Thursday, January 29, 2009

Small & Medium Businesses are Embracing Web 2.0

According to Access Market International (AMI) Partners, more than 40% of small and medium businesses (or about 2.8 million businesses) are using Web 2.0 applications as part of their normal business practices. Web 2.0 is a term that describes interactive web features such as blogs, wikis, and social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, & Digg.

At InsideUp, we believe that the embrace of Web 2.0 by small and medium businesses will continue to grow exponentially as companies find that applying Web 2.0 applications provides a forum for communication and exchange that can lead to a competitive advantage.


Here are some other interesting stats about how businesses use Web 2.0 from the AMI survey:


• More than 400,000 small and medium businesses in the U.S. use blogs and webcasts to promote their businesses.


• 24% of small and medium businesses are using SaaS (software as a service). SaaS applications, such as Backpack, a popular small business organization tool, are hosted on a service provider's computer and offered to businesses for use. This allows businesses to utilize effective tools without having to download, install, or maintain software.


• About 20% of small and medium businesses participate in online communities and portals, such as online chat forums.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

It's good to see that small businesses are finally using the internet to maximize their business opportunities. Hopefully this will help to boost our country's economy.

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This article was very useful!

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