Friday, July 16, 2010

google analytics

I have been using Google's free analytics software for a few months now on my businesses website and I have to say it has changed my perception on the value of the internet. I had no idea that nearly 20% of my web traffic comes from outside the united states. Yet on my website I only tell people about shipping options for the U.S. and Canada. how much business am I missing out on because There are no international shipping options listed on the website. Today that changes. Now When some one in London wants to place an order they can see instructions on how to do that. We will let people know ahead of time that any order that is shipped out of the country must have a wire transfer. No Credit card. i don't want any nigerian fraudsters stealing from me.

The world is huge I wanna sell to all of its people.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

lottery pool of the future

What if you could build an online lottery pool where people payed $20 to join in a pool of 1o people that will only play the lottery when the pot gets to over a certain level say $90 million dollars.
A person would have 200 chances to win a 1/10th share of a prize worth at least 2.8 million and it goes up every time there is a winner. its the "set it! and forget it!" of get lucky with the lottery. its a way for people to increase there odds at winning without having to shell out alot of money for one lottery.

Also if a person didn't have the luxury of co workers or friends that wanted to play then they would have to play there own money every time. This way they get 10 tickets to 20 different big games = 200 chances for atleast 2.88 million dollars. and you gain $32,000 more after taxes for each additional million over 90 million. the lottery typically grows by 20 million each time there is no winner after 90 million. thats $680,000 each time for you!!