Business Editors

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2000

BizBlast.com today introduced a complete one-stop resource to help entrepreneurs and small-business owners create, market and maintain online stores.

BizBlast.com combines free, easy-to-use tools, advanced marketing and e-commerce features and ongoing education programs to help business owners succeed on the Internet.

"BizBlast.com makes e-business simple," said Jeff Lamb, BizBlast.com's CEO. "Not only do we provide small businesses with the technology to set up their online stores, we help them get customers and grow their businesses over the long term."

To get started, small-business owners can download BizBlast.com's free StoreFront Wizard at www.bizblast.com, answer a series of questions and add images and descriptions of products to set up online stores. With BizBlast.com's StoreFront Wizard, business owners can choose from a variety of e-business tools and features to customize their stores, including domain-name registration, design options, payment methods that make it easy to process credit-card orders and shipping methods that enable them to take orders from and deliver products to customers worldwide.

When small-business owners complete their stores with the StoreFront Wizard, all it takes is a click of a button to upload the stores to BizBlast.com's secure test-store server, where the stores can be reviewed and modified as needed. To open their online stores, business owners can choose one of BizBlast.com's Web hosting and e-business packages, which can handle all of their e-business needs, regardless of how large their businesses grow.

"Our comprehensive packages enable small businesses to take full advantage of the Internet, cut their sales costs and reach out to potential customers," Lamb said. "Many of the services we offer, especially affiliate programs, search-engine registration and other marketing programs, are typically too complicated and too expensive for most small-business owners. BizBlast.com makes these features available at one location and provides business owners with additional support services to help them develop stores that can rival the best of the big Internet retailers."

To help small-business owners manage their Web sites, BizBlast.com is developing a learning center that will feature an online help desk, "how-to" articles and streaming video of e-business seminars and tutorials. Business owners can also access BizBlast.com's customer-service representatives via telephone from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. MT at 877/870-4932 or via e-mail at sales@bizblast.com.

According to Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Cahners In-Stat, 60 percent of U.S. small businesses have Web sites, yet only 13 percent have e-commerce capabilities. With companies such as BizBlast.com providing comprehensive e-business services, more than 50 percent of small businesses are expected to take and process orders online by 2004.

ABOUT BIZBLAST.COM

Headquartered in Denver, BizBlast.com is an e-business service provider funded by SOFTBANK Venture Capital, Quest International Management and Access Venture Partners. The company was founded in 1998 by Peter Kent, an e-commerce specialist and author of more than two dozen best-selling Internet books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet and Poor Richard's Web Site: Geek-Free, Commonsense Advice to Building a Low-Cost Web Site. The company is led by CEO Jeff Lamb, who has more than 15 years of experience managing companies that serve small businesses.

For more information, call 877/870-4932 or visit www.bizblast.com, where entrepreneurs can download BizBlast.com's StoreFront Wizard.