Google Analytics (the old Urchin) is one approach. It's already tested and in use...and sometimes not. Many store owners show concern about just how much data Google gets when you use Analytics: they [Google] know how well ads on their network are doing compared to those of their competitors and they know how much income your store is generating--powerful data.
FWIW: A sentence was snipped from my post which changed the tone somewhat. I asked about media companies offering discounts to people for sharing their bandwidth. e.g. 10% off for a share ratio of 1:1 or full price for a direct download.
And you know what, I think the editors deliberately put typos in there. Must drive up the numbers, keeping the advertisers and owners happy. I'm normally pritty good with my spelling.
In the early 90s I was in a small factory city in South West China. The town was a mass of concrete; an artless, treeless, birdless place dominated by factories. The only luxury goods available were cigarettes and rice wine. Once at the train station one of the locals lectured my friend (a Swiss guy who spoke fluent Mandarin) on how China was leading the world technologically--while the *steam* trains pulled in and out of the station. The local airport even had half a dozen bi-planes sitting on the tarmac and the soldiers had WWI era rifles.
In the special economic zones you no doubt have something much closer resembling the standards of the West (and the seeds of the Communist's downfall). One city near the border with Hong Kong protected its appearance, replete with skyscrapers and the reflecting glass that dominated Western architecture in the 80s, with a massive mandatory carwash. Every vehicle coming into the city from the country was forced to go thru the carwash. The carwash also doubled as a inspection point as ordinary citizens needed permission to enter the special economic zone.
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Google Analytics (the old Urchin) is one approach. It's already tested and in use...and sometimes not. Many store owners show concern about just how much data Google gets when you use Analytics: they [Google] know how well ads on their network are doing compared to those of their competitors and they know how much income your store is generating--powerful data.
FWIW: A sentence was snipped from my post which changed the tone somewhat. I asked about media companies offering discounts to people for sharing their bandwidth. e.g. 10% off for a share ratio of 1:1 or full price for a direct download. And you know what, I think the editors deliberately put typos in there. Must drive up the numbers, keeping the advertisers and owners happy. I'm normally pritty good with my spelling.
You've gotta love Cali. Where else do you have models checking out pollution levels at the beach? Hmmm, I smell a TV series--Poopwatch.
In the early 90s I was in a small factory city in South West China. The town was a mass of concrete; an artless, treeless, birdless place dominated by factories. The only luxury goods available were cigarettes and rice wine. Once at the train station one of the locals lectured my friend (a Swiss guy who spoke fluent Mandarin) on how China was leading the world technologically--while the *steam* trains pulled in and out of the station. The local airport even had half a dozen bi-planes sitting on the tarmac and the soldiers had WWI era rifles. In the special economic zones you no doubt have something much closer resembling the standards of the West (and the seeds of the Communist's downfall). One city near the border with Hong Kong protected its appearance, replete with skyscrapers and the reflecting glass that dominated Western architecture in the 80s, with a massive mandatory carwash. Every vehicle coming into the city from the country was forced to go thru the carwash. The carwash also doubled as a inspection point as ordinary citizens needed permission to enter the special economic zone.