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Originally Posted by clare-sizegenetics
Hiya,
The economy has had a massive effect on peoples spending BUT - It's end of the month pay day time now... have a look over the next 5 days and see if your sales pick up for a bit.
Clare  |
I can only think of a few type of people who get paid monthly, near the end or start of one to boot.
I can however put it pretty simply and if one can not understand it oh well. (micro niche stuff too, yet I see it in others stats as well). Will use my personal site for this since I can access everything.
Often more traffic the past few months. Several cases of huge traffic spikes too.
Ratio's have gone down by about 20% or so.
Join page conversions are much closer to expected. Not huge change there, little increase in exit's.
Transaction declines (new joins) has not risen much at all. Which it would if people had no funds available, bad card, had to try a different form, etc.
Re-bill transactions have pretty much stayed about the same. It is down around 1-2% but that also could be a reasonable margin of error. Again not a fund issue. Plus people are sticking around, enjoying updates, etc.
You could say yes the economy is making some people rethink before joining. I often saw drops in traffic anyways when there was real bad financial news being spilled 24/7. Which I also think accounted for it. Plus some may be looking up research, politics, etc.
It however does not explain the no noticeable increase in new join transaction declines. Nor does it explain why almost all re-bills are going through.
Others are more than welcome to share some biz like I just did. Others can say it is unchanged across a large number of sites (guess some could be down, others up = balance), people could say they see no difference, whatever. Just like to see the input and the more legit the better.