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/lond...)

Profile for Le Boudin Blanc in London (http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/restaurant/1901c7u/le-boudin-b...)

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

LONDON, July 4 /PRNewswire/ --

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