Tracking Success

Around a year and a half ago I started to do online affiliate marketing. I worked hard at it but didn't see the results I was looking for with it. However, I copied some of the strategies of the people who were successful in this arena that I still use to this day. One of the strategies is to track daily progress with Excel spreadsheets. The people who made money in affiliate marketing would track everything every day to try to increase their performance by even a fraction of a percentage. If they can accumulate a fraction of a percentage this week and a fraction next week and so on, it can really add up. If I am not tracking my results closely I may not know whether my actions are producing slightly better or slightly worse results. The power of cumulative incremental profit can be enormous.

Today, I use spreadsheets in business to track my performance and hold myself accountable to certain results. If I track my data I can fish out patterns from the data which allows me to understand and run my business better. It gives me information that I can use to set attainable goals with. A side benefit of tracking information is to keep me motivated even if I am having a slow week. I can look at my points of success over the past six months and believe that I am capable of succeeding.