IQ Blast - Vol 2, Issue 10

IQ Blast

October 13, 2008
Vol 2, Issue 10


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IQ Workforce Blog

	IQ Workforce to Sponsor November WAW in Boston by Corry Prohens Our team has dozens of great contacts in the Boston area, so we are really excited about the opportunity to spend an evening with them as sponsors of their November Web Analytics Wednesday. Corry Prohens will deliver his "Job Hunting & Career Management in Web Analytics" presentation (always a crowd pleaser!) and answer questions. Beyond that we be drinking beer and enjoying the opportunity to spend time with our colleagues. If you are in Boston on November 12th, please join us. We will be at Asgard, located at 350 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge from 6-9pm. Read on...

Web Analytics Rock Stars

Immerse Yourself in the Analytics Community to Get that Job! by Judah Phillips Many people aspire to become full-time web analysts, but it is not an easy field to enter nor is there a straightforward path for gaining real-world experience to help you land a job. You cannot just show up one day at work, and say, "I'm no longer going to do what you hired me to do. I really want to be web analyst, so I'm just going to do analytical work." You cannot get a job as a web analyst with little to no experience (unless you are lucky enough to find that rare entry-level job). When a business determines they need a web analyst, they do not often look at internal resources to staff the function - they want to hire someone who has experience elsewhere doing web analysis. Thus, it is hard to gain on-the-job analytics experience and it is even harder to break into the field full-time without any experience. So what is an aspiring web analyst to do? What are some ways to learn more about web analysis, get some practical experiences under your belt, and move your career in the direction you want it to go? Over the years, I have learned that immersing yourself in the web analytics community helps prove to employers that you are a serious candidate. Several methods for breaking into the analytics field and/or gaining more experience, through community immersion, to reference when applying ... Read More >>

Our Latest Opportunites

Senior Web Analyst — San Francisco — $75k - $90k View Job Description >> Web Analyst — Boston, MA or Remote — to $85k View Job Description >> Director of Site Conversion — New York, NY View Job Description >> Manager of Online Lead Generation — Miami, FL View Job Description >> Web Analytics Project Manager — New York — $90k View Job Description >> Manager of Customer Research & Analytics — Atlanta, GA — $80k + Bonus View Job Description >> More Jobs >>

First Annual "Best of" Web Analytics Survey

Our team is always on the lookout for ways to inform and amuse the web analytics community. In this spirit we are happy to announce the launch of our latest survey - the first annual "Best of" Web Analytics: The survey asks your opinion - Who is the best: Web Analytics Vendor for Products Web Analytics Vendor for Service Web Analytics Consultancy Interactive Agency for Web Analytics Personal Brand Web Analytics Blog Web Analytics Event Web Analytics Newsletter etc We want your opinion! It will take less than 2 minutes to complete. Please click here to participate. The results will be posted quarterly on the IQ Workforce website.

Latest Industry News

Software addresses web analytics and real-time ETL. (ThomasNet) Addressing performance-intensive IT challenges, Pion offers event-driven architecture that can process millions of complex calculations per second on commodity hardware. Companies can track millions of web sessions, in real-time, without any page modifications or impact on web infrastructure. Other features cover merging online behaviors and offline data for customer analytics; log processing ... Data to Google Analytics Data Mashup Solves the Problem of Tracking and Comparing Offline (INO News) CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2008--Ifbyphone, the innovative telephone application platform company, today announced that marketers will now be able to integrate direct-response call data with Web-based advertising information available from Google(R) Analytics, making it possible to gauge the overall effectiveness of a lead-generation campaign. Yahoo launches web analytics tool (TechWorld) Company set to take on Google. Yahoo has started rolling out a beta version of a new web Analytics tool that it said will provide up-to-date reports and graphs showing metrics like sales, page views and sources of traffic to website operators. . More News >>

Ask Corry

Corry Prohens is the managing consultant at IQ Workforce and one of the leading Web and Marketing Analytics recruiters in the country. As an active member of the Web Analytic Association and Direct Marketing Association, Corry and his team have developed an unusually robust network of clients and candidates. Analytics disciplines are becoming increasingly interwoven. Corry's team is at the forefront of this evolution, providing the best possible career opportunities for their candidates and the best talent for their clients. IQ Workforce represents top firms and individuals from the agency world, analytics vendors and end-clients.

email: cprohens@iqworkforce.com

phone: 516.802.7700

web: http://www.iqworkforce.com

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