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80-20 rules applied to online revenue

The 80-20 rule as applied to online revenue:

  1. 80% of revenue come from 20% of your sites
  2. 80% of revenue come from 20% of revenue sources
  3. 80% of time were spent on 20% of activities
  4. 20% of pages receives 80% of traffic
  5. 80% of revenue seeker gave up before making 20% of their investment
  6. 80% of online marketers are only making 20% of what they can potentially make
  7. 20% of online marketers are making money off 80% of “willing spender”
  8. 80% of websites you see daily are trying some way to make money online.

How are any of these to you?

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Tracking and Analyzing your revenue

If you are earning income online, do you track your revenue and income? How do you do it?

If you have multiple sites and have use a number of revenue sources, do you know exactly which sites are doing well and what programs are contributing to your revenue?

Site Revenue PerformanceI was trying to answer those same questions as well and did a Site Revenue Performance spreadsheet.

It is published and shared on Google Spreadsheets (I’m starting to discover the usfulness of online office applications). Just go to the spreadsheet, click on “Edit this page” to edit it and save it to your account. (You need a Google account.)

Let me know if you find it useful and how it can be improved.

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Too Many Programs too Little Time

time and money

You wanted to start making money online, earn some side revenue online. What do you do?

You did some re-search and found a few programs (often promoted by some self-proclaimed famous marketer). You decided to hold on buying and so signed up for their free information.

Very soon you had signed up for a handful newsletter and you started to receive recommendation almost daily. You sign up for more programs, affiliates, income sources and received more recommendation newsletters.

Now you have an inbox choked full of newsletters you have no time to read.

Sounded familiar?

You are not alone. I had just tagged and archived hundreds of such email and this got me thinking. I doubt I will ever read me, but hey, GMail says archive, don’t delete.

The real challenge of earning revenue online is not that there are no opportunities. It is too many opportunities!

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