CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 19, 2001 - e2grow, inc., an e-commerce and web site services provider to small businesses and their local communities, today announced a strategic partnership with piggybills.com, a personal bill management service that enables both businesses and consumers to securely view and pay all their bills via the Internet.
In announcing their relationship, Dennis Barba Jr., e2Grow Chairman and CEO, said, "e2grow brings together small businesses and local residents through a network of local news portals. Our partnership with piggybills.com now allows these businesses and their customers access to this convenient service at a discounted rate."
piggybills.com offers a complete solution - 100% bill presentment and payment. The service shifts the hindrance of bill management to a single consolidator, offering both consumers and small businesses a safe, fast and paperless experience.
Damon R. Troyan, one of the Founders and CEO of piggybills.com, said "Our customers can access all of their billing information online; they then tell us who, when and how much to pay. The inconvenience of receiving and opening bills, writing checks, buying stamps and filing papers is now a thing of the past."
e2grow business subscribers also have access to piggybills' informative personal finance articles through e2grow's exclusive eMarketWindowsm. This secured Internet portal provides users with business news as well as access to site maintenance tools.
Community visitors can subscribe to piggybills.com at a discounted rate through e2grow's community news pages. The subscription-based service works with the customer's existing bank accounts (checking, savings and money market) and is designed with flexibility to allow for any level of customer involvement. Customers can continue to maintain complete control over the bill paying process, or they can choose to have bill payments automated.
Barba added, "piggybills.com provides us with a value-added service for both businesses and consumers within our growing network of wired suburban communities."
About e2grow
e2grow provides online enabling services to small, local businesses and the communities they serve. The company focuses its services on 'micro' businesses (typically those with under ten employees and annual revenues under $500,000), in rural and suburban communities with populations between 10,000 and 50,000. e2grow's provides its professional subscribers with an instant web presence, consolidated access to online services, web site management tools, vertical market portals, national partnership purchasing network and e-commerce services. To enable interaction between small business owners and their local customers, e2grow provides each community with a premier online information source for local news, school information, and community events and activities. More information is available at http://www.e2grow.com.
About piggybills
piggybills.com a personal bill management service that enables consumers to securely view and pay all their bills via the Internet. piggybills.com offers a complete solution - 100% bill presentment and payment. The service shifts the hindrance of bill management to a single consolidator, offering consumers a safe, fast and paperless experience. For more information, contact piggybills toll free at 888-314-1325; email: damon@piggybills.com; or write 2311 Wooster Road, Rocky River, OH 44116.
Contacts:
Dennis P. Barba Jr.
President & CEO
e2grow.com
440-729-1774
dbarbajr@e2grow.com
Robert W. Craig Jr.
President
Craig Advertising/The Craig Creative Companies
440-338-1572
craigcreative@att.net
