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LONDON, July 4/PRNewswire/ --

- TrustedPlaces and BView Partner to Offer Online Marketing Solutions
for Local Businesses

TrustedPlaces (http://trustedplaces.com/), the social network
focused on local reviews, has partnered with BView (http://www.BView.co.uk),
the business listings and customer review directory to provide a
first-of-its-kind joint solution tailored to the needs of local business.
The partnership enables and supports local business owners to manage their
online reputation by providing attractive advertising models and enhancing
exposure to relevant customers across both sites. Under the agreement
BView's sales force will handle all local sales on behalf of TrustedPlaces
and enable local business owners to reach a targeted audience through a
combined service tailored at the marketing needs of small businesses such as
restaurants, bars, pubs, shops and all other local services.

The joint offer is a combination of free and premium access to
TrustedPlaces and BView company profiles that allows business owners to:

- Manage their online reputation via their business profile on
both http://www.TrustedPlaces.com and http://www.BView.co.uk gaining
access to both sites' growing audiences

- Add information including business description, key
contacts, menus & photos to their profile

- Promote special offers exclusively to the TrustedPlaces and
BView user community

- Increase their footfall through advertising around targeted
postcodes on both sites

The combined offering is the first collaboration of its kind
in the UK and places the two companies in a unique position to benefit from
the growing local, online advertising market. It presents a viable and
cost-effective alternative to traditional directory players, at a much lower
cost.

About TrustedPlaces

With reviews from over 800 cities in 55 countries, TrustedPlaces allows
people to discover and share online all the latest information on where to go
out, via reviews and recommendations, from the TrustedPlaces community of
passionate and engaged individual reviewers.

With unique content continuously refreshed by its members, TrustedPlaces
aims to become the UK's largest online resource for independent reviews for
lifestyle places. Founded in 2006 by Sokratis Papafloratos and Walid Al
Saqqaf in London, UK, the beta site launched in February 2007 when
TrustedPlaces also secured GBP 500k funding from HOWZAT Media.

For more information visit http://www.trustedplaces.comRead our blog at:
http://trustedplaces.com/blog

Example pages:

Best London Restaurants (http://trustedplaces.com/places/uk/london/all/restaurant#/places/uk/london/all/restaurant)

Profile for Le Boudin Blanc in London (http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/restaurant/1901c7u/le-boudin-blanc?agoal=2_2)

About BView

BView is a Customer Reviews Directory for all UK Businesses. It is the
first Business Directory to highlight the UK's best and worst companies - as
rated by their customers. BView provides free web presence to every UK
business and enables companies to manage their reputations online. BView
provides unbiased search results, which enable the customer, not the fees
paid by the advertiser, to decide how their results are returned.

For further information please visit http://www.bview.co.uk. Read our
blog at: http://blog.bview.co.uk

Example pages

http://www.bview.co.uk/listing/0192551/Killer-Creative-Ltd-in-BN1

http://www.bview.co.uk/listing/0677675/Parker-Mcmillan-in-EC1Y

Source: TrustedPlaces and BView

Press Contact: Sokratis Papafloratos, CEO, sokratis@trustedplaces.com , +44(0)7717307032; Adam Baker, Managing Director, Adam.baker@bview.com , +44(0)7500-012-474.

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