AtYourBusiness.com Partners With ChamberBiz to Provide Services to Small Businesses.Business Editors, Hi-Tech Writers ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2000 AtYourBusiness.com, Inc., the first Web site offering interactive employer services to small businesses, and ChamberBiz, L.L.C., a new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. company serving small businesses, today announced a co-branded site that will give ChamberBiz users access to AtYourBusiness.com's full suite of services. ChamberBiz has established a partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest not-for-profit federation of businesses, representing more than 3 million businesses and organizations in the United States. As of 2003, the chamber was comprised of 3000 state and local chambers and 830 business associations. and is in the process of establishing partnerships with state and local chambers of commerce across the country. The chamber federation, in aggregate, has a total membership of nearly three million small businesses. ChamberBiz content and capabilities will be accessible to business users from either the ChamberBiz home page or the home pages of participating chambers. Under terms of the agreement, ChamberBiz will promote AtYourBusiness.com's services on its site. Included among the services are AtYourBusiness.com's proprietary HR Manager(SM), payroll processing, benefits administration, pre-employment screening, training, recruitment and other related services. The co-brand site will be launched in March. Both parties will support the site with marketing efforts and customer service. &uot;Our partnership with AtYourBusiness.com will allow us to substantially increase the value and utility of our Web site and the Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. we are offering state and local chambers of commerce and their member businesses,&uot; said Evan McDonnell, vice president of ChamberBiz. &uot;AtYourBusiness.com's focus on small business services and their expertise in human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and Web-based business solutions makes for a perfect fit with ChamberBiz. Our mission is to help our users improve their businesses through the use of the Internet. With this partnership, ChamberBiz members will be able to dramatically reduce the time spent on paperwork and help their companies grow.&uot; &uot;Our partnership with Chamberbiz is part of our `clicks and bricks' strategy,&uot; explained Phil Gross, co-founder and president of AtYourBusiness.com. &uot;Whether a company has two employees or 102, At Your Business.com gives them the equivalent of a large HR department by offering free, easy to use HR Management tools and a complete suite of business services from name brand providers such as ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. and Wausau. The service doesn't require a business owner or manager to be trained in HR issues. HR Manager has built-in `triggers' that will prompt the employer when necessary. For example, as the 18th employee is hired, a message alerts the employer that COBRA rules apply for companies with over 20 employees, and AtYourBusiness.com will be there to help deliver the solution to that problem.&uot; HR Manager, at the center of AtYourBusiness.com's services, creates an on-line HR department that is available from any computer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It includes almost everything a business owner needs to recruit, interview, hire, compensate, train, manage and, if necessary, fire employees. The service also helps companies stay compliant with state and federal employee-related regulations. AtYourBusiness.com AtYourBusiness.com (www.AtYourBusiness.com) is a Web-based service that enables business owners to manage their employees, stay in compliance with government regulations and quickly access a wide range of business services from top-tier providers such as ADP, Wausau and Avert. Phil Gross, a former CFO See Chief Financial Officer. of America Online See AOL. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ) and Michael Shulman, an entrepreneur and business development consultant to XOOM XOOM Extraction of Object Oriented Software Metrics .com, founded the company. AtYourBusiness.com is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland Rockville is the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. According to the 2006 census update, the city had a total population of 59,114, making it the second largest city in Maryland. . ChamberBiz ChamberBiz, L.L.C. (www.chamberbiz.com) is a venture capital-funded small business Internet portal backed by Telcom Ventures, a highly successful venture creation firm. The service is being developed to attract current and future small businesses with its information services See Information Systems. , educational content, resources and tools, creating the ultimate small business resource. ChamberBiz will give its members greater ability to network, solve everyday problems, and use the Internet to expand their businesses. ChamberBiz has established a partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is in the process of establishing partnerships with state and local chambers of commerce across the country. ChamberBiz content and capabilities will be accessible to business users from either the ChamberBiz home page or the home pages of participating chambers. The ChamberBiz preview site will be replaced by the full-service site in March. ChamberBiz is located in Washington, DC. |
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