If you’re one of those old fuddy duddies that has a business and still hasn’t discovered the value of having a website yet consider this:

– 95 percent of consumers who make online purchases at least once a month feel very or somewhat secure with their transactions.
– 50 percent of owners said their Web sites generate direct sales leads for their businesses.
– 49 percent of business owners regularly communicate with customers via e-mail.

Source: Rasmussen Reports

But this poll tells us something else too. It tells us that there are boundaries to selling things on the internet too such as:

– 75 percent of regular online shoppers said the cost of shipping has stopped them from making a purchase online.

I tend to find that many businesses that sell things on line have way too high of shipping costs myself. This often comes from poor packaging practices and failure to plan.

But, if you’re a small business owner who doesn’t have a web site yet you’re in good company:

The November Watch poll found that two-thirds of American small businesses do not have Web sites, according to the Discover Small Business Watch monthly poll of 1,000 business owners with five or fewer employees.

The question is that why, when you can have a domain name for under $10 per year and pay under $10 per month for mammoth hosting plans with more bandwidth than you could ever use for a total of less than $130 per year why don’t you have that website yet?

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J.J. Jackson is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. and Cafepress “Top Shopkeeper”. He has been selling t-shirts on-line since 2004 and is the owner of the T-Shirt Entrepreneur, a site dedicated to helping people get involved in the T-shirt Economy. He is also the owner of Funny When Wet T-shirts, American Infidel Tshirts, Uber Gamer T-shirts as well as many other online t-shirt and gift stores.