While conventional methods of marketing to urban professionals have become more and more difficult, Bean Soup Times has found a way to cut through the clutter to reach our readers where it matters—in the funny bone.

In our sixth year, the Bean Soup Times email newsletter educates, humors, and disseminates valuable information and resources to nearly 10,000 urban, black professionals in the Chicago area with online access, college degrees, and disposable income. Our content is a mixture of humor, politics and culture. We have dedicated readers who often forward our email to their personal database of friends in Chicago and beyond. We also can forward info to our myspace page bulletin and various email groups we belong to as well. We’ve been successful in helping promote businesses, services and causes. We have successfully promoted our own events such as Bean Soup LIVE, Comic Relief and the Bean Soup Comedy Awards.

Most importantly, we help unite people from all walks of life into an incredible network of Black professionals that include many corporate, government, and community leaders. Our readers are diverse. They are in the fields of media, real estate, religion, education, entertainment, law, marketing, technology, retail, health care, and entrepreneurship.

Bean Soup Times is more than an email newsletter. It’s a community. Readers have learned of and thus landed acting roles in plays, met their soul mates by attending events we’ve promoted and learned new skills. Along with our outreach to local professionals, we also remain in constant contact with local media outlets. We offer a special media alert distribution service that has been effective in securing print, radio and television spots for our clients on Citizen, Chicago Defender, Rolling Out, Red Eye, WVON, Power 92, and WGN.

Our partners are diverse. They have included the African Festival of the Arts, the new Kennedy King College, Columbia Studios, MGM Studios, Expedia.com, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Steppenwolf Theater, The Community Renewal Society, SEIU Local 1, Laughing on the Lakefront, Jokes & Notes Comedy Club, Chicago Improv, Zanies, Real Men Cook, and many more.

For ad rates, send us an email.