Microsoft Office Live Small Business Community

No question, owning a small business can mean greater challenges than running a large one or a chain store. Part of your growth strategy is holding off new competitors (businesses newer than you) while you take on the more-established competition with more resources. This is easier to do in some industries...

If you’re anything like me, the hardest part of running your own business isn’t providing your product or service. It’s the little stuff, like making your own travel reservations, sending your own faxes, going to the post office, formatting documents. It took me days to find a phone system for my new...

(This tip is provided to you from the e-book, “ 5 Steps for a Successful E-Commerce Web Site ,” available for download now.) Ever wonder how some online retailers are able to offer so many diverse products on their sites? They must have a warehouse the size of Lake Michigan to store their stuff, right...

If you are a developer creating solutions for Microsoft Office Live Small Business, you should check out the new Contact Manager Web Service Examples download on the Office Live Small Business Code Samples page in the MSDN Code Gallery. The download is an Office Live solution (.olp) file. Once you’ve...

1. How do I activate my Office Live Mail account? You don’t have to activate an Office Live Mail account. When you sign up for an Office Live Small Business account, you use an existing e-mail address. Any e-mail that is sent from Office Live Small Business will be sent to this address. To read those...

Your Web site tells customers all about you and your business. But how do you learn more about your customers? The answer is to add a form to one of your Web site pages. While forms can be complicated to build from scratch, Office Live Small Business makes it easy with the Form Designer module. The module...

I’ve managed many Web sites in my career and often come back to the same concept: Keep it simple! I found that one of the toughest parts of Web site creation is figuring out what to write. I’m often surprised at people’s natural instincts to go overboard and want to add everything to a Web site. The...

Posted on behalf of Roman Frillarte You know, there’s always someone out there trying to make a fast buck, but we don’t want it to be at your expense if we can help it. So here’s a word of caution: If you receive a letter telling you that your Microsoft Office Live Small Business domain is about to expire...

Here’s a confession you can’t share with my boss: I think I’m having way too much fun at work. You see, we just developed this set of full-color comic strips featuring a cast of characters who work in a fictitious travel company. Margie, John, and Delores discover ways to use Microsoft Office Live Small...

If you’re thinking about selling products on your Web site, now is definitely the time to do it. We’re running a special offer on Store Manager , our easy-to-use tool that helps you set up a fully customized Web store on your Office Live Small Business Web site and conveniently sell your products on...