The small business majority is standing on the sidelines as internet growth rushes by. Most small business owners have not engaged a business web hosting company to provide them an online presence, even though the internet has reached a record growth rate.

The internet has expanded more in 2005, than any year in history. A Netcraft survey reported in October 2005, that more web sites were added to the internet in 2005 than ever before, even more than the original big boom of the year 2000. The survey was conducted Jan. through Sept. 2005. The growth out reached the entire year of 2000 by 1.5 million sites.1

The internet is growing faster than ever before yet it was estimated in early 2005 sixty to sixty-five percent of small businesses did not have a web site.2 In other words nearly two businesses in three provide no manifestation of the business on the web. There is no avenue for an interested party online to access information directly from nearly two thirds of the businesses in the United States!

Why would a major portion of small businesses not be a part of such a visible phenomenon as the internet? The question has many answers, but for purposes here the one following will be addressed. Many business owners have not fully realized how influential the internet could and will be on their particular business.

This series of articles is addressed to the people in charge of those businesses.

Supply the Need or Lose!

Business in its simplest form is still