Released on = June 19, 2007, 12:00 pm

Press Release Author = Aaron Pais

Industry = Food & Beverage

Press Release Summary = URateLocal is a peer review database for local businesses
and services that serves the college community by allowing students to find out the
best entertainment, health care, and education from other people like them who can
profit from their own reviews. The growing URateLocal community will then determine
the popularity of a review by rating it according to its usefulness. Students can
write about their experiences at school, after hours, and at their favorite
restaurants. They can choose to write their own reviews, comment on others, or
simply rate other user reviews.

Press Release Body = URateLocal is a peer review database for local businesses and
services that serves the college community by allowing students to find out the best
entertainment, health care, and education from other people like them who can profit
from their own reviews. The growing URateLocal community will then determine the
popularity of a review by rating it according to its usefulness. Students can write
about their experiences at school, after hours, and at their favorite restaurants.
They can choose to write their own reviews, comment on others, or simply rate other
user reviews.

Students can earn extra income through URateLocal\'s profit share program in which
they earn money through Google Adsense. The site operates on the principle that
those who benefit from other user reviews can help the author of that review make
money by commenting on it or recommending it. Reviews that are ranked high by the
URateLocal community stay in the database longer and can be featured on the front
page where their reviews can be seen by a much bigger audience.

Students today have to contend with the rising cost of living with the high price of
tuition and college textbooks, rising gas prices, high speed internet and cable
bills, and other miscellaneous costs. Students do not know where to turn as
corporations compete with each other for their business. Students who study full
time find it difficult to earn an income to support their lifestyle. URateLocal
promises to help the college community by supplying them with additional income for
their contributions and allowing them to browse the many reviews written by other
cost conscious students who support local services where one does not have to
sacrifice quality for affordability.

Customers often do not realize the value their reviews have to local business owners
who use the reviews to make improvements to their business model and to learn more
about who their potential clients are. It is recommended that when students
register, they include all their demographic info which will help local business
owners help them in a system the URate team likes to call the \"Circle Of Progress\".
While the demographic info helps local business owners market their services even
before they have a location, students will be the first to know when a service
catering to them will open in their area. The more demographic info you provide, the
more local business owners could use that information to attract the customers they
want by tagging their reviews, adding pictures and videos, and posting links to
URateLocal reviews on their homepage, blog, or any other site that allow button
links. Through this \"Circle of Progress\", URateLocal aims to bring customers
together with the services that matter most to them.

URateLocal is different than other local service review sites in that it enables
more collaboration between customers and local business owners by allowing business
owners to link to any customer review on the URateLocal site for free to promote
their business. Local business owners are also encouraged to write their own reviews
about their service on URateLocal and comment on other reviews in which they can add
information or correct misperceptions.

For those with entrepreneurial dreams, URateLocal along with its product review
counterpart URateStuff are the perfect place to test your product in a system that
helps you target a demographic, find buyers and investors within the URateLocal
community, or seek professional advice from business owners who update their member
pages to include up to the minute bio and contact information. The data that is
compiled on URateLocal and URateStuff are available to everyone and useful to those
who do market research in their field of expertise.

URateLocal and URateStuff are the only review sites that allow users to post videos
in their reviews. Customers can post video reviews and videos that detail their
experiences using a product or service while sellers and business owners can post
video ads in which they can be creative in how they choose to position their
product. Sellers can also take advantage of the video format by posting live
tutorials and using their personality to give their product or service more
credibility. The popularity of Youtube among young collegiates has inspired the
founder to enable its functionality on the site with all the features that make
Youtube the most popular video sharing site today.

More multimedia and web 2.0 features are currently in development at URateStuff and
URateLocal to make it one of the most viral social networks for college students
looking to find others with similar interests. Users can make friends, subscribe to
RSS feeds for automatic updates, and upload multimedia content. The site is
featuring cities from the U.S. and Canada with more updates coming soon.

Since URateLocal brings local people together, students can also use it to network
offline. This ability to form an outside community of people who share the same
tastes in art, music, food, and recreation represents a new era in Web 2.0.

Home - http://www.uratelocal.com/
Los Angeles, CA - http://losangeles.uratelocal.com
New York, NY - http://newyork.uratelocal.com
Toronto, ON (Canada) - http://toronto.uratelocal.com
Kitchener, ON (Canada) - http://kitchener.uratelocal.com

Web Site = http://www.uratelocal.com

Contact Details = --
Aaron Pais
press@uratestuff.com
4167236903