Fort Lauderdale, Florida - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 26, 2006 - Web hosting and Internet services company, Hostopia.com Inc., is hosting a free, live webinar, on Monday, November 13, 2006, at 2 p.m. ET. ''Beyond Web Hosting: Tapping into the SMB Market with Premium Services,'' will focus on SMBs, a prime target for outsourced web hosting services.

More than 70 percent view corporate web sites as essential to business, according to recent research from IDC, which is no surprise, and demonstrates that an Internet presence is a priority for SMBs. Web sites are no longer electronic brochures, but the hubs of business sales and marketing initiatives, supporting branding, store fronts, order processing, customer care and more.

According to IDC, small businesses with web sites prefer to outsource web services, which estimates that by 2008, nearly 80 percent will turn to third parties for web-based e-commerce enablement. The webinar will explore how communication services companies can fill the need, by capitalizing on relationships with SMBs to increase revenue (up to 5x's the industry average) and improve customer retention.

In this Webinar, the following topics will be covered:

High-growth market segments -- who they are, what they need and how to communicate with them

Latest trends in web services for SMBs

Most in-demand applications for SMBs

Enhanced support for SMB customers while reducing costs

Industry leaders will discuss how market share with web-based services is increasing

Hostopia develops, manages, and distributes Internet applications used by small and medium sized businesses, including web site hosting, managed email, ecommerce, and other online business applications. Hostopia sells its services on a wholesale basis to communications services providers such as telecommunications and cable companies, Internet service providers, domain registrars, and web hosting companies who, in turn, resell Hostopia's services under their own brand to small-medium sized business customers.

To learn more about the webinar, please visit: https://lra100.livemeeting.com/LRSRegistration/EC/virgo/941591064.aspx.


For more information about Hostopia, please visit: www.hostopia.com.