Things to do soonest, and the reasons why

One of the points of this blog is to provide a trail for other people to follow.   Below are a list of things that really need to get done. What may not be obvious is the why behind the tasks.

Add Google Analytics to site

Saying that Google Analytics is an amazing product is to under utilize the word amazing.  I was first introduced to Google  Analytics a couple of weeks ago in the Thirty Day Challenge.  If you are doing anything on the internet, you HAVE to know how much traffic you are getting and where it is coming from.  Google  Analytics provides that information. [Edit:  Adding Google Analytics was a snap and this was completed about 20 minutes later after the initial post]

Add sign up / sign in page for registered users

We are going to need users.  Clients, customers, contributors, friends, relatives, the list goes on, and we’re going to need a place for them to get together and mingle.  We’re also going to need contact info from them to keep them up to date on what is going on here at the site.  Or at least keep the one’s that want to be kept up to date, up to date.

Find out if there is a face book – word press linking app

There has got to be a way that my face book entries and my tweets can be reflected on this site.  Now the question is “how?”

Install a shopping cart and use it for free stuff to get the gears moving

We’re going to need a shopping cart sooner or later, and by managing free stuff with it, all the sand can be worked from the gears before we ever try to run a single red cent through the machinery.