Web Analytics – Does Your Business Strategy Need Adjusting?

December 19, 2008 by Carl Tambeau · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Internet Marketing, Marketing Tools 

In our last post (December 18, 2008) we discussed the importance of web analytics as it relates to your internet business. How to interpret and analyze key data from your business activities is imperative to your continued success.

Traffic is great But what about knowing about your traffic, other than it is getting better (increasing) or getting worse (decreasing). Executive overviews of traffic stats needs to include comparative analysis which will provide solid insights into how well your strategies are working.

How do you know what to adjust in your strategy?

Your answer could be- adjust what?

You may be happy or excited about the strategy you are using and maybe you are enjoying some results. You believe these results are good enough, why change anything?

Here is a story about our friend Bill to help illustrate our point:

A few years ago a friend of mine, his name was Bill, built a website to sell MP3 players for which the first two months he received very little traffic. (under 5 visitors a day)

After the first few months his website began to average 75 visitors per day and then suddenly spiked to 150 per day Read more


Internet Marketing – Can You Be a Product Creator? Part 7 of 7

December 17, 2008 by Carl Tambeau · 1 Comment
Filed under: Internet Marketing, Marketing Tools 

If you’ve spent any amount of time learning about Internet Marketing, you know that eventually you’re going to need your own product. Product creators are at the top of the scale when it comes to income. Affiliate income is nice, but the real paychecks start coming in when you have hundreds to thousands of people directing traffic to your site to buy your offer.

The reason more people aren’t creating their own products has to do with one simple issue: fear. They fear doing something that is outside of their comfort zone. But the people who really succeed online know that they have to push through the fear to make it happen.

One of the most common fears has to do with product promotion. There are tons Read more


Do you really believe in Business Ethics Training for eCommerce?

Part 5 of 7

Discussing Business Ethics Training for eCommerce is basically useless, unless all Internet Marketers are willing to join an association, which is probably not feasible considering what body would be able to oversee this since we are talking about a world wide community.

All marketers are essentially Infopreneurs and each one of you have a responsibility to be Read more