Numbers

I went out to "google" makethemyourself, my company, just to see what was up. I use to do this on a weekly biases, but I haven't done it in years. I found several new places where customers have referred me. I found a few new posting of reviews on pattern review.com -- this is a big thing as long as the review is good. And it was.

What really shocked me though, was HOW many times I show up everywhere. There were more than 20 pages of links referencing www.makethemyourself.com. I just flicked through the first few pages and came across some amazing facts I was unaware of.

I now appear in many business related sites that track information on web users. From these sites I learned:

• I attach an average of 13,028 USA visits a month.


• 76% of my clientele are female.


• 88% are Caucasian.


• 66% have no children. (This is a shocker as I sell children's patterns -- must be grandmas)


• 1/3 of customers make less than $30 a year, 1/3 make between $30-$60


• 50% of them have no college.


• 40% of customers are under 35, 30% between 35-50, 30% over 50


• According to McAfee Site advisor, my site has been scanned and is free of virus and unsafe protocols.


• My domain (The URL I purchase and pay for yearly) is currently worth $4,835.

I finally found a small note somewhere explaining why all of a sudden all this information is available about my site. All these companies routenly rank the top 1,000,000 sites on the web. The ranking is based upon how many people visit your site. I am currently ranking 166,151 (for comparison, Ebay is number 1) or 106,748 -- depends on which source you go with. Either way you look at it, I am in the top 200,000 websites on the Internet in the USA. Not bad for my little mom-ran business. Now if I'd only start bringing in more mula!

This information blows my mind. I had NO FREAKING idea. One of the reasons I was clueless is that I am to cheap to purchase the service that tracks every person to your site. My freebie version only tracks the first 500 page views a day. So it reaches it's limit each day an quits providing additional info. I just refuse to pay the $10 a month to find out. lol

I feel like a "real" business all of a sudden. I need cards. Yep, definitely need cards. Oh wait, I don't have a physical address or phone number for my business. Yeah, that would be why I didn't make cards up in the first place. Damn!