Tuesday, March 5, 2013

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VISITORS AND COMMENTS
 
Some day I am going to sit down and go over almost two years of sales on Fine Art America, just so I can hone my professional marketing skills to the point that when you go out the door in the morning all you can think of is "That picture"!  All I have to do is put my 8 years of college education and 72 years of real life experience to work and become the "Mad Economist"!

You know like a song somebody sang three bars of on the TV this morning that you cannot get outa your head.  The song may not have been selling something but it sticks in that fat part of the brain that you wish you could lobotomize.  Probably the same section that holds all the nasty bathroom humor and porn you've been privy to over the years.  Privy! More bathroom humor there.  Well, I just want to be that little gremlin that sticks stuff like that in your head that you just cannot shake. 

C'mon lets sing a few bars of "Margaritaville" or the Dixie Chicks "
Earl's Gotta Go"!  You know you wanta!
 
I have looked at the numbers on the top five of my photos on Fine Art America, and found that there is not a big correlation between the number of visits, the number of comments and the number of sales.  The following is "Hey I took college Jack!  Thank you Uncle Si! Analysis 101!"

The ranking of the most number of visitors and most comments is below and does not include all sales.
 
                                                                      VISITORS      COMMENTS  SALES
 
 
BRANEGAT LIGHTHOUSE                                   6377    274                    22
SNOW TRAIL SEASON GREETINGS                   1303        0                      0    
NATURE'S UMBRELLA                                         1281        9                      0
CRANKY CRAB                                                      1042      41                      4
PANACHE                                                                1002      41                      0
CAPE HATTERAS LIGHTHOUSE                          666      34                      4        
EMERGENCE                                                            552      33                      1

For all of younse what havent learnt your putur yet,  you can click on each image for the sales site.

OK, that doesn't seem to tell me a whole lot.  I thought that the more visitors the more  sales one would get.  Guess that holds to a certain degree but I need to get well over 2,000 hits for that to really work.  The number of comments certainly is an indicator, or maybe the Barnegat shot is just to red hot good.

Topic seems to be a better indicator.  Here we have two lighthouses in the top five contenders followed by the crab.  Only one of my more astute buyers bought a foggy scenic even though that image's hits were relatively small. 

   LIGHTS  SCENECRITTERS  CHES- APEAKE  MARODDFEATHER     TOTAL
52193 732389
58%21%3%   8%3%2%3%
100% 

The numbers above show a total of 89 sales up to Jan, 13, 20113 and it's apparent the two topic categories should be Lighthouses and Scenic images going forward.  I don't think we have enough data for a significant statistical analysis.  Means only one thing!  To get meaningful data.....YOU people are going to have to buy!





 

1 comment:

  1. Before one of my astute school teacher readers tells me......I am aware that I have no idea how to put tables into blogger. A skill set I have not interest in learning. Live with it!

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