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Title: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: soundworks on January 10, 2013, 03:46
Hello everybody. I am relatively new to SS with a portfolio of some 180 files. Have you noticed a slowdown during the last one or two days? Also, is January generally a slow month and when is demand expected to pick up again? Thank you.
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: flotsom on January 10, 2013, 04:05
I've a smaller portfolio than you, good start to the week and then 0 yesterday & today so far.
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: Pauws99 on January 10, 2013, 06:25
I have a relatively small port too - you should expect a lot of variation statistically there is not enough data to identify a "trend"
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: soundworks on January 10, 2013, 09:02
Hello, other opinions? I need some reassuring words that everything is going to be alright  :).
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: John W. on January 10, 2013, 09:05
January is usually a slow month. February is better but has less days. Best month for many is March. July & August are slower again. Picks up in September till last week of December.
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: soundworks on January 10, 2013, 09:28
Thank you. Just got my first sale for the day.. I should stop refreshing the earnings page so often.. more often I am disappointed but that's what happens when you have high hopes.
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: BaldricksTrousers on January 10, 2013, 09:42
It's been perfectly normal for me - about the same as last year.
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: soundworks on January 10, 2013, 09:44
With a port of almost 5,000, you should get much more consistent downloads and not be affected by seasonal trends :). But having under 200 images mostly of macro and nature does not help :).
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: fotoroad on January 10, 2013, 10:43
I've a smaller portfolio than you, good start to the week and then 0 yesterday & today so far.
Compare to last year is already right now +70% better than January 2012
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: gostwyck on January 10, 2013, 11:10
According to Yuri's excellent Calculator, which I would highly recommend, I'm currently projected to be about 10% up on last January.

http://www.arcurs.com/cal/ (http://www.arcurs.com/cal/)
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: Pauws99 on January 10, 2013, 12:30
Thats a very nice tool thanks  :)
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: Poncke on January 10, 2013, 15:10
Last two days were BDE in terms of DLs
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: gillian vann on January 10, 2013, 17:17
I'm happy, although it's my first January with SS (having joined in Feb last year) and my port also is very small (190) so I cant compare to last year, but I was sitting on something like 36 dls when I looked yesterday. I was expecting Jan to be bad so I'm pleased to see it's quite normal.

I haven't looked at your port but you've got to really look at how many diverse topics you have, not # of images. Esp when our ports are this small. keep shooting!
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: soundworks on January 10, 2013, 23:56
vannphoto, thank you for your reply :). I also have about 40 downloads from the beginning of January so I am happy. Just the last few days were slower compared with the beginning of the month. I was searching for a pattern. Your portfolio is great and images with people are generally downloaded more often. Keep up the good work! :)
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: BaldricksTrousers on January 11, 2013, 01:45
According to Yuri's excellent Calculator, which I would highly recommend, I'm currently projected to be about 10% up on last January.

[url]http://www.arcurs.com/cal/[/url] ([url]http://www.arcurs.com/cal/[/url])


That calculator doesn't seem to take into account the generally slow beginning to a new year as people gradually get  back into the swing, so I reckon you'll probably do better than that.
If I plug in the first 10 days of last January at SS, the result that comes out is about 25% lower than I actually made and I think there was only one working day less then. It's still a cool tool.
Title: Re: SS Jan/Feb trends
Post by: luissantos84 on January 11, 2013, 01:50
According to Yuri's excellent Calculator, which I would highly recommend, I'm currently projected to be about 10% up on last January.

[url]http://www.arcurs.com/cal/[/url] ([url]http://www.arcurs.com/cal/[/url])


That calculator doesn't seem to take into account the generally slow beginning to a new year as people gradually get  back into the swing, so I reckon you'll probably do better than that.
If I plug in the first 10 days of last January at SS, the result that comes out is about 25% lower than I actually made and I think there was only one working day less then. It's still a cool tool.


it does, take another look there

Bad days:
16% 2013-1-1
60% 2013-1-2
70% 2013-1-3
85% 2013-1-4
83% 2013-1-7
88% 2013-1-8
90% 2013-1-9
95% 2013-1-10