Up to 65% of SMEs have a functioning website, up from 45% in 2008, according to a new study.<\/p>\n
In a brief presentation at the Innovation Centre in Pretoria,\u00a0 Arthur Goldstuck<\/a>, MD of World Wide Worx<\/a>, said that SME’s established for more than 10 years were more likely to have a website than start-ups.<\/p>\n The research, conducted among 1,007 SME decision makers, found that 68% of small businesses who had a web presence considered themselves as competitive, and 45% ‘highly competitive, against 59% and 38% respectively for those businesses without a website.<\/p>\n Goldstuck said that 79% of respondents with a website said they were profitable, against 59% who were not online; while 30% of those firms online were ‘strongly’ profitable, against 14% who lacked a website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Up to 65% of SMEs have a functioning website, up from 45% in 2008, according to new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,843,671,841],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-arthur-goldstuck","tag-online","tag-smme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3467,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}