LONG - Have the forum demographics been analysed?

I know it's not a typical question, but I have 25 years experience in data analysis and descriptive statistics. I wasn't always ans ampfixer.
 
I think it would really help a lot of people, not the least Cake, if we could acurately describe the X1 followers. It could be done without any names, but lots of details that would help form a pretty accurate description of the user base. The Cakewalk forums users are numerous enough to be a good representitive sample of the greater population.
 
Typical questions would be: (answered confidentiall)
 
Age
Sex
Years experience
 
Professional
Semi-Pro
Hobbyist
 
Instrumentalist
Song writer
Engineer
Producer
 
Primary genre
 
Platform of choice
 
Key selling points
    QUality
    Ease of use
    Compatibility
    Bundled content
    Customer Service
    Cost
 
The top 3 things you would improve if you ran the company
Percieved value (basically all the stuff above, taken as a whole.
 
This type of analysis was a critical part of product realization and continuous improvemnt.
 
Maybe you think this is worthless but I can see a lot of people that could benefit from the final product. I'm sure Cake has conducted something like this, If they haven;t they should fir the boss. Certain companies that advertise here are obviously nof working the system ti it's full affect.
 
What do you think? I love to hear from some higher up Cake staff but don't expext to. Feel free to post your thoughs and if you'd rather not share on the forum judt PM me.
 
 
 

No Bub, it gets cold in Boston during the winter. Fir the bugger.

I did an analysis of the data.

Bapu.

'Nuff said.

Starise ... get your genitals out of your head!

Wait a minute, that didn't come out right.

You know what I mean!

Starise

  Your right why does my head always go there?

I dunno. Probably explains why you never leave the house though.

Speaking of leaving the house, I was threatened with the prospect of divorce if I didn't replace the trim on the inside and outside, of all 4 basement windows today. So I probably should go finish that.

Outta here ...



Man, it's 90 degrees with 25MPH winds. Doh!

John T


Back of a napkin maths here, but there is basically no way this forum's membership meaningfully represents the user base. If you look up Cakewalk on Hoovers.com, you can see they have Cakewalk Inc as doing bout $8.5m a year in sales. (Note: don't normally like to get into speculating about Cakewalk's business, but this is public information). So then take a guess on what the average customer spends on Cakewalk stuff. When you factor in all the low price and entry level products, I'd bet on the ARPU being something around $100 to $200. Even towards the high end of that, you come out with something like 50,000 annual customers. The active user base here seems to only be a few hundred at most. Regularly posting, even less. Posting 24/7 = Bapu.

CH'd.

Bub

John T


Back of a napkin maths here, but there is basically no way this forum's membership meaningfully represents the user base.

I agree.

Bub's read all my posts. It's the only way he could agree with you John T.

I suspect it's high, actually. Now upgrades are not annual, there are no doubt plenty of long-term, always-upgrade people spending a lot less.

 Thats in the ball park for me but far more than that in Roland Boss  hardware products.

Yeah, that's kind of the point; you can juggle lots of parameters and still get nowhere near a few hundred people being a representative sample size.

John T


Yeah, that's kind of the point; you can juggle lots of parameters and still get nowhere near a few hundred people being a representative sample size.

Or the twelve few of "us" in the CH.

I can't envision a world in which I would be included in a sample of any kind.  Researchers tend to ask me to leave saying that I'm "Skewing their Test Results" or "Dropping Average Scores to an All Time Low", or "Getting on their Last Nerve". 

jamesg1213


I've done some extensive analysing of the forum's demographic and the results are just spooling out of my machine. Here we are.. 67658 middle aged blokes and 6 women.

  you're using the term "middle age" a little loosely, too...

Beagle

jamesg1213


I've done some extensive analysing of the forum's demographic and the results are just spooling out of my machine. Here we are.. 67658 middle aged blokes and 6 women.

  you're using the term "middle age" a little loosely, too...

Indeed. I tend to refer to myself as middle aged and a half. 55 is the new 40. Except for Beagle where 55 is actually 385. I guess he's on the wet food now.

ampfixer

Beagle

jamesg1213


I've done some extensive analysing of the forum's demographic and the results are just spooling out of my machine. Here we are.. 67658 middle aged blokes and 6 women.

  you're using the term "middle age" a little loosely, too...

Indeed. I tend to refer to myself as middle aged and a half. 55 is the new 40. Except for Beagle where 55 is actually 385. I guess he's on the wet food now.

is that like a "liquid diet"?