You talk. We listen. And your service gets better!

Thanks to feedback we received from valued Microsoft Office Live Small Business customers, we are adding some exciting new services and making improvements to your existing service. You’ll see improvements throughout the entire service—we’ve made tools easier to use, added new functionality, plus we’re sprucing up site navigation and your overall experience.

New sales and marketing services now available!

Attract customers to your business

New!

Store Manager e-commerce service enables you to list and sell products on your Office Live Small Business Web site and on eBay!

• Customize the display of products on your Web site, product attributes and images, online shopping cart, customized shipping and tax terms, and more.
• Easily manage online payments securely with PayPal integration.
• Orders from your Office Live Small Business Web site and eBay are centrally managed and fulfilled in one console.

Activate Store Manager before April 1, 2008 and get your first month free and another 6 months for only $29.95/month. To learn more sign in to your account, and click Sell online.

E-mail Marketing beta enables you to easily create and manage newsletter campaigns that help build and maintain deeper relationships with your business contacts, customers, and partners.

• You define your list of recipients, generate your e-mail content, and schedule sending times. The e-mail marketing service then sends the e-mail and tracks the receipts, e-mail open rates, and unsubscribes.
• E-mail Marketing is tightly integrated with the Reports feature, Contact Manager, and our Site Designer tool for easy HTML editing.

Activate E-Mail Marketing today and start your e-mail campaigns with up to 200 e-mail messages per month for free. (There is a charge of $0.05 for each e-mail sent over plan limits).
To learn more, sign in to your account, click Promote your business, and then click on Create newsletters and e-mail campaigns.

Improved!

adManager is now out of beta and easier to use. It allows you to advertise within multiple search engines, including Live Search on MSN, Ask.com, Excite.com and Lycos.com.

• A new bid recommendation feature that helps you decide what to bid for search keywords in order to improve your ranking in paid search results. (Pay-per-click pricing.)

To learn more, sign in to your account and click Promote your business, and then click Advertise on search engines.

Get your business online

New!

• Support for Firefox. Office Live Small Business tools and features are now compatible with the Firefox 2.0 Web browser, on both Macs and PCs.
• Getting Started. Office Live Small Business now includes an improved user interface to help you get started with each feature. On the first use of each feature, a list of the most important tasks for that particular feature is displayed, including links that take you directly into the task.
• Private domain name registration. You can now make your existing domain names privately registered, helping you better protect your personal contact information from spammers and phishers.
• Solutions Packager feature allows Web developers and designers to easily deploy their solutions on the Office Live Small Business platform. For example, a designer can build a Web site, including one or more private site workspaces, and package it as an Office Live Small Business solution. Once packaged, the solution can be sent to the Office Live Small Business customer, who can then install it in their subscription, thus automatically creating the new custom site and related private site workspaces.

Improved!

• Web Site now includes advanced design features for greater flexibility and site customization, an improved slideshow module, the ability to display a blog from your Windows Live Spaces accounts, and improvements to the display and collection of structured data. For the advanced users, you can now edit the header, footer, and navigation on individual pages as well as import your own XSLT for advanced customization.
• Domain name flexibility. If you already have a domain name with another provider, you are no longer required to transfer it. Instead, you can easily redirect your existing domain to Office Live Small Business.
  A new feature of the domain manager allows you to change your domain name at any time.

Manage your business online

Improved!

• Contact Manager has a significantly improved user interface that enables you to find and add contacts more efficiently, an improved Web site “Contact us” module that enables you to automatically add site visitors into the Contact Manager, and integration with E-mail Marketing beta to automatic list of all e-mail marketing campaigns in the recent activities list for each contact.
• Business Applications are easier to navigate and use. The Business Applications user interface includes an improved sidebar that makes it easier to view user permissions, add new users to a workspace, and share data. Now you can reorder application tabs with a simple drag-and-drop and rename tabs on the tab itself.
• Reports. The Office Live Small Business reporting experience now goes beyond rich Web site reports to include reporting for Store Manager, adManager, and E-mail Marketing. With Web site traffic and marketing reporting integrated into one central reporting experience, you can have the insights you need to understand how your marketing campaigns impact your site traffic.