Intuit Launches Small Business by Quicken.com: A Comprehensive Web Service for Small Business Owners

Small Business by Quicken.com is the industry's most customizable Web site developed specifically for small office and home-based businesses, providing a unique set of small business tools, information, and services that can be accessed for free with an internet connection. The new channel offers visitors a personalized home page, late-breaking business news and trends, time-saving business tools and services, and advice from small business experts and other small business owners.

Key Takeaways:

• Small Business by Quicken.com is the first stop on the Web where any small office or home-based business can have direct access to great time-saving tools and information...fast, easy and free.
• The new channel offers small businesses their own customized start page, personalized small business news and information, time-saving business tools and services, and direct access to a variety of small business experts.
• Small Business by Quicken.com was developed as a result of extensive customer research conducted among the 5 million customers who already use Intuit's QuickBooks or Quicken software to manage their own small business finances.
• The channel offers customizable news and information, including access to late-breaking business news and trends for specific industries, as well as general small business news clips from a variety of sources.
• Time-saving tools and small business services from Intuit and its partners include ready-to-use business and legal forms, business travel reservations and services, and small business loan shopping services.
• The channel also provides advice from small business experts and other small business owners, including access to small business gurus Paul and Sarah Edwards and weekly chat sessions hosted by the small business experts.

Statistics:

• 5 million customers use Intuit's QuickBooks or Quicken software to manage their own small business finances (Source: Intuit)
• The new channel offers visitors a unique set of small business tools, information, and services, including customizable news and information, time-saving tools and small business services, and advice from small business experts and other small business owners (Source: Intuit)
• Small Business by Quicken.com is competitive with Microsoft Investor and Yahoo! Finance (Source: Quicken.com)
• Quicken.com is distributed through American Online and Excite (Source: Quicken.com)

Sources:

• Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU)
• Quicken.com (http://www.quicken.com)
• American Online (NYSE: AOL)
• Excite (NASDAQ: XCIT)
• Microsoft Investor (NASDAQ: MSFT)
• Yahoo! Finance (NASDAQ: YHOO)