What changed, me or the system?

[SvenArndt]

Hi All

for a while I was getting sales a few times a month like clockwork, nothing amazing but working at it, then for the last three months, nothing. this coincided with me actually dropping prices to make 2 dollars per item, some less depending on the cost eg postcards. 

So here is what I am trying to determine, what changed so drastically that all of a sudden for months not a single sale would come across. I have been creating more designs since then as well, did research into keywords to get the most effective ones that zazzle show as being searched. is it literally that its just bad luck all of a sudden and everything went down, or is there a piece I am missing?

[ElizabethR]

Sales can cycle on and off. People react to economic news but they adjust and shop again. Summer is also a slow season.

Your wildlife photography and cover images are fantastic. I just tweeted some of them.

[SvenArndt]

much appreciated, it is plausible that the winter months in South Africa, so your summer, could affect sales, I just wonder how much of it is seasonality and market environment versus me missing something specific eg Zazzle says do not repeat a description on designs, but in my environment, there is only so much you can say about a design that centers around wildlife specific designs eg you can only say it is a elephant, taking at location x, in country x, on this product by me so many times in so many sentences before its starts becoming generic and irrelevant to the shopper. 

[ElizabethR]

Use your blog to post about the wildlife, the game, preserves, South Africa, and your personal informative and humorous stories about all of those topics.