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10 Tips for Selling Information LegallyDo you sell (or market) information? You probably do, or at least could do. Anyone from a lawyer, accountant, web developer, trainer or marketing consultant can sell information.Some people sell this information face to face (or even give it away), some sell it in books, some via CDs and many more on-line and an increasing amount of people sell information via an e-book (effectively a book you can download from a website). In this article we concentrate on selling information in the form of an e-book but all the issues are the same whatever format you sell your information in.There are all the normal legal issues that apply and more. We can’t cover them all in an article and often detailed advice is needed but these are our Top Ten Tips to keep out of Court and in the info-selling business:1. Check your business insurance covers selling an e-book or even just giving information on your website, many exclude items such as “things not usual in your business”. Some even explicitly exclude websites.2. Try to limit your liability. You can do this by using careful and well drawn up conditions in a contract. is no different. Your online business can be a multi-million, or multi-billion dollar business, just like UPS, but you have to treat it that way, and you have to know how to improve your numbers. The only way you will know how to improve your numbers, is if you know what your numbers are today. So track your traffic. Your tracking program should give you lots of useful information, like: what keywords people are searching for
what page of your site is the most popular
how long people spend on your site
what page they are most likely to leave from
when and what search engines are visiting your site etc. Knowing all of this information then enables you to ask two very important questions:
Why are things this way? and
How can I improve this? Then you can try experimenting with some new ideas for the pages that have good traffic. Some of the new pages you build will do well, and some won’t. Take what works, change what doesn’t, and then re-evaluate. Then apply the things you did that worked to other pages or future web sites. Through this process, your site(s) will get continually better. So there you have it, three ways to stop asking "Now What?," and to move forward and make your web site a happy little place on the Internet that people like to frequent. As I close out this article, I want to remind you of one very important thing someone reminded me of recently. You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going. Within this article, I’ve given you many specific suggestions for ways to improve what you’re doing with your site. This might lead you to think that you have to get it all right. You d Organisational Change That LastsThe Problem:
Over the last few months we have published articles with business
process improvement ideas from lean, six-sigma and the theory of
constraints. Many leading organisations have used them to transform their organisations. Yet many more have tried them and failed to obtain the exponential improvements promised. For all the popularity of various improvement initiatives and management fads that have come and gone, the truth is that in majority of the cases the changes made just do not last. Where lies the differencebetween both types of organisation?
Seeing one initiative after another start out with loud bombast and end in a fizzle leads to disenchantment and loss of faith in
management and its motives. It is therefore important to pinpoint
the reasons for the failure of change initiatives and learn to
avoid them.Lack of Strong and Visible Support from the Top:
This is probably the most common cause of failure of many
improvement initiatives. The importance attached by the leadership of the organisation, as deciphered from their behaviours will determine the degree of momentum that can be g Many people venture into Internet affiliate marketing a bit nervous about what they’re doing, but they are very excited about the possibilities before them. This was the case with my girlfriend. She started a site about one of her favorite topics: books! Naturally, when a person thinks of books, they think of Amazon.com, and after a bit of prodding from me, (she’d probably tell you after A LOT of prodding from me,) she really got down to the business of creating her site using images and links from Amazon. She put a great site together, complete with reviews, links to, and recommendations about all of her favorite books. She created a lot of unique content for visitors, and used FrontPage to put the site together. (As a side note for beginners, FrontPage is the kind of program that, if you sit down with it for a while, and you know Microsoft Office programs, you really can figure out how it works. This is especially true because of all the tutorials you can read online about how to make the program do the things you want to do. So, back to the story.) My girlfriend then signed up for the Amazon.com affiliate program, (Amazon actually calls it an ‘associate program’), and began creating individual product links to resell the books she’d reviewed. Six months later, she’d not spent a lot of time with her site, but was getting about 10-15 visitors/day from Google and other search engines, and eventually, she made her first affiliate sale! This was awesome, and resulted in about $10 in commissions to her. She made her first $10 of passive income! Today, it’s 6 months later, she recently renewed her site for another year, and it’s left her wondering; Okay, I’ve made some income from my site, so what now? There are many people who find themselves in this position today. They’ve made some money on a web site from affiliate programs, or from their own products, but they don’t know what direction to go in next. The next direction to go, is to take your site a bit more seriously. This doesn’t mean that you can’t have fun working on your site, or that you have to increase the amount of time you spend working on it every day. What it does mean is that you have got to inspect what you expect. If you don’t know how people are ending up on your site, what they’re doing while they’re there, and what causes them to leave your site, then you can expect to continue wondering “Now what?” as you go through the process of building your site. However, if you inspect and know what your traffic is doing, and how it comes to your site, then you can change your site to more effectively meet the needs of the people who visit your pages. When you give your visitors what they’re looking for, they’re more likely to purchase, which means an increase in commissions and income to you. So here are three simple things to review, and some tips for increasing your traffic, your sales, and ultimately, your income. #1 Review Your Site It’s time to step up your web design, copywriting, and sales skills a bit. Check out your web site, and have some friends check out your site. Have everyone try to take an objective view, as a new visitor would, to viewing your site. Web Design Does every page of your site have a , <description>, and <keywords> tag?</p><p>Is the site easily navigate-able?</p><p>Can visitors see where they’re at on the site, and see how to get where they want to go? Remember, when someone comes from a search engine, they can come to any page of your site, so you want them to be able to get exactly where they want to go in as few clicks as possible.</p><p>Is the color scheme okay for visitors?</p><p>Are you providing legitimate content, or are you trying to “trick” the search engines into brining you traffic? (I’ll give you a hint on this one - If you want long-term success, focus on providing excellent content long-term.)</p><p>Copywriting and sales</p><p>Are you asking for visitors to buy something in a way that’s annoying or pushy?</p><p>Are you making a recommendation and letting visitors decide for themselves?</p><p>Are you just putting a link on the site hoping that eventually, someone will click and purchase?</p><p>Does the site offer incentives or encouragement for visitors to purchase whatever it is on that page?</p><p>By knowing the answers to these questions, and reviewing your site for a lot of the little issues with sales and web design, you really can improve the experience for your user, and improve the numbers of visitors who actually become customers.</p><p>#2 Review Your Affiliate Programs</p><p>Are there other relevant programs you can add?</p><p>Are the programs you originally signed up for paying you the same as you can get elsewhere?</p><p>I recently found out that the author of a book I was selling through Amazon.com’s associate program had his own affiliate program set up to resell his books. I immediately switched, so that I was reselling the book through him, when I found out he would pay me a much higher percentage than Amazon. Now, don’t get me wrong. I like the Amazon affiliate program a lot. However, by switching directly to selling the book through the author, I can sell the same product and make double the money.</p><p>As long as the information is presented in an accurate and ethical way, and the product being sold is the same, I will change affiliate programs in a heartbeat, if the income makes it worthwhile. You should consider the same for every affiliate product you sell, because the difference between 10% and 15% can add up in a hurry, even on small ticket items.</p><p>#3 Review your traffic</p><p>If you, up to this point as an official web site owner, haven’t been tracking your traffic, then you have to start! You have to start now! I mean it!</p><p>If you’re not tracking the traffic that comes to your site with a good statistical method, then stop reading this article right now, go set up a tracking method on your site, and come back to this article when you get statistics set up on your site!</p><p>Statistics are the ONLY way you will know what is working and what isn’t. Let me give you an example of why you must have statistics available to you.</p><p>UPS is today a multi-billion dollar company. UPS knows how many employees are in a given area, how many boxes can be loaded on a truck, how long it takes to load the truck, how long it takes for the driver to drive the truck, and how long it takes to get everything delivered. This is all statistical information that they have available to them.</p><p>Now let’s just say that UPS’s goal for next year is to improve what they do by 25%. They want to ship 25% more packages, offer 25% more employee benefits, and increase sales by 25%.</p><p>The numbers suddenly become very important.</p><p>Your online business is no different. Your online business can be a multi-million, or multi-billion dollar business, just like UPS, but you have to treat it that way, and you have to know how to improve your numbers. The only way you will know how to improve your numbers, is if you know what your numbers are today.</p><p>So track your traffic. Your tracking program should give you lots of useful information, like:</p><p>what keywords people are searching for <Br>
what page of your site is the most popular <Br>
how long people spend on your site <Br>
what page they are most likely to leave from <Br>
when and what search engines are visiting your site</p><p>etc.</p><p>Knowing all of this information then enables you to ask two very important questions:<Br>
Why are things this way? and <Br>
How can I improve this?</p><p>Then you can try experimenting with some new ideas for the pages that have good traffic. Some of the new pages you build will do well, and some won’t. Take what works, change what doesn’t, and then re-evaluate. Then apply the things you did that worked to other pages or future web sites. Through this process, your site(s) will get continually better.</p><p>So there you have it, three ways to stop asking "Now What?," and to move forward and make your web site a happy little place on the Internet that people like to frequent.</p><p>As I close out this article, I want to remind you of one very important thing someone reminded me of recently.</p><p>You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.</p><p>Within this article, I’ve given you many specific suggestions for ways to improve what you’re doing with your site. This might lead you to think that you have to get it all right. You do<div style="float:left;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/46226/advice--Accounts-Payable-Help---10-Tips-for-New-Businesses-and-Entrepreneurs.html"> Accounts Payable Help - 10 Tips for New Businesses and Entrepreneurs</a><br>New small businesses and entrepreneurs quickly discover that the accounts payable process can turn into a monster. If it isn’t handled properly, unpaid bills pile up and get paid late, making vendors angry and possibly damaging the business’ credit rating.Once a consistent procedure is developed, the accounts payable process can go smoothly. If you are in business by yourself and cannot afford to hire outside help, here are ten tips to help establish a consistent accounts payable process:1. Purchase accounting software with an accounts payable module. In today’s business and computer world, some may wonder why this even needs to be a suggestion in a list such as this. Surprisingly, Internet research indicates that up to one-half of micro businesses (defined as under ten employees) do not use accounting software, instead using spreadsheets or even paper ledgers.The advantages of using accounting software with an accounts payable module are tremendous and far outweigh the cost and learning curve. When used correctly and consistently, the software will serve several important functions: a remin</div>de some income from my site, so what now?</p><p>There are many people who find themselves in this position today. They’ve made some money on a web site from affiliate programs, or from their own products, but they don’t know what direction to go in next.</p><p>The next direction to go, is to take your site a bit more seriously. This doesn’t mean that you can’t have fun working on your site, or that you have to increase the amount of time you spend working on it every day.</p><p>What it does mean is that you have got to inspect what you expect. If you don’t know how people are ending up on your site, what they’re doing while they’re there, and what causes them to leave your site, then you can expect to continue wondering “Now what?” as you go through the process of building your site. However, if you inspect and know what your traffic is doing, and how it comes to your site, then you can change your site to more effectively meet the needs of the people who visit your pages. When you give your visitors what they’re looking for, they’re more likely to purchase, which means an increase in commissions and income to you.</p><p>So here are three simple things to review, and some tips for increasing your traffic, your sales, and ultimately, your income.</p><p>#1 Review Your Site</p><p>It’s time to step up your web design, copywriting, and sales skills a bit.</p><p>Check out your web site, and have some friends check out your site. Have everyone try to take an objective view, as a new visitor would, to viewing your site.</p><p>Web Design</p><p>Does every page of your site have a <title>, <description>, and <keywords> tag?</p><p>Is the site easily navigate-able?</p><p>Can visitors see where they’re at on the site, and see how to get where they want to go? Remember, when someone comes from a search engine, they can come to any page of your site, so you want them to be able to get exactly where they want to go in as few clicks as possible.</p><p>Is the color scheme okay for visitors?</p><p>Are you providing legitimate content, or are you trying to “trick” the search engines into brining you traffic? (I’ll give you a hint on this one - If you want long-term success, focus on providing excellent content long-term.)</p><p>Copywriting and sales</p><p>Are you asking for visitors to buy something in a way that’s annoying or pushy?</p><p>Are you making a recommendation and letting visitors decide for themselves?</p><p>Are you just putting a link on the site hoping that eventually, someone will click and purchase?</p><p>Does the site offer incentives or encouragement for visitors to purchase whatever it is on that page?</p><p>By knowing the answers to these questions, and reviewing your site for a lot of the little issues with sales and web design, you really can improve the experience for your user, and improve the numbers of visitors who actually become customers.</p><p>#2 Review Your Affiliate Programs</p><p>Are there other relevant programs you can add?</p><p>Are the programs you originally signed up for paying you the same as you can get elsewhere?</p><p>I recently found out that the author of a book I was selling through Amazon.com’s associate program had his own affiliate program set up to resell his books. I immediately switched, so that I was reselling the book through him, when I found out he would pay me a much higher percentage than Amazon. Now, don’t get me wrong. I like the Amazon affiliate program a lot. However, by switching directly to selling the book through the author, I can sell the same product and make double the money.</p><p>As long as the information is presented in an accurate and ethical way, and the product being sold is the same, I will change affiliate programs in a heartbeat, if the income makes it worthwhile. You should consider the same for every affiliate product you sell, because the difference between 10% and 15% can add up in a hurry, even on small ticket items.</p><p>#3 Review your traffic</p><p>If you, up to this point as an official web site owner, haven’t been tracking your traffic, then you have to start! You have to start now! I mean it!</p><p>If you’re not tracking the traffic that comes to your site with a good statistical method, then stop reading this article right now, go set up a tracking method on your site, and come back to this article when you get statistics set up on your site!</p><p>Statistics are the ONLY way you will know what is working and what isn’t. Let me give you an example of why you must have statistics available to you.</p><p>UPS is today a multi-billion dollar company. UPS knows how many employees are in a given area, how many boxes can be loaded on a truck, how long it takes to load the truck, how long it takes for the driver to drive the truck, and how long it takes to get everything delivered. This is all statistical information that they have available to them.</p><p>Now let’s just say that UPS’s goal for next year is to improve what they do by 25%. They want to ship 25% more packages, offer 25% more employee benefits, and increase sales by 25%.</p><p>The numbers suddenly become very important.</p><p>Your online business is no different. Your online business can be a multi-million, or multi-billion dollar business, just like UPS, but you have to treat it that way, and you have to know how to improve your numbers. The only way you will know how to improve your numbers, is if you know what your numbers are today.</p><p>So track your traffic. Your tracking program should give you lots of useful information, like:</p><p>what keywords people are searching for <Br>
what page of your site is the most popular <Br>
how long people spend on your site <Br>
what page they are most likely to leave from <Br>
when and what search engines are visiting your site</p><p>etc.</p><p>Knowing all of this information then enables you to ask two very important questions:<Br>
Why are things this way? and <Br>
How can I improve this?</p><p>Then you can try experimenting with some new ideas for the pages that have good traffic. Some of the new pages you build will do well, and some won’t. Take what works, change what doesn’t, and then re-evaluate. Then apply the things you did that worked to other pages or future web sites. Through this process, your site(s) will get continually better.</p><p>So there you have it, three ways to stop asking "Now What?," and to move forward and make your web site a happy little place on the Internet that people like to frequent.</p><p>As I close out this article, I want to remind you of one very important thing someone reminded me of recently.</p><p>You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.</p><p>Within this article, I’ve given you many specific suggestions for ways to improve what you’re doing with your site. This might lead you to think that you have to get it all right. You d<div style="float:right;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/24373/advice--10-Ways-To-Maintain-Profits-In-A-Slow-Economy.html"> 10 Ways To Maintain Profits In A Slow Economy</a><br>1. Sell more back end products to your existing customer base. You already created rapport, trust and proved your credibility to them.2. Make it a practice to up sell to new and existing customers. After they decide to buy one product, offer them another product.3. Cross promote your products and services with other businesses that aren't competition. You will reach a wider audience at less cost.4. Create joint venture deals with other businesses. You can expand your product line and target other profitable markets at a lower cost.5. Start an affiliate program for your business. You will be able to spend less profits on risk advertising and spend more money on guaranteed sales.6. Trade advertising with other businesses to save revenue. You could trade e-zine ads, banners ads, links, print ads, etc.7. Out source part of your workload. This can save on employee costs, equipment costs, taxation costs, expansion costs, etc.8. Add low cost bonuses to your offer that have a high perceived value. It could be ebooks, members only sites, consulting, e-reports, etc.9. Use viral marketing to </div> the site, and see how to get where they want to go? Remember, when someone comes from a search engine, they can come to any page of your site, so you want them to be able to get exactly where they want to go in as few clicks as possible.</p><p>Is the color scheme okay for visitors?</p><p>Are you providing legitimate content, or are you trying to “trick” the search engines into brining you traffic? (I’ll give you a hint on this one - If you want long-term success, focus on providing excellent content long-term.)</p><p>Copywriting and sales</p><p>Are you asking for visitors to buy something in a way that’s annoying or pushy?</p><p>Are you making a recommendation and letting visitors decide for themselves?</p><p>Are you just putting a link on the site hoping that eventually, someone will click and purchase?</p><p>Does the site offer incentives or encouragement for visitors to purchase whatever it is on that page?</p><p>By knowing the answers to these questions, and reviewing your site for a lot of the little issues with sales and web design, you really can improve the experience for your user, and improve the numbers of visitors who actually become customers.</p><p>#2 Review Your Affiliate Programs</p><p>Are there other relevant programs you can add?</p><p>Are the programs you originally signed up for paying you the same as you can get elsewhere?</p><p>I recently found out that the author of a book I was selling through Amazon.com’s associate program had his own affiliate program set up to resell his books. I immediately switched, so that I was reselling the book through him, when I found out he would pay me a much higher percentage than Amazon. Now, don’t get me wrong. I like the Amazon affiliate program a lot. However, by switching directly to selling the book through the author, I can sell the same product and make double the money.</p><p>As long as the information is presented in an accurate and ethical way, and the product being sold is the same, I will change affiliate programs in a heartbeat, if the income makes it worthwhile. You should consider the same for every affiliate product you sell, because the difference between 10% and 15% can add up in a hurry, even on small ticket items.</p><p>#3 Review your traffic</p><p>If you, up to this point as an official web site owner, haven’t been tracking your traffic, then you have to start! You have to start now! I mean it!</p><p>If you’re not tracking the traffic that comes to your site with a good statistical method, then stop reading this article right now, go set up a tracking method on your site, and come back to this article when you get statistics set up on your site!</p><p>Statistics are the ONLY way you will know what is working and what isn’t. Let me give you an example of why you must have statistics available to you.</p><p>UPS is today a multi-billion dollar company. UPS knows how many employees are in a given area, how many boxes can be loaded on a truck, how long it takes to load the truck, how long it takes for the driver to drive the truck, and how long it takes to get everything delivered. This is all statistical information that they have available to them.</p><p>Now let’s just say that UPS’s goal for next year is to improve what they do by 25%. They want to ship 25% more packages, offer 25% more employee benefits, and increase sales by 25%.</p><p>The numbers suddenly become very important.</p><p>Your online business is no different. Your online business can be a multi-million, or multi-billion dollar business, just like UPS, but you have to treat it that way, and you have to know how to improve your numbers. The only way you will know how to improve your numbers, is if you know what your numbers are today.</p><p>So track your traffic. Your tracking program should give you lots of useful information, like:</p><p>what keywords people are searching for <Br>
what page of your site is the most popular <Br>
how long people spend on your site <Br>
what page they are most likely to leave from <Br>
when and what search engines are visiting your site</p><p>etc.</p><p>Knowing all of this information then enables you to ask two very important questions:<Br>
Why are things this way? and <Br>
How can I improve this?</p><p>Then you can try experimenting with some new ideas for the pages that have good traffic. Some of the new pages you build will do well, and some won’t. Take what works, change what doesn’t, and then re-evaluate. Then apply the things you did that worked to other pages or future web sites. Through this process, your site(s) will get continually better.</p><p>So there you have it, three ways to stop asking "Now What?," and to move forward and make your web site a happy little place on the Internet that people like to frequent.</p><p>As I close out this article, I want to remind you of one very important thing someone reminded me of recently.</p><p>You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.</p><p>Within this article, I’ve given you many specific suggestions for ways to improve what you’re doing with your site. This might lead you to think that you have to get it all right. You d<div style="float:left;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/50496/advice--Internet-Pitfalls-And-Pinnacles-III.html"> Internet Pitfalls And Pinnacles III</a><br>Many internet marketing techniques are somewhat akin to throwing a dollar bill out on the street with your phone number written on it. The person who finds the money may come in and spend it at your store if you leave it right outside the door, or they may notice the phone number written on the bill and call to see whose number was written on the money. Either way, the link to getting your dollar back and adding more cash to it is pretty slim. Most people will see the dollar, put it in their pocket, and continue on with whatever it was they were thinking about before they found the currency.There are lots of reasons to think that people will be interested in what you have to offer on your web site if you can only find ways to get them to stop by for a look. Unfortunately, when it comes to random site traffic, there are many more people looking for ways to sell something, or get something for free than there are people who are seriously searching for ways to purchase products and services by scanning through a sea of information. Internet business can be very tricky. One might spend a lot of money trying to build traffic, on</div> program a lot. However, by switching directly to selling the book through the author, I can sell the same product and make double the money.</p><p>As long as the information is presented in an accurate and ethical way, and the product being sold is the same, I will change affiliate programs in a heartbeat, if the income makes it worthwhile. You should consider the same for every affiliate product you sell, because the difference between 10% and 15% can add up in a hurry, even on small ticket items.</p><p>#3 Review your traffic</p><p>If you, up to this point as an official web site owner, haven’t been tracking your traffic, then you have to start! You have to start now! I mean it!</p><p>If you’re not tracking the traffic that comes to your site with a good statistical method, then stop reading this article right now, go set up a tracking method on your site, and come back to this article when you get statistics set up on your site!</p><p>Statistics are the ONLY way you will know what is working and what isn’t. Let me give you an example of why you must have statistics available to you.</p><p>UPS is today a multi-billion dollar company. UPS knows how many employees are in a given area, how many boxes can be loaded on a truck, how long it takes to load the truck, how long it takes for the driver to drive the truck, and how long it takes to get everything delivered. This is all statistical information that they have available to them.</p><p>Now let’s just say that UPS’s goal for next year is to improve what they do by 25%. They want to ship 25% more packages, offer 25% more employee benefits, and increase sales by 25%.</p><p>The numbers suddenly become very important.</p><p>Your online business is no different. Your online business can be a multi-million, or multi-billion dollar business, just like UPS, but you have to treat it that way, and you have to know how to improve your numbers. The only way you will know how to improve your numbers, is if you know what your numbers are today.</p><p>So track your traffic. Your tracking program should give you lots of useful information, like:</p><p>what keywords people are searching for <Br>
what page of your site is the most popular <Br>
how long people spend on your site <Br>
what page they are most likely to leave from <Br>
when and what search engines are visiting your site</p><p>etc.</p><p>Knowing all of this information then enables you to ask two very important questions:<Br>
Why are things this way? and <Br>
How can I improve this?</p><p>Then you can try experimenting with some new ideas for the pages that have good traffic. Some of the new pages you build will do well, and some won’t. Take what works, change what doesn’t, and then re-evaluate. Then apply the things you did that worked to other pages or future web sites. Through this process, your site(s) will get continually better.</p><p>So there you have it, three ways to stop asking "Now What?," and to move forward and make your web site a happy little place on the Internet that people like to frequent.</p><p>As I close out this article, I want to remind you of one very important thing someone reminded me of recently.</p><p>You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.</p><p>Within this article, I’ve given you many specific suggestions for ways to improve what you’re doing with your site. This might lead you to think that you have to get it all right. You d<div style="float:left;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/14040/advice--10-Tips-for-Selling-Information-Legally.html"> Change Management at the Highest Levels; The HP Shake-up</a><br>What happens when a board of director of a company with half a million employees starts leaking company secrets and strategy to the press? Well, in the case of HP, they decided to oust the CEO, when the board of director was caught thru looking at his phone records. The board of director who gave out the information costs the shareholders millions of dollars in shareholders equity due to negative press.The CEO has amongst here job the duty to protect shareholders value. And yet the CEO, Mrs. Dunn, was ousted from the company, rather than dealing with the criminal activity of the spy on the board of directors leaking information. Is that not the most insane thing you have ever heard? This is what happens when corporations turn to liberal thinking and political correctness.Unfortunately the CEO was a woman and Mrs. Dunn in resigning without a fight, does not do well for other up and coming women in corporate America and this may even have implications for Hillary Clintons run for the White House too.Why didn’t Mrs. Dunn stick to her guns, as she was protecting the company from fraud, deceit and spies on the board of d</div>is no different. Your online business can be a multi-million, or multi-billion dollar business, just like UPS, but you have to treat it that way, and you have to know how to improve your numbers. The only way you will know how to improve your numbers, is if you know what your numbers are today.</p><p>So track your traffic. Your tracking program should give you lots of useful information, like:</p><p>what keywords people are searching for <Br>
what page of your site is the most popular <Br>
how long people spend on your site <Br>
what page they are most likely to leave from <Br>
when and what search engines are visiting your site</p><p>etc.</p><p>Knowing all of this information then enables you to ask two very important questions:<Br>
Why are things this way? and <Br>
How can I improve this?</p><p>Then you can try experimenting with some new ideas for the pages that have good traffic. Some of the new pages you build will do well, and some won’t. Take what works, change what doesn’t, and then re-evaluate. Then apply the things you did that worked to other pages or future web sites. Through this process, your site(s) will get continually better.</p><p>So there you have it, three ways to stop asking "Now What?," and to move forward and make your web site a happy little place on the Internet that people like to frequent.</p><p>As I close out this article, I want to remind you of one very important thing someone reminded me of recently.</p><p>You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.</p><p>Within this article, I’ve given you many specific suggestions for ways to improve what you’re doing with your site. This might lead you to think that you have to get it all right. You don’t have to get it 'right', you just have to get it going. So what if you learn about something you should have done differently? If you never did it in the first place, you would never know how to improve it. So remember, you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going.</p><p>Commit to becoming better through the process, and let the process of action teach you what you can do better. The principle of trying it until it works, and committing to learning along the way, will lead to Internet affiliate marketing success, and ultimately success for you in your life.
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