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To: Lance who wrote (249)	1/13/1999 11:25:00 AM
From: John T. Hardee	Respond to of 1979

Study published 6 Jan.. Million Americans Getting Wired Over 70 Million Currently Online Internet users in the United States will more closely resemble the average American in the future, according to a recent study. Almost 40 million Americans are ---planning ---to go online, where they will join the 72.6 million American adults that already have Internet access, according to the third quarter results of the 1998 Worldwide Internet/Online Tracking Service (WWITSTM) by Intelliquest. Related item: While mainstream America may be planning to go online, the rural poor head the list of the country's least connected groups. Click here to read this item. Once a haven for the upper-middle class and the well educated, the Internet will be home to mainstream America when the newest Net users get wired. The report found that 51 percent of those planning to get Internet access are over the age of 35. Almost half (49 percent) of the group have a high school education or less. More than half of those planning to go online (58 percent) make less than $50,000 a year. ZD Market Intelligence has reported that almost one-third of US households connected to the Internet has an annual income of $75,000 or greater, and over a quarter has completed post graduate studies. As far as the 72.6 million Americans already online, Intelliquest says that 70 percent of them access the Net from home, and 43 percent of them access it from work at least part of the time. .................................... More than 45 million online Americans report shopping over the Internet, but only 16 million are buying online, Intelliquest reports........ Consistent with previous studies, most (60 percent) of the shoppers surveyed say convenience drives them to shop online, and more than 40 percent say it saves time. The concerns they have about shopping online include security, return hassles, fear of spam, and the desire to see the merchandise in person. As usual, books and computer products were the most popular purchases. The Intelliquest research also found that 60 percent of American computer users are wired to the Internet. Date: January 6, 1999

To: Lance who wrote (249)	1/13/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: John T. Hardee	Respond to of 1979

Survey posted Jan 4 1999 Who Shopped Online in '98? Number of Seniors Shopping Online Surges Internet users over the age of 50 were one group that really took to the Internet to do their shopping this holiday season, according to research by Intelliquest and Zona Research. The companies surveyed 1,022 Internet users and found that, overall, 53 percent of those users shopped online during the recent holiday season and 92 percent of the shoppers bought at least one product or service over the Internet. The holiday online spending of the users surveyed rose from an average of $216 last year to $629 in 1998. Almost 60 percent of those who said they made an online purchase this year spent nothing online in 1997. The over-50 age group made tremendous strides in spending this holiday season. Spending for those in the 50-54 age group grew from $97 in 1997 to $626 in 1998 (545 percent). Spending for those over age 55 also did well, rising 547 percent, from $281 last year to $1819 this year. By comparison, spending for the usually more Net-savvy under-25 age group rose just 36 percent ($154 to $210). Zona and Intelliquest also found that spending by men surpassed spending by women this holiday season, but online buying by women rose 308 percent, while holiday spending online by men rose 145 percent. This is consistent with the general trend that women are catching up to men in terms of overall Web usage. etc, etc,