Socially Loud Media Socially Loud is WBENC certified, MWBE certified, and WOSB certified. We spent years pursuing those certifications, showing up at the conferences, building the relationships, learning the procurement systems, and doing the work required to operate inside corporate supplier diversity programs. So we can tell you from direct experience what these certifications actually mean, and more importantly, what they do not mean. WBENC verifies that a business is at least 51% women-owned and controlled. MWBE adds the minority-owned designation. WOSB is the federal women-owned small business certification. What these open up are procurement channels that are simply not accessible without them. Large corporations with supplier diversity commitments, government contracts, university systems: they all have mechanisms to work with certified vendors that non-certified businesses cannot access. The certification gets you into the room. That part is real. What the certification does not do is close the deal for you. This is the part no one tells emerging diverse-owned businesses: getting certified is the beginning of the work, not the end of it. The relationships that led to real contracts for Socially Loud were built over years of showing up at WBENC conferences, NMSDC events, and supplier diversity summits. Not once, not twice. Consistently. Year after year. The brands and procurement officers who eventually became clients knew us because we had been in the room long before we sent a proposal. The honest truth about minority and women-owned supplier programs is that the gap between what companies say and what they actually spend with diverse suppliers is still significant. Many corporations have supplier diversity goals on paper that do not translate into real procurement shifts. This is starting to change, but it is a slow change. Brands that are serious about it go beyond checking a box. They actively seek out certified partners, they allocate real budget rather than token contracts, and they integrate diverse suppliers into core programs rather than one-off initiatives. For brands working through procurement decisions, working with certified diverse agencies is not just a diversity and inclusion statement. It often means working with leaner, more agile firms that are highly motivated to perform because their entire business reputation rests on every client relationship. Socially Loud has been at this for fifteen years. We earned every one of those certifications, and we earn the trust of every client the same way. If you are a brand that wants to move beyond the optics of supplier diversity and build real partnerships with women and minority-owned agencies, we are here for that conversation. --- Socially Loud is a purpose-driven creative agency based in Miami, Brooklyn, and LA. We build brands, people, and communities. Est. 2010. sociallyloud.com
