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This information either appeared in the newsletter, website or book quoted below the information.
Many of the sources below are good references. I don't agree to and I am not responsible for all the content from all these sources. All quotations are in italic print.

Small Business failure rates
World Economic Statistics including Britain and the USA
Australian Economic Statistics

People equate press releases with getting coverage in the press. Well, it doesn't work that way anymore. There are thousands of press releases issued each day - the average journalist for a weekly publication receives over 300 press releases from which they have to choose three to five to cover. The chances of securing coverage from the release alone is very small.

Web Site Journal - Vol. 2, No. 18  Wed, 5 May 1999 17:33:33 http://www.WebSiteJournal.com

If advertising on the Internet is free, why is it that 94% of all online business are currently losing money? If you are one of the few actually making money on the Internet...  congratulations.

Expert Tips and Tricks for promoting your business online
http://www.marketingtips.com

The statistics quoted in  Episode one of Taking Care of Business are failure after the first year - 32%, after three years - 62% and after ten years 92%.

These statistics came from Small Business Australia in Melbourne The program was produced in 1997.
ABC TV programme http://www.abc.net.au

Sources indicate that for every 1000 inventors, only one succeeds to market their invention in order to barely earn a living.
http://www.advantagein.com/conspiracy and
Practical guide to inventing  Bill allardyce  -  1991

A recent government study showed that even the best of the small dairy farms has less than $10,000 a year clear profit.

Landline http://www.abc.net.au/landline/stories/s150630.htm - Reporter: Andrew Madden -First Published: 16/07/00.  No known transcript.

Tuesday 30 March, 1999 (2:36pm AEST)

The level of rural debt in Queensland has reached almost $5.3 billion. The 1998 figure represents an increase of almost 10 per cent over the last 12 months.........
Of the almost 20,000 farm businesses in Queensland, the level of debt equates to an average of about $257,000 for each rural borrower.

ABC News http://www.abc.net.au

DID YOU KNOW? The US Social Security Board reports that 85 out of 100 Americans reaching  age 65 don't possess as much as $250. And only 2% are self-sustaining (the rest dependent on family, church, or the government)! Want to know what the 2-percenters know that you don't?
http://www.sixfigureincome.com/?70164
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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 18:15:18 -0400

I hear this kind of story all the time.  Someone "knows" they have a winning promotion, but they just can't get enough leads.

You may even be thinking the same thing right now.  You have an awesome product, but it seems hard to get traffic to your site and to get really qualified prospects.

Well, I can tell you where you messed up at.  Over 97% of marketers have made the exact same mistake you did...and it is killing their businesses.  They focused on the product before finding the prospect.

Web Gold Electronic Newsletter
http://www.bizpromo.com
Vol. 2, #12, March 19, 1999

If we remove all of the Internet Hype you hear every day and reveal to you the cold hard facts about success online, can you handle it?

I talk to hundreds of people every week by email and I keep finding a common thread.  The ones who are the most successful entrepreneurs are the ones who failed the most times but refused to quit.

As a matter of fact, I have yet to meet anyone who has told me every ad they placed worked and that every time they tried something it made money.  With as many people as I deal with, you would expect that I would have met that individual by now.  It hasn't happened yet. .......

The problem is that banner advertising can often be the most difficult form of advertising to create a successful campaign in. The average click-through rate on banner ads is 1/2 a percent... which means you get one click through for every 200 impressions.

Web Gold Electronic Newsletter
http://www.bizpromo.com
Vol. 2, #11, March 12, 1999

The reason that most people don't get traffic is that they "Try" something, and then they give up.  The key to any marketing is testing and then improving.  If a method doesn't work for you on your first try, second try, or even your twelfth try, it doesn't matter.  Keep going anyway.

Web Gold Electronic Newsletter
http://www.bizpromo.com
Vol. 2, #15, April 9, 1999

If you are like 99% of internet marketers I know, I will venture to bet that you have a web site & product and that your biggest problem is building the traffic to your site. I will also bet you aren't making very many sales! ..........

Everybody online appears to have a product. How many of them have an audience?
It is kind of funny...I always have people emailing me that they have an awesome product they
want to sell to the world. They just can't get anyone to visit their site.  ...........

Since the rest of the pack seems to be slowly moving away into oblivion (Over 95% of internet
sites are losing money), shouldn't you make a change of direction?

at http://www.bizpromo.com/InfoMall/Free/upsidedown.htm

Up Side Down Marketing!
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:08:46 -0900
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http://www.bizpromo.com

It's been estimated that over 82% of all new businesses fail within the first 3 years! And the remaining businesses that are "making it" are only breaking even. If that isn't bad enough, only 3-4% of new businesses actually make a sizeable profit after 5 years! Why?

Our Weekly WebTools2000 FREE E-zine
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Article written by http://cashflowmarketing.com

What I am saying is to spend the $900-$1200 a year it takes to stay online but, do not spend thousands of dollars on advertising that you understand little about in the hopes of reaping huge rewards.

Banners are a complete waste of money with an average click through rate of 0.5-1.5%. The quick math: 10.000 banners equals 50-150 clicks or individual customers to your web site. The cost will run anywhere from $1.50 to 8.00 a hit. If you are spending more than $0.50 a hit to bring customers to your site off of any promotion it is too much.

GIM - Global Internet Marketing News #44
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:14:05 +0100

Editor <newsgim@linz1.net>

Take any 100 men or women at the start of their working careers and follow them
for 40 years until they reach retirement age, and here's what you'll find, according
to the Social Security Administration:

       only one will be wealthy;
       four will be financially secure;
       five will continue working
       (not because they want to, but because they have to);
       36 will be dead; and
       54 will be dead broke - dependent on their meager Social Security checks,
       relatives, friends, even charity for a minimum standard of living.

That's 5% successful, 95% unsuccessful.
If you would like to be in that 5% success group,  Click Here!
http://www.theambergroup.com/facts.html

Although small businesses employ one-half of the country's work force and create two out of every three new jobs, the Small Business Administration reports that 80 percent of all new businesses fail within the first five years

Was at http://www.mrtc.org/overview.html

Ninety to 95 percent of farmers use operating loans to cover at least part of their expenses at the start of a growing season. And, the percentage is expected to grow this year as farm incomes continue to dip lower on account of commodity prices depressed by over supply and weak overseas demand.

"There's a tremendous amount of pessimism," said Robert Craven, a professor of applied economics who concentrates on agriculture and banking.

Was at http://dilbert.daily.umn.edu/daily/1998/11/18/news/bfarm/index.html

Only 10-12% of Australian small businesses survive the first ten years in business. (By the way, this is one of the few definitive conclusions on this issue. Most others are drawn from purely statistical sources that don’t accurately reflect reality.)

http://www.profitclinic.com/SmallBiz/ResInfo/DntGo/90pcFail.html

The bad news is that statistics show the overall rate for small business failures is very high. In fact, there is about a 75 percent failure rate over a five-year period from business commencement.

http://www.tcp.ca/1996/9611/9611SOHO/Success/Success.html

The ILO (International Labour Organisation) has just published a report estimating the level of global unemployument - understood to mean the position of not having enough work for subsistence - in January 1994 at about 30 percent. That, it says accuratelyy, is a crisis worse than in the 1930's. It is , moreover, just one part of  a general worldwide human rights catastrophe. UNESCO estimates that about 500,000 children die every year from debt repayment alone....

Page 189 "What Will We Tell Our Children?" Jeremy Lee - 1997

Approximately 1/3 of the worlds population go to bed hungry.
In rich countries, real unemployment is about 20%

http://www.advantagein.com/conspiracy
Landline  25/7/99  http://www.abc.net.au/landline  No known transcript

....the domination of the top 200 multinationals:...
....their doubling of combined revenues in just over one decade: from $3 trillion in 1982 to $5.9 trillion in 1992.....

Page 187"What Will We Tell Our Children?" Jeremy Lee - 1997

* The combined sales of the world's top 200 corporateions exceed a quarter of the world's economic activity, growing from 24.2% of the world's Gross Domestic Product in 1982 to 28.3% in 1995.
* Of the largest 100 economies in the world, 51are corporations and only 49 are countries.

Page 222 "What Will We Tell Our Children?" Jeremy Lee - 1997

One-third of the world's trade is simply transactions between various parts of the same multinational corporations.

Page 223"What Will We Tell Our Children?" Jeremy Lee - 1997

The United Nations Human Development Report for 1996 pointed out that the total wealth of the world's 358 billionaires equals the combined incomes of the poorest 45 percent of the world's population - 2.3 billion people.

Page 188"What Will We Tell Our Children?" Jeremy Lee - 1997

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:
59% of the entire world¢s wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 one would own a computer

Source: P.M. Harter, MD, FACEP, Stanford University, School of Medicine

The number of people with incomes of less than a dollar a day rose by almost 100 million between 1987 and 1993. By [the year 2000] more than half the people in sub-Saharan Africa will not have enough to live on, and the global economic crisis means that over one billion people will suffer a fall in their already-meagre living standards.

The most industrialized countries have 147 of the world's 225 richest people (Asia has 43 and South America 22). Globally, the gap between rich and poor is increasing all the time - the three richest people in the world have assets that exceed the combined Gross Domestic Product of the 48 least-developed countries. And yet the cost of eradicating poverty has been estimated at a mere one per cent of global income. That's about $80 billion. In 1995 the world spent $800 billion - ten times that amount - on the military alone.

Source: New Internationalist, March 1999. *Poverty: challenging the myths* by Nikki van der Gaag.

The richest countries, such as the United States, have 20 percent of the world’s people but 86 percent of its income, 91 percent of its Internet users, 82 percent of its exports and 74 percent of its telephone lines.  The 20 percent living in the poorest countries, such as Ethiopia and Laos, have about 1 percent of each.

The 200 richest people in the world more than doubled their net worth between 1994 and 1998.  But in nearly half the world’s countries, per capita incomes are lower than they were 10 or 20 years ago.  Some of these are oil-producing nations hit by the long slump in oil prices, but many are in sub-Saharan Africa, where per capita income has fallen to $518 from $661 in 1980.
In 1960, the richest fifth of the world’s people had 30 times as much income as the poorest fifth.  By 1997, that proportion had more than doubled, to 47-1.

Source:  Chicago Tribune, July 12, 1999.  *A ¡grotesque¢ gap* by R.C. Longworth.

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Source: The New York Times, June 24, 1996.  20% of World’s People Live on Dollar a Day.

*In 1993, Michael Jordan alone was paid more money than the 30,000 Indonesian women combined to make his Nike shoes.

Source: (Dr. Kris Heggenhougen, Medical Anthropologist, Harvard Medical School, at the 8th International Congress of the World Federation of Public Health Associations, Arusha, Tanzania, October 12-17, 1997.)

....The survey also found nearly two-thirds of visited households had been disconnected by phone, gas or electricity companies...
Up to 2 million British children are suffering ill health and stunted growth because of malnutrition, according to a report to be published this week. Poverty on a scale not seen since the 1930s is blamed for the return of rickets, anaemia and tuberculosis...

Page 192 "What Will We Tell Our Children?" Jeremy Lee - 1997     http://www.jeremylee.com.au/books.htm

The U.S. has the worst record on poverty in the industrialised world - a poverty level which is twice as high as England, which has the second worst record in the industrial world. Tens of millioins of people are hungry every night, including millions of children whio are suffering from Third World levels of disease and malnutrition. In New York City, the richest city in the world, 40 percent of children live below the poverty line, meaning essentially below subsistence level, deprived of minimal conditions that offer some hope for escape from misery and destitution and violence......

Page 189 "What Will We Tell Our Children?" Jeremy Lee - 1999        http://www.jeremylee.com.au/books.htm

If you compare the level of all household debt with the total annual disposable income of Australian households, you find that in the decade to 1993 it rose from 40 percent to 60 percent. And in the five years since then, it's shot up to more than 80 percent. ....

Page 7 "How Bright The Vision?" Jeremy Lee - 1999       http://www.jeremylee.com.au/books.htm

...On an income measure, the proportion of units in broadly defined poverty increased by one-third to a total of 30.4 per cent in 1996, compared with 20.6 per cent in 1973...

Page 2 "How Bright The Vision?" Jeremy Lee - 1999

Rising numbers of low income earners are being turned away from welfare orrganisations as the community sector struggles to cope with increased levels of poverty....

Page 2 "How Bright The Vision?" Jeremy Lee - 1999

Since 1993 the share of the nations's wealth held by the richest 10 per cent has increased by almost five percentage points, from 43.5 per cent to more than 48 per cent....
.....In the mid-1980s there were about 25000 millionaires in Australia. By 1993 there were 71,700 of them according to Access Economics. In the five years since, the number rose by more than 60 per cent, to 188,200 people. Their share of total wealth almost doubled to 21.5 percent, rising from $136 billion to $377 billion between 1993 and 1998....

Page 3 "How Bright The Vision?" Jeremy Lee - 1999

At the time this was written Australia had approximately 18.5 million people.

...The number of payers is dropping (many knocked over by government itself), while the number of recipients is rising.We currently have about 7.5 million taxpayers, and over 6 million who receive government welfare payments...

Page 209 "What Will We Tell Our Children?" Jeremy Lee - 1997

* About 700,000 children live in homes where nobody has an income-producing job.
* 30,000 children are homeless.
* About 280,000 Australians are on waiting lists for homes. But once in them find it difficult to meet mortgage payments. 67,000 people moved out of home ownership back to renting in 1995-96.
* Two-thirds of Australians OWE more than they OWN...

Page 211 "What Will We Tell Our Children?" Jeremy Lee - 1997

A net foreign debt equal to 42 percent of GDP , compared with a figure of only 13 percent a decade ago.

Page 176 "What Will We Tell Our Children?" Jeremy Lee - 1997

An ACOSS analysis of the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows there are now 7.0 unemployed people for every job vacancy. The situation has worsened over the past three months. ... In Queensland, for example, there were 16 unemployed people for every job vacancy in February. ... Penalties should be reduced, people should no longer be required to search for ten jobs per fortnight (when the jobs aren't there), and the Government should guarantee intensive employment assistance for all long term unemployed people."
http://www.acoss.org.au/media/2001/mr0427.htm  27 April 2001

National survey shows many welfare agencies forced to cut help
"Two-thirds (67%) reported an increase in the number of people accessing their services. Given that 80% of agencies were already operating at maximum capacity, they have been forced to develop alternative strategies to cope with the demand: 48% were either unable to meet the demand or have had to cut back on service ...
http://www.acoss.org.au/media/2000/mr001010.htm  10 October 2000

Sky-rocketing social security fines plunge 220,000 into hardship
New research by the Australian Council of Social Service has found that hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged Australians are being heavily fined for infringing complex social security rules — even though their ‘offences’ are often trivial, understandable, or unintentional. ... "Our case studies include that of an Aboriginal man living in far west NSW who was fined $1,304 because he mistakenly thought his solicitor was faxing Centrelink the necessary paperwork to show he had a legitimate reason for not attending his Work for the Dole program."
http://www.acoss.org.au/media/2000/mr000323.htm  23 March 2000

Research conducted by the National Welfare Rights Network and ACOSS using data obtained by a Freedom of Information request, has found an astonishing 250% increase in the number of penalties imposed for infringements of social security rules in the past three years. In the last financial year, over 300,000 "breaches" were imposed on almost 200,000 people. ...
"We estimate that at least $170 million was taken from the pockets of the poorest Australians in 1999-2000."
"These high fines are out of all proportion to the seriousness of the "offence" — a penalty of between $280 and $340 is imposed for failing to reply to a letter, while failing to attend an interview costs a person between $650 and $1300."
"The most common penalty imposed on unemployed Australians for a rule infringement was $763 – this is higher than the average fine imposed by NSW courts for a "break and enter" offence ($706)." ... missed an interview because he was at a funeral — not a good enough reason according to the Centrelink Officer."
http://www.acoss.org.au/media/2000/mr001109.htm  9 November 2000

A recent study by Yates and Wulff (1999) shows that nationwide, a decade ago, there was twice as much low-cost housing available as people on low incomes needed. Now, there is a shortfall of around 150,000 dwellings.
http://www.acoss.org.au/info/2000/info203.htm  7 March 2000

Tax figures show growing gap between rich and poor
http://www.acoss.org.au/info/2000/info202.htm  21 January 2000