Lately I have been working away (as usual). I took a little time of the web work though, to risk my life three stories up in the air on a ladder to wash windows for my step dads company. The things I will do for money…..wow! But thats is now over with and I can continue my journey online.

1) The first thing I have been focusing on lately is upping the conversion ratio on LeeWai media. You see I have been tracking the site with analytics and I am proud to say, it gets a consistent number of hits per day. So what seems to be the problem you ask? Well the problem happens to be that no one is actually buying once they get to my site.I put a lot of time into the first design, but I will admit I was pretty worried about how I wanted it to look. That my friends is completely wrong. I have came to the conclusion that it simply doesn’t matter what you (or I in my case) think, because you are not going to be buying from yourself ever. So now I am in the process of making the site convert better. I don’t really care how it looks, but I have been doing my research and have came up with a pretty good blueprint that I am sure will work better (or at least thats my hopes). I also need to continue marketing the site so I will be the first link in Google when someone searches my term. It has been said that around sixty percent of traffic stops at the first site or link in a search engine, I don’t know if thats completely true but it definitely seems plausible.

2) The second objective I have been working on is starting on my entrepreneurial side. I have been researching niches that have little competition in Google, but at the same time have a nice traffic flow and a good profit margin. It is very difficult to find a good niche but it can be done if executed correctly. I also found a great tool that allows me to test out these niches almost free of charge (sorry trade secret). Once they have been live long enough and I have done a sufficient amount of marketing I will pick my best candidate according to my analytics. I know that more than half of these niches will fail miserably but thats all part of the job, haha.

3) The last thing I have been working towards is marketing or networking myself. I have to get my name out there, because its WHO you know, not WHAT you know, at least thats what I’m told. My buddy Jon has gotten me into going to an internet marketing meet-up that takes place in Rexberg Idaho every Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. I have actually started blogging about what goes on, please check it out and if you would like to join please contact me and I will let you know all the details. Anyways, I have been obtaining as many Twitter and Facebook friends as I can possibly get my hands on. One of my business partners actually has my account hooked up to some program that gets you tons of twitter followers so I don’t really have to do much work, its great! I have also learned a few tricks about how to work your way into great business relationships with important people you meet on these social networking sites. Spamming is not the way to go, rather than that try presenting yourself as an individual that is wiling to help or assist in some way. That makes creating a tight nit relationship easier on you. Then you simply imply your business slowly and try to push your services or products. Take that info. and run with it (if you want)!!

Google Analytics is one of the new software programs that I am using now. Its a great tool for anyone who is looking to go into an online business. Basically what it does is tracks the traffic for your sites. You can upload as many sites to it as you want and it will give you a piece of code to insert into the html code of your site and it does all the rest. It shows you the stats in a dot graph format that is very easy to read and understand. One of my favorite features is where it tells you which pages are being viewed and for what length of time. This will allow you to tweak poor traffic pages to keep up with the higher traffic ones. It also has a pie graph that shows you where your traffic is coming from such as Google or any other site you have a link on. It even goes as far as to show you which continents you are getting views from with a map overlay! All of these things plus much more such as goal setting and bounce rates make this a superb program for anyone who is looking to track their work in detail which is why I use it. Best of all its FREE! Be easy!

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

-Walter Bagehot

Some Goals to Meet:

1) Research new nitche ideas

2) Download a shopping cart plugin

3) Search for a few good marketing tips

4) Continue to Network