BIGSTEP SELECTS ROVING SOFTWARE AS ENHANCED EMAIL MARKETING SERVICES PROVIDER

Partnership brings easy-to-use and affordable email marketing tools to thousands of small businesses.

Needham, MA. and San Francisco, CA. - August 07, 2001

Roving Software, the leading provider of web-based email marketing services for small- and medium-size businesses, and Bigstep, the award-winning small-business services company, today announced a strategic partnership. Bigstep has selected Roving's Constant Contact® email marketing manager as an enhancement to its existing email marketing service for small-business customers.

Under the agreement, Bigstep members will gain access to Constant Contact, the complete and affordable web-based email marketing solution that enables small businesses to build profitable relationships through permission-based email communications. Using Constant Contact, small businesses are able to easily build and manage opt-in email lists, create and deliver professional email communications, and track campaign results automatically.

"Email marketing is one of the most effective tools available to help small businesses grow online," said David Rich, vice president of marketing for Bigstep. "Constant Contact is a great extension to our current ebusiness offering because it offers advanced functionality like HTML newsletters and communications scheduling options that are affordable and easy to use."

"Bigstep is clearly one of the leading small-business communities on the Internet," said Gail Goodman, CEO of Roving Software. "We are thrilled with the opportunity to provide Constant Contact to Bigstep's customers."

About Bigstep
Bigstep (http://www.bigstep.com), an online service center for small businesses, was founded in 1998 to help level the Internet playing field. Privately held and based in San Francisco, Bigstep enables all small-business owners to build online businesses their way, using site building, commerce, and marketing solutions. Bigstep has formed strategic partnerships with leading companies including AOL/Netcenter's Small Business channel, NetBusiness. Bigstep won PC Magazine's Editors' Choice award for two consecutive years and is listed as one of its Top 100 Web Sites for 2000; the company also won Computer Currents' Readers' Choice Award and PC Computing's MVP Finalist award.

About Roving Software
Roving Software is a B2B e-marketing ASP committed to providing easy-to-use e-marketing products and services to small and medium businesses (SMBs). Roving's Constant Contact®, The Email Marketing Manager, helps small businesses reach their visitors and customers easily and affordably with targeted, relevant email communications based on their interests. Constant Contact is designed and priced for SMBs and is marketed through a wide variety of channel partners, such as small-business aggregators, portals, and marketplaces, including AllBusiness.com, Bigstep, DigitalWork, Inc.com, NetLedger.com, Switchboard, Inc., and Trellix. Roving Software is funded by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and Longworth Venture Partners. For more information, call 781-444-6160 or visit http://www.roving.com.

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