Originally Posted by Sausage

In my experience 80+% of designers have no clue about sales.

I have had upwards of 30 designs done from around 12-14 different designers and in all cases except for 2 the paid for designs have done worse than the inhouse tours done by our Non-designer.

In fact some have converted so badly that we even removed them as second or third tour options! The designs themselves looked fantastic .. really nice and flashy, but the simple thing is flashy doesn't always sell.