For whatever reason, I apparently just sold 2 copies of "The Three Blind 
Mice Return", which was my POVCOMP2004 entry.  And, I just got 2 new 
comments on it.

It's been out there since 2005 and I haven't gotten any feedback, so it must 
have recently been linked-to from somewhere.

I'm certainly not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I wonder, 
"What's up?"

This gives me more of a boost.  Looks like I'll be working on my "Bonsai 
Life" series this weekend.  :-)

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Feels good, doesn't it?

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...)

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.

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*.

I don't see these options as muturally exclusive.

PS. Don't you hate it when you have to explain to an apparently well 
literate adult what "muturally exclusive" means?

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:53:30 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> 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*.

George Carlin said something like this in a routine of his once.  
Something like:

"Just nail 2 things together that haven't been nailed together before and 
some schmuck will buy it."

He went on to describe a prospective idea for a left nostril inhaler 
monogrammed with the state logo being something that someone somewhere 
would purchase.

Jim

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"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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Jeremy M. Praay wrote:

> 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'll agree with that. :-D

>> 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.  :-) 

Heh. Now all I need to do is find a girl who likes differential calculus...

[Oh, wait. I already did. And she's now going out with some other guy, 
but not me. Hmm...]

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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"Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecmo> wrote in message 
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> For whatever reason, I apparently just sold 2 copies of "The Three Blind 
> Mice Return", which was my POVCOMP2004 entry.  And, I just got 2 new 
> comments on it.
>
> It's been out there since 2005 and I haven't gotten any feedback, so it 
> must have recently been linked-to from somewhere.
>
> I'm certainly not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I wonder, 
> "What's up?"
>
> This gives me more of a boost.  Looks like I'll be working on my "Bonsai 
> Life" series this weekend.  :-)


      Oh yes, and so you should. I see that as a nice series. :)

        Go for it.

        ~Steve~

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