I end the year with my online business predictions for 2010.

I'm not one to make predictions normally - I usually leave that for the Internet Marketing "Gurus" or our own Allison Reynolds (she has a nose for changes in online business), but these are some of the things I think are becoming more important and/or vital for online businesses.

Allison, Barb and I would like to wish you all a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2010.

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There are major differences between New Year's Resolutions and realistic goal setting, which is why resolutions tend to fail within a week of having made them.

This Bitesize podcast looks at why resolutions usually fail and how knowing this can enable you to set better goals for you and your business in 2010.

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Before Christmas we were pruning your business and cutting away the dead wood, this week we are setting our goals for 2010, breaking them down into smaller goals and creating an action plan in order to achieve them.

Setting big or vague goals for yourself will only result in an inability to focus on what needs to be done to achieve them so you need to make them more manageable

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More on pruning your business today as we look at how and why you should be stepping away from some projects and selling your websites.

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For Ed Dale's Buying and Selling Websites course visit http://www.swbnetwork.com/blog/valuingwebsites

**Apologies for the static on the recording - I've removed as much as possible but it seems to have been a computer soundcard issue**

Now that you've taken stock of what's working and what isn't, it's time to cut away the dead wood so that your business can bloom in 2010.

It can be a scary and uncomfortable exercise but things will blossom as a result. We all have projects and websites that force us to lose focus on the important things - the things that are working for us.

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Now that you have your stats and have been monitoring your business activity, it's time to take stock.

What is working and what isn't? What is costing money? What is taking up your time?

Only by knowing these things about your business can you determine what's best for it...what your next steps should be....and what you should focus on in 2010

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Finally in our series on tracking is the need to track online activity surrounding your name, your brand/websites and your market.

Monitor what people are saying about you and your niche or market. This can be done really quickly by setting up Google alerts and clever use of your Google Reader.

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Trisha Stewart, a nutritionist and natural health practitioner, talks with Lisa Hartwell about the importance of maintaining your health even when you are bogged down with your business and family.

In this full length podcast from the Secret Women's Business Network, Trisha discusses the necessity for being mindful of what you eat and how to stay healthy throughout the holiday season and beyond.

To learn more about Trisha Stewart and her books visit http://www.trishastewart.com

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It's vital you monitor your Pay-per-Click campaign stats closely to avoid paying out unnecessarily OR spending more money than your business can afford.

This podcast offers some ideas of the numbers you should be looking particularly closely at and what to do if they don't measure up to your needs or expectations

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What other business stats should you be monitoring?

This SWBN Bitesize offers some more ideas on what statistics to check regularly, what they might mean and what changes you might like to make. For example, are you checking all clicks to links are you site, especially affiliate links? If not, you are missing out on important opportunity to improve your business income.

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Google Analytics is a great place to start tracking your website stats.

In this SWBN Bitesize, Lisa talks about some of the stats you should be tracking through Analytics, what they mean, and what you might choose to do about them.

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Many of us hate keeping track of our business stats but it's a vital part of improving everything you do. In fact just the process of tracking your statistics will help them improve.

Over the next few SWBN Bitesize podcasts Lisa will be discussing why you should be tracking your stats, what you should be looking for and what to do about the results.

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How welcoming is your website? Does it make people want to stick around and visit for a while? Will they want to come back?

In this SWBN Bitesize from the Secret Women's Business Network, Lisa talks about the importance of making your website appealing to visitors.

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Plymouth Bus Station gets it in the neck in this SWBN Bitesize as we look deeper into the subject of creating signposts for your visitors. Not only does Plymouth Bus Station have a distinct lack of clear signposts but they don't make it a particularly nice place to hang around.

You may not want visitors to click a certain link or fill-out their email address, you may simply want them to browse your blog and learn more about you and your area of expertise. That's why you need every aspect of your blog or website to be clear and easy to navigate.

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When I was at the Coming Home Seminar in Manchester I got lost....a lot! But it's a great metaphor for the signs you give to visitors to your website. You need to make it clear exactly what your want visitors to do and where you want them to go. Don't leave it to chance.

At the seminar there were daily Hot Seat sessions that looked at the problems attendees were having with their websites. The overwhelming problem in all cases was that visitors were not being given clear directions.

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We are constantly resisting things we know we should be doing in our lives and our businesses. This SWBN Bitesize focuses on why that resistance occurs and what it usually means.

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Every business (and business person) needs a kick up the backside occasionally to pick up momentum and have a renewed energy for what you do.

In this second SWBN Bitesize podcast I talk about how the Coming Home Seminar and Ed Dale in particular gave me a much needed kick up the bum.

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SWBN Bitesize are a new addition to the Secret Women's Business Network podcast stream. If you listen to the first of the bitesize podcasts you'll understand why. We'll still have larger podcast interviews but they will be interspersed between the smaller podcasts, which are designed to give regular business advice.

In this first SWBN Bitesize, Lisa Hartwell talks about the recent Thirty Day Challenge Coming Home Seminar in Manchester and what Ed Dale was talking about in relation to micro transactions.

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