February 21, 2008 - Micro-business executives spend a median of 17 hours a week online, according to JupiterResearch.

The same executives watched television a median of 14 hours a week.

Jupiter defined micro-businesses as companies with less than five employees, including sole proprietorships. Such firms comprise the majority of small businesses.

Micro-business executives display unique online behavior compared to other online users and small-business executives, according to Sonal Gandhi of Jupiter.

"Micro-business executives are highly engaged online users and great candidates for behavioral and contextual targeting. They are more likely to respond to this type of targeting than the average online user and are otherwise hard to target online."

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