The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the  Mahalo office in Santa Monica. Our new volunteer board pulled off a great panel full of juicy tidbits of knowledge from start to finish. With goals in place, your metrics have so much more meaning and the time you spend analyzing data will drive more informed decisions geared at improving your conversion rates. Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics Below is a highlight video of the evening.  To

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Last year, Dealmaker Media put together Startonomics , a great conference focusing on what really matters: how to define the metrics for your business, and where those numbers should fall to ensure you are on the right path. generations of the web, many bright folks have been able to recognize the best practices for such metrics. As a bonus, Build it and they will come, right? Everybody is going to love this, won’t they?