Information is power. People will look for information. You just have to be there.

  • Who uses the internet?
  • According to Pew Research Center, 79% of American adults use the internet as of March 2010.

     

  • What do they use it for?
  • Again quoting Pew, 87% of users use a search engine to find information; 78% of users look for information on products and services; and 72% of users buy products and services by utilizing the internet.

      

  • What does this mean for my business?
  • The internet has overtaken the newspaper as a means of educating the general public.  More than 60% of adults in America use the internet to make purchases decisions.  Only 43% of adults read a daily newspaper while 48% read the Sunday paper (according to the “State of News Media 2010” by the Project for Excellence in Journalism based on information published by the Audit Bureau of Circulations).

      

  • How does this affect my local business?
  • Google reported 20% of all searches on its site have a local component.  That’s 17.6 billion searches per month that are focused on something local according to comScore’s estimation of total Google searches per month.

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