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Reading – what’s on the way – Metrics
I committed Amazonian self-abuse yesterday, ordering the following scintillating titles for my future edification.
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“Web Site Measurement Hacks : Tips & Tools to Help Optimize Your Online Business (Hacks)”
Eric Peterson; Paperback; $15.72
Sold by:Amazon.com
Shipping estimate for these items: March 28, 2006 Delivery estimate: March 31, 2006 – April 3, 2006
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“Web Analytics Demystified: A Marketer’s Guide to Understanding How Your Web Site Affects Your Business”
Eric Peterson; Paperback; $37.77
Sold by:Amazon.com
Shipping estimate for these items: March 29, 2006 Delivery estimate: March 31, 2006 – April 4, 2006
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“Search Analytics : A Guide to Analyzing and Optimizing Website Search Engines”
Hurol Inan; Paperback; $19.99
Sold by:Amazon.com
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My question is this: how did an English major wind up in a profession obsessed with “metrics?” This is my version of hell on earth. I need to take my pants off to count to twenty-one and now I am living in Excel.
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Oh C’mon! It’s fun stuff! I’m an English major too and I _dig_ it.
I met that cat Eric Peterson last week at an sheeshy event in Boston. He’s a former micologist (read mushroom farmer) from Oregon, currently VP Strategic Services at Visual Sciences. His books are very informative, and I am a big fan of the Web Measurement Hacks book.
So Mr English major and Mr Micology major now weave webs and nobody even studied entymology.
Oh C’mon! It’s fun stuff! I’m an English major too and I _dig_ it.
I met that cat Eric Peterson last week at an sheeshy event in Boston. He’s a former micologist (read mushroom farmer) from Oregon, currently VP Strategic Services at Visual Sciences. His books are very informative, and I am a big fan of the Web Measurement Hacks book.
So Mr English major and Mr Micology major now weave webs and nobody even studied entymology.
Personally, I take my pants off to count to 23 … on a good day, 24. I’m getting dizzy with metrics and modelling … common sense sometimes works too …