Microsoft Office Live Makes Getting Online Even Easier for Small Businesses by Offering New Do-It-for-Me Services

Microsoft Office Live teams up with Website Pros to provide Web site design and search engine marketing services.

What: Microsoft® Office Live (http://www.officelive.com), a provider of Web-based services for small businesses, will make it even easier for small companies to get their businesses online, not only with easy and affordable do-it-yourself tools but with “do-it-for-me” help as well. As part of that new focus, Microsoft Office Live has announced that it is teaming up with Website Pros Inc. to provide Web site design and search engine marketing services. Website Pros is a leading provider of Web site design and Internet marketing, having fulfilled more than 400,000 Web sites and online marketing programs for small and medium-sized businesses.

While many Microsoft Office Live customers enjoy maintaining an online presence with the product’s intuitive online hosting, design, marketing and selling tools, some would like extra help. Website Pros will provide customers with a consultant to assist with Web site design as well as search engine marketing. Website Pros can also help people take their already existing Web site to the next level in terms of site sophistication and design.

Microsoft Office Live continues to unite with companies that can further help its worldwide business customer base of over 350,000 to attract new customers, generate repeat business and easily manage their business online by providing the tools to establish a Web presence as well as a variety of easy-to-use and affordable business applications.

When: During the month of June, Microsoft Office Live plans to offer the following special Website Pros Web design package:
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Five-page, professionally designed Microsoft Office Live Web site that can be updated at any time
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Submission of the Microsoft Office Live Web site to MSN®, Google, Yahoo! and 100 other search engines each month
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Unlimited consulting with a Website Pros design and marketing consultant during the first 30 days of the subscription, and then monthly check-ins with the consultant
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A toll-free number and call tracking reports
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Pack of 250 free printed business cards with URL and e-mail addresses sent directly to the small business
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Monthly listing in Yahoo! Yellow Pages

Customers pay only $79.95 a month for all these services. Website Pros will design a Microsoft Office Live Web site for existing Microsoft Office Live Basics, Office Live Essentials and Office Live Premium customers; standard charges apply to Essentials and Premium customers.

Where: More information is available at http://www.officelive.com.