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		<title>What Can Web Page Analytics Do For Your Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  In order to have success on the internet, you have to have a steady traffic flow coming to your web site.  It can be difficult determining what the best advertising technique is for your business.  You want to apply whatever technique brings in the most traffic.  This is where web page analytics can be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaredlansky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1587126&amp;post=16&amp;subd=jaredlansky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:#000000;font-family:&quot;">In order to have success on the internet, you have to have a steady traffic flow coming to your web site.  It can be difficult determining what the best advertising technique is for your business.  You want to apply whatever technique brings in the most traffic.  This is where web page analytics can be extremely beneficial for your business.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:#000000;font-family:&quot;">Web page analytics is a tool that will provide you with accurate, detailed and reliable reports instantaneously on your traffic.  It will answer questions pertaining to visitor behavior, site performance, and the retention of customers.  All of this can be useful to help you take care of your customers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:#000000;font-family:&quot;">“Knowing who your visitors are and where they are coming from can help you formulate an effective advertising campaign” Says Jared Lansky formerly of AdBuySell.   With this method, you will be able to obtain page views, who is visiting your site and when, understand entry and exit pages, how long people are staying on your site, what keywords are being used by visitors and much more.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:#000000;font-family:&quot;">You come to the internet to take advantage of the amazing opportunities that are available.  The last thing you want is to run a business without actually understanding your customers and how to reach them.  This is no longer an issue with web page analytics in your life.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:#000000;font-family:&quot;">It can help you stay informed about all visitors that come to your site.  It will also keep track of where your traffic is coming from.  This way you can identify what marketing techniques are working and what techniques are not.  Sometimes trial and error is the best way to find out what is working, but doing an analysis for your web site can help you determine exactly where your traffic is coming from.  </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:#000000;font-family:&quot;">You will find that analytic tools provide you with live traffic statistics so you can get a basis of exactly how many visitors your site is attracting.  If you are generating a heavy traffic flow, you will want to continue the marketing you are doing.  Jared Lansky’ Stresses it’s essential you change your marketing habits if your site is not having the results you had hoped for.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:#000000;font-family:&quot;">There are a number of analytic tools you can find on the internet to choose from.  Anymore, it is extremely easy to download a tool and set up the tracking without needing an expert.  You can be on your way to finding where your traffic is coming from, how long they are staying and what is working best for your business.</span></p>
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		<title>How To Fail With Affiliate Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Nobody goes into affiliate marketing looking to fail.  Unfortunately, a number of people take a crack at this online opportunity and end up failing.  Because of this, wouldn’t it be nice to know how to fail so you can avoid making the same mistakes?   There are a few things that can be costly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaredlansky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1587126&amp;post=14&amp;subd=jaredlansky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;">Nobody goes into affiliate marketing looking to fail.<span>  </span>Unfortunately, a number of people take a crack at this online opportunity and end up failing.<span>  </span>Because of this, wouldn’t it be nice to know how to fail so you can avoid making the same mistakes?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;">There are a few things that can be costly to your affiliate marketing efforts and lead toward failure.<span>  </span>By far the easiest way to fail is to not put in the marketing efforts that are required.<span>  </span>There is no room for you to sit around and promote the program an hour or less a day.<span>  </span>You cannot expect people to come out of nowhere and make you rich.<span>  </span>You have to put forth the effort if you want to see results.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;">In addition to marketing non-stop, you have to be consistent as well.<span>  </span>You cannot market one day for several hours and then take the next day off.<span>  </span>There is nothing wrong with taking a day or two off each week, but you cannot get away with promoting your programs one or two days a week.<span>  </span>Consistency is crucial when you are marketing a business.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;">One thing that many people do not realize is the amount of research that is required to succeed with affiliate marketing.<span>  </span>You have to treat each program you join as if it was your business.<span>  </span>The last thing you want is for a prospect to ask you a question that you cannot answer.<span>  </span>Make sure you know everything there is to know about each program you are involved with.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;">Not only do you want to research and understand everything there is to know about the program while you are involved with it, but also prior to joining it.<span>  </span>Luckily, most affiliate programs are free to join.<span>  </span>But you do not want to waste a month or two on a program that has no hope to begin with.<span>  </span>You can save yourself the time and effort by looking into each program closely first.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;">The last way you can fail with affiliate marketing is by joining too many programs.<span>  </span>Just because you can join as many as you want does not mean you should.<span>  </span>There is nothing wrong with joining three or four programs, but any more than that can be costly.<span>  </span>There is a great deal of marketing and research required to have success with each program and it becomes quite time consuming with more than three or four programs.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;">The last thing you want to do is fail with your affiliate marketing programs.<span>  </span>Take into consideration the tips listed in this article so you can prosper with the different programs you are involved with.</span></p>
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		<title>The Key To A Problem-Free Life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Marion Chamberlain What comes to your mind when you see someone who has a perpetual smile on her face and always looks at things on the bright side? Do you wish you could strangle that person or do you wonder how she accomplishes looking peaceful and without a care in the world. Well, I&#8217;d [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaredlansky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1587126&amp;post=9&amp;subd=jaredlansky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Author</b>: Marion Chamberlain<br />
What comes to your mind when you see someone who has a perpetual smile on her face and always looks at things on the bright side? Do you wish you could strangle that person or do you wonder how she accomplishes looking peaceful and without a care in the world. Well, I&#8217;d hope that once you get past the wanting to strangle the person, you&#8217;d ask yourself what it is that makes that person tick the way she does� I&#8217;d venture to guess that the person leads a problem-free life! Am I saying that this person doesn&#8217;t face challenges and obstacles? Absolutely not! It&#8217;s all about how she perceives these challenges and the thought process she applies. Have I sparked your interest?!</p>
<p>Well, I don&#8217;t want to mislead you either� A problem-free life doesn&#8217;t mean that you won&#8217;t still face problems or challenges. The key to a problem-free life is entirely related to how you deal with the challenges that enter your path. It&#8217;s really all about choices when it comes to handling a problem. Here are some of the steps I recommend to &#8220;tackling problems&#8221; and creating a problem-free life:</p>
<p>1. Decide that you are not your problems.</p>
<p>-Make a decision to not let the situation rent space in your head.</p>
<p>2. Don&#8217;t react, instead respond by:</p>
<p>-Not taking on other people&#8217;s problems. Yes, this includes your family and friends!</p>
<p>-Don&#8217;t be afraid to say No. You can&#8217;t fix everything in the world. Other people need to learn their own lessons. It can be hard to teach your spouse and children initially. Just stick to it!</p>
<p>-Writing out your thoughts about the situation. Has this &#8220;problem&#8221; entered your life before? How have you handled the situation in the past? If you haven&#8217;t, why not?</p>
<p>-Knowing that living in crisis mode has become quite the norm in today&#8217;s world. You might think that your life becomes boring without constantly coming to the rescue. However, believe me on this one &#8211; there are plenty of wonderful things that will take that space�</p>
<p>3. Think about an immediate and long-term solution. Focus on what this situation can bring to your life versus being caught in the moment.</p>
<p>-There could be a wonderful learning lesson in the situation. If you can detach yourself from the momentum the situation has created, the lesson will typically appear.</p>
<p>4. And finally &#8211; remind yourself that you have the skills to deal with any situation! You wouldn&#8217;t be dealt this situation if you couldn&#8217;t handle it!</p>
<p>Remember &#8211; a problem-free life is only a decision away� I hope you make that decision today! I know that you may be reading the above and saying that it all sounds good in theory. However, when the situations arise, you just can&#8217;t follow through. My suggestion to you is that you start with &#8220;small problems&#8221; initially until you get more comfortable with your new approach. It does work!</p>
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		<title>Change Your Life Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Susan Velez Many people want to change their lives but are unwilling to do anything about it. They continue living life the same way they have always lived it. You must realize that if you continue doing what you have always done you will always continue getting the same results you have always gotten. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaredlansky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1587126&amp;post=8&amp;subd=jaredlansky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Author</b>: Susan Velez<br />
Many people want to change their lives but are unwilling to do anything about it. They continue living life the same way they have always lived it. You must realize that if you continue doing what you have always done you will always continue getting the same results you have always gotten. You can change you life today however you must realize that you have to be willing to do whatever it takes to make it a reality.</p>
<p>For instance you must be willing to take full responsibility of where you are. If you are struggling in any area of your life; you have to realize and be willing to admit that you are there because you have put yourself there. People love to blame others for their situation; because it makes them feel like it is not their fault and they do not have to take responsibility. It is kind of like an alcoholic attempting to get help and quit drinking. If you continue to deny that you have a problem then you will never be able to help yourself.</p>
<p>In order for you to change your life today you must begin to develop a more positive attitude. This alone will help you achieve a lot more than what you have already have achieved. Once you develop a positive attitude you will begin to look for all the great things in life that are going wonderful for you. You will begin to overlook the not so great things in your life. Gratitude for everything in your plays an important role in your life whether you will accomplish your goals or not. Without gratitude it is impossible to achieve anything different. If you are not living the life you desire you must learn how to be grateful for everything regardless if it is something you truly desire or not.</p>
<p>Besides being more positive or developing more gratitude in your life; to change your life today you must also begin modeling other successful people who have taken the same road before you and have become successful. If you want to become a successful doctor then you would model what other successful doctors have done to achieve that status. It makes your journey much easier because you will have a path to follow. We all require mentors in our lives because they can help you avoid mistakes that they made and make your journey that much quicker.</p>
<p>Do not get me wrong; I do not want you to think that your success will happen overnight. All successful people have failed in their lives at one time or another. The thing that makes successful unique from people who are not successful is that they do not quit because they have failed at one venture or another. All successful people know what they desire and they know that if they keep persisting towards their goals they will eventually achieve them. You too can change your life today and begin achieving anything you desire; you just have to be willing to do whatever it takes to achieve it.</p>
<p>If you want to change your life today check out the website below it is jam packed with all kinds of personal development programs that will literally change your life.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Alan Tutt This may come as a bold statement for many, yet it is the absolute truth. In almost any situation we find ourselves, we can choose to be happy if we want to. Obviously, this is more difficult to do in some situations than in others. For example, if we are in physical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaredlansky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1587126&amp;post=3&amp;subd=jaredlansky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Author</b>: Alan Tutt</p>
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<p>This may come as a bold statement for many, yet it is the absolute truth. In almost any situation we find ourselves, we can choose to be happy if we want to. Obviously, this is more difficult to do in some situations than in others. For example, if we are in physical pain, it&#8217;s very difficult to focus our minds on happiness. And when we are experiencing something pleasurable, happiness almost comes on it&#8217;s own.</p>
<p>In our modern world, we rarely experience physical pain. Most of the situations we find ourselves unhappy in are simply situations that don&#8217;t meet our expectations. A friend who betrays our trust, a life partner that is dishonest or unfaithful, a boss that is difficult and demanding. These are the types of situations that we can choose to be happy in if we set our mental focus properly.</p>
<p>But how do we find happiness in the midst of these situations? Or, on a more basic level, how do we control our emotions to be what we want them to be? And an even more basic question, why would we want to?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with the most basic question, why would we want to control our emotions and make them be something other than those expected?<span id="more-3"></span></p>
<p>One of the core principles in the Keys To Power system (and many New Thought systems) is that the Power of Spirit is directed by the thoughts and feelings within us to create our experiences. This means that when we&#8217;re thinking and feeling happy thoughts, Power will be directed to create happy experiences. When we think and feel unhappy thoughts, Power is directed to create unhappy experiences. This &#8216;Law of Power&#8217; works just as surely and accurately as any other natural Law, such as gravity.</p>
<p>Most people understand the basic concepts here, so I won&#8217;t go into detail here. If you need more detail, read through some of the ebooks in the Download section of this site. What continually amazes me, however, is the number of people who will agree with the concepts just mentioned, yet will do nothing to implement them into their lives!</p>
<p>But maybe that is because they don&#8217;t really know how. Which gets us to the next question, how do we control our emotions to be what we want them to be?</p>
<p>To get to the answer to that question, we need to understand how the emotions work. Not an easy task, and a full description would take far too much time and space to include here. But in essence, the emotions react to mental stimulus. This means that the combination of our thoughts, beliefs, mental images, and perceptions of the world around us work together to create our emotions.</p>
<p>The sight of a mountain can arouse feelings of pride in one person, and feelings of failure in another. Obviously, the sight of the mountain itself did not create the feelings, or everyone would feel the same way about seeing a mountain. Hearing that the stock market dropped 500 points will make one person feel like the end of the world is at hand, yet make someone else feel that a grand opportunity has arrived. And on a more personal level, finding out that your spouse has engaged in extramarital affairs can be either a blessing or a curse to the relationship, depending on how you look at it.</p>
<p>So, to control our emotions, we need to control the mental stimulus that creates those emotions.</p>
<p>One of the most basic (and most effective) mental stimulus is the judgment that we place on the interpretation of each event. When we judge an event to be bad, our emotional reaction is negative and unhappiness results. If we judge an event to be good, then happiness is much more likely. In many motivational programs, you will find the instruction to label all experiences as good, and then to search for the goodness in the experience. If you lose your job, claim &#8220;this is good&#8221; and then go about looking for the good in losing your job. It&#8217;s usually the opportunity to find a better means of employment.</p>
<p>In other situations, the goodness of the situation is harder to find. For example, someone lies to you and causes you to lose your trust in them. What good is there in that? Maybe it&#8217;s an indication that your trust is misplaced and you need to focus elsewhere for truth. Maybe it&#8217;s an indication that you&#8217;ve allowed an experience to be created (from previous usages of Power) that you don&#8217;t like. In this case, it&#8217;s an indication that you need to refocus your mind to create what you do want, and not what you don&#8217;t want.</p>
<p>And this is the central message here. Your thoughts and feelings are directing Power to create your life experiences. Think about the possibility of dishonesty, or allow yourself to feel that dishonesty is a possibility, and you sow the seeds for a dishonest experience.</p>
<p>I know what you&#8217;re probably thinking &#8211; &#8220;People lie and cheat all the time. How can I possibly NOT think or feel that dishonesty is a possibility? It&#8217;s more than a possibility, it&#8217;s real!&#8221; This is where the principles of the Keys To Power get the most difficult to implement in real life. All I can say is that if you can convince yourself that you will never experience dishonesty, then you won&#8217;t. I&#8217;m not saying that it&#8217;s easy to do, I&#8217;m just relaying the principles.</p>
<p>Now let&#8217;s get to our first question, how can we find happiness in the midst of unhappy experiences?</p>
<p>Whatever the situation, we need to focus our mind on happy things. Maybe we start to think about other situations other than the one we are currently in. Think about a time when you were tremendously happy. Relive the experience in your mind. Pretend that you are having the same experience right now. Or maybe it&#8217;s better to think about how you would like the current situation to end. Imagine that the situation is completely transformed and becomes what you want it to become. Or maybe you only need to focus on the concept that everything will be okay, whether you know how it will end or not.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a story that I like to remember from time to time. There was once a farmer living on a plot of land with his family. This farmer had 2 horses to help him farm his land. And if he worked with those 2 horses from sun up to sun down, he barely made enough to support his family. One day, one of the horses ran away. The farmer&#8217;s neighbor, once he found out about it, said &#8220;That&#8217;s terrible. Now you won&#8217;t have what you need to support your family. You&#8217;ll surely starve to death.&#8221; The farmer replied &#8220;Maybe, maybe not.&#8221;</p>
<p>The next day, the horse that ran away came back, and brought 2 other horses with it. The farmer&#8217;s neighbor happened to be there, and exclaimed jubilantly &#8220;This is wonderful! Now you&#8217;ll be able to earn much more, and you and your family will live in luxury!&#8221; Again, the farmer&#8217;s response was &#8220;Maybe, maybe not.&#8221;</p>
<p>A few days later, one of the farmer&#8217;s sons tried to tame one of the wild horses. The horse threw the young boy. When the boy fell, one of his legs was broken. Again the farmer&#8217;s neighbor said &#8220;That&#8217;s terrible!&#8221; and again the farmer replied &#8220;Maybe, maybe not.&#8221;</p>
<p>About a week later, the local militia came around recruiting all available young men. Because the farmer&#8217;s son&#8217;s leg was broken, they passed by without taking him. Again the farmer&#8217;s neighbor said &#8220;That&#8217;s great!&#8221; and again the farmer replied &#8220;Maybe, maybe not.&#8221;</p>
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