Only 44% of Small businesses has a website!

Though 63% of consumers and small business owners turn to the internet first for information about local companies and 82% use search engines to do so, only 44% of small businesses have a website and half spend less than 10% of their marketing budget online, according to research from Webvisible and Nielsen.

The research, which was undertaken to learn how internet users find local businesses from which to purchase products or services, finds an accelerating trend toward online media for local search. At the same time, it uncovers a significant disconnect between the way small business owners act as consumers vs. the way they market their businesses online. Webvisible calls this disparity “the great divide.”

These are amazing stats if true, obviously from our point of view this is great news as it means that potentially, when the penny drops, that there is plenty of new business in the marketplace for web design, seo and ppc marketing.