Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the  Mahalo office in Santa Monica. It takes 5 minutes: Google Analytics is about as easy to setup as setting your alarm clock. Set aside 5 minutes, get your cut and paste Below is a highlight video of the evening.  To To view the entire talk click here .  

Los Angeles-based Stamps.com is furthering its focus on online stories, saying today that it has linked its product to the e-commerce payment systems for Amazon.com Pro Merchant, Yahoo Merchant, Google Checkout, and Paypal. According to Stamps.com, the firm's software now allows web store managers to process, manage, and ship orders from "virtually any" e-commerce source. The new additions come on top of an existing push by Stamps.com to cater to eBay merchants. Stamps.com recently started looking back into the eBay shipping market, saying in early October that it would

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , a developer of e-commerce software headed by Dan Engel, said today that it has released a new product which handles mail-in-rebates for online vendors. FastSpring is the latest venture of Dan Engel, who has previously been at Google, Picasa, and GoToMyPC. Tags: fastspring software commerce rebate The firm said it will allow stores to offer mail-in rebates on their products, as well as related options such as instead offering consumers discounts on other products. READ MORE>> ...Tags:

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TechZulu will be streaming SMCLA: Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics, live from the Mahalo Office in Santa Monica.  This month we are going to take a deeper dive into one of the easiest ways to measure online social media efforts – through Google analytics. 23rd from 7-9:30pm as we discuss the topic of Google Analytics! Here is some info on the event: Confused by Analytics?

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That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. What are you working on now? Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations.

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Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , a firm which provides e-commerce services and payment processing for online software sellers, claims that the firm had 500% growth in its revenues in 2009. Engel was an executive at Picasa at the time of its acquisition by Google, and has also served at such firms as GoToMyPC, Morpheus Software, Google, and Sanity Software. According to CEO Dan Engel, the growth was driven by new clients such as AteBits (makers of Tweetie), Mailplane, BreezeTree Software, and Moonrug (makers of Moonrug Mobile for Android). Engel did not disclose actual

According to comScore, which analyzes Internet traffic and e-commerce statistics, ValueClick is now number five, and Specific Media number six, in the top online ad networks--just behind Platform-A, Yahoo, and Google. The two are just behind Google, which had 164.5M Two local online advertising businesses--Westlake Village-based ValueClick , and Irvine-based Specific Media --are showing growth in the latest comScore ranking of advertising networks. comScore said that ValueClick grew 14 percent year to year in total unique visitors, to 160,307,000 total uniques for April, and Specific