dannytalk ™ A Danny Ng Blog

Working in a Google Analytics Authorised Consultants (GAAC) accredited company and also having a Google Analytics Individual Qualification (GAIQ), it is essential that I master the art of setting up goals and funnels in Google Analytics for our clients.

A goal can be a very important metric for a client to track such as sales, newsletter sign-ups, and registrations. Of course goals are not just limited to those but can be extended to whatever you would define as an important action on the website to track. Not only is tracking important, but it is also vital that you gain insight into what’s going on in the goal process from funnels.

A funnel is a visual representation of what’s happening during each step of your goal. It gives you great insights into the drop off rates of each step so that you can make informed decisions on improving your goal process and landing pages to increase conversion rates. You can accurately pinpoint which step of the goal process are you getting high drop off rates.

This can help you identify problems such as the checkout button not working, too many call to actions that lead to other goals, not best practice usability and so on.
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Sorry guys haven’t been updating my blog recently. Been busy with my car pretty much hehe.

Just spent $230 yesterday at Supercheap Auto buying floor mats, car cover, turtle wax shampoo, lamb wool mittens, microfiber polishing cloth, meguire’s clay bar, meguire’s quick detailer and meguire’s wax. So yeah, I’m quite broke now! I’ve still yet to transfer the registration and pay the stamp duty! :(

So yeah, been pretty engrossed in it. Have washed and vacuumed my car yesterday and spent some time washing under the hood and applying some tyre shine to my tyres. Will need to find some time doing the clay bar thingy and waxing it. Is gonna be slick looking!

But yeah, some pictures below :)

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Finally I’ve found a car to buy! Drove all the way to Gosford today with a couple of mates to inspect a green ‘99 Honda Civic EM1.

It’s green in colour with gold pearls and has a black bonnet. Good paint work, fresh tyres and uses Royal Purple engine oil. Car is mechanically great as well as good looking exterior and interior. Had my friends take a look under the car and lucky the seller is a mechanic himself so I would know he’s taken good care of the car.

So now I’ve got to arrange bank cheques tomorrow and take a train all the way to Gosford to get the car and do the paper work. Going to be  a long night tomorrow and hopefully a car owner!

Man it’s been a hectic 2 weeks ever since I started looking for a car. Non-stop searching cars online and on forums. It’s pretty time consuming since I’ve pretty much used most of my spare time available looking for cars, doing research and contacting people for a car inspection.

Finally I can have a life again.

I’ll post up some tips and guides later to buying used car from private sellers. Very valuable information I’ve attained over the past short but intense 2 weeks. Hopefully you guys will find it helpful.

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I attended Club O camp 2 weeks ago which was located at Collaroy. Wish I took photos because we had a very beautiful camp site overlooking the beaches. I was too lazy :P

Anyways, I was playing basketball during my free time when one of the guys was charging towards the ring and stepped on my toe at an angle. It felt as though my toe nail was lifted up, but lucky it didn’t fortunately.

Here’s a picture of it slightly bluish after the game.

Here’s a picture of it 2 weeks later.

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Ok, I now realise I really need a car.

Public transport takes me a good 1 hour to get into the city during the weekdays and probably close to 1.5 hours on weekends.

I really try to avoid taking public transport on the weekend after spending 10 hours on it already during the weekdays. Unfortunately I don’t live near a train station so I can’t just walk to the nearest one. Nearest one is an hours walk. I’ve tried it before.

So…

I’m on a quest to get myself an awesome car under $10,000 and under 100,000km, drive away no more to pay unless it’s an extremely good deal.

Cars in the pipeline:

• Honda Civic Vtec
• Honda Integra Vti-R
• Nissan 180sx
• Nissan Silvia

If you’re an Asian, you may ask, “Why not a Toyota?”. Well, I’ve pretty much spent more than half of my life growing up with a Toyota Camry. Yes, my family has 3 Toyota Camry’s. Yes, they’re very reliable and retain good resale value. But yeah, I’m bored of it. That’s all. Time for a change.

Hey, I’m still sticking with Japanese right? Honda. Nissan?

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