The Internet influence - 5 interesting facts (Anthony Tjan, Harvard Business Publishing)

Anthony Tjan in his Harvard Business Publishing article (28 Oct 09) entitled ‘Upstarts and Titans’ highlights 5 key facts that he has observed on the Net in the world wide web world:

1. Explosion of websites - (2009 200m) 40,000 times increase since 1994 (spanning 15 years).
2. 2009 1m blogs daily (the term blog first used by Evan Williams founder of blogger.com)
3. Twitter - launched 2006 - in 2009 has over 5b ‘tweets’ - blogs of 140 charatcers of less.
4. Google 2b global internet searches per day, and Facebook 700,000 new members daily.
5. Internet-unique industry-high rate churn of Top 10 players.

What does this say about the importance of business internet marketing? Fundamental to your business strategy? Do you need help from a business strategist or from a internet marketing consultant? What does it say if your business is not leading from the front, and where does a business owners or senior manager go to get good business advice?