Who are CGTraders Customers?

Who the customers are and what the want is the big Q we all want to know the answer for. CGTrader comes with some statics about what categories selling best and like that. That can be usefull Information. You can take a peek at the other sellers and see which of theirs models that is top selling. You can experiment with different styles and see what work. Most important have patience.

Some times I get a idea for my 'next big hit' and then it never sells. Sometimes I suddenly sell a model I have lost faith in.

For mine own customers, as far as I can gain Information, they seems to range from hobbyist, freelance designers to small production companies.

From what I can see you recently uploded your models. It takes time though. Everybody is having higher expectations about their sales at the beginning. In reality your best models will sell few times a year, a lot of them however may not sell at all for a really long time. Anyway, after few years you will realize that it was worth making something because sales eventually will come.

From my experience, I would say that there is everything, designers, people who have a hobby, visual production companies, etc.
But there are some interesting cases of people who have an idea and look for their way through the options that arise, being able to print the models gives rise to new developments in which nobody had thought before, and the author of the model less than anyone.
The same goes for other fields, video games, VR, where new ideas continually arise that are only possible because so many artists have modeled virtually all accessible reality.
That is why it is impossible to know who is going to buy your model, perhaps an idea has just occurred to him right now to use the model that is seeing someone who had no intention of buying anything.
I would say that it is important to offer original models, since it is possible that the model, by itself, generates a new idea in the user, an idea that he would not have had without seeing this or that model.

I think if you want to sell your models you have to have a blinkered view on it and that you need to specialise in one or two areas of expertise. Just like marketing anything else you need to find out your target audience and play to them. I focus on medieval models and the games industry and I do quite well (although not this month for some reason, it appears people prefer Christmas to work!). I not only focus on medieval, but I also focus on a style of model. My Twitter account is pretty much followed only by game developers and I share my work there as upload here and elsewhere. Facebook, a blog, linkedin, Discord, Pinterest are also places that you should be posting on each time you upload a new model. If you can, give your model a back story and a good description and supply as much information as you possible. Good luck in your future sales and happy winter solstice!