Funny how they all have dips and peaks around the same spots.

Dips - we call them weekends.

Then you just did what you said not to do Ron? Must be the end of the Microstock world? Oh wait, it's just June, like every June.


Doom and Gloom Index - Six months

And yes, weekends suck, and Summer is here. Views and sales are going down. This is not news.

The overall trend is down. You dont judge performance on a dip or a spike

I Blame Dave!  Glad he finally came forward to confess.

Traffic is dropping because I started selling direct.

Sorry everyone.

 

Lets see, you said:

The overall trend is down. You dont judge performance on a dip or a spike

Then you argue that an annual dip isn't a valid point and it's some trend. Because you say it is? Look at your sales for the last four years and see what all your June and July look like.

Yes I said must be the end of the Microstock world as a sarcastic comment the constant doom and gloom and finding things wrong. Read it as a question, not as a quote. Get it now?

I have no idea what you are trying to do, but I didnt say its the end of microstock. I NEVER have said anything like that ever. Also your new image, you are trying to pass a 5 month downwards trend as a dip? Keep trying.

In my case traffic rank does not equate to sales which makes me inclined to ignore it. I've had my best three months at SS since starting out in 2010 - possibly because I started uploading again in February after almost a year off. Although it could be the change in content and style. Who knows? If I wrote on the SS forum about having great sales no doubt someone would chip in and say I was one of the lucky ones benefiting from the algorithm shift. Am I? Well prove it.

This is is a funny business. The sparsity of data generally leaves me (us) none the wiser because we try to extrapolate on snippets of external information. I have no idea how sales are going overall at SS or what sells and when, excepting the claims from the very small percentage of contributors here and on the SS forums. The endless speculation without empirical data to back it up is, for me personally, a waste of energy and has revealed nothing useful IMO.  I just plug on with the basic level data I get from the agencies and the data I collect myself and use it to try and repeat success, keep looking for content gaps and niches and stop doing what doesn't sell or has been done to death. It's a simple revolving analysis loop that has served me well but I'd like to have more.

positive sales data is in short supply because when you offer real numbers, you can expect legions of plagiarizers following your port so that they can reproduce your best selling images. 

Expect to see hordes of small children sporting super hero gear in the near future.

The overall trend is down. You dont judge performance on a dip or a spike

How does the first 6 mo for 2013 compare to your 2012 or your 2011 records for first 6 mo?

Quote from: Ron on June 23, 2013, 16:02

The overall trend is down. You dont judge performance on a dip or a spike

How does the first 6 mo for 2013 compare to your 2012 or your 2011 records for first 6 mo?

I dont have those records, April 2012 is my first full month and increasing ever since. June 2013 is pushing for BME, barely but still.

Thing is, what I am saying about dips and spikes is true. You measure the trend, and its doing down for the last 5 months.

trend 
/trend/
Noun
A general direction in which something is developing or changing.

I dont need to be a microstocker to know that stuff. I am a L6S green belt, doing fine reading graphs and charts.

Having said that, I am not saying the sales on SS are down. I am just saying that what ever is shown on that graph has a downward trend. How that affects anything, I have no clue. My port is not as affected as others are reporting.