| Hi WebPro Readers,
This article by Linda Carlson has an interesting perspective
of how your viewers react to your site. It was something that
I hadn't seen before and I thought that some of you might
find it interesting.
On another note, I was looking at this week's Interactive
Week and I came across some noteworthy information. How much
is the budget for the average website?
According to Interactive Week's recently completed annual
survey of 553 Webmasters, most Web site operational budgets
are expected to increase this year over last. Web site budgets
for 2000 averaged $404,500, and Webmasters say they expect
to see that increase to $508,000 for this calendar year. On
the high end, 7.5 percent of Webmasters we surveyed say their
budgets for 2001 will be $1 million or greater, up from 6.2
percent who say their 2000 budgets were in the same range.
However, these averages are screwed up by the higher end
websites bumping up averages. When we look at another break-down
in the same article of website budgets, we see that 60.7 percent
of website owners spent $50,000 or less in 2000 and 56.2 will
do the same in 2001.
In the "Between $50,000 and $1 million" website
budget, 33.1% percent of the website owners spent that much
in 2000 and 36.3% will expect to spend that much this year.
In the $1 million or more category, 6.2 percent of website
owners dished out that kind of money last year and 7.5% will
be doing the same this year.
No wonder we have so many dot-gones.
Source: "2001 Webmaster Survey"
Interactive Week,
March 26, 2001,
Volume 8, No. 12, page 74 and 75
I hope that you enjoy this issue.
Best Wishes,
Pete |
