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Originally Posted by EukerVoorn
When there is negative news coverage of the economy, the next day my sales are shit. When there's positive news like Wallstreet closed 212 points higher and all that blah blah the next day my sales are fantastic. It really jumps up and down like crazy, 5 sign-ups on a bad day and 30 sign-ups on a good day. I look at traffic stats, Google AdWords, site rips posted on piracy boards, etc and don't see any connections there so I blame it to news coverage of the economical crisis.
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That's extremely interesting. I suppose it makes sense, when someone feel things are getting even worse they'll tend want to hold on to what money they have, be hesitant to spend it. When they think more money is coming, that they don't have to worry about their job being next on the chopping block, they would feel more free to spend a bit.
Perhaps as the economy recovers in a year or five we'll see more of a recovery in adult than we have been expecting. The whole free content thing I've been hearing people bitch about since 1997, so it does seem there is something else going on (though pirates don't help).
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