In this article I explain the importance of having an online presence these days for small businesses. In the past a small business could get by using listing services such as the Yellow Pages, Yellow Book or the local newspaper's classified listings. Not so today. Today, the first thing, more and more people do is go online and lookup the business service they are interested in.

These traditional services are fading away, much the same way the dinosaur did, which is what many people call these old institutions. More and more people are getting PDA's and mobile phones that connect to the internet and do searches such as with google maps and are able to find the nearest pizza restaurant from their current location, wherever that is, including driving instructions laid out on a map.

To read more about the importance of having a presence online for your business read this latest article: Building Your Online Business Web Site Part 1