When a small to medium business is trying to increase sales, raise awareness or cut IT costs, oftentimes the SMB owner does not think “I need a hoster”. The thoughts might be more like “how do I tell the world about us?”, “how do I sell stuff online?” or “our invoicing application keeps breaking on Fred’s PC – there has to be a better way”. Companies that focus on helping to resolve these small to medium business pains want to make sure the customer connects with the very best hosting solutions companies. You can really stand out and increase your sales by showing up in search lists when a customer is looking for you. Small to medium business using the Microsoft Hosted Solutions catalogs will find a specially consolidated and Microsoft “field” approved list and also hosting solutions partners listed in the catalogs benefit from greater visibility through search engines.   Getting your hosting solutions promoted via the Hosted Solutions catalogs are a special benefit of the Hosting Solutions competency. For example see the list of USA hosting competency solutions partners already getting high exposure with customers:   Hosted Business E-mail and Collaboration http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/catalogs/business-email.mspx?keyw ords=&country=e0766ffb-ae1c-4668-a2e1-826e6008cf94       Web Presence and Web Applications http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/catalogs/web-presence.mspx?countr y=e0766ffb-ae1c-4668-a2e1-826e6008cf94       Managed Services and Dedicated Hosting http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/catalogs/managed-services.mspx?ke ywords=&country=e0766ffb-ae1c-4668-a2e1-826e6008cf94       Hosted Applications http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/catalogs/hosted-applications.mspx ?keywords=&country=e0766ffb-ae1c-4668-a2e1-826e6008cf94   You can get listed too! Join the USA Hosting Solutions Competency here:  https://partner.microsoft.com/40011651