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Take Advantage of Valuable Website Services for Free
 As
someone involved with a small business, you
know how rare it is to be offered decent
products or services for free (with our
BizStart24 software a notable exception!);
but now Microsoft are offering small
businesses reasonable website services for
nothing.
Office Live is designed to help small
businesses attract and retain new customers
and easily manage their business online by
giving them the tools to establish a web
presence for free as well as a range of
easy-to-use and affordable business
applications.
“The internet offers small businesses a
fantastic opportunity to reach out to new
markets, raise their profile and compete on
a level footing with larger competitors,”
said Tim Kimber, Head of Office Live in the
UK. “However, many lack the in-house
expertise or funding to match the technology
budgets of these larger organisations.
Office Live helps small businesses close
this gap by giving them an affordable,
comprehensive package that provides
everything from web site design to instant
messaging accounts to customer and business
contact management, all of which can be
customised by Microsoft partners that can
create new and industry-specific solutions.”
Microsoft Office Live Basics
is a collection of free services that
provide a small business with the core
requirements for establishing an online
identity. Services include a company domain
name; a Web site with 500 MB of storage;
advanced site reporting tools; 25
company-branded e-mail accounts (each with 2
GB of storage) and instant messaging
accounts; online calendar; an easy-to-use,
drag-and-drop design tool for creating a
compelling, professional-quality website;
and a simple, all-in-one place to manage any
search advertising campaigns you might wish
to do through Microsoft’s sites.
There are also paid packages with further
features available.
If you have not yet got a website, or you
are unhappy with its performance; then you
could do a lot worse than check out this
package.
Visit our Internet and Technology portal for
more information on how technology can
benefit your business.
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