Comments on: bview mashes up Yelp, Yell and Facebook to keep businesses honest

By: Home Removal Services

Home Removal Services — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:30:30 +0000

Jens is right. Touchlocal is one only company that comes close to having all these features. They are however not to popular and should really spend more effort on advertising and marketing. When i see companies like Bview I normally see it as another way to deprive us of our hard-earned cash.

By: Adrian C

Adrian C — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:26:32 +0000

Just went on to BView for Plymouth for Man and van and found the usual suspects. When I see these companies, I assume it’s just another directory. Can’t see anything about credit ratings, but pretty irrelevant for my line of business anyway. Just looks like one of many!

By: Removal Company

Removal Company — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:53:29 +0000

BView’s mission is to become the standard platform for intermediating between local businesses and local consumers.

By: London Removals

London Removals — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:40:21 +0000

I like that. You can get a lot of discount from there.

By: London Removals

London Removals — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:51:08 +0000

BView is using Twitter. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple

By: vanman

vanman — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:12:19 +0000

If you actually go onto bview the reports are free, although they are not that comprehensive.

By: alloageorge

alloageorge — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:09:15 +0000

Iwas in a restaurant once where a customer discussed loudly with her friend that she was reviewing the food.She then gave the staff a really hard time(unjustified). I can see the likes of her loving a website like Bview and the ability to trash anyone who doesnt put up with her antics.Personally i would have thrown her out and took my chances.

By: inwadeGen

inwadeGen — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:26:49 +0000

Hi! levlen

By: Nick Taimitarha

Nick Taimitarha — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:00:35 +0000

Credit scores are pretty much irrelevant for consumers looking for a local restaurant or plumber, that type of information is really only useful in a B2B context, so that’s a pretty limited USP. There are a lot more useful directory sites out there like welovelocal.com, touchlocal.com and thebestof.co.uk.

By: Jeff Wayland

Jeff Wayland — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:02:15 +0000

You have to pay for information on busibody and the cost can rack up depending on what info you want and how many companys you want it on. If you actually go onto bview the reports are free, although they are not that comprehensive.
i like their customer reviews/rating system- kind of cool

By: Paul Dettman

Paul Dettman — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:49:39 +0000

“There are 1.5 million credit scores on BView and it’s the first time you’ve been able to see a company’s credit rating in the UK.”

You mean for free, right? I’ve been using http://www.busibody.com for ages.

By: Jens

Jens — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:21:14 +0000

I guess touchlocal comes close to what they do: http://www.touchlocal.com They have been around for several years and are backed by Balderton (I think).

This is basically a standard (Companies House-based?) offline directory, transported online with a web 2.0 overlay. The challenge with this kind of stuff is that you need a lot of reviews to add significant value. With significant value, you get a lot of users. Lots of users -> lots of reviews and even more value. Getting the amount of traffic to increase the number of reviews will be a key challenge for them.