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Why Use Google Analytics?

When it comes to running an online business, it is important that you have visibility into the performance of your site, particularly how your customers interact with your site. Luckily, there is a free tool out there called Google Analytics that will help you do this. Below is the purpose of Google Analytics, as well as some of the key features and capabilities.

Purpose of Google Analytics:

Understand Your Audience

Sell and Convert

Make Business Decisions

Understanding Your Audience:

Know Your Audience

Audience Data and Reporting - This feature allows you to dissect your audience: the kinds of people they are, where they come from, how they find your content, and how loyal and engaged they are.

Advanced Segments - This feature allows you to isolate and analyze subsets of your traffic, like organic traffic or visits that led to transactions.

Filters - This feature allows you to limit and modify the traffic data that appears in any given report view (Ex: You can exclude traffic from certain domains). 

Trace the Customer Path

Traffic Sources - This feature allows you to evaluate the effectiveness of your referring sites, direct traffic, social media platforms, organic (unpaid) search keywords, and custom campaigns.

Map Overlay - This feature allows you to see your visitor stats broken down by continent, country and city, which will help you understand the real origins of your traffic and find the best places to invest for new opportunities.

See What Your Audience Is Doing

Behavior Reporting - This feature allows you to see new vs. returning visitors, how frequent visitors come to your site, how long visitors are staying on your site, etc.

Flow Visualization - This feature lets you see and analyze the path a visitor takes on your site. See where they came from, the pages they moved through, and where they exited your site.

In-Page Analytics - This feature allows to see how users really interact with your pages (Ex: see where are users clicking the most on your homepage).

Sell and Convert

Reach Your Performance Goals

Ecommerce Reporting - This feature allows you too see the performance of your products. Trace transactions right down to specific keywords, understand shopper behaviors, and adjust your shopping cart to build loyalty and improve sales.

Goals - This feature allows you to measure your sales, downloads, email signups, conversions, or define your own business goals.

Reach Peak Capacity

Real-Time Reporting - This feature allows you to see how many people are on your site right now, where they came from, and what they’re viewing.

Alerts and Intelligence Reports - This feature will call attention to any abnormal behavior happening on your site (Ex: A huge spike in traffic coming from a particular city or traffic source).

Site Search - When visitors can’t find what they want on your site, they search. This feature allows you to see what your visitors are really looking for, spot missed opportunities, and speed up time to conversion.

Site-Speed Analysis - This feature shows you load times across your site, so you can fix slow pages and make your visitors happier.

Make Business Decisions

Based on the information in Google Analytics, you will be able to make educated decisions regarding the following:

Product success and determination

How to better target and sell to your customers

Marketing and advertising strategies

Improved website design

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How Mark Cuban Decided He Couldn’t Work for Anyone Else | Inc. Magazine

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Millionaire Tai Lopez Explains How to Get the Life You Always Wanted

The social media star talks formal education vs. self-education, the value of mentors and how to multiply your income.

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Enough said.

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Excerpts from "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" By T. Harv Eker

Money Miracles will occur once you demonstrate to the Universe that you can handle your finances properly.

A couple of the basics:

Open a seperate account and designate it as your Financial Freedom Account. Put 10% of every dollar you receive (after taxes) into this fund.

This money is only to be used for investments and buying creative passive-income streams.

In addition to opening a Financial Freedom bank account, Create a Financial Freedom jar in your home and deposit money into it every day. It could be $10, $5, $1, a single penny, or all your loose change. The amount doesn’t matter, the habit does. The secret again is to place daily “attention” on your objective of becoming financially free. Like attracts like, money attracts more money.

One of the biggest secrets to managing money is balance. On one side, you want to save as much money as possible so you can invest it and make more money. On the other side, you need to put another 10 percent of your income into a “play” account.

Your play account is primarily used to nurture yourself - to do the things you wouldn’t normally do.

The play account rule is that it must be spent every month. That’s right! Each month you have to blow all the money in that account in a way that makes you feel rich.

10 percent into Long-term Savings and Spending.

10 percent into your Education Account.

50 percent into your Neccessities Account.

10 percent into your Give Account.

Again, poor people think it’s all about income; they believe you have to earn a fortune to get rich. Again, that’s male-cow manure! The fact is that if you manage your money following this program, you can become financially free on a relatively small income. If you mismanage your money, you can’t become financially free, even on a huge income…because it’s not about what comes in, it’s about what you do with what comes in.

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Make Your First Website This Summer!

School’s out and suddenly your days are free! You now have time to start your own website, but where will you begin?

Decide what will be on your website: Is it a blog? A business? Why will people come to look at your website? Then you can create your own logo, and decide what it’s going to look like.

Coding: After you’ve decided what you want it to look like, you can start coding. JSFiddle is a great website where you can save and test your code for free, and collaborate with others. Use HTML first to create a basic site then style and animate with CSS.

Host your website: Once you’ve tested your code, and you can’t find any bugs, use GitHub, or another service, to host your website. When you’ve hosted your website anyone in the world can find it on the internet using your web address.

Congratulations, on your first website!

Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.

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“The pain of regret is far worse than the pain of discipline.”  - Nathan Whitley

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the thing that bothers me about the McDonald’s sauce business, as someone who’s worked fast food before, is that corporate completely shat the bed and put the health and safety of their minimum wage workers on the line for the sake of some publicity for their company that is already a household name

let’s be real here, while the behavior of the fans of Rick and Morty is disgusting, the idea that these restaurant chains knew that the supply wouldn’t meet the demand that over a year of hype had caused and then made their employees, who typically aren’t making enough to live day to day, deal with it, without telling anyone, “hey, there’s only about twenty promotional sauces here, you’re going to deal with having to turn a lot of people away”

that wasn’t the advertising campaign, that wasn’t “hey we’re only going to have a very, very, very small limited amount of sauce available,” it wasn’t “hey, you have a chance of winning this sauce by purchasing our product and we’ll fucking mail it to you or something,” it was “hey, fuck it, we’ll make them give it away to about twenty people and then deal with thousands more”

how is that a good business practice? how is that nothing but cruel for your employees? how is that good pr, even? 

where’s the justification for this