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Hostgator is one of the top rated web hosting companies among business owners. Business owners know that one of the best ways to maintain a strong market position is to cut operating expenses while maintaining quality, and HostGator helps businesses do that. By paying one low monthly fee for a HostGator account, business owners get services that they used to have to pay employees to do for free. The tools and services that are included with a web hosting account make it easy for businesses to cut back on costs while still getting the information and organizational tools they need to stay competitive. Check out these services and products that are included with a HostGator account:

Unlimited email - Running a business is a lot easier when you can organize your emails. Send all customer inquiries to one email address and send vendor emails to another. Set up emails for each of your staff that can be accessed on the Web so that you can send sales people out into the field without taking away their access to important emails or communications. The high end spam protection offered by HostGator will help keep your computers safe from viruses and spyware and your employees can use additional email filters to organize their inboxes to push priority emails to the top. Having unlimited, web-accessible, fully protected email addresses is a huge bonus for businesses.

Professional design - Thousands of businesses have paid a fortune for a professional website overhaul only to be disappointed with the results or to end up with functionality problems. You can avoid those problems by choosing a professionally designed website template from HostGator to give your website a new look or set up a new website.

There are thousands of templates available that will appeal to customers and are easy to customize with your own pictures, logo, and other information. Best of all with so many options available, you can change the design of your website frequently to keep customers coming back to see what's new. You can also build contact forms directly into your website so your customers can contact you without the risks of putting your email address directly on the site.

Marketing and Publishing Tools - Marketing your business online requires a careful plan and the use of marketing tools like blogs, forums, and social networking accounts. HostGator makes it easy for you to use these tools by giving businesses free blogs that can be easily added onto an existing website, free forums and forum support, and the ability to integrate social networking tools into the website.

With remote access you can log into your blog and post updates from anywhere, or you can use social networking tools like Twitter, MySpace and Facebook easily to publicize your website or special sales that you are holding. Even if you're not all that experienced with using social media to market a business, you'll get all the tools you need to learn how to successfully market your business using social media just by using HostGator.