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The internet business is causing me all kinds of anxiety. I have received more than 3000 unique visitors to both www.taxhavencompany.com and www.cosmetics-hair.com but no conversions.

After feeling dejected and racking my brains for a solution I am back to finding one after a 3 week break not looking at the 2 businesses!

I dont know where to learn about conversions! Must find another internet guru. Maybe my products are not interesting?

In both my websites - www.taxhavencompany.com and www.cosmetics-hair.com I have received thousands of ‘unique’ visitors, but no sale.

 Now I have removed the sales letter format opening page in taxhavencompany.com and am trying to see if conversions start!

Very pathetic. I have been focused entirely on traffic and did not look at conversions. Now I have stopped looking at traffic…

SEO work has brought this site to #9 in Google and now I need conversions!

Finally I have changed the index page of www.cosmetics-hair.com! Average number of pages opened by every unique visitor has gone up to 7 from 2.

The day I send the email out I check the number of unique visitors visiting the website, and waiting for sales. The average number has gone up to 140 / day.

I wonder what the normal conversion ration is?

When I started, I bought the cheapest package to host my website. Hostgator.com was recommended by my Internet Business Guru - David Cavanagh and I went with it.

As I started experimenting with domain registration and different types of websites, I ended up registering 7 names and paid to host 5 of them.

One day a techie told me to just buy a reseller’s package from hostgator and shift my sites to that one! Well, I bought the package and am now struggling to shift the contents.

Backup and restore doesnt work completely as the links and passwords changed for me, so I couldnt open Joomla applications and some pictures wouldnt open! Then I froze - and finally sought professional help. Waiting for the cost.

I am learning something new every day!

I attended the Global Internet Summit in Dubai in December 2006 which inspired me to start the Internet businesses.

During this seminar I bought 2 products - Tom Hua’s guides to Internet business and a promise to market my site through his email list, and David Cavanagh’s Newbie course. I paid more than US$ 5000 for both and then was dissatisfied with what I got for it!

Attending David Cavanagh’s 3 day seminar in Pattaya was quite useful, [and he is great when you can catch him] but I was unhappy with Tom’s down-loadable materials.

But when my site www.taxhavencompany.com was ready and he sent out his email - I got more than 400 visitors on a single day!! Wow. Hats off to him. His marketing is stupendous. I bow to him.

I got my first order for www.taxhavencompany.com today! I feel absolutely fabulous. I am sure sleep will be difficult to come by today. Already I have made plans not just how to spend the profit from this job, but how this will multiply into a full fledged multi million dollar bank account…

Have to stop myself or I shall forget the what I am getting the money for! But what a feeling. Worth every minute of criticism, defeatist taunts, and depression. Worth every minute of the agony of learning a new business and then working on it 14 hrs a day for the last 8 months.

But, hey! When I am honest with myself I admit that what really gave me joy was the sense of self worth and fulfilment the first check gave me. The rest of the fantasies were just that - fantasies.

 I recommend it to every one.

I was able to add PhPList to another website that I was doing - and sent my first message to about 1200 email ids! Feel great about it.

I remember when I first loaded PhPlist on www.cosmetics-hair.com - just the mental time and energy required to install it was enough for me and I took a break of 20 days before I took the next step of creating a list and then creating some messages! 

The brain makes things look easy when you are familiar with them! And a mountain when they are new. 

By using RSS in WordPress, I discovered that I can get a RSS feed collector installed on to my OsCommerce website! For AUD 100. Cool!

Waiting to understand how to put it into another website that uses MS FrontPage. Any one know how?