URateLocal.com - User reviews of local businesses

URateLocal is a local online search service, providing information on businesses in the categories of dining, entertainment, retail, travel, and professional services in cities throughout the United States, Canada and Internationally. URateLocal is a subsidiary company of URateStuff. The company shares the site advertising revenue with its contributing members through the URate Profit-Share program, encouraging user participation and retention.

Consumers: Write reviews sharing experiences you've had with local businesses and services. Help other consumers decide which services to use and which services to avoid. You can also invite your friends to rate and comment your reviews. You can make money automatically through the URate Profit-share program, through 50/50 split Google Adsense ads based on your content. Business Owners: Leverage our technology; use the power of customer testimonials to boost your sales. Link to suitable reviews on URateLocal to encourage your customers to use your service.You may add links to our Reviews on your website, using the FREE code on every review page. Check out our Official Buttons page. Also send customers to URateLocal in your Thankyou email, so they can review your service. Then you can link to this review on Uratelocal.com.

They offer benefits to all parts of the market for participating and reading the site. They make it easy to stay up to date with their content, and have various tools to get their name on other sites, reaching a larger market. They have made the site translatable into the major languages, which also increases their reach.

How will they compete with other resources that review and track local businesses?