Whether your small business has one employee or 50, Office 365 provides tools that will help you run it like a Fortune 500 company. As a monthly subscription service that starts at $6 a month, you can boost your company's brand and image with Microsoft SharePoint Online for collaboration and document sharing, Microsoft Exchange Online for email, and Microsoft Lync Online for instant messaging and web conferencing.

Read on for information about how Office 365 provides your business with enterprise grade collaboration and communication tools:

Custom domains

Use custom domain names for your email and web address for increased name recognition and a professional polish.

How to: Add your domain to Office 365; Locate or buy a new domain

External website

Design and maintain a professional-looking public website with a custom domain name. Powered by SharePoint Online, build a public website to market your company, provide information about how to contact you, and allow customers or partners to find information about your products and services.

How to: Set up a public website with SharePoint Online

Conferencing

Use Lync Online to create, moderate, and join pre-planned and on-the-fly audio, video, and web meetings with people inside and outside your organization. Enhance online presentations with screen-sharing and virtual whiteboards.

How to: Use Lync Attendee to meet with people outside of your organization; Read how Office 365 customers use Lync for their business

Office documents

Create professional documents with Word, OneNote, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Access, view, and edit documents in your web browser and share them with SharePoint Online.

How to: Use Office Web Apps; Start using Office Web Apps in SharePoint

Email

Exchange Online provides professional, cloud-based email and calendars. Design and send high-quality email using images and custom formatting. Federate with other Exchange Online organizations to share free/busy calendar data.

How to: Use Outlook Web App; Manage calendars with Office 365

Watch this video and see how Imagination Yoga uses Office 365 to run more efficiently, be more responsive and better focus on its core mission.

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