Posts Tagged ‘Metro Detroit’

Metromode highlights Billhighway’s growth

02/03/2011

Metromode Detroit released an article today regarding Billhighway’s exponential growth not only in sales, but in staffing. Read the article below or on Metromode’s site.

Billhighway adds dozens of staff, hundreds of clients

Metromode, 2/3/2011

If there is one thing that is growing faster than Billhighway’s staffing, it’s the start-up’s client list.

“We’re growing,” says Jeff Jorge, vice president of business development for Billhighway. “We have been adding people very quickly to support our growing list of clients. We have been adding clients on an almost weekly basis.”

Billhighway’s technology helps organizations figure out who owes what for items such as dues or dinner costs or any other miscellaneous expense. This has historically been for small organizations, but the 11-year-old company has added some larger entities as well as hundreds of other clients. It recently signed the American Medical Association Alliance.

That has allowed the Troy-based company to double revenue and hire 17 people over the last year, expanding its staff to 40 employees and a few interns. It expects to continue growing its headcount this year and has several job openings now. Jorge credits Billhighway’s message of creating new revenue streams as the reason it has been able to defy the recession and continue to grow.

“The more challenged organizations become, the more they need a service like ours,” says Jorge. “More money comes in when they use our systems.” Customers’ revenues go up between 50-250 percent in the first year, he claims.

Source: Jeff Jorge, vice president of business development for Billhighway
Writer: Jon Zemke

Photo credit: sales.theforcereport.com

Billhighway “adopts an entrepreneur” at Michigan Emerging

11/17/2010

Screen of famous "entrepreneurial spirits" from Michigan

Today, Billhighway was apart of the 1st annual Michigan Emerging conference in Dearborn, Michigan to support growth and development of Michigan-based start-up companies. There was a contagious energy in the air about the future of the state’s economy and the quality of ideas coming out of  Michigan.

A key point from Dr. Bryan Ritchie was the concept of Spotlight Michigan- Michigan State University’s challenge to keep young people in Michigan after graduation.

“This year Spotlight Michigan has a new team that is anticipating researching multidisciplinary methods to revive and support Michigan’s prosperous innovative future.”

One of the startups Billhighway is supporting is Loveland- a company with a dream to rebuild Detroit, one inch at a time. Follow their inspiring tweets at @makeLOVELAND.

Billhighway is proud to “adopt an entrepreneur” and lend a hand in the continuous efforts to improve the economy of our surrounding communities. For more information about Michigan Emerging, please visit their website at www.michiganemerging.com.

Photo credit: @dmarsh

Billhighway Receives “101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For” Award

09/22/2010

Company Presented with Prestigious Human Resources and Corporate Culture Honor

Sept 22, 2010, Troy, MI- Billhighway, the leading provider of Financial Performance Optimization services for membership-based organizations, was honored today as one of the ‘101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For’ in the Metropolitan Detroit area.

The ‘101 Best and Brightest’ Awards were established to honor companies that recognize their team members as their greatest asset in several major cities across the nation. Companies on the list are leaders in creating organizational value and business results through their best practices in human resource management. The awards are highly sought after by competing companies in the area and a testament that Billhighway is an ideal place for team members to work.

“At Billhighway, we strive to attract, hire and develop the highest caliber of people in the industry. Hiring team members that know what they are doing, and who love what they do, has been a goal of ours since Billhighway began,” said Vince Thomas, CEO of Billhighway. “Our success as a web-based company in Metro Detroit could not be achieved without our exceptional team members.”

The Michigan Business and Professional Association (MBPA) honored the selected companies at an awards ceremony on September 22, 2010 at the Marriott Dearborn Inn.

The Billhighway sign is up in our new office

08/17/2010

The Billhighway family is happy to have our Billhighway sign officially mounted on the side of our new office building at 363 West Big Beaver Road in Troy, Michigan.

We’re hiring: Marketing Intern

06/02/2010

Are you an inventive thinker looking to utilize your imagination through a well-rounded internship?

We are looking for an inspired intern for our Metro Detroit office that will be a member of the marketing team assisting in various creative and market research projects. This full-time internship will provide valuable real-world experience with marketing and advertising initiatives as well as insight into the day-to-day activities of a tech start-up company.  The position is unpaid, however, there is a possibility of a small stipend at the end of the summer term and we can work with your university or college to accommodate credit hour requirements.

An ideal candidate will be:
-superior in oral and written communication skills
-a team player, able to contribute ideas and take direction
-a creative thinker, able to come up with innovative solutions and marketing promotion ideas
-familiar with social media concepts including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, LinkedIn, etc. (You’re reading this blog post, so you’re already ahead of the game.)
-analytical when needed, able to read and understand graphs, charts and other visual representation elements
-a person who likes to stay up-to-date on industry related trends
-working knowledge in graphic design (Adobe software) and HTML
-familiar with SEO concepts

Job responsibilities include:
-assist with day-to-day miscellaneous marketing projects
-conduct market research and data gathering projects
-create, edit and publish videos and/or images for social media, web and other promotional/branding purposes
-assist in event planning
-fact checking
-office administrative duties and occasional assistance to other departments

Job Function:
Administrative/Support Services, Advertising, Brand Management, Creative/Design/Multimedia, Event Planning, Graphic Design, Interactive Media, Marketing, Public Relations, Writing

If you are interested, please send your resume to jobs@billhighway.com with the subject line: Marketing Intern. For more information about our company, please view our core values listed on our website.

Billhighway wins Corp! Magazine Business of Science and Technology Award

04/26/2010

Corp! Magazine acknowledges Billhighway as an innovator in Science and Technology.

TROY, Mich., April 26, 2010 – Corp! magazine, one of Michigan’s premier business magazines, today recognized Billhighway as a winner of the 2010 Business of Science and Technology Award for excellence in technology. Over the past decade, Billhighway has made significant technological advancements in providing leading Financial Performance Optimization solutions to membership-based organizations to help improve their financial health and operational efficiency.

“We are extremely proud to be a part of the technological community in metro Detroit and will continue to make strides to better our product to ultimately help our clients achieve transformational results they have come to expect from us,” says Vincent Thomas, CEO of Billhighway.

Billhighway’s online approach to member-based finances is unique because it offers real time integration of cash management, accounting, reporting tools and membership management into one system. Billhighway is the only system of its kind to offer this type of web-based service.

“This is an important time to recognize the innovations occurring within the state as an indicator of a brighter future,” says Jennifer Kluge, Corp! Magazine publisher.

The Corp! Business of Science and Technology Awards were created in 2010 to recognize companies and educational organizations that are leading the way in the Detroit technology community. The awards are sponsored by Mitechnews.com and presented in cooperation with the Michigan Business and Professional Association, and the Michigan Food and Beverage Association. To read more about this year’s winners, visit www.corpmagazine.com.

Billhighway is the leader in Financial Performance Optimization for membership-based groups, providing the web-based system that helps organizations enjoy improved financial health, operate more efficiently, and reduce the risk of fraud. The company’s proprietary, all-in-one system comprehensively manages group finances and accounting – offering a powerful combination that helps enable organizations to spend more time advancing their mission rather than managing finances. This improved operational efficiency and financial performance can be achieved in organizations of nearly any size and type, including professional associations, social clubs, athletic and Greek organizations.

Since forming in 1999, Billhighway has managed over $2.3 billion in transactions.

View a full list of the winners and read more about the Corp! Science and Technology awards here.


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