NEW WIZMO WEB-BASED TOOLS, SERVICES HELP SMALL BUSINESSES COMPETE ON NET.

One-Stop Wizmo.com Helps Build Affordable Web Sites, Intranets, E- Storefronts

Eden Prairie, Minn.-based e-services firm eSystems21 Inc. is rolling out a package of Internet and technology services geared toward the needs of small and mid-sized businesses. The new Wizmo.com tools and Wizmo Application Services deliver everything from Web sites to accounting software for a fixed monthly fee.

"By letting us take care of all their e-business needs, customers can focus on their real businesses. Wizmo consultants and service representatives are there to ensure that customers stay up and running online," says Wizmo President Tim Morin.

Wizmo (www.wizmo.com) provides a suite of Web-based tools that enable users to quickly create Web sites and intranets. One such tool lets businesses quickly publish electronic storefronts for Internet commerce.

Wizmo Application Services provide software, such as Great Plains accounting management tools and Microsoft Office, for a monthly fee. Customers access them over a secure Web connection.

"We have been very impressed with the way Wizmo makes Web sites fast and painless," says early user Barry Thompson, president of JLJ Medical Devices, a small business in Minneapolis. "We are able to quickly make Web site changes ourselves so everything is always up to date, and the Wizmo team has been very responsive to any questions. We're now evaluating Wizmo's e-storefront as the next step.