The web and small small businesses

An intresting article on the BBC Business website, 'Do small firms really need a website?'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7096900.stm

It claims that no more than half of the UK's small to medium businesses have a web presence, this is according to the Federation of Small Businesses.

Theres a section on the concerns of one business worried that their business might grow too fast and they wold not be able to cope. Another states they did not receive a single phone call from a customer in the nine months since their website went live.

My own experience of providing web design, see the majority of enquiries from new start-ups as opposed to established businesses wanting to get onto the net.

I started to offer and leg-up onto the net with a single page, domain and email address package at under £100. Again this never seems to get taken up, yet I get enquiries from people wishing to spend hundreds of pounds on websites that sometimes they do not really need r even know they need.

It takes all sorts, and there will always be a stay hard group that will do allthey can to avoid the net.