There are many benefits to having a web site. Here are some facts & statistics that
may have you wonder why you do not already have one.• Nearly
90 percent of Web users go online to get news and information.
• General Electric uses the Internet for procurement. Doing so
could save the company $500-700 million over the next three years.
• Cisco CEO John Chambers, expects more than $1 to $2 trillion
worth of commerce on the Net by 2002.
• Within the next five years, the vast majority of Americans should
be able to interact with the Internet from their television sets, or watch television on
their PCs, and make telephone calls from both devices.
• Consumer electronics companies, media giants, phone companies,
computer companies, software firms, satellite builders, cell phone businesses, Internet
service providers, television cable companies are aggressively investing in the
infrastructure of the Internet and it's potential.
• Radio was in existence 38 years before 50 million people tuned
in; TV took 13 years to reach that mark. Once it was opened to the general public, the
Internet crossed that line in 4 years.
• Information technologies industries have been growing at more
than double the rate of the overall economy, representing 8.2% of GDP.
• A recent market study in Greenville County revealed that 30% of
homes in this area have access to the Internet, this is about TWICE the national average!
• 85% of Fortune 500 companies now list their Internet Address in
their advertising.
• 50% of Americans own computers. Half of them are on the Internet.
• At current growth rates, estimated time at which everyone on
Earth will be on the Internet: 2004
• Number of hours in which Reebok attempts to respond to e-mail
requests: 24 hours.
• Expected year that the U.S. Census Bureau will use the Internet
for the census: 2010.
• Number of Americans who consider the Internet
"indispensable," in millions: 20
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