Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are emerging as significant Inter users and like their larger counterparts increasingly adopting e-commerce. This research suggests that SMEs in different industry sectors may adopt different strategies for e-commerce and have different needs for training and support. It also explores the possibility that the Internet may not be an unmitigated blessing. It can pose both a threat and an opportunity for SME business strategies, Survey results in the eastern England region of the UK show that despite recent setbacks to the dot-com sector, SMEs are placing e- commerce at the centre of their technology and corporate strategies and plan to use the Internet as means for achieving transformational change.