AIT Opens the Door to 7-Billion Dollar Industry.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2003 According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Internet.com, 50% of holiday shoppers will spend online, -- a 15 percent increase over 2002. And, each of those shoppers will spend an average of $710. Online sales have doubled every year since 1997, and through AIT (http://ait.com), businesses both large and small have tapped into this growing market: -- A civil engineer working part-time from his home in Glendale, California topped $30,000 in sales. -- A southeastern boat dealer has seen sales grow by 30% annually. -- A Georgia tourist resort books rooms year-round. All three use AIT's turnkey e-commerce hosting package which takes minutes to install and includes an Internet presence, shopping cart, and secure payment gateway and merchant account. "The e-commerce hosting plan is the perfect fit for both the Internet-based entrepreneur and the traditional merchant who wants to augment his brick and mortar See bricks and mortar. storefront," said Kirk deViere, AIT's Senior Vice President, "It is ideal for businesses that serve niche markets A niche market also known as a target market is a focused, targetable portion (subset) of a market sector. By definition, then, a business that focuses on a niche market is addressing a need for a product or service that is not being addressed by mainstream providers. , giving them a global, 24-hour presence without the overhead." Though e-commerce is a multi-billion dollar economic force, the typical business owner doesn't even have a web site. Of the estimated 5 and a half million small businesses in the U.S., barely half have a web presence, and of those, half again have sites that allow customers to make purchases. "We've worked to make this product as seamless as possible so any business can take advantage of the power of the network economy," said deViere. "Of course, we also provide toll-free, 24/7 live support in case a customer has an issue or question." The cornerstone of AIT's e-commerce hosting plan is the proprietary shopping cart, Mcart, meaning customers do not have to rely on 3rd-party vendors or contend with unresponsive unresponsive Neurology adjective Referring to a total lack of response to neurologic stimuli technical support. The package includes plenty of disk space and bandwidth to support virtual 'foot traffic'. Merchants have the ability to access sales data from any browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used , anywhere, anytime; transactions are automatically settled every day; and, there are no software upgrades to pay for. About AIT Founded in 1996 in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , AIT, Inc. has been recognized among the fastest growing technology companies in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , and is listed on both the Inc 500 and Deloitte & Touche Fast 500. AIT provides web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and e-commerce services to more than 190,000 domains in 107 countries. |
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