I'm having a hard time determining from Google Analytics what the source of my first sale was.  I see all of the traffic data and it is easy to get different statistics there, but when I go to the ecommerce stats, I'm not seeing that.  I can check which keywords brought traffic and also the referring sites, but the actual sales don't seem to be tied to them. Anyone know what stats to check to see the source of my sales? By the way, the second order in two days came in....not a bad star

Well, my first success came via my new ecommerce store, but indirectly it may have been through some article marketing.  I will have to wait until tomorrow to check Google Analytics to see the source of the sale. I plan on continuing to write articles to drive traffic to the site and may eventually try a few paid ads through adwords or adcenter. It is nice to finally post some good news that has a monetary value attached to it. See you soon...

Article Marketing - Working but Not Working  Apparently I am good at writing articles, but bad at writing the resource area...figures.   All of my live articles received Expert Status.  Here are my Ezine stats: Live Articles: 8 Article Views: 124 Profile Views: 14 Articles Published: 4 URL Clicks: 2 Click Rate: 1.6% Not very good stats in the clicks category.  So it doesn't take a genius to figure out that there is a disconnect somewhere.  Either my resource boxes r

Baby Steps  If there is one thing I am learning about building a money-making blog it is that you have to be patient.  It takes some time to compile a good collection of useful information.  It also takes time to build a good list of subscribers.  I added about 20 in the month of June, but the cost of my Adwords campaign was killing me.  That is why I am settling in and just trying to submit at least one article a day to ezine. Ecommerce Site Going Live I am excited abou

Done With Adwords I am done with Google Adwords for the time being.  I just don't have the skills yet to make it lucrative.  I spent about $50 in advertising costs and made $0...not a good conversion ratio.  I think it is time to go gangbusters on free marketing methods. Article Marketing - My Forte It seems that article marketing is going to be my forte.  My first two articles to Ezine were accepted and Expert status was given.  I