Steve Lingelbach,
Owner/Publisher/Instructor/Pro

Carissa Biggs,
Owner/Editor/Pro

 

On The Wire, Inc. is dedicated to promoting Billiard Sports. Our site is designed to be of interest to both the those in the trade and the everyday player. Both the On The Wire newspaper and On The Wire Billiards website strive to provide:

  • A positive, promotional view of billiards
  • Special features every month
  • Instructional columns by the sport's top pros and instructors
  • Coverage of sponsored tournaments (with sponsor credits) and tournament calendars
  • Special features on the sport's celebrities - pros, historic stars, legends, promoters and industry leaders
  • Monthly news
  • Currently we are rated as one of the top 50 billiard sites on the web today
 

On The Wire, Inc. moved to its new home on the web January 1, 2000. Since that time, the number of visitors to our site grows by 50% per month. In June of 2000 we had 61,532 visitors to our site.  Where do all our hits come from?

An impressive 29.35% come from directly logging onto our site or by searching specifically for "On The Wire, Inc.." These visitors are attracted by our outside advertising activities and word-of-mouth.

59.8% are referred to our site from general searches on major search engines. Our search engine referrals include: Alta Vista, AOL, Yahoo, Magellan, Google, Lycos, Netscape, Infospace, Nerdworld and MSN.

The remainder come from links we have on other billiard sites including: MyStartingPoint, ZineZone, Women Billiards Online Magazine and the Billiards Search Engine.

The future of On The Wire, Inc.As we increase our viewer ship by various activities, we will also increase our sponsorships' exposure to potential new customers.


DEMOGRAPHICS

On The Wire, Inc. has an impressive audience. 6,000 visitors responded to our survey with the following results:

  • 89% are male, 11% are female
  • 94% play weekly, 6% play monthly
  • 32% have participated in a tournament in the last 12 months
  • 67% plan to participate in a tournament in the next 12 months
  • 17% have taken lessons in the past 12 months
  • 51% would like to take lessons in the next 12 months
  • 96% plan new equipment purchases, from tables to cues, instructional materials to accessories
  • 76% play 8-ball
  • 54% play 9-ball
  • 12% play straight pool
  • 31% are aged 18-35
  • 29% are aged 36-49
  • 39% are age 50 or over
  • 24% have household incomes over $50,000 per year.
  • 32% have household incomes over $75,000 per year.
  • 9% have household incomes over $100,000 per year.

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