Released on = August 22, 2007, 5:09 am

Press Release Author = Grant Soosalu

Industry = Marketing

Press Release Summary = A new social reward and recognition space can help you
achieve marketing success. The recently launched social networking website takes
social networking in a new direction as a platform for synergistic marketing. Savvy
business owners are nominating their employees and business teams to use the power
of social networking and social recognition to both reward their people and gain
valuable positive advertising.

Press Release Body = Being a nominee on the1000best.com, a new social reward and
recognition space is turning into a marketing dream for Helen Van Den Berg, a tour
guide operating from the small remote town of Loch Sport in Australia. Helen's
profile as 1 of the1000best has seen her inundated with tributes and boosts from her
clients, all with one very clear message that Helen is the best tour guide in the
world.

Helen's nomination as 1 of the 1000 best tour guides in the world was gifted to her
by friends as a way of rewarding, recognising and saying thank you. This gift gave
her a Personal Space page on the1000best where Helen profiled herself, her own newly
launched web site and her tour operator business. As well as the profile, the
website also encourages ongoing positive reinforcement for nominees by giving people
the ability to 'boost' their favourite nominees on a daily basis and to send tribute
messages. It is the tribute messages that are paying off handsomely for Helen. "I
have been overwhelmed by the tributes I have received and I have been on a constant
high with all the positive feedback. This website has to be the ultimate marketing
tool - this type of marketing is priceless and it's lead to an amazing amount of
traffic to my own website".

The1000best.com takes social networking in a totally new direction. Rather than just
providing a platform to connect people, the1000best.com goes the next step by
offering a gift of social reward and recognition. Generally, anyone can join a
social network for free however to get connected on the1000best.com someone must
value you enough to purchase a gift nomination and nominate you as 1 of the1000best
in the world (according to you). People with business interests and who are
fortunate and worthy of nomination then have a very public platform to market
themselves by way of sharing the positive experiences of their clients with the
world. Referral systems like this are worth their weight in gold.

Savvy business owners can also nominate their employees or business teams and use
the power of social networking and social recognition to both reward their people
and gain valuable positive advertising. This is a form of synergistic marketing, in
which the business is linked to positive values and social appreciation. As Grant
Soosalu, one of the developers of the1000best.com commented "Social Networking is a
huge and growing phenomenon, and the1000best.com now provides a fantastic mechanism
for showcasing your business by linking your people into this network of value".

Web Site = http://www.the1000best.com

Contact Details = Grant Soosalu
P.O.Box 827 Mt Eliza
Victoria
Australia 3930
philcoal@gmail.com