In addition to immediate availability on Excite, the channel is also available on Intuit's Quicken.com Web site (http://www.quicken.com) as well as on Excite's other flagship service, WebCrawler (http://www.webcrawler.com).

The Place to Start for Small Business Success
Excite's Small Business Channel by Quicken.com is one of the industry's first customizable Web services developed specifically for small business owners-and all its powerful services are free. The new channel offers small businesses their own customized start page, filled with updated small business news and information, time-saving business tools and services such as the Quicken Business CashFinder Web service, user-to user bulletin boards, and direct access to a variety of small business experts-all free-of-charge to customers with Internet access.

Excite's Small Business Channel is a joint effort between Intuit, the makers of Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax; and Excite. As a result of extensive customer research, Intuit and Excite have developed a Web service which allows customers to: 1) customize small business news and information applicable to their own small business success; 2) have instant access to the time-saving small business tools and services; and 3) quickly get recommendations from other small business owners, as well as from a variety of small business experts.

Channel Highlights
Small Business by Quicken.com offers visitors a unique set of small business tools, information and services. Specifically, the new channel offers:

Customizable news and information. Including new features and services such as:

• A personalized home page that enables customers to select only the small business information and tools that are most helpful for running their businesses.
• 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. These include:

• Ready-to-use business and legal forms.
• Business travel reservations and services.
• Small business loan shopping services with the Quicken Business CashFinder (http://www.cashfinder.com) tool.
• Comparison shopping services for small business office and technology needs.
• Online data back-up for easy and safe data storage.
• Retirement Matrix Planner to find the right retirement plan.

Advice from small business experts and other small business owners. Specific services include:

• Access to small business gurus Paul and Sarah Edwards-America's leading small business experts.
• Advice from other leading small business authorities representing many major aspects of small business success including marketing, taxes and accounting, legal, employees and payroll, technology and benefits, and retirement.
• Weekly chat sessions hosted by the small business experts.
• One-on-one connections with other small business owners in the Small Business Chat Room.