@maxine*j wrote:
@chariot_badges wrote:
Why is it that nobody has thought of ... the economy?
I know you've heard of it. It's been in all the newspapers.
There's an election tomorrow that has a lot to do with it.
CNN and MSNBC have been talking about it so I know ya'll have heard the word.
Not possible, eh?
Sure, the overall economy is a factor. So is the weather. So is post-holiday bill-paying. So is looming income tax time. So are a dozen other things.
But no seller can control can know which of those factors is affecting his sales and, even if he could, he could do nothing about them.
What he CAN do is make an honest assessment of his own business, his own merchandise offered, his own pricing, his own presentation, and so on, to make sure that the things he can understand and control are in the best order he can get them in.
And that's what people here are suggesting OP do.
If after all that sales are still poor, then the seller needs to rethink his business entirely, from top to bottom, from the merchandise he's selling to where and how he's trying to sell it.
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Hear! Hear! (They're there)...
There are so many issues going on around the globe any near all of them are impactors on economics YET for those who watch credible news or read it such as Reuters and others, economies are pretty good. The fact many resellers economies are not good has a heap of variables involved as well.
But the fact economies doing pretty well all considered with a global pandemic still going on that doesn't mean cottage resellers are thriving. Its a MUCH more competitive landscape in eCommerce than its ever been since Al Gore invented the Internet. 2024 is rather shaping up to be perhaps the most frightening time in 60 years. Wars, likely yet hopefully not expansions of said wars... In the USA a general election whereby all at stake is playing on fears which effects an entire globe more or less the homeland.
Just other day saw a new report on "The Trades" and this is one of the areas where Americans have become all too aware of in the pocket books. Carpentry, Plumbers, Electricians, Masonry all the way to Auto Mechanics and all things between are now VERY expensive due to what is amounting to a SERIOUS lack of skilled workers. That's not inflation its demand versus the ability timewise to do the work and the trades are not the only sector.
Aside as you said @maxine*j most all this is out of individual controls but then again as masses its not completely out of controls.
