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Cake 1.0 is over. Now releasing Cake 2.0

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Hi there. It’s your friendly neighbourhood kat here, Thanks for all your entries to our first site-wide cake competition! The winner is…

Joy W from Sheffield for her review of Gullivers Eco Park Ltd entitled, “Not for genuine Lilliputians (toddlers)”!

Loved the title, and you can really sense Joy’s rage at her little ones being slightly too tall to fit under the 90cm restriction for getting in for free. She describes the venue beautifully, and goes through the entire park, describing eating and toilet facilities. Great review Joy!

In close second, we have Kelly R from Newbury!

She wrote a review entitled, “Definitely not exhausting going here!” of Ats Euromaster Ltd. I loved her ‘car pun’ in the title, and it is an extremely well written, and extraordinarily detailed review. She tells you what products they sell, how the service was, and by the end of reading it, you are left feeling as grateful as her for the excellent service!

Hope you enjoy your cake, Joy! (and Kelly, I will be sending you a little prize in the post soon as well! Hopefully both will take some photos so we can show them to the rest of you.)

And now for next month…

Write your reviews of Animals!

That’s right, write anything about animals. It could be a pet store, farm, zoo, or just your local convenience store that happens to have a dog that sits on the counter. Here’s a little inspiration… Huw L’s review of Mudchute Park & Farm. As you can see, he has a great title, and, most importantly, fantastic photos and lots of personality in his review.

  • Contest closes on September 30th
  • You can enter as often as you like, but make sure you share your review with kathryn.neville@bview.com (or send me a link to your review)
  • I give extra marks for photos, witty titles, and dialogue in your text.
  • Make sure you give relevant information about the business as well!

If you need some more inspiration, I will send you photos of fuzzy animals. I’m quite partial to goats.

And, as promised in the email current bview members receive, here’s your animal haiku!

  • bah neigh rawr moo oink
  • Write your animal reviews
  • But please in English

P.S. If you can write a better haiku, post it on my wall!

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Win an iPhone 3G

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

That’s right, we’ve got an 8Gb Apple iPhone 3G to give away to one lucky reviewer. I got myself one recently, and it’s brilliant – you’d be mad not to want one.

Every public review you write from now until midnight 31st October will get you an entry into our prize draw, and we’ll announce the winner around November 10th. The more reviews you write, the more chance you have of winning, so get writing!

Couldn’t be easier.

More details of the competition can be found on the BView site, and if you’ve got any questions please get in touch.

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The Best UK Football Grounds

Friday, August 15th, 2008

(and a BView challenge)

Love it or hate it, there’s no avoiding it. The football season is underway again. The Premier league kicks off tomorrow afternoon, and then it’s the beautiful game, non-stop for nine months (at last).

From Arsenal to Yeovil, we’ve got all 92 English league teams, and the twelve members of the Scottish Premier listed on BView, so lets have your feedback. Which ground is most accommodating, which has the best atmosphere, and which will leave you feeling ripped off?

The current standings see FA Cup winners Portsmouth topping the BView ratings, Joel P reckons Fratton Park has a great atmosphere and excellent fans (if you can get a ticket). Close behind are Hartlepool United , Yeovil Town , and the mighty Arsenal. Manchester United and Chelsea just about sneak into the top 10.

Let’s hear what you’ve got to say, find the clubs you’ve visited and leave your review.

At BView we’ve got three Arsenal fans (myself included), a Spurs fan (there’s no hope for some people), and even a Manchester United fan. As we quite like our football we’ve setup a BView fantasy football league on the official Barclays Premier League site. We’re always looking for healthy competition, so we’re inviting you to setup a team and join our league. Just register on the site, choose a team name, and select your winning eleven (or let the site pick a random team for you). Once your team’s created, all you need to do is click on the “Join League” option and enter our league code (1029829-183770). We’ll come up with a prize for the overall league winner at the end of the season (unless you’re a Spurs fan). Bring it on.

If football really isn’t your thing, don’t forget that BView still wants to give you cake, or if Amazon vouchers are more your thing, check out the August rewards scheme.

Get in touch if you’ve got any questions.

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The Cake is Not a Lie

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

A couple of months back Kat, BView’s web designer, started giving away a free cake to the person in our office who wrote the best review of a selected topic for that week. The promise of free cake provoked a rapid review response, and so far the competitions have been a great success, and the reviews have been excellent.

Some of our previous winners include:

  • My review of Footlocker (and the cake, it was good)
  • Martin G’s review of Orange
  • Margaret M’s review of National Car Rental
  • James R’s review of the Gielgud Theatre


Everyone loves free cake, so Kat and I have decided that we’re going to extend this competition to the whole BView community. The BView member who Kat decides writes the best review of her chosen topic will get their very own cake.

Kat’s got pretty high standards (so she tells me) and will be judging the reviews she receives on these criteria:

  • Depth of detail
  • Humour and entertainment value
  • Relevant photos
  • Interesting title

The first topic Kat has chosen for the inaugural BView Community Cake Challenge is… Travel.

This is quite a broad category, so your review could be for travel agents, airlines, hotels, a train company or anything else you can think of. When you submit your review make sure you enter Kat’s e-mail address in the “E-mail this review to a friend” box (kathryn.neville@bview.com) or get in contact through her profile page.

You’ve got until midnight on Friday 5th September to submit your cake winning entry and you can enter as many times as you want. Kat will announce the winner on our blog the following week. If you win, we might even let you choose the cake… but that’s up to Kat. The top three reviewers also get a little prize from Kat – but I can’t tell you what, it’s a surprise.

It’s serious now, there’s a cake at stake. No excuses… get reviewing!

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Refer your friends and get upto £50 to spend at Amazon

Friday, August 1st, 2008

BView’s Amazon rewards scheme was a massive success in July. And it’s definitely kept me busy! It’s really starting to show how useful and informative a committed community of reviewers can be. In July we had loads of new members, added thousands and thousands of reviews (I started counting to give you an exact figure, by lost my way and can’t face starting again), and we sent out thousands of pounds worth of Amazon vouchers.

We’ve still got plenty of space on BView and want our community to be even bigger (and better, naturally) than everywhere else, we’re well on our way to our goal of being the definitive source of business reviews in the UK but we won’t get there without your help. We want you to share BView with your friends and family. If they’re as well informed as our current members, then we’d love to have them on board!

To give you a bit of an incentive, we’ll reward you with a £10 Amazon voucher for every 5 new users you invite to BView who go on to write 20 qualifying reviews for un-reviewed businesses. Your new members get a £10 voucher for their reviewing efforts as well!

How does it work?

  • Login to your BView account and find the “Invite Friends” link on your “My Account” page
  • Choose where you want to invite your friends from. You can contact you friends directly through LinkedIn or Facebook, or access your webmail address book. If it’s easier, just enter their e-mail addresses directly
  • When they sign up by using the link in the invitation message, you’ll automatically be following each other. This way you’ll get updates when they write reviews (and prod them if they’re falling short of their voucher!)
  • When 5 users you invite hit the magic number of qualifying reviews (that’s 20), let me know and I’ll send out your voucher.
  • Head over to Amazon.co.uk and go shopping!

That’s all there is too it!

This offer is limited to 5 vouchers of £10 (£50 in total) and is valid in August only.

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Going going (almost) gone

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Our superb Amazon rewards offer is almost at an end – just a couple of days left now. If you don’t know already (where have you been?) BView will reward you with a £10 Amazon voucher for your first 20 reviews. There’s even a chance of earning up to £50 if you’re one of our super reviewers. Our offer expires at midnight on Thursday 31st July, so make sure you’ve got your reviews in before then. Any reviews submitted after this won’t be counted, sorry.

Before you get writing, please take a couple of minutes to have a read through the full details (it’s important to make sure the reviews you write qualify) and then head on over to have a look at our top users page for a bit of inspiration.

Once your reviews are in, visit my page on BView and get in touch – I’ll check out your reviews and let you know when you’ll get your voucher.

That all there is to it – you know what to do…

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Free Amazon Vouchers

Monday, June 9th, 2008

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Here’s the crack: since our launch we’ve seen an increasing amount of quality reviews about businesses come in from our users. Your reviews have been funny, well written, and massively helpful to people looking to make informed choices on who they do business with.

We want this culture of quality reviews to continue. So from today we will be offering £10 Amazon vouchers for every 20 reviews you make on BView. Its just a little gift from the makers of BView to give you rewards for your reviews.

So what’s the catch? There is none!Just remember your reviews should focus on the quality, reliability and value of any business. Its all about QRV!

To find out more go to here.

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Barcelona competition: 10 days remaining…

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

With only 10 days remaining until the close of our Barcelona competition, here are some tempting suggestions from the BView team about what you could be doing under the 25 degree heat of the Spanish sun:

1. Hire a bike and cycle along the beautiful Mediterranean beach fronts.
2. Check out Gaudi architecture at the ever evolving Sagrada Familia.
3. Visit The Montjuïc Castle for a panoramic view over the rest of the city.
4. Visit a Flamenco Show at Tablao de Carmen.
5. Visit Barcelona FC at the Nou Camp – the world’s best football stadium.
6. Visit the theme park on Mount Tibidabo.
7. swim in crystal clear waters at Sitges beach.
8. Eat at some of the best seafood restaurants in Spain at Port Olimpic.
9. Sample Barcelona’s nightlife clubbing on the hill.
10. Sip Sangrias/Cervesas, and watch Catalan life pass by at La Rambla.

May the best BView-er win!

Results announced soon…

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Win tickets to Barcelona

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

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Yep you read that correctly…. BView are giving away 2 tickets to Bareclona + flights and £500 spending money. All you need to do is review businesses to increase your BView influence! How easy could it be?!

How to win
The winner will be the user who has the highest influence score.

Increase your influence by:
1)    writing reviews
2)    get feedback (compliments) to your reviews
3)    the more people subscribed to you, the more influential you are deemed to be

Where can I find my influence score?
Your influence is shown in the top right corner of your user profile.

How long does the competition run?
The competition runs until May 31st 2008. Your influence score will be taken as of 11.59pm. The user with the highest influence will be deemed the competition winner

Invite your friends too
Anyone can enter, so long as they are a registered BView user. Send this link for them to register:
http://www.bview.co.uk/app/frontend/PreRegister

Here’s some inspiration to get you started:

For a copy of our terms & conditions, please email me.

Good luck and may the most influential person win!

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