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About the BBB Student Video Contest
BBB Serving North Central Texas | Dallas has created an interactive contest that involves students from participating local high schools to educate them about the most pervasive scams. The BBB Student Video Contest gives students real world experience in creating a 60-sec videos while constructing a social marketing campaign to promote the message that scams can affect anyone and that BBB Scam Tracker is a great resource to research and report scams.
About Contest
BBB serving Dallas and Northeast Texas has created an interactive contest that involves students from participating local schools to deliver a message of Trust. The BBB Student Video Contest gives students real world experience in creating a 30 second video while constructing a social marketing campaign to promote the message.
The BBB works directly with the participating schools and faculty to organize a multi-school competition for their students. The BBB actively presents the contest to participating students and provides judging, guidelines, curriculum and this website to facilitate the contest. Students can partner up in teams, or go it alone, to produce an engaging 30 second video that follows a unique theme. Students have up to 8-10 weeks to script, shoot, and edit the videos using school resources, and then submit the video to be judged.
Students can partner up in teams, or go it alone, to produce an engaging 60 second video that follows a unique theme “Even you could get scammed”. Students have up to 8-10 weeks to script, shoot, and edit the videos using school resources, and then submit the video to be judged.
Once the video is approved for judging, the BBB will make the video public and students must promote and market their video through social and traditional marketing channels. Videos are then given a 4-6 week timeframe to be promoted. BBB works with a national agency Platypus – Media, Advertising, & Design, as well as other creative professionals and academics to judge each video on quality, messaging, and production value, while tallying all the votes received online from the students marketing efforts.
BBB works with local media channels, including news stations, to help promote the contest and will announce the winners publicly. Individual prizes, scholarships, and video equipment donations are awarded to the participants and we have had the pleasure of even giving the winning students on-air TV time.
“The BBB video challenge motivated the students to use their creative and critical thinking skills to develop ideas that are unique, useful and worthy of elaboration,” said Niloo Jalilvand, Transmedia Education and Mathematics teacher, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. “This is a perfect example of school, community and business collaboration that establishes an educative community.”
BBB Code of Business Practices:
The BBB Code of Business Practices represents sound advertising, selling and customer service practices that enhance customer trust and confidence in business. The Code is built on the BBB Standards for Trust, eight principles that summarize important elements of creating and maintaining trust in business.
This Code also represents standards for business accreditation by BBB. Businesses based in the United States and Canada that meet these standards and complete application procedures will be accredited by BBB.
Read more at BBB Code of Business Practices
BBB Code of Business Practices:
The BBB Code of Business Practices represents sound advertising, selling and customer service practices that enhance customer trust and confidence in business. The Code is built on the BBB Standards for Trust, eight principles that summarize important elements of creating and maintaining trust in business.
This Code also represents standards for business accreditation by BBB. Businesses based in the United States and Canada that meet these standards and complete application procedures will be accredited by BBB.
Read more at BBB Code of Business Practices
About BBB Serving North Central Texas
For almost 100 years, BBB Serving North Central Texas has been helping people throughout the Dallas and Wichita Falls areas find businesses and brands they can trust. Our two offices serve over 7,000 Accredited Businesses in 29 counties. In 2016, people turned to us nearly 10 million times for information on North Central Texas businesses, dispute resolution, advertising and trade practice investigations, to request a quote for services, and more.
These services are underwritten by thousands of businesses and professional firms that qualify for BBB accreditation by meeting the BBB Code of Business Practices, founded on the BBB Standards for Trust. BBB Serving Dallas and North Central Texas is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors of business leaders elected by and from accredited businesses. Day-to-day operations are carried out by a staff of BBB professionals. BBB is an independent, non-profit organization determined by the IRS to be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Dallas BBB in the Community
BBB Serving North Central Texas is become a mainstay in our local communities. Consumers have come to us when seeking assistance in identifying ethical businesses, spotting potential scams, and of course, enjoyable community outreach programs!
Dallas BBB in the Community
The BBB Serving Dallas and Northeast Texas is become a mainstay in our local communities. Consumers have come to us when when seeking assistance in identifying ethical businesses, spotting potential scams, and of course, enjoyable community outreach programs!
Every year we seek out video submissions from talented high school students for our BBB Starts With Trust video contest. The Better Business Bureau is inviting school districts all over North East Texas to participate in this years annual BBB video contest. What are we looking for? We are looking for videos that best represent the BBB’s slogan “Starts With Trust”. Have an interesting idea? Share it with us!
Our Vision:
An ethical marketplace where buyers and sellers trust each other.
Our Mission:
BBB’s mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. We do this by:
- Setting standards for marketplace trust
- Encouraging and supporting best practices by engaging with and educating consumers and businesses
- Celebrating marketplace role models
- Calling out and addressing substandard marketplace behavior
- Creating a community of trustworthy businesses and charities
Does your school want to participate?
BBB sees trust as a function of two primary factors – integrity and performance. Integrity includes respect, ethics and intent. Performance speaks to a business’s track record of delivering results in accordance with BBB standards and/or addressing customer concerns in a timely, satisfactory manner.
BBB ensures that high standards for trust are set and maintained. We exist so consumers and businesses alike have an unbiased source to guide them on matters of trust. We provide educational information and expert advice that is free of charge and easily accessible.
BBB Accreditation is an honor – and not every business is eligible. Businesses that meet our high standards are invited to join BBB. Businesses deemed to meet Accreditation Standards are presented to the BBB’s Board (or designees) for review and acceptance as a BBB Accredited Business. To read more about our Accreditation Standards, click here.
All BBB accredited businesses have agreed to live up to our Standards for Trust, a comprehensive set of best practices for how businesses should treat the public in a fair and honest manner. To review our Standards for Trust, click here.
BBB does not compare businesses against each other but rather evaluates businesses against our standards – and our standards clearly speak to the character and competence of an organization.
BBB is the resource to turn to for objective, unbiased information on businesses. Our network of BBBs allows us to monitor and take action on thousands of business issues affecting consumers at any given time.
BBB is your key adviser, most reliable evaluator and most objective expert on the topic of trust in the marketplace.
