Fact Sheet 2008
What Is Microsoft Office Live Small Business?
Microsoft® Office Live Small Business is a complete, affordable set of easy-to-use Internet-based software and services that helps small businesses attract new customers, keep in touch with existing customers and easily manage their business from any location. By combining the power of software plus services, Office Live Small Business helps companies establish a professional Web presence, stay in touch with their customers, and easily access company information from one complete online location.
How Do Small Businesses Benefit?
Office Live Small Businesses facilitates the following:
• Create a professional Web presence including a personalised domain name, Web site, calendar, and company-branded e-mail and instant messaging
• Manage and organise customer information online
• Share calendars, documents and data even when away from their business
• Drive targeted traffic to their Web site with search engine advertising
• Share information with suppliers, vendors and employees easily using online Workspaces
• Access e-mail, contacts and appointments with Windows Mobile®-powered phones
adManager
adManager allows companies to drive traffic to their Web site with Live Search. Companies can easily set up and begin purchasing keywords, optimise their search advertising budget, and reduce the time spent managing the process. Microsoft's vision is to enable businesses to purchase and manage their keywords across multiple advertising networks directly from the Microsoft Office Live Small Business platform.
Contact Manager
Contact Manager allows small businesses to keep all their customers, contact histories and sales information in one place. It helps create a single view of customers and prospects so everyone in the organisation can be on "the same page." As well, the application provides everyone in the company with easy "always-on" access to the most up-to-date account, contact and opportunity information.
Stay on Top of Your Business - Anytime, Anywhere
Office Live Small Business now includes free online business applications, storage space and user accounts. These new business applications provide to access various online tools for managing group calendars, projects, documents, sales information, company information and much more.
Workspace
Workspaces allow people who have the appropriate permissions to easily collaborate, store and share information about projects, customers, employees or general company information online. Instead of sending e-mail messages with large attachments back and forth to customers and team members, users can simply create a private Workspace online to post and share important documents with people inside or outside a company in a password-protected environment.