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MANILLA — THE SIMPLE NEW WAY TO ORGANIZE ALL HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS — NAMED ONE OF BEST START-UPS AT DEMO SPRING CONFERENCE
Thursday 03. March 2011 - Hearst-Backed Manilla Account Management Service Honored with DEMOgod Award
Manilla, a free personal account management service that helps consumers securely manage all of their household accounts in one place online, was honored with a DEMOgod award at the DEMO Spring Conference in Palm Desert, Calif., this week. The DEMOgod honor recognizes Manilla as having one of the most outstanding performances of the DEMO Spring conference, where over the past 20 years some of todays leading innovative products and services have been launched, including Adobe Acrobat, E-Trade, GarageBand.com, Leapfrog, salesforce.com, Suns Java, TiVo and more.
Manilla gives customers an automated, organized view of all their current account information, including bills, finances, travel rewards programs and subscriptions, reminders to pay bills and free lifetime storage of all their account statements, notices, offers and bills. Manilla is now rolling out closed beta access on an individual basis to those who request invitations at www.manilla.com.
Manilla currently supports accounts for four broad account categories: finance, household/bills, magazine subscriptions and travel rewards programs, and automatically links users to their accounts so they can pay bills, book travel, renew subscriptions and more. Consumers can access their accounts with nearly all national and major regional household brands within these four categories today, and additional businesses are being added daily.
Businesses can derive benefits through integrations with Manilla as well. Manilla offers businesses a simple way to efficiently communicate with consumers, increase customer engagement and reduce mailing costs. Manilla has premier relationships with Citi Cards and Comcast – the first to take advantage of marketing the Manilla.com platform so that their customers have an easier way to manage their accounts paper-free and stay organized in a simple, user-friendly way.
Manilla is a company incubated within and backed by Hearst Corporation, one of the worlds most diversified media companies, and is led by an executive team of experts and innovators from the finance, technology and consumer products industries.