How many small and medium businesses in the USA have a website?

How many small and medium businesses in the USA have a website?


According to a recent Forrester Research survey, The State of IT in
the SMB Market, eighty-seven percent of small and midsize businesses
have a website.

Small Business Trends: May 17, 2004 
http://www.smallbusinesses.blogspot.com/2004/05/smbs-to-spend-more-on-it.html


Forrester reports that 87 percent of Small and mid-size businesses
have their own Web sites.

?Forrester defines small businesses are those with between six and 99
employees and mid-sized businesses as those with between 100 and 999
employees).?

Source:
April 29, 2004 
SMBs Go on an IT Spending Spree 
By Dan Muse 
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3347231


According to analysts from The Kelsey Group and ConStat 52% of small
and midsize businesses have a website and 30% say they will get one
within the next year.

Excerpt:

?Furthermore, the number of SMBs with a Web site grows from 48% last
year to 52% this year. Of those SMBs without a Web site, 30% say they
will get one within the next year.?
Emarketer Daily: June 30, 2004 
http://www.webspin-design.com/LocalNewsLocalFocus.asp
http://www.kelseygroup.com/press/pr040629.htm

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