The Best of Dorchester
A Big Shout for Your Business
How often have you come across a great business, perhaps a restaurant, hairdresser, deli or garage and wanted to tell your friends about it, just because it simply went that extra mile for you?
At thebestofdorchester we help make that happen every day of the week.
We seek out recommendations and referrals for the best businesses in the Dorchester area and champion them both online and offline through our business connections service.
Our mission is to help local businesses grow and increase their profits by attracting more customers (and visitors to their website).
We combine the power of word-of-mouth recommendation, internet promotion, local advertising and networking to create a unique, highly effective and affordable service for local businesses and the community.
Online feature
thebestof.co.uk has over 100,000 page views per day, and an online feature on www.thebestof.co.uk/dorchester enables your business to get great web exposure.
Your full page feature includes up to 400 words of professionally written text, photographs, your logo, a direct link to your own website (where applicable) and full contact details with map.
In addition, our review facility provides an opportunity for your customers to tell other local people why they think you are the best - putting powerful word-of-mouth recommendation to work for your business. If you've got happy customers, why not share the good news?
Furthermore, thebestofdorchester members are able to promote their new product launch, sale, open day or other special event to local people in our events listings, and in our fortnightly business newsletter.
Business connections
thebestofdorchester is also constantly active offline on behalf of members. Our business connections service brings people and businesses together, putting our members' businesses directly in touch with potential customers - at the time they are looking to buy.

How do you become part of thebestofdorchester?
Call us, with recommendations from your customers, to discuss the information you would like included in your online feature on www.thebestof.co.uk/dorchester.
- Call Steve or Westrow at thebestofdorchester
- Tel: +44 (0)1305 755622
- Email The Best of Dorchester
- www.thebestof.co.uk/dorchester
**** MARCH 2008 *****
thebestof Dorchester, along with other franchisees in thebestof group, have been voted the top INNOVATIVE BUSINESS OF THE YEAR at the Fast Growth Business Awards 2008.
A leading panel of entrepreneurs, investors and experts judged the awards. These included Peter Jones, entrepreneur and star of BBC's Dragons' Den; Simon Kossoff, MD of Carluccios and Rene Carayol, business guru and TV presenter.
