The percentage of small businesses - with fewer than 100 employees - accessing the Internet exceeded 52% in 1999, according to the 1999 U.S. Small Business Survey released by International Data Corp. That number is expected to climb to more than 70% by 2003.
Not only are these businesses accessing information on the World Wide Web, many are perceiving the benefit of promoting themselves via the Internet. In 1999, 2.1 million U.S. small businesses had a home page or Web site; 2000 will see a site increase of 30% to 2.7 million.