The below is an extract of what I've posted in our VIP Lounge:
Glossary of Online Business Terms
Affiliate – A person or business who sells products and services on behalf of merchants. The merchant provides a code, known as an affiliate link, which the affiliate then places on their website. It enables the merchant to track
Thank you for taking the time to provide this insight into your business. You have a couple of very interesting sites with products in highly competitive spaces. Financial software has always been very difficult to market.
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I once used a bot tracker and it turned out it was inserting links into my home page code (not a WP site) but I didn't realise until I had reason to view the Google cache of the page and there they...
Then I'll believe it. If Google are taking the time to say that connecting with Google plus will make a site more 'Google friendly' I have nothing to lose by doing it. Google friendly doesn't...
It is the simultaneous strength and weakness of WordPress that it offers simplicity for the user, and opportunities for the knowledgeable to exploit the user's lack of technical knowledge.
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When does the sales process begin?
In traditional business there are a number of strategies that conclude with a sale:
- build the business for growth