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BatchBlue’s Batchbook—An Online Customizable Contact Organizer Made for Small Business—Debuts at DEMOfall07

Batchbook helps entrepreneurs organize their businesses so they can live their lives

SAN DIEGO, CA, September 24, 2007—BatchBlue Software™, a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that empowers small businesses with big business tech tools, announced at DEMOfall 07 its flagship product, Batchbook. Designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Batchbook is a customizable online contact organizer that enables growing small businesses to manage their contacts, communications and to-do lists from multiple devices, anywhere, anytime.

With a free trial and plans starting at $9.95 a month, BatchBlue enables users to easily add custom fields, tag data sets, and build relationships between contact records. They can also log communications, create email and mailing lists, and manage tasks in a quick and easy Web form.

“BatchBlue built Batchbook by turning direct feedback from small businesses into a first-rate innovative contact organizer for this market,” said Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO conferences. ”Batchbook’s DEMO2GO database, an example application built for the event, will drive home the value of this product’s customization features for attendees by providing a single database with past and present DEMO participants. With DEMO2GO, conference goers will be able to follow-up and optimize the DEMO experience like never before.”

The product’s customization capabilities are key, as no two small businesses need the same thing from their contact database. Public relations firms need to track targeted press lists. Travel agencies need to confirm visa submissions. Garden designers need to know growing zones for their clients. And, to compete with their oversized rivals, these companies need more than just a client’s name and address. They need instant access to information that makes their client relationship special: language preferences, allergies(?) or affiliations between contacts.

Yet most small business data is in a state of disarray. Crucial contact information is spread across Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, rolodexes, and even post-its stuck on computer screens and car dashboards. Without a single-source for managing this data, key contact information can be misplaced and opportunities for sales or connections lost.

Enter BatchBlue with its elite team of successful entrepreneurs and accomplished web professionals. Driven by their unwavering commitment to customer-centric development, the team used a variety of new methods to engage and involve entrepreneurs in the development of a single source for small businesses’ crucial contacts. The end result—a real solution for real people.

“We built Batchbook by working closely with a diverse group of small businesses,” said Pamela O’Hara, president of BatchBlue. “We were struck by their passion, creativity and capacity for innovation. We believe that entrepreneurs have the power to change the world for the better and we want to help them do it with organizational tools that free them up from technology headaches and give them more time for enjoying their businesses and their lives.”

DEMOfall 07 participants are invited to visit BatchBlue at station #33 and receive a one-year free subscription to Batchbook’s DEMO2GO—a pre-populated database of ‘06 and ‘07 conference participants.

To sign-up for a Batchbook account, please visit www.batchbook.com.

About BatchBlue Software

In 2006, a successful IT entrepreneur assembled a team of accomplished web professionals in the “biggest little” state of Rhode Island to form BatchBlue Software. The company was created with one goal in mind: to create useful, user-friendly software for small businesses. The company's flagship product, Batchbook, solves a crucial small business need by providing a customizable online organizer to manage and track contact information, communications and to-do lists. Entrepreneurs can upgrade their businesses’ greatest asset—their people network—by visiting www.batchbook.com or calling 888-40-BATCH (22824).

About DEMO

Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the semi-annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information, visit www.demo.com.

BatchBlue Software and Batchbook are registered trademarks of BatchBlue Software. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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