Hard to belive, but if you are a ISV or microISV, Microsoft is offering in BizSpark (a program launched towards ISV and microISV at European Software Conference 2008). If you are a small company Microsoft will offer you the tools, database and even hosting for developing your applications for FREE. Is such an offer possible?

The conditions are simple:

• Actively engaged in development of a software-based product or service that will form a core piece of its current or intended business1
• Privately held
• In business for less than 3 years, and
• Less than US $1 million in annual revenue.
• To be eligible to use the software for production and deployment of hosted solutions, startups must also be developing a new software as a service solution (on any platform) to be delivered over the Internet

What is Microsoft going to offer you:

Design, development, testing and demonstrations rights with regard to:

• All the software included in the Visual Studio Team System Team Suite (VSTS) with MSDN Premium subscription
• Expression Studio (Version 2)
• VSTS Team Foundation Server (Standard Edition)
• Production Use rights to host a “software as a service” solution (developed by the startup during their participation, on any platform) over the Internet, with regard to products including: Windows Server (all versions up to and including Enterprise); SQL Server (all versions); Office SharePoint Server; Systems Center, and BizTalk Server and all these for your whole development team

Above all these, the support will be free. Hard to believe such an program exists. There is catch you will ask? A 100$ program offering fee is due when the Startup exits the Program. As part of Microsoft’s commitment to Startup success, there are no initial costs for Startups to join BizSpark.

More information can be found in this pdf.

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So if you are willing to take this offer send me some details about your website on the form on our search optimization service page. Also add the note for ESWC 2008 and I will make sure we will find time to analyze it until there.

I will take a maximum 5 websites for which I am going to suggest improvements.

Update: 4 places left

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Update 13.12.2007 – The list contains now 160 German directories

Update 27.01.2008 – The list of German directories is now almost 3 times bigger. With a total of 437 directories, we are happy to offer in the Website Submitter 2.2 all these verified directories.

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In fact, directory submission has replaced the search engine submission process in recent times due to its known effectiveness. Learn more about some of the main benefits that directory submission has to offer you, in order to help you determine whether or not this internet marketing strategy is the right choice for you.

One of the main benefits that directory submission has to offer is the fact that your website will be more likely to be seen. Although anyone can find anything looking through a search engine, unless you have a very high search engine ranking, chances are that your website will not be found. Directories, on the other hand, almost always have some sort of purpose or theme. When people are looking for Saint Bernard-related websites, they may decide to refer to a Saint Bernard directory. If you have submitted your website to a directory, the people who are interested in this subject will be more likely to see it.

Through the use of directory submission techniques, you will also be more likely to get the higher search engine ranking that any internet marketer is interested in. This especially is true if you are submitting your website to a very reputable directory, rather than to a lesser known one. One of the biggest decisions that you will probably need to make when you decide that you want to try out directory submission as an internet marketing strategy is whether you should use paid directories or free directories.

It is important to weight the benefits of each option before making your choice. Although free directories are a great option if you are on a low marketing budget, you might not get the results which are looking for. An website directory that you will need to pay for is often a lot more beneficial in increasing the amount of internet traffic that your website sees, as well as your overall search engine ranking. Overall, it is important to realize that your search engine ranking can be increased through the use of directory submission.

You might want to think about using directory submission as internet marketing strategy if you want to ensure that anyone can easily find your website with a specific topic in mind, if you want to increase the internet traffic that your website gets or if you want to increase your search engine ranking. If you have only ever used search engine submission, chances are that directory submission is something that you may want to give a try. Since this internet marketing strategy is known to be very effective, you will be likely to get the results that you are hoping for.

Our solution is Website Submitter – complete directory submission software to over 2800 directories. We are offering a 14 days Website Submitter trial (with maximum 50 submission). If that is not enough we have prepared a video demo with the functionalities and the best usage for Website Submitter.

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