Hi Tom
 
Recession forced shopers to be careful I guess, my card number was a bit poor on here Feb/March 148 Chinese new year was my best this time 1165 cards in January *flaming nora did not realise*, hugely different to last Easter my sales were in Excess of 500+ but hey I sell drip drip so I am happy. But this is just the start of my second year so I can't complain having sold 2597 of cards Since Dec Last year, I hope it is an upward trend like your own (Prays).
 
Huge congrats on the almost 5k of cards I am sure that will change very quickly and be on the next leg to 6k *chinks champers glass and waves cheers arround*
 
Thanks for the figures always love to look and see what's happening.
 
Huge thank you and congrats hugs
Moonie

Wow that's a large drop, unless Brides have held off during the resession for now, and it has been a long long bad winter we even have snow here again, so perhaps things mount up on a scale and people are being more cautious, less extravagent.
 
I agree if there is that much of a drop perhaps the new newsletter should carry a lot not just the usual good sellers but a lot of the new bridal cards, a big old posh looking wedding email flyer thingie. All ribbon and lace and things ya know bridal satin etc. Even an unsedualed one slotted in now and then make brides notice more.
 
I put it all down to a lot of causion but then on the other site my bridal has gone up so it's a bit confuddling why they are flat. Lets go bridal there are some stunning new ones as well as the beutiful old favorites.
 
Just a suggestion of course on the email, aim at the problem areas, and recession.
 
Shame we cant put a bit of glitter on them or a ribbon *hands glue and sticky things to Shaun to play with *

Hi Tom,
Thanks as always for the numbers  
 
Happily, I did a little better this qtr than the last one, ironically thanks to sales of bridesmaid invitations. and for some reason I had a few surprise sales of very early designs that I thought would never sell, has there been a re-shuffling?
 
I just crept over my average of one card a day, I can't seem to get above that but I am attempting to get a blog going and see if that helps and paying attention to what others are doing to promote. I am also taking a hard look at my designs and trying to really improve on the quality of my work. I wish I had more time to put into this but am happy with having, what for me was a good qtr.
 
Huge Congrats to you Tanya, your work is exceptional!
 
Well, onward and upward folks!  
Pamela

I had my best quarter ever, thanks in large part to several bulk sales, so no complaints here either!  I don't sell a lot of Wedding cards, don't have that many to sell actually...so haven't noticed a drop.
I have seen a great increase in sales over last year, which I'm attributing to some promotion on my part, and also I've got more cards now than then....still only have 333 I think though!!
For example, last March 2009 I sold just TEN cards...and this March sold 622!! This mainly due to that large order of 500 I had. (I'd love a few more of those...thank you to whoever sent it my way!  )
This month on both this site and the 'other one' have been great for me....hope it's a sign of the times, and people feeling better about the economy.
 
I want to say Congratulations to all who have done well, and keep your thoughts positive and persevere to the ones who haven't seen an upswing....things do change, I'm an example of that....I've had some very dismal months, with no sales for up to two weeks sometimes!
So you never know...just keep on keeping on!

One idea is to offer an exclusivity bonus to artists for certain popular designs of theirs.  I do think there are shoppers who see a great card here but go over "there" to buy it because of a number of factors.  
 
I'm sure it goes the other way a bit too.

Quote from Angela_134247 on Apr 2^nd, 2010, 5:32am:

 
Not strictly true, as I believe you well know. That's fine - you're a free agent, as is everyone. We just can't have it both ways.

"Both ways" does not translate into "both sites". I am one of the many who also sells on Zazzle. I said, "not strictly true", which was, in fact, my point - which you have not understood. I don't think you are being purposefully misleading. I'm sure you believe what you are saying. End of discussion for me.