The Best of Class Community Exchange Announces Online Partnership With nbc-2.com and abc-7.com

The Best of Class Community Exchange Announces Online Partnership With nbc-2.com and abc-7.com

NAPLES, Fla., May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Best of Class Community Exchange (BOC Exchange) and nbc-2.com and abc-7.com today announced the launch of a distribution partnership whereby the BOC Exchange directory will now become integrated and available through the nbc-2.com and abc-7.com Web sites. Under the terms of the agreement, consumers will now be able to access the BOC Exchange business directory through the Resources areas of both the nbc-2.com and abc-7.com Home pages, as well as the Top Sections area of nbc-2.com.

By adding the BOC Exchange directory as an integral resource to nbc-2.com and abc-7.com, consumers will now have access to information and the ability to submit reviews on thousands of local businesses throughout Southwest Florida, and the best area businesses will now be able to use their reputation as a way to differentiate themselves to thousands of consumers, a win-win for the local community. "Our viewers expect news and information when they want it, how they want it and where the want it. And they value the flexibility we offer as the area's leading provider of electronic news and information. By adding BOC Exchange's unique business directory and reviews to our Web sites, we will deliver our viewers more information and flexibility," says Keith Norman, Internet Director for Waterman Broadcasting, manager of nbc-2.com and abc-7.com. "We are very excited about the tremendous benefit this will offer our viewers throughout Southwest Florida and the thousands of future viewers moving every month to this area."

"The Best of Class Community Exchange is also very excited about this announcement," says Carl W. Suarez, BOC Exchange Chairman and CEO. "For us this relationship represents a giant step forward in offering the best local businesses and consumers in Southwest Florida a way to connect. Particularly in the wake of Hurricane Wilma, I can sympathize with the feelings expressed by consumers in recent polls about the need to find reliable local businesses. In much the same way, I was motivated along with my partner Erik Flitman to develop this site based on the very same need more than year ago. We now believe we have the best solution available on the market today."

About Waterman Broadcasting Corporation

Waterman Broadcasting Corp. is a privately held organization that owns and operates NBC network affiliate WBBH-HD/NBC2, nbc-2.com and mobile site nbc2go.com. The company also operates through a local marketing agreement with Ft. Myers, Florida-based Montclair Communications ABC network affiliate WZVN-TV/ABC7 and companion Web site abc-7.com. Proud of its long history of journalism excellence and the recipient of numerous Edward R. Murrow and Associated Press awards, Waterman Broadcasting is the largest electronic news organization between Miami and Tampa. The company employs more than 220 people who help produce every week over 75 hours of live newscasts on-air, online and on mobile devices. Visit http://www.water.net/

About the Best of Class Community Exchange

The BOC Exchange Web site is quickly becoming one of the key resources in Southwest Florida that consumers are turning to for information about choosing a local business. The core of the site is the Best of Class (BOC) Business Directory where consumers can post and view ratings and reviews on virtually any business in Southwest Florida, and the best businesses can join offering their reputation-based guarantee to their customers. Unlike a Better Business Bureau, customers get to see an uncensored and unedited version of what the company's customers have to say. The site also provides and consolidates a variety of other information and links to help consumers locate the best local businesses. By joining as business members, great local businesses can showcase themselves and offer their customers a true satisfaction guarantee based on their online reputation. Business members are also provided with a variety of tools that help them further ensure that only real customers are posting to the site, as well as showcase their services and reputation-based promise to their customers.

RateNaples, Inc. (DBA: Best of Class Community Exchange) is a privately held developer of the http://www.bocexchange.com/ Web site, which operates as a one-stop source of community building and communications tools for consumers and advanced Internet marketing tools and services for member businesses and their customers. For more information, please visit: http://www.bocexchange.com/ .

Source: Best of Class Community Exchange

CONTACT: Carl W. Suarez, Best of Class Community Exchange,
+1-239-777-7100, or csuarez@bocexhange.com; or Keith Norman, Waterman
Broadcasting Corporation, +1-239-939-6214, or keith.norman@water.net

Web site: http://www.bocexchange.com/
http://www.water.net/
http://www.nbc-2.com/
http://www.abc-7.com/
http://www.nbc2go.com/

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