SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--()--It’s hard to believe in this day and age, but nearly half the small businesses in the United States don’t have a dedicated Web site – this according to a recent report from research firm IDC.
“The Internet is increasingly used by customers as an information source, so a firm that doesn’t have a Web presence will be at a disadvantage when prospects are conducting a search”
IDC’s small business Internet forecast study estimated that 4.46 million small businesses would have a Web site by the end of 2007. But that represents only 53.9 percent of all the small businesses in the U.S.!
Go Daddy, a world leader in helping small and medium sized businesses build an online presence with ease and speed, believes there’s no reason to be one of the millions of entrepreneurs out there without a Web address.
“In today’s marketplace, you need to be online in order to be competitive,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “We can get you up and running as quickly as anyone in the business. With our support, prices and reliability, you don’t need to be a tech whiz, invest lots of time or spend hundreds of dollars to do it.”
With more and more consumers using search engines as a basic research tool, firms that don’t tout their products and services on the Internet could be missing out on valuable business, said Ray Boggs, vice president of SMB research at IDC.
“The Internet is increasingly used by customers as an information source, so a firm that doesn’t have a Web presence will be at a disadvantage when prospects are conducting a search,” said Boggs, who authored the IDC forecast report.
According to industry analyst Netcraft Ltd., Go Daddy has seen steady growth as a Web hosting company in recent years and is now the largest paid hosting provider in the world.
Go Daddy, the world’s No. 1 domain registrar, currently has more than 3 million active hosting accounts – up 27 percent from just one year ago.
Go Daddy also offers customers a free resource for online business, including insight into effective marketing, with its interactive online business site, www.GoDaddyConnections.com. It allows users to exchange valuable information, provide feedback and discuss ideas on how to better leverage their business assets.
Go Daddy was also just ranked “Best Hosting Company” by Domainers Choice Awards. In addition, Netcraft's Hosting Provider Performance Monitoring report consistently lists Go Daddy as one of the most “reliable hosting companies in the world.”
All Go Daddy hosting packages are backed by world-class data centers and a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee.
For more information about Go Daddy domain name registration and ecommerce Web site hosting, visit www.GoDaddy.com
About The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 27 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world's largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.
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