The businesses plan to use their sites to:

• Promote
• Women Internet shoppers to jump 600% - A new survey predicts that the number of women who plan to shop online will jump to nearly six times the number who shopped last year.
• Amazon.Com to host Web Stores - Amazon will allow small businesses to sell products through Amazon`s web site.
• Ford, Microsoft to Sell Cars on the Web - Ford and General Motors want to build cars to order in days, rather than weeks.
• Michael Dell: `The Internet Will Be Your Business` - Michael Dell of Dell Computers recommendation to his customers, "Be like Mike." He said, "the Internet will be your business.
• $1 Trillion Internet Business - Intel president and CEO Craig Barrett said that by 2003 there will a billion computers on the Internet.
• Half of all business on Internet by 2010 - Cisco chief John Chambers said, `Its not unthinkable
• Internet drugstore sales to jump - Online drugstore sales are projected to jump from $11 million in 1998 to almost $1 billion by 2002. Click here for more
• Prediction - 10 Million Online Buyers - Analysts predict a boom season.
• On-Line Office Supply Sales $65 Billion by 2003 - Office supplies aren`t sexy or fashionable, but they’re very basic to every small business,” said Keith Butler, vice president in charge of OfficeDepot.com, the San Francisco-based online arm of Delray Beach, Fla., office supply giant Office Depot.
• Manufacturers Consider Selling Direct via Internet - Just about any manufacturer that sells through middlemen stands to get closer to its customers and improve its profit margins by selling direct.