iGoogle Business Dashboards For Web Analytics

November 12, 2009

Here’s a short video I made on how to create simple business dashboards using Google Spreadsheets, Google Spreadsheet Gadgets, and iGoogle. The example is web analytics oriented, but the method can be used to build any type of dashboard. Setting up a static dashboard is easy. If you want your data to update dynamically you’ll [...]

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Free Google Analytics Dashboard – Trakkboard

November 11, 2009

Yesterday the Google Analytics blog announced a new free desktop dashboard solution offered by a German company called Trakken. Trakkboard is an Adobe Air application for building dashboards from Google Analytics data. I took a quick look at Trakkboard. It’s seems like a good start toward something more interesting. Currently there does not appear to [...]

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Google Chart API Tutorial – Learn Really Fast!

November 11, 2009

So you want to add some nice charts to your blog post? Can’t be bothered to take a screen shot from MS Excel and upload the image? You should give the Google Chart API a try. The Google Chart API returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be [...]

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Randomized Controlled Experiments: A Data Analysis Excercise To Raise Tea Sales

November 10, 2009

Scenario: Let’s pretend we run a tea company called Mr. Tea. We have locations across the country. The country is in the midst of a recession, and our overall tea sales are down. From an in-store survey of customers we find that customers in some locations do not believe they are receiving a good value [...]

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Best iPhone apps to read and listen to books (comics too!)

July 18, 2009

Best iPhone ebook reader Stanza is hands down the best ebook reader for the iPhone. The company that makes Stanza, Lexcyle was recently acquired by Amazon, so let’s hope they don’t mess it up. With Stanza you can literally read ANY book. There are thousands of books in the public domain that can be downloaded [...]

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Ed Dale in San Francisco

January 30, 2009

Ed Dale, of 30 Day Challenge fame, was in town a few weeks back for MacWorld. He gave a great talk during an Internet marketing meetup at my office. Checkout my awesome name tag!

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Pareto Principle – Kenneth Yu Discusses Customer Delight

January 30, 2009

I’m back! Almost a year off from blogging. Here’s a gem from the video vault. Kenneth Yu discusses his “Pareto Filter” principle. The idea is to “delight” your customers into buying more. Nothing particularly earth shattering about that, but I like the way Kenneth says it! [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn [...]

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Internet Business Portfolio – How to Build One – A Rough Blueprint

April 17, 2008

After spending over a month in Kuala Lumpur, I feel I’ve distilled down some of the key ingredients needed to build a portfolio of profitable Internet businesses. This is essentially a blueprint of how to create a mini business incubator. Here’s the recipe: 1) a few really smart people (including at least one excellent programmer) [...]

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Singapore Doesn’t Sleep – 24 Hour Gaming

April 1, 2008

I spent this past weekend in Singapore. It was awesome! Many people seem to think the place is boring, but I disagree. Saturday was full of adventures. By early Sunday morning I was finally losing steam. It must have been around 4:30am when I found a 24 hour PC gaming center. I tried some games, [...]

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