"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Feels good, doesn't it?

Made my day.  Maybe my whole weekend.  :-)

> I think I've sold something like 8 times in all the years my gallery has 
> been up. (Not including all the stuff I solve to myself yet still earned 
> royalties and referrals on...)

Yeah, it's not the $$ that matters (although $$ is always nice), it's just 
the idea that someone liked your art/product/whatever enough to buy it.  It 
means a lot more than 100 "Good job!" and "Nice work!" comments.

> I hypothesize that only a small number of galleries on Zazzle produce any 
> significant income. I mean, my gallery is basically a bunch of Mandelbrot 
> zooms. Wanna take a guess how many others just like it there are out 
> there? Hint: lots. I think you really have to stand out if you seriously 
> want to be noticed.

Yeah, Gilles made a comment on that once.  I believe he basically said that 
people generally found his artwork via somewhere else, and were then 
directed/linked to Zazzle.  In other words, don't rely on Zazzle alone to 
promote your products.

> OTOH, many of my most popular products are ones that I myself didn't think 
> were very good... From this, we can draw two possible conclusions:
>
> 1. I have no sense of taste at all.
>
> 2. Everyone has different tastes - and therefore almost anything will 
> appeal to *somebody*.
>

#2 is definitely true, and it's one of the things that makes life fun.  :-)

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