GCU Forum - Slow sales?

Pamela_135500 Gold Member artist Posts: 1945	Re: Slow sales? Reply #30 - Jul 28^th, 2009, 6:09am Well, I am always happy and appreciative of any sale but there are a lot more 'duck eggs' in my sales column than I have seen for a few months. Remember that saying 'when life gives you lemons make lemonade', well....Scrambled eggs anyone? Sounds like there's lots to go around! Here's to a sales BOOM in August! Pamela
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Pamela_135500 Gold Member artist Posts: 1945	Re: Slow sales? Reply #31 - Jul 28^th, 2009, 10:49am Well there is one less egg...... thanks to a customer who bought two cards today and had me doing the Happy Dance again! Eggs are off the menu today! Pamela
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Reply #32 - Jul 28^th, 2009, 10:55am

Quote from Pamela_135500 on Jul 28^th, 2009, 10:49am:

Well there is one less egg...... Grin

thanks to a customer who bought two cards today and had me doing the Happy Dance again!
Eggs are off the menu today! Cheesy

Pamela

Great Pam! Congrats!

I have had a string of 1-2 cards sold/day for over a week but my one sale today so far was for 15, so perhaps I shouldn't be so grumpy. Cheesy

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Pamela_135500 Gold Member artist Posts: 1945	Re: Slow sales? Reply #33 - Jul 28^th, 2009, 11:11am Congrats on the sale Tom! Oh don't worry you can feel grumpy, no matter what your average sales are, when they are down it is as you said before and I am a happy 'crumb snatcher' who aspires to join the banquet some day! Pamela
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Cassie_133164 Junior Member artist Posts: 100	Re: Slow sales? Reply #34 - Jul 28^th, 2009, 2:02pm It's been really really slow for me here. It's even slowed down on other sites as well. I guess people do not buy cards or artwork or tees or magnets when the economy is bad. Esp. when they are all out of work like so many are.
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Reply #35 - Jul 28^th, 2009, 2:13pm

Truth be told - the economy is picking up. I do real estate photography and nothing was moving - a couple months ago houses 150 and under were being snapped up left and right, a month ago it jumped to 250K and now it's in the 300's - so things are picking up. I saw a report where we are through the worst and by the end of the year house prices should start increasing.

I've even had cancellations because the houses sold before I could shoot them. People need to stop listening to all the gloom and doom of the news and start living =). Just my two cents for what it's worth.

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Avis_134613 Gold Member artist Posts: 758	Re: Slow sales? Reply #36 - Jul 28^th, 2009, 4:52pm Congrats. to Pam and Tom on your sales! I have only sold three cards this month!! So don't feel bad! I could make a helluva an omelet!!
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Cassie_133164 Junior Member artist Posts: 100	Re: Slow sales? Reply #37 - Jul 28^th, 2009, 5:19pm Congrats to you all on your sales. I've made 0 sales this month But I understand how hard it is for all the people without jobs and they aren't even thinking of buying cards just thankful they have chickens laying eggs so they have something to eat. At least that's how it is around here.
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Reply #38 - Jul 28^th, 2009, 9:02pm

Okay....make that four! After leaving that post I must have broken the spell...I just sold a Valentine's card in July! Grin

I just read somewhere where an artist had sold a Halloween card this month! Oh well, I certainly don't mind! I wonder if they changed the inside text as the front didn't say Happy Valentine's on it?
I wish there was a way to know if people customized the card...I'd be interested to know that.

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Reply #39 - Aug 1^st, 2009, 4:05am

JULY is over.

My sales were off 33% vs. June but up 250% (3.5x) from a year ago.

Clicks/sale was 54 in July vs. 44 in June. My long-term average (since Feb 2008) is 36, and rising Tongue

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Ave commission per card was 55 cents, up from 53 in June.

How'd you all do? Just adjust the dates on the store report to get your sums for particular months or time periods.

Our sales might be as good of a measure of the economy's health as anything else out there.

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Reply #40 - Aug 1^st, 2009, 2:18pm

Thanks for the report Tom, I find your stats very helpful so here's how mine measured up.

After a very quiet start things turned around for the last four days and I saw some sales, even had three in one day!

Here's my statistics for July, since you set it up so nicely for us to report.
July sales were down 40% vs June, don't have a last year stat

Clicks/sale shows as 39 vs 29 for June.
Total store visits 87 July vs 89 June.

Don't know if this is helpful to you or others, but it is fun, I may get to like statistics after all.

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Reply #41 - Aug 1^st, 2009, 2:43pm

I'm pleased to announce that I sold four today, and had another sale this past week, and yes, that is pretty good for me. So I am pleased. Cheesy

But I am somewhat confused about the commission. embarrassed

I made .86 for four cards, and I am thinking maybe another artist bought them? Roll Eyes

It was together with a huge order of 300 cards.....not all mine, only four

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Anyone know? Shocked

Thanks for any input..

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Pamela_135500

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Reply #42 - Aug 1^st, 2009, 3:06pm

Hi Trish,
The commission we earn per card is based on the price of each card in a total order. When your cards are part of a bulk sale then you earn less commission per card because the price per card paid is less when purchased in larger quantities.
It is a......let's say, not infrequent and controversial topic on the forum

GCU is trying to encourage bulk ordering.
Hope that helps.
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Reply #43 - Aug 1^st, 2009, 3:43pm

Quote from Trish_136241 on Aug 1^st, 2009, 2:43pm:

But I am somewhat confused about the commission. embarrassed

I made .86 for four cards, and I am thinking maybe another artist bought them? Roll Eyes

It was together with a huge order of 300 cards.....not all mine, only four

. Anyone know? Shocked

Contrats Trish! I'm so happy for you!

Pam is right, as usual Wink

, but here are the specifics:

In the qty 100 – 499 range, cards sell for $1.79 each and artists make 12%/card = $0.2148/each, so x4 = $0.8592, thus 86-cents is your commission.

The commission schedule is here:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/forum/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1213990255/0#0

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PAM - interesting that you are seeing the same weak trend for July vs. June.

Thanks for sharing!

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Cassie_133164 Junior Member artist Posts: 100	Re: Slow sales? Reply #44 - Aug 1^st, 2009, 4:14pm Well, July is over now. I sold 1 card. Go me! I've had a lot better months.
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