{"id":708,"date":"2021-12-01T15:17:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writerofwizardry.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:21:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:21:01","slug":"amazon-ratings-and-growth-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writerofwizardry.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/01\/amazon-ratings-and-growth-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Ratings & Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Ratings. They are the be all and end all of Amazon products, not least for books.\u00a0<\/p>

They, quite literally, give books a chance at being noticed, or allow them to drown in a sea of Amazon nothingness.\u00a0<\/p>

Very recently the first Great Hearts book reached 200 ratings, which is amazing and I thank everyone who has taken the time to leave a rating \/ review, but it got me thinking. More accuately it got me amazed at the jump between the first 100 and the second.\u00a0<\/p>

The first 100 ratings took over 4 years for the first novel to achieve. This could be down to any number of things: I was a complete unknown competing against thousands (if not millions) of other books, I was terrible at marketing (still largely am), or perhaps it was that the book itself wasn’t hitting the right audience.\u00a0<\/p>

The second 100 ratings took 4.5 months.\u00a0<\/p>

Let’s assume the first book hit 100 ratings after exactly 4 years. That means 100 ratings in 1460 days, equating to 1 review every 14.6 days.\u00a0<\/p>

For ease, we can assume that the second hundred ratings took 135 days, equating to 1 review every 1.35 days.\u00a0<\/p>

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Which makes for a fun little graph.\u00a0<\/p>

Interestingly, because 2 ratings is a much higher increase when compared to 1 rating, the rate of growth for the last 135 days is technically much less than the first 100. Going from 1 rating to 100 is 9900% growth! Going from 100 to 200 ratings is meanwhile just a measly 100%<\/p>

As such, whilst it very much didn’t feel like it, the first 4 years had a growth of almost 6% per day, whilst the last 135 days has seen a growth of 0.74%.<\/p>

Moral of the story? If I had a regular 6% increase on a daily basis for my income, I would be a very rich man indeed.\u00a0<\/p>

Note* I am not a statistician and fully expect my calculations to be completely and utterly wrong.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>

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Amazon Ratings & Growth Ratings. They are the be all and end all of Amazon products, not least for books.  They, quite literally, give books a chance at being noticed, or allow them to drown in a sea of Amazon nothingness.  Very recently the first Great Hearts book reached 200 ratings, which is amazing and …<\/p>\n

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