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BatchBlue made the front page of the Providence Journal recently, an event made even more exciting by the fact that we’re playing cornhole in the accompanying picture (sadly, you can’t see it on the online edition. But look! Here are our custom cornhole bags currently touring the country as part of the BarCamp Tour). The story focuses on our humble beginnings as a few frustrated parents trying to balance work life with some brand new babies. If you’ve ever wondered just how many babies, you can read all about it here. Thanks to our friends at the Projo for the nice write-up.
In other local news, our president Pamela was awarded a Business Women’s Award for the Technical Services category award by the Providence Business News. Pamela and her fellow winners will be honored at a luncheon from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on May 5 at the Providence Marriott Downtown. Pamela also weighed in a recent eCRM article entitled Ten Common CRM Mistakes and How to Avoid Them – you should check it out if you’re looking for great tips on using a CRM. Congrads to Pam!
You can always check out our latest BatchBlue press over on our press page. And over on the Small Business Web page, you’ll find some articles about what’s happening in Small Business Web news.
But enough about us. It’s time to get back to helping customers, planning our upcoming events and finding cool new stuff to do. Have a great week, everyone!
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It’s summertime and that means many BatchBluers have been taking a little time off to spend with family, go camping, splash 
around in pools and relax just a bit before the mad crunch of our Super Secret Fall Launch. That doesn’t stop folks from writing about us (in fact, judging from all the press we received in recent weeks, I should go on vacation more often!)
Here are a few links to some recent articles in case you saw one of us at the beach and want to make sure that yes, there is still work getting done around BatchBlue headquarters…
Award winning software AND software builders!
We are delighted to have been selected as a Rising Star by CRM magazine as part of the 2010 CRM Market Awards. This prestigious event is attended by some of the biggest names in the CRM space: other winners included industry analyst and author Brian Solis, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and companies like FourSquare, Radian6, Salesforce and IBM. We’re proud to have been chosen as representing “SMB meets social—in a very good way” by this organization. See the complete list of award recipients.
Speaking of winners, our very own VP of Technology Sean Ransom received his 40 under Forty Award at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI. A good time was had by most all of the BatchBluers (a couple of our crew couldn’t make it) as we celebrated Sean’s specialness with delicious drinks and food. Congratulations again to Sean on his achievement!
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Tags: Community, Customer Service, small business
We’re pleased to be a part of the latest software bundle from appsumo.com. Called the “Start Up” bundle, this one was created with entrepreneurs in mind. In addition to BatchBook, the deal includes some of our favorite wep app friends.
There’s a nice write-up about AppSumo over on TechCrunch today, but in a nutshell: AppSumo works with the best web app companies around to 
offer great deals on amazing services.
And, 5o% of each bundle sale for this particular bundle will be donated to the National Wildlife Federation to help animals affected by the recent Gulf oil spill. We’re aiming to reach $50,000 to donate to NWF.org!
The Startup Bundle includes 6 months of service for BatchBook (reg. $90), MailChimp ($140), FreshBooks ($120) and Formstack($84), plus 100 MOO Mini Cards + free shipping ($25.49). That’s $459 worth of software for only $55!
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Tags: appsumo, entrepreneurs, freshbooks, mailchimp
Now that the weather’s finally getting nicer, more people heading outside to do their thing. A pleasant way to spend some time might be to grab your laptop and head outdoors, fire up the wi-fi and ice up a glass of coffeemilk to check out some recent BatchBlue press. Relaxing AND informative!
BatchBook & Google Apps Marketplace
Our big news of the month was that we were one of the 50 companies selected to launch in the new Google Apps Marketplace. As one of only two New England companies selected, we were excited to be a part of it and our local Providence Business News was there to cover our big moment.
Our friends at Small Business Trends also wrote a post on the Google Apps Marketplace launch, “Getting to Know the Google Apps Marketplace“, which gives a nice overview on how the services there can benefit SMB owners.
Small Business Web Directory
We launched the new version of the Small Business Web Directory at SXSW last month, which a quite a few folks wrote about. There was great write-up in Inc. magazine by Howard Greenstein, who was nice enough to attend our SXSBW party in spite of being sick.
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Tags: batchblue, chris brogan, Customer Service, google, google apps, google apps marketplace, google marketplace, ReadWriteWeb, small business trends, small business web, WebWorkerDaily
We wanted to start the new year off with a round-up of some recent articles and reviews that have hit the Interwebs. A brief media retrospective, if you will (a complete list of media coverage can be found on our press page.)
Live via Skype
Back in September, our friend and Internet marketer Bernie Borges did my first ever interview via Skype about all things BatchBlue and our content strategy in particular. His Optimize This blog post has a link to the audio version as well as a nice summary of our chat.
The work/life thing
One of our very favorite ladies Aliza Sherman, who’s the Entrepreneur Mom at WorkItMom (among her many other projects!) posted an interview of our president Pam O’Hara and me by problogger Gina Blitstein. Pam and I were both surprised at how different our answers were when it came to how we balance our work and family lives (Pam has three kids under seven and I have two.) Have a read – maybe you have come up with an entirely different way to make it all work that you’d like to share.
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Tags: batchblue, batchbook, mailchimp, small business web
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