2008 has sucked financially in a lot of areas, i think. i've had less webdesign clients, and the ones i DO have are paying me off at the rate of about $1 a year....
but that said, i was actually surprised by my pay this season. i was expecting less, given how sales at my website have plummeted.
and you know, people's minds are funny things. just a personal experience from my website - if they see an item for $10, and the shipping is $10, they get pissed off. the shipping is as much as the item. stupidely, they don't think "well, $10 is a total steal and so $20 is still really reasonable", they just know they're paying as much for shipping as the item and ditch it in the cart. when i changed the prices of my items to $17 or so, and had $3 shipping (balancing it out kinda), people committed themselves to $17, saw $3 and thought they were getting a bargain. not sure if that applies generally, but i actually saw a lot of sales go up when i repriced that way. not sure if it all comes down to that either, or if there were other factors, but it certainly gave me something to think about.
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but that said, i was actually surprised by my pay this season. i was expecting less, given how sales at my website have plummeted.
and you know, people's minds are funny things. just a personal experience from my website - if they see an item for $10, and the shipping is $10, they get pissed off. the shipping is as much as the item. stupidely, they don't think "well, $10 is a total steal and so $20 is still really reasonable", they just know they're paying as much for shipping as the item and ditch it in the cart.
when i changed the prices of my items to $17 or so, and had $3 shipping (balancing it out kinda), people committed themselves to $17, saw $3 and thought they were getting a bargain.
not sure if that applies generally, but i actually saw a lot of sales go up when i repriced that way. not sure if it all comes down to that either, or if there were other factors, but it certainly gave me something to think about.