Did You Know?
85% of people in America search online
"In 2008, the practice of using online search tools to find local businesses, products or services grew by 58%, reaching a total of 15.7 billion searches for the year."
- Smallbusinessnewz.com, May 2009
"Each month, millions of consumers seek professional services they need online through consumer-oriented web sites, online directories or search engines."
"Thousands of service professional keywords are searched monthly in each local market."
"The Kelsey Group reported an increase in online searches to 13% of total Yellow Page searches in 2002 as compared to 10% in 2001 and 2% in 2000, and projects that online and wireless searches will account for 40% of lookups by 2006."
"There are 31B Google searches each month. In 2006, this number was 2.7B."
"It took radio 38 years to reach a market audience of 50M. TV 13yrs. Internet 4 yrs. iPod 3 yrs. Facebook 2 yrs."
"In 1984 there were 1,000 internet devices. In 1992, 1,000,000. In 2008, 1,000,000,000."