Internet Statistics

PROOF!

That Your Business CANNOT Afford to Ignore the Internet!

FACT: $1.6 trillion was made via e-commerce in 2003, 7.1 trillion is expected in 2007 Source: IDC, 2004 (wouldn’t you like a small share of that?)

FACT: Nearly 100 million adults made purchases after doing online research last year, coming close to the number of adults who purchased through catalogues, direct mail ads and telemarketing calls combined

FACT: Small businesses that use the Internet have grown 46% faster than those that do not. (American City Business Journals)

FACT: More than 724,000 people say that eBay is their primary or secondary source of income. Another 1.5 million individuals say they supplement their income by selling on eBay, (according to the July 2005 survey conducted for eBay by AC Nielsen International Research).

FACT: According to Package Facts, rich consumers are more likely to shop online. Overall, 34 percent of respondents said they made an online purchase over the last year while 50 percent of mass affluent respondents and 57 percent of the highly affluent used e-commerce. (Wouldn’t you rather be selling to people who have money?)

FACT: Well, there’s no doubt that the World Wide Web is huge. In the UK according to the National Office of Statistics 15 million households (61%) have the internet. According to the World Fact Book, 186 million Americans, (roughly 63%) of the population now has Internet access.

FACT: Throw in Australia and the rest of the English-speaking world and millions more who are fluent in our language and it’s a pretty good bet that well over 30 million consumers and business people are out there.

300 Million People STILL Not Enough For You? OK…

FACT: Translate your message and websites into Spanish and you’ll pick up about 100 million more prospects in the US, Mexico, Central America, South Africa and of course, Spain.

FACT: Add French, German, Russian and Portuguese sales messages and you can talk to 116 million future customers.

FACT: And if you can figure out a way to make your sales message readable to web nerds in China and India, you’ll pick up another 136 million prospective customers

FACT: That’s about 650 million people world-wide, and still the web is just getting warmed up.

FACT: In 2006 about 136 million new folks joined the internet community for the first time.

"That’s 248 BRAND NEW WEB USERS every single minute of

every single day…

more than 15,000 per hour

and more than 372,000 per day,

non-stop - 365 days a year!"