Bargainers are fiercely devoted to one aspect of Internet: quest for deals. Though they represent only 8% of active online users and spend less time online than average user, they represent 52% of eBay visitors.

Routiners and Sportsters go online primarily for content. Only half of Routiners have made purchases online, and just 6% have made five or more online purchases. They visit fewer domains (typically news and financial sites), but spend almost twice as much time per page as average users.

Routiners want superior content and sense they are getting "something special." Sportsters (just 4% of active online users) act much like Routiners, but focus on sports and entertainment sites. They spend just 7.1 hours online each month (versus a 9.8 average), and are drawn to fresh, colorful and interactive sites. End of report. Thank you jayde. I think your readers who are marketers, will gain some added knowledge of who is visiting their websites.

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All business growth consists of opportunities that come along and business owners that hopefully see them as such and then take advantage.

To attract these opportunities, is key to success, and is a combination of luck, hard work and common sense. Smart business managers expand on this luck base in various ways. In real world, contacting people and telling them about your product, telephone solicitations, advertising, being in phone book are all ways to expand your luck base. Giving your customers free information to induce word of mouth, being nice, having a good support area are other ways of expanding a luck base to create opportunities for good luck to happen to you. The ways of expanding your luck base is as diverse as number of different kinds of businesses. Good luck leads to creating a buying customer or formation of strategic alliances with others in your field.

Once you start forming strategic alliances with other web or business entities, your business starts to become a presence. Once a true web presence, you become one of centers of attention or perhaps even THE center of attention for your industry. The new opportunities this creates mean more money.

The key is: from beginning, look for opportunities that expand your business. Plan on continuing through life of your business to increase your luck base and attract opportunities. Some of these opportunities will turn into strategic alliances with others. These, over time, can become strategic trusts, each helping other, reach their goals through mutual growth. As you grow, they grow and as they grow, you grow. In time every successful business, whether web world or real world, consist of these strategic alliances. You then become a presence or a force that people come to, so they can grow with you. This is what all business is about.