MLM: Do most people fail at MLM? August 17, 2009
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I couldn’t agree more with everything this guy said. Now ask yourself, if you’re bad at something, and you quit it, do you really actually fail? And have you really put enough effort, so you could suceed?
Why it is important to track your stats August 17, 2009
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This is what a lot of marketers should know. Tracking your stats is really important. When I’ve started marketing on the internet, I was just absorbing all the information I could find. I’ve found tons of stuff, tons of pdf’s, that told me what to do. But unfortunately, I’ve red so much stuff, so much articles, watched so many webinars about video marketing, social networking, email marketing, magnetic sponsoring, search engine optimization and so on, that there were so much stuff in my head, that I just couldn’t think of WHAT TO DO FIRST. And I was sitting in my pc, from day to day, absorbing information and doing NOTHING. Well, after few days, with my head nearly exploding of data in my head, I’ve started trying a little bit of this, and a little bit of that… I’ve got few pageviews after that. I was like “Wooohooo! I’ve done something right!” and then I’ve started doing MORE what I was doing, (a little bit of this, a little bit of that, you know). But results weren’t as far as good as I expected… I was thinking “What am I doing wrong?”. Then I’ve heard about stats tracking. Of course I’ve tried it, shortly after that I’ve realised that I wasn’t doing ANYTHING wrong. ANYTHING. The catch was, that I tried doing something that WAS effective, and something that WASN’T effective – all at the same time, instead of doing something that WAS effective all along.
Let me explain by example, imagine yourself carrying water from a river two miles away from your home, with two different buckets: one is small, and another is big. First part of a day you carry with small bucket, you harvest water like crazy, flying from river to home and from home to river in no time, let’s say you carry half of tank first half of the day. In second half of the day, you carry water with big bucket. BIG BUCKET AS HELL. You go to the river, fill bucket with water and then you carry it home. Unfortunately, bastard is so heavy that you could hardly drag it along the ground. Anyways, you finally end up with big bucket in your house, fill the tank with it, and tank still needs three or four buckets like that to be full. But oh, it is nearly a night and you’re exhausted as hell! That means, if you were carying water with small bucket ALL DAY LONG, the tank would be full and you wouldn’t be as tired.
That what exactly happened to me, I was focusing on lot of things, putting same effort in all of them, but only small part were actually WORKING for me. But I didn’t knew that at first, of course. That’s why you have to track your stats! If you’ll find something, that really works and is better then the rest of the methods, FOCUS ON IT. Most of the succesful marketers don’t do all at the same time, they find what they’re good at, and they stick to it. That’s it! One more key to success!
“So, how do I track my stats?”
I use google analytics. This is 100% FREE tool provided by google. Just visit www.google.com/analytics . It shows you how many people hit your website, how they found your website, which referal links they’ve pressed, how much time they spend on your website, how much people leave your website without even doing anything in it. You have to have your own google account. It’s not very noob friendly, so I suggest you googling something like “Video how to set up google analytics”
So, I’m pretty much done here, thanks for reading, let me see what you think in comments! Bye!
