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Website Facts

The Internet has revolutionised the way we find and share information. In an interconnected world where the majority of consumers are searching online, it's more important than ever to have a great website.

Kiwis spent $2.7 billion online in the year to September 2013, and almost 40% of that went to overseas retailers.

Statistics show that consumers are falling in love with their mobile phones. The majority of consumers say they would leave websites that didn't work well with mobile devices and are less likely to buy goods and services from them.

A Content Management System is a web application designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add and edit content on a website.

Guidance from Google to Webmasters is the same as always — "we encourage original, high-quality content, since that’s what’s best for web users".

SEO is short for Search Engine Optimisation. SEO covers a range of strategies, techniques and tactics used to obtain high-ranking placement in the search results page of a search engine like Google.

Did you know 75% of users never scroll past the first page of search results?

Did you know 97% of NZ Consumers search for products and services online?

There are almost 300 million active domain names globally, and about 550,000 of those domains end in .nz. 

Over 97% of consumers are now searching for products and services online. Can your business be found online?

Social Media / Marketing Facts

There are over 1.15 billion users on Facebook and 23% of users check their account more than 5 times a day.

Social Media is now the number one daily activity among Americans, topping time spent on email and Google.

Mobile claimed the no. 1 spot over the holiday season among devices used by consumers to open and read email. Just over half of all email opens occurred on a mobile device.

Google display ad campaigns reach 80% of global Internet users. Businesses make an average of $2 in revenue for every $1 they spend on AdWords.

Finance and Insurance related keywords are the most expensive in AdWords.

When an online ad follows you from site to site, it's called "re-marketing".

People Facts

Surveys show that entrepreneurs with written business plans have 50% greater sales and 12% higher profits.

Training alone increased productivity by 22.4%. But, when followed up with coaching, the figure soared to 88% according to Public Personnel Management Magazine (Winter, 1997)

BYOD stands for 'Bring Your Own Device' - A recent study from Dell identified that 59% of IT decision makers believe they would be at a competitive disadvantage if they did not embrace personally-owned devices.

“Leadership is the art of leading others to deliberately create a result that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.” 

A Trans-Tasman Telework Survey, found employees who had the option of working from home at least some of the time were up to 12% more productive than workers who didn’t telework at all.

80% of job seekers search online to find a new job and over 8 million jobs are posted per month.

Tools Facts

Fibre-optic Internet is up to 100 x faster than other types of internet services. Fibre optics are pure glass as thin as human hair that carry digital info over long distances by sending pulses of light, rather than electrical signals.

Using the cloud can bring many advantages to a business.  By cloud we are referring to using IT services that operate on the Internet.  It can reduce costs of expensive IT hardware/software, provide a business with access to the latest technology, reduce dependency on IT expertise and provide an extra level of protection by not relying on a server located in your office.

Cloud computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for an SMB, compared to the alternative of running its own IT system.

Cloud computing gives organisations a green boost. About 64% of organisations say that adopting cloud based solutions has helped them reduce waste and lower energy consumption.

Cloud computing enables smaller companies to compete with larger enterprises by removing barriers associated with expensive server tools and technologies.