i wonder what that really means that "their web sites had not improved profits." in the case of the "non-employer" businesses discussed in the main article, and even those with a handful of employees, it shouldn't be surprising at all that they find the bulk of their clients by going out and getting them. starting a small service biz w/o client-type contacts to begin with is asking for trouble.
seems to me like this is more beating the drum of the death of the new economy. that's fine, but it doesn't (on the face of it) seem like it's based on anything we didn't know or shouldn't have known already.
j
> From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at home.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:06:52 -0700
> To: <pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu>
> Cc: "Lbo-Talk at Lists. Panix. Com" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Subject: Small business' & the WWW
>
> [snip]
> In a recent survey of 750 firms by the Gallup Organization for the
> National Federation of Independent Business Education Foundation and
> Wells Fargo, almost 90 percent of the small-business owners surveyed
> said their Web sites had not improved profits.
> <
> http://chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0108300195aug30.story?coll=chi%
> 2Dbusiness%2Dhed >
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