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In one of my previous post i mentioned about using Google Analytics to track your website visitors, which i suggest you do.

In this post i would share about the advantages of Google Analytics.

1. First of all, it’s free. Don’t be fooled by the fact that it’s free, it is one of the best full featured tool that you can find on the web to track your entire online business.

2. It tracks your website visitors from start to finish, including the adwords campaign, email campaign and various advertising campaign that you are running, in ONE tool.

3. It offers over 80 reports!

4. It helps to convert better, improved the Return of Investment and make more money!

5. Simple installation process.

6. Plenty of online tutorial and helps.

7. It can also tracks Non-Adwords campaign, including banner ads, referral links, email campaigns, and organic and paid search.

So here you have the advantages of Google Analytics.

Until next time,

Thomas

Recommended Resources on Google Analytics

Google Analytics part 1, 2 and 3.

Analytics, PPC, Search Engine, Tools

In early Mar 08, i talked about using facebook in your networking and since then…my network has balloon to over 250+ buddies and i make a lot of new friends, including those big names! And i have many connections from there.

Check it out here!

Man, you simply couldn’t under-estimate the power of the social media network.

To talk more about that, i started to explore into another web2.0 tool that many people are using, that’s Twitter! Have you been twittering??

Add me here!

In fact i just started playing with them yesterday and i have already got 2 people following me. I really like the idea of social media stuff where you can connect with almost anybody on the planet earth as long as they are on the internet.

I see that social media or web2.0 is the way business should move forward, even for a small business like home-based internet business.

Every business is really about connection, and connection would not happen overnight! You need time to build it.

So do something today, and connect with people in your market and you will never know who you will came across.

Talk soon,

Thomas

PS: Do you believe that i connected with Steve Job from Apple?

Networking, Social Networking, The Next Thing, Tools, social media, web2.0

Have you heard of Tracking202 beta?

I believe a lot of people would love this tool! Before i go any further, beware that this a third party tool, so they have every right to access to the information that you have with them and probably the niche that you are in too…since the main purpose of the tool will be tracking the keyword / campaign conversion and profitability.

The creator Wes Mahler is a PPC expert and he knows his stuff! So, if you need some PPC tracking tools, give this a try. You can find tons of videos, blog posts and there’s a forum as well.

Tracking is definitely the key to winning the PPC game, if you don’t track what you are doing, It’s very difficult to stay in this game.

So, do implement a tracking plan that suits your need. While i personally do track my campaign a lot (as in daily) and i would say that i don’t track down to keyword level at this moment. Unless the keyword is generating a lot of view for me.

That’s all.

Thomas

Affiliate Marketing, PPC, Tools

Have you been using any Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising for your marketing? like Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and etc..

While PPC can be very effective and drive immediate targeted traffic to your website with just a few clicks, but have you wonder if you are paying too much for your keywords in order for your ads to on the top few positions? That’s very common for those keywords in internet marketing nowadays.

Well, I have found an alternative to that. Check it out!

It is a high quality traffic exchange network that works very much like Adwords and Adsense.

Check it out.

Thomas

Affiliate Marketing, Make Money Online, PPC, Tools, Traffic Exchange

I stumbled upon this really cool service called “Odiogo” that can instantly turn your existing blog posts into Audio / Podcast with just a click of a button. You will notice that there is a little button on top of each of my posts, you can click that “Odiogo” button to listen to my posts. It is especially useful if your post is super long and this service would give your user an additional choice of going through your post.

Oh, other than turning your readers into listeners, you are also offering your listeners to subscribe your posts through iTunes or Juice, that would give you additional traffic.

All these for free!

Thomas 

Podcasting, Tools

On of Russell Brunson’s viral marketing weapon is Linkbrander - A free affiliate link cloaker. It is basically an affiliate link cloaker with “additional marketing” machines built in behind the scenes. The main targeting audience of this viral tool is definitely affiliate marketers which has many long URLs, and there are thousands and thousands of affiliate marketers on the marketplace which needs link cloaking service to prevent commission theft.

I would say that link cloaker is definitely important when it comes to affiliate marketing, you may just get your commission stolen if you didn’t cloak your affiliate link. While Russell turns a free link cloaker into a powerful viral software to generate tons of cash, which thousands of affiliate marketers would use. Of course there’s catch here, you get to see an optional one-time-offer after registering for your free link cloaker.

Here’s how it works, you take an affiliate link and turn into an Linkbrander’s shorten url. But that’s not all, Linkbrander actually built in an advertising mechanism just on top of your targeted affiliate product page. When your visitor visit the affliate product page from this shorten URL, they will see a tiny ads on top of the webpage, at the same time you earn advertising credit for that and your ads get show up somewhere else too. The powerful thing here is, the system allows you to build into 5 level down of your own network and you get to earn advertising credit from their efforts too, and hence you can get free advertising to potential thousands of people in Russell’s network, without lifting your fingers. My honest opinion is I don’t quite like this idea since it may just divert your visitor to somewhere else and never come back, that’s opportunity lost in possible sales, right? On the other hand, you can see the viral effect of the system, it just spread like crazy!

But anyone just can’t resist the power behind this system that I personally is testing this system as well to see how well it works. Whether it is effective, targeted and etc.

To check out more of this.

Go here..Your Free Link Cloaker.

 Thomas

Affiliate Marketing, Tools, Viral Marketing

Well I came across this online file sharing website which is impressive and i decided to try it out and share with you guys. You may or may not heard of this, but i find it pretty useful for internet marketers and bloggers for the purpose of file sharing, you may want to try it out. I have signup to try the features and you can find it on my right sidebar. Try to open or download my free ebook there! It’s pretty cool!

But Why Box.net? While you can find tons of other similar services out there.

1. After comparing several similar online storage, Box.net seems to be the simplest version and user friendly. It is established and they have almost 1 million users now, you definitely do not want some cheap company and lose your important files. They won’t have so many users unless they are really good!

2. If you are looking for an inexpensive way to store your important files, you can definitely consider Box.net. Tips: Important files as in “important to you” but you have to consider the confidentiality of the files, you definitely do not want to store your banking details there, so judge for yourself.

3. No software to install, many others will required you to install some little software, which i find irritating.

4. You can share large files anywhere on the planet, as long as there is internet connection. It will be great for people who do a lots on videos, music, software or practically anything you like..

You can see how this music blog use it, it’s so cool!

5. And there is even Box.net widgets out there for you to use on Wordpress blogs. It only works on widget enabled sidebar, which i think it is quite common now with Wordpress blogs.

Wow..It is an amazing tool to have! Let’s try it out…I am currently using it to share some of the good ebooks. Take a look. Give me your comments.

If you’ve just done a good video interview and can’t share it on YouTube or Google video because of file size or any other reasons or don’t have much space to spare on your web host either, you might want to try out Box.net.

Enjoy!

Thomas

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