What is the percentage of small businesses that have a website in the USA?
What was this percentage 5 years ago?

Hello Bshot,

According to the Yahoo Small Business survey by Harris Interactive,
seventy percent of small businesses either have or will have an online
presence by the end of 2004.

Excerpt:

?Yahoo released the results of a survey today which reveals that
seventy percent of small businesses either have or will have an online
presence by the end of 2004. The Yahoo Small Business survey was by
Harris Interactive. By comparison, in October 2002, only 35 percent of
small businesses had developed their own web site, according to a
Small Business Administration report.?

The Search Engine Journal 
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=592


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According to John Lally, vice president of marketing at Interland in
an article published in July 2004, sixty-three percent of small
businesses have a Web site.

United Press Internacional: 7/14/2004
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040711-025735-5498r


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According to an article by Barbara DePompa Reimers TechWeb Small Biz editor:

37 percent of small businesses had a web presence in 2001

29 percent of small businesses had a web presence in 1999

Excerpt:

?The Third Annual Small Business Internet Survey consisted of a random
telephone poll of 500 companies in the U.S. with 50 or fewer
employees. Released late in 2001, the survey revealed that while the
overall number of small businesses with a Web presence (37%) is up
only six percent from 1999, 66% of businesses with a Web site rank the
Internet as rucial to their businesses, rating it a seven or higher on
a scale of one to ten.?

How Small Businesses Use the Internet 
http://www.web-cars.com/detail/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=10799&t=10799


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2001

According to the 2001 Nacional Small Business Poll by the National
Federation of Independent Business NFIB,  35% of all small employers
reported they have a business Web site.
http://www.nfib.com/object/2937298.html

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In 1999 only ten percent of small businesses had a website.

Source:
United States Senate Committee on Small Business
July 15, 1999
http://sbc.senate.gov/106press/jun1599b.html


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I hope the information provided is helpful.

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Thank you very much, Bobbie7
I appreciate you giving me the source of your information as well.
This is been very helpful for me.
kind regards,