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Why you should advertise on the Internet!

  • Businesses using the Internet to promote and sell their goods and services have grown 46% faster in the last two years than those that don't. - U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Online spending will hit $3.9 billion in 2005. That's 46% greater than 2004. - Borrell Associates
  • 87% of online users depend on the Internet to access local information. - Digitrends
  • 52.7% of an online business directory users visited a merchant because of what they saw online. - Digitrends
  • 85.5% of users of an online business directory would recommend the site to friends and family. -Harris Interactive
  • 74% of adults are searching online an average of 9 hours a week! - Harris Poll
  • Less than 50% of people in the United States read newspapers daily. - Washington Post
  • People want to pick what they see, not what editors and TV producers pick for them. Online, people can choose what & when they view, not what editors and TV producers choose for them.
  • People are turning to online sources of information and advertising because they can search & select!

  • Did you know that over 220 Million People in the U.S. now have Internet Access in their Home? - U.S. Dep’t Commerce

  • Local online spending will hit 3.9 billion by the end of 2005. That’s a growth of 46% over 2004. - Borrell Associates

  • Small businesses that use the internet to promote and sell their goods/services have grown 46% faster over the past 2 years than those that have not used the internet. - U.S. Dep’t Commerce

We provide viewers a choice.

Unlike print advertising, which is one-and-done, tossed out with the household trash, Internet advertising is online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. It's there when viewers want it and search for it.

Unlike broadcast advertising, which has a shelf-life of just seconds and must be repeated--and paid for repeatedly--to get people to remember it . . . Internet advertising is online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. It's there when viewers want it and search for it.

Your Customers Are Online...

Your Competition Is Online...

Can You Afford Not To Be Online?

Why do businesses advertise?

  • Businesess advertise to present their message to viewers and readers.
  • Viewers and readers seek content: news, pictures, information, and advertising.

But . . .

  • Viewers are replacing readers and now outnumber them.
  • Viewers are turning to online sources for content and advertising.
  • Online viewers search and select online sources of content and advertisng -- if and when they want it.
  • Online advertising is the only source available to them that fulfills this requirement.

"Print is dead"

"Print is dead," Sports Illustrated President John Squires told a room full of newspaper and magazine circulation executives at a conference in Toronto in November, 2004 . His advice? "Get over it," meaning publishers should stop trying to save their ink-on-paper product and focus on electronic delivery of their journalism.

The Washington Post provides statistical evidence of the drop in newspaper readership. It looks at the percent of people reading a newspaper in daily in 1967 and in 2004, broken down by age group.

Age Group

1967 Reader rate

2004 Reader Rate

18-24

70.8 %

39.0 %

25-34

72.7 %

38.8 %

35-54

81.0 %

53.0 %

55+

75.5 %

67.4 %

The Washington Post reports that "newspapers are struggling."

Can you afford NOT to advertise on the Internet?


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