Do You Need To Know How To Write a Business Plan? Part 2 of 4

February 24, 2009 by Carl Tambeau · 1 Comment
Filed under: Online Coaching, Relationship Marketing 

There’s the million dollar question, maybe you do need to know How to Write A Business Plan and maybe it really doesn’t matter – only you can answer that question. Here’s the thing, no matter, how you feel about the very subject, it doesn’t really matter what “you” think BUT what does matter, is what “your readers” think.

If they enjoy the content you are posting and if the knowledge you share is working for them, then yes you will have followers. BUT if things aren’t being kept up to date, your content doesn’t make sense, you aren’t in it for the right reason, your business plan is not being worked, then followers “will” go elsewhere – bottom line.

How do you know if things are progressing as you would like:

  • You need to go back to your original plan
  • see what your projections were
  • what your intentions were
  • where did you expect to be at this point in time
  • Wait a minute – You do have a business plan? Right?

    • NO PLAN – so how did you record your revenue projections, your intentions, where you want to be by now. You Say – “I never thought of that”. or – “My plan was to work my butt off and see where things end up” – Great Strategy – NOT!

    Come on people, you now know what makes you tick because we already covered that in the previous reports. You need to know what you will do with all of your interest and passions as well as all the research you did on your niche. By now you should know:

  • who your target market is
  • what they are buying in your niche
  • demographically where they are.

    • Ok, so you Read more


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    Web Site Analytics – Are You Getting Visitors From Prisons?

    December 20, 2008 by Carl Tambeau · 1 Comment
    Filed under: eCommerce, Internet Marketing, Marketing Tools, Web Site Analytics 

    Web Site analytics is widely used by business to business as well as business to consumer online merchants. This data is used to examine a multitude of markets and track customers accurately.

    Tracking visitors accurately is very important for most websites – as an advertiser you should use web analytics to get customer conversion rates, page views, length of time visiting the site and other related data.

    Usually, web analytics software tracks visitor behavior by putting in a piece of tracking code on every page of the site. The tracking code transmits info to the analytics application utilizing a miniature gif image or a compressed JavaScript code. To identify returning visitors, tracking ID stored in a cookie is used.

    A key point of analytics is understanding the multiple channels sending traffic to your website. Google,Yahoo,MSN and Ask are the primary sources for direct traffic for 90% of the websites. There still remains a collection of data that reports data coming from natural references on various other sites. As an example these could be referrals from well-established social networks, link building efforts, and/or affiliates who send traffic. Read more


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