Monitor your success. A simple phrase that has profound consequences for those who do and for those who do not "Monitor there success".
 In business monitoring the key factors of your companies performance from the top down or bottom up is vital so you can assess its Financial and business health within your particular market.
 Large corporations like Walmart or Virgin keep a close eye  on the various pulse of their business viens so to speak.

  Yet I am always amazed and even taken aback that many experienced as well as newbie internet marketers do not pay sufficient attention to their business lifeblood  "traffic" and monitor the effectiveness of what they are doing when marketing and promoting themselves ,products ,business and or business opportunity.

10 Shocking But True Display Advertising Stats

1. You are more likely to complete NAVY SEAL training than click a banner ad. (Source: Solve Media) Tweet This
2. Only 8% of internet users account for 85% of clicks on display ads (and some of them aren't even humans!). (Source: comScore) Tweet This
3. You are more likely to get a full house while playing poker than click on a banner ad. (Source: Solve Media) Tweet This
4. The average person is served over 1,700 banner ads per month. Do you remember any? (Source: comScore) Tweet This
5. You are more likely to summit Mount Everest than click a banner ad. (Source: Solve Media) Tweet This
6. The average clickthrough rate of display ads is 0.1%. (Source: DoubleClick) Tweet This
7. You are more likely to birth twins than click a banner ad. (Source: Solve Media) Tweet This
8. About 50% of clicks on mobile ads are accidental. (Source: GoldSpot Media) Tweet This
9. You are more likely to get into MIT than click a banner ad. (Source: Solve Media) Tweet This
10. You are more likely to survive a plane crash than click on a banner ad. (Source: Solve Media) Tweet This

These stats were curated from Digiday and Business Insider

Source  http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/2013.


Well dispite hubspots  quite negative view of click through rates I have been expeirencing what I can only call exceptional CTR's as shown in the table at the top of this blog.
  What is even more impressive is it is from a company that is in its infancy in regards to online advertising not even 12 months old and yet returning this kind of CTR's.

 I would recommend that serious interner marketers and even novices take a look at what they offer in terms of advertisng and they even have a business opportunity allied to there unusal concept of advertising which can in effect essentially be free.

Anyway please feel free to check them out and as access is by refferal only so  here is my link with no expectation of any commitment  on your behalf as the service is free to join and try out for 30 days

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