Billions in spending and a growing marketing pie over the next five years means plenty of business for you--that is--IF your business has an online presence AND IF you have great Search Engine presence.  I know, it's a lot of words you don't understand.  But, it is worth it because...

Check out these stats from btobonline.com:

• Marketer optimism is rising … 42% are increasing spending for the rest of 2009 and 43% are holding steady. Only 15% expect a decrease in sales for the second half of 2009, compared to 37% this time last year.
• 66% of marketers are using social media this year, up from 29% in 2007.
• Interactive marketing spending is on track to double to $55 billion in 2014 (compared to $24.5 billion in 2009) and will be 21% of total marketing spending.
• Search marketing will own the lion's share of marketing budgets ($31.5 billion) followed by web display ads ($16.9 billion).
• Social media spending ($3.1 billion) is expected to surpass email spending ($2.1 billion) by 2014.
• Video accounts for a mere $699 million in ad dollars this year, small potatoes compared to TV ads, but growing at a rate of about 40% per year.