Meli Learns How to Start a Business

This week was one of those funny ones where you feel like the information is overwhelming and you don't think there is any chance that you are going to understand what’s going on but then by the end of the week you take the quiz and feel like an expert...well... almost. I learned a lot this week about how to understand google analytics. How and where to look to gather information from the reports and how to translate those reports into ways to improve and support my business. My major takeaway from this week is: Things are hard until they’re not: Many times this semester I have felt like this class is well over my head. But I have watched my mind slowly catch on and connect and then get things I once thought was impossible. At the beginning of this week I was challenged to find the answers to the google analytic quiz questions but after looking at my classmates responses and how they got their answers and watching the class video at least a few times. By the end of the week it was...

This week I learned about SEO's (search engine optimization) and how important social media can be in helping improve SEO's. From this weeks reading's and articles I learned that social media isn't just about making and posting content it also can be helpful in connection with your business plan to make that information or content searchable and tractable which in turn will lead people to my website and help get more traffic. I like that it is a free cost wise to promote my online business. I also learned more about what Google Analytics can do to help me know which social media sites are most effective for my online business. That is going to be an effective time saving tool. This week I also learned how to make a social media plan so that I know what to do and when and how to gather information to know if my plan is being effective. I have not appreciated social media in the past for what it can do to improve a websites performance. Now when I look at reels or post an...