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Why should you have a website?
- The reason you need to have a website is very simple: more and more people are coming to the web to get information they need to solve their problems and achieve their goals.
- Here are some interesting statistics:
- Nielson/Netratings estimates that 75% of Americans have access to the Internet from home
- 88% of Internet users report it has an impact on their daily lives
- The Online Publishers Association have found that the Internet is now more popular with Americans than TV or any other form of media, for people aged 18-54.
- Though young people drove the early stages of Internet growth in the U.S., in recent years most new growth is among people aged 55 and up, according to a survey conducted by International Demographics.
- Nielson/Netratings found that people would rather use the web to get information from the government than use the telephone
- Pew's Internet and the American Society project notes that 40 million Americans have used the web to find a place to live - that's 1/3 of all Internet users in the country
- The web is a major means for getting information about your organization to a worldwide audience, at a very low cost.
- You need to have a good public service website - and we're going to tell you how
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