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You can tell which GAACs have no clients by observing their activity on the GAAC mailing list.

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… was pretty good, but the case studies were like a ‘case’ of taco-bell-expulsion.
Overall I felt that the summit was great, and a lot of information was circulated to those who could stop bloody twittering for five seconds to listen.
I really don’t understand 70% of the people who attended the summit. That 70% sat through [...]

Unfortunately, I am on a mailing list which gets a lot of requests from small businesses to install Google Analytics on their website.
The gist of such requests:
Hi,
I own a website for my little newspaper stall, which sells newspapers and magazines on the corner of 5th and Maine.
I am starting to get some traffic to my [...]

I did the Google Analytics IQ test (doesn’t have anything to do with intelligence quotients) yesterday and got four questions wrong (out of seventy). It’s a good result by anyone’s standards, but I feel a little hard done by.
It’s not possible to find out which questions were answered incorrectly, and that’s a bit frustrating. I [...]

Announced for general release on the 3rd of March, 2009, the GA IQ test is said to be an essential and compulsory test for all Google Analytics Authorized Consultants. At least two members of each GAAC company must sit and pass the examination, with failure meaning review of the GAAC licence.
But wait – it seems [...]

There’s just been quite a nice release from Google about the Website Optimizer.
There’s a link to the document in PDF format on the right.
A brief look at the contents:
Forward
Prerequisites
Future Compatibility
Updates and Revisions
How Experiments Work
A/B Experiments
Detailed Explanation of MVT Experiments
The Conversion Page
Setting Up Experiments
Background
Standard Experiments
Non-Standard Experiments (Testing Static Content)
Background
Setting up Multivariate Tests
Experiments with Dynamic Content [...]

(This post is satirical)
Well, here’s my opinion on the majority of the Google Analytics Authorized Consultants.
Put it this way: If Google stuck a needle and thread up their bum, a GAAC would be the first person walking around with freshly darned socks.
My gripes go further than that.
Why does every new GAAC feel they have [...]