As amazing as it seems to those of us who are immersed in online activities, as the article states there are an alarming amount of small businesses that don’t know what to do, who to trust or how to get started online. A portion of what I do each day is help small business entities learn to use the power of internet marketing. Even the simplest thing like collecting and email address and building a list for future marketing is foreign to many of these businesses.

I have a heart to help see them succeed and find a fair amount of success in providing them the information and systems they need to bring their business out of the stone age.

Rick

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For example, the number of under 25 year olds who do not own a car, or are unemployed, might be as high as 80%, if you include babies, kids and teenagers.

There are loads of small businesses who might offer a service to a fixed audience, ie a privately owned Ltd company managing the leasehold on a building. The company doesnt need to have a website designed, as it has no service to offer potential customers, and wouldnt benefit from a website as the income is more or less fixed.

The same applies with websites. I know plenty of people who run their own little part time company, working more or less exclusively for one other company, and they own the little business they run, but dont need a web designer to create them a website to promote their services, as they dont want, or need – any new customers.

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In fact I havent used one of those old contraptions, for at least a decade. You have to turn pages, by hand! Engage the brain in a manual indexing process. That ridiculous clap-trap notion died I thought, back in the old 1900′s, when web site design services were new, most computers still drank petrolium and required an oil change once a year.

Isnt yell getting shot of the paper brick in the states soon, anyway?

“56% of Small Businesses Still Don’t Have a Web Site!”

Agreed – but small business is notorious for “not knowing what they don’t know”

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I knew that a lot of business owners don’t really know a lot about the internet but 44% don’t have a website – crazy.

I guess I am in the right business – that shows why my business has increased so much in the last year!

Thanks for the Great Article

Pamela – Artista Design

Figure out how to convert and capitalize on this target market.

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@Andy. Novel idea. Thanks.

At 3:54 am, the only thing I’m checking for is my sanity:>)) Great post with lots of opportunities & possibilities.

A great tip to remember for those small business owners with – or without – a website, is to submit your business to Google maps. It’s surprisingly paid off dearly for me over the years…

http://www.google.com/local/add

There’s absolutely NO reason for a business to have zero web presence today…unless you choose to remain isolated.