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BETTERMENT.COM AND SAVEUP VOLUNTEER TO PRESENT

INTERACTIVE SESSIONS

ONLINE TO HELP GET PERSONAL FINANCES BACK ON TRACK

Finance Websites Team Up with BigMarker.com to Offer

Educational Web Conferences in Time for Tax Season

(Chicago, IL – January 28 2012) – Betterment, the smart way to invest online, and SaveUp,

 a nationwide rewards program for saving money and reducing debt, have volunteered their

 time to present live, educational sessions on BigMarker.com, a social media site that

provides communities with free web conferencing and collaboration tools.

These sessions will take place on February 2 and February 8, 2012 as part of the All Things

Financial series (http://www.bigmarker.com/allthingsfinancial), a collection of free financial

web conferences. SaveUp is committed to reducing financial anxiety for the average family

 by providing a fun, free tool and educational videos for people who are looking to get their

finances under control. Every time a SaveUp user saves money in their own bank account

 or pays down their debts, they earn SaveUp credits. With these credits, users can play for

exciting prizes like vacations, cars, electronics, and cash up to $2,000,000.

Betterment provides the next step in financial fitness – a simple and accessible way to grow

 your wealth. Users fund their Betterment investment account by electronically linking

 to their checking account, allowing for quick and easy transfers between accounts.

“I founded Betterment because I wanted to make investing more accessible and easy to do.

 Sharing knowledge and advice with our community is core to this mission,” said Jon Stein,

 CEO and founder of Betterment. “We’re excited to be working with BigMarker and

 SaveUp to help people take control of their finances.”

SaveUp’s CEO and co-founder, Priya Haji voiced a similar sentiment, “Our mission

is to help motivate Americans to improve their long term financial health. We want saving to

 be fun and something to look forward by making personal finance a rewarding

experience. We believe that knowledge is an essential part to financial success. We are

excited to be a part of BigMarker’s personal finance interactive series with a great

company like Betterment.”

BigMarker is also excited to help out by hosting the Conferences. Caryn Wille,

BigMarker’s Media and Design Analyst, said, “As tax season draws nearer, we are hoping

to provide a helpful service that can relieve some of the stresses associated with personal

 finances. We are ecstatic to be hosting a lineup of presenters who are passionate about

 educating people about their finances.”

All events will have limited seating, so reserving a spot in advance is recommended.

 Volunteer presenters include Betterment CEO, Jon Stein, SaveUp’s CEO, Priya Haji, Jenny

 Kerr of The Jenny Pincher, and Tim Porter, a Registered Financial Consultant. A

complete list of Conference topics and times is available at the All Things Financial

 Community on BigMarker.com (http://www.bigmarker.com/allthingsfinancial).

About Betterment:

Betterment is a groundbreaking online investment advisor and brokerage dedicated

 to helping everyone save for their long-term goals with ease. Betterment achieves this

 through low-cost, well-grounded, and automatically implemented financial advice designed

 for smart, busy people. Set-and-forget accounts are optimized for each user, broadly

 diversified, regularly rebalanced — and still provide the liquidity and simplicity of an

 online bank account. This suite of services is unavailable anywhere else, including

 the large investment firms. Voted “Best of Show” at Finovate and honored as “New

York’s Best Startup” by TechCrunch, Betterment is smart investing without hassles

About BigMarker:

BigMarker.com is a social media site that offers free web conferencing and collaboration

 tools to help create and connect Communities. BigMarker launched in March 2011

and has been connecting people face-to-face, across the globe, ever since.

About SaveUp:

Founded in 2011, San Francisco-based SaveUp is the first free nationwide rewards

program that encourages Americans to save money, pay down their debts and make

 positive changes to their financial behaviors. By partnering with major consumer

 brands and financial institutions, SaveUp gives users the opportunity to win exciting

 or life-changing prizes for performing positive financial actions. The company is

 funded by BlueRun Ventures and True Ventures.