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Exchanging homes with another person can be very rewarding as long as you trust the person and set some guidelines for everyone to follow. If you want to vacation in another country, but you don't want the expense of hotel stay, a home exchange may be the answer for you. Similar to a time share, if you live in a destination that is appealing to travelers, you may be able to trade homes in order to save money and a much more comfortable vacation. Many people take vacations at the same time. There are web sites and ads placed in the newspaper everyday asking for home exchanges.

Before agreeing to a home exchange, find out more about the person or family that will be staying in your home. Ask for references, exchange emails or phone calls, and learn more about what they are looking for in terms of a place to stay. In return, furnish them with references and find out more about where they to see if the location suits your needs. Once you have established a relationship with the individual or family, start planning your vacation.

In order to make the people staying in your home comfortable, gather brochures and maps of your city and leave them in your home. Visitors will find this very helpful when they arrive. Stocking the refrigerator is something you should discuss beforehand, because you may not buy foods they will like. If you have pets, you may arrange to have your guests watch them. By setting ground rules, your experience will be much better for both of you. You can take care of their pets and avoid having to pay for boarding costs. Some people even exchange their cars to make the experience even better.

Since renting holiday homes in foreign countries can be expensive depending on the time of year you want to travel, finding another person or family to swap homes with you will save a lot of money. You will be able to extend your vacation because the costs of lodging will be much lower. All you will need to pay for is food, airfare, and rental car. For families that want to travel to new places, swapping homes may be the only way this is possible.

Because more people want to travel, you will find retired people and individuals who want to swap their homes in order to see more of the world. When looking for the right home, find one that is big enough and close to everything you want to see while on vacation. You should also find out as much as possible about the town or city you will be staying in before travelling so you will be able to see as much as possible. Swapping homes is part of the vacation, so expect to meet your new neighbors and enjoy living in your vacation home.

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In order to have the most efficient marketing plan possible, you need to know where all your clients come from, if at all possible. If you are using the internet to promote your business in several ways, it is helpful to know what tactics are working best.

Here are some of the ways you might drive traffic to your main website:

- Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace

- Publishing articles on article databases and beyond

- inbound links from strategic alliances or partners

- Listings on directories

- Adsense/Adwords ads on google

- Memberships in online clubs/groups

- Mentions on others' blogs/articles

Of course this is not a comprehensive list, but you get the idea. Most of these tactics cost you time, money or both. You cannot afford to waste either, so knowing which of these is working best to bring you clients is important.

One great tool you can use to learn where your website traffic originates is your webstats - website statistics. The company who hosts your website should be compiling these stats for you on an ongoing basis, since the launch of your site.

The main stats I look at regularly include:

- Total *unique* visitors

- Did I have any particularly high volume days?

- Where is my traffic coming from?

- How many people are visiting each page of my site?

The unique visitors number tells me how many people visited my site. I compare these numbers against last month, against this same month last year and year-to-date compared to last year. This tells me how much my traffic is increasing over time. Other numbers could also be helpful, but this is the best judge of incoming traffic.

On any high-volume days, I will research what I was doing to promote my business around that time, both online and offline. I need to know where my traffic is coming from so I can take advantage of whatever is working best. And finally, by seeing what pages are visited most frequently, I can see what people are liking right now. This is particularly helpful to me because I publish my articles on my website, and I can see the areas of interest of my visitors so I can write more articles on those subjects.

There are other statistics that may be of interest to you - are search engines checking out your site (spiders)? If not, your SEO (search engine optimization) efforts may not be working as well as you want.

What countries are your visitors from? How long are people staying on your site? Don't be surprised if a majority is only staying a short time. That's typical. Also - what keywords are your visitors using to find you? Are you using those keywords in your SEO?

Depending on your hosting company and the webstat service they use, you may get different statistics. Regardless of the exact stats and the packaging, you should be keeping a close eye on your website statistics. They could really save you time and help you increase your sales!

Copyright (c) 2008 Audrey Burton

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