the email)