Cbeyond Launches Small Business Blog SMBspot.com to Help Entrepreneurs Grow

First of Its Kind Small Business Blog Created by Cbeyond Loaded with Technology Resources, Information and Tips to Enable Productivity and Growth

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), (www.cbeyond.net), a leading provider of business IT and communications services to more than 53,000 small businesses across the country, today announced it has launched SMBspot.com to provide entrepreneurs with access to expert articles, videos and small business information all designed to help them accelerate business growth.

“We developed this blog because there is no practical source for small businesses to go for advice on how to grow using technology”

Recognizing a need to provide small businesses with expert guidance leveraging top knowledge experts and technology solutions, Cbeyond will provide new, practical and compelling content on the blog daily. SMBspot.com includes content from a variety of industry sources, including:

• Well-known small business experts including Ramon Ray, technology evangelist and editor of Smallbiztechnology.com, author and national columnist on small business success, Kim T. Gordon, and online marketing guru Sam Fiorella.
• Cbeyond’s own small business technology product experts highlighting best practices in IT and communications services including mobile solutions, messaging technology, security applications, marketing services, and voice and broadband connectivity.
• Cbeyond’s depth of technology partners will also be participating in SMBspot.com including, RIM, Cisco, Mozy, and F-Secure.

Updated daily, SMBspot.com is a go-to source for the latest small business information and tips. The small business blog will address a variety of topics important to entrepreneurs, including protecting against security threats, marketing on a budget and managing a mobile workforce. The site will also include video success stories from entrepreneurs from across the U.S.

“We developed this blog because there is no practical source for small businesses to go for advice on how to grow using technology,” said Steve Zimba, Vice President of Marketing for Cbeyond. “We have a passion for small business at Cbeyond and are dedicated to delivering on our promise to help them grow by providing them the world’s best technology solutions available on the market today. SMBspot.com is another extension of that promise – enabling our customers to leverage industry experts to help them make critical business decisions on the hottest technology trends, all available with the click of a mouse.”

Cbeyond provides more than 30 productivity-enhancing applications to small businesses, including voice, broadband, mobile, messaging, security and marketing services. For more small business information and to learn about Cbeyond’s portfolio of IT and communications services, visit www.cbeyond.net/smb.

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About Cbeyond

Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a leading provider of IT and communications services to more than 53,000 small businesses throughout the United States. Named as the sixth fastest growing technology company by Forbes magazine, and added to Standard & Poor's Small Cap S&P 600 Index, Cbeyond offers more than 30 productivity-enhancing applications including local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet, mobile, BlackBerry(R), broadband laptop access, voicemail, email, web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing and virtual private networking. Cbeyond delivers these services over a 100 percent private all IP network. For more information on Cbeyond, visit http://www.cbeyond.net/smb.

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