Thursday, October 15, 2009

The UPS Store of West St. Paul Chooses Cbeyond for Small Business Expertise and Technology Excellence

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct 15, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a provider of communications and IT solutions to more than 46,000 small businesses across the country, recently added the UPS Store of West St. Paul as its newest Minneapolis customer. The UPS Store chose Cbeyond for its specialized focus on the needs of small businesses, robust set of reliable small business solutions and depth of educational opportunities. In addition, the dedicated and reliable T-1 Internet service available within the company's BeyondVoice package now allows the franchise to compete in the online printing marketplace with business-grade print speeds.

The enhanced voice and data network and IT applications provided by Cbeyond will now enable the UPS Store of West St. Paul to meet their customers' needs and help them meet their goal of growing their business by 10 percent over the next year. Outside of Cbeyond's core voice and broadband package, the UPS Store has Cbeyond's IT applications including Secure Desktop and Web Hosting available to them to run their business.

The UPS Store of West St. Paul provides shipping, packaging, document services, mailbox and postal services to local customers, many of which are small businesses themselves. The UPS Store wanted to create a new revenue stream through on-demand online printing and understood the need to invest in the right technology to enable fast, reliable printing for their customers. After meeting with a Cbeyond representative, the company made the decision to implement Cbeyond's BeyondVoice package with business-grade Internet service - allowing for broadband speed, performance, reliability and security they need to be a successful provider of online printing.

"Choosing a service provider that offered a dedicated and reliable T-1 line was vital for my business because it will allow for consistent, and fast upload and download speed for our online printing service," said Phillip Voight, co-owner of the family owned UPS Store in West St. Paul. "We also chose Cbeyond for their consultative approach. The company's representatives worked with us to understand our business needs and that's not something we see every day."

With Cbeyond's business-grade Internet service, the UPS Store will be able to send and receive emails faster, upload and download files and access the Web quickly. As the UPS Store enters into the fast paced business of online printing they will rely on Cbeyond's symmetric bandwidth speed to keep their business running smoothly.

"While our customers come from diverse industries with unique challenges and opportunities, they do have one thing in common and that is continued growth and success," said Gabe Rosalis, Vice President and General Manager of Cbeyond's Minneapolis branch. "We are honored to have joined in this partnership with the UPS Store to help them grow. While our technology will be vital to their success, it's in the ongoing consultation that will differentiate Cbeyond from other technology providers."

Voight adds, "We are taking a new approach to growing our business leveraging innovative techniques and strategies such as social networking and in-store promotions. What's truly unique about Cbeyond is that they will be there to aid in those areas of my business as well, like the Cbeyond sponsored "Power of Social Media" seminar I'm attending on October 15 in Edina. That's the kind of partner I need, to keep me informed of the latest strategies to help my business grow."

About Cbeyond

Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a leading provider of IT and communications services to more than 46,000 small businesses throughout the United States. Recently 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 www.cbeyond.net.

About The UPS Store

Mail Boxes Etc., Inc. (MBE), a UPS company, is the world's largest franchisor of retail shipping, postal and business service centers. Its franchise brands, The UPS Store(R) and Mail Boxes Etc.(R), together comprise more than 4,800 independently owned locations around the world, providing convenient and value-added business services to the small-office/home-office (SOHO) market, corporate "road warriors," and consumers. For more information visit www.theupsstorelocal.com/0372.

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