Best of the Valley?

It that time of year again when our local free paper, The Valley Advocate puts out it's list of the best places for everything in the Pioneer Valley. As I thumbed through the pages I noticed all the regulars, the businesses that have been in the number one spots for the past five or six years. But wait, aren't a lot of the best businesses in the valley hefty advertisers in the Valley Advocate? Hmm, I think so. I wonder if having a higher advertising budget could influence your standings in the best of the Valley "poll" that the Advocate throws every year to give a little back to it's money makers.

Maybe, what do you think? Feel free to let me know.

-Enjoy