Straw poll on the internet economy

sales, retention, conversion, recession

[DirigoDev]

My group has seen a large decrease in B2C demand over the last 60 days. The downturn is on par with what we saw in Q4 2008 at the start of the recession. What is the consensus of webmasterworld users? Are sales, conversions, retentions… getting better or worse?

[tangor]

In many cases it depends on the product offering. Essentials seem to hold up regardless of economic times, luxuries always take a hit, then there is seasonal rise and fall, tax time, etc. which curves the market.

I can say that Y-on-Y 2008-2009 there was loss. Comparing this year to 2009 I'm breaking even.