Google Analytics is free, which is great when you are just starting out online, and it is fairly easy to install.

Even if you don’t own the website directly - say, for example you are writing lenses on Squidoo, or Hubs on HubPages, or a blog on Blogger.com - many of these platforms support Google Analytics and encourage their users to track visitors using Google Analytics.

Without exception, the people who attain great success in a short period of time are not doing what they do with the goal of achieving great success in a short period of time. If you make success your goal, you have already failed.

As long as we yearn to be loved and given everything we want or need without having to earn it, we will be susceptible to the lure of the promises in sales letters.

We don’t care what we have to do, as long as the result is quick and easy. And we don’t care how much it costs, if we’re going to earn it back almost immediately anyway. As long as we have the asking price - or we can put it on credit - we’re in.

A couple of days later, we noticed a rush a traffic to our website - to the Internet Basics page. This was a brand new domain name, just registered, and we hadn’t done anything to promote the site, but suddenly a flood of over a thousand visitors hit our site in a single day!

As a business owner, you live and die by your profitability. You can work incredibly hard in your own business and still lose money. If you don’t know which activities are making you money and which ones for costing more than they bring in, then you have no way to improve your business performance.

I know people who were apparent overnight successes in making money online, real estate investing, multi-level marketing, and traditional business. In every case, without exception, those people had done their “success apprenticeship” in another vehicle - often more than one other vehicle - before falling into the one that worked for them just as they were psychologically ready for huge success. If you have not yet done your apprenticeship anywhere, then there will be no overnight success for you.

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Each week I’ll be posting about a variety of topics that we all need to know as we start our journey making an income on the internet. Being a bit of a propeller head my posts mostly focus on the technical aspects [...]

Since developing our own online businesses, I have come to realise that there is something decidedly smelly about the way the internet marketing industry works. It is completely possible to make money online - we do - but it is not at all like the image that it is portrayed in all those sales letters and sales pitches from stage.