This is not a unique problem to you. I have 682 views (622 in search results) and 60 profile visits. If anyone can spot a problem with either of our profiles I would be glad to hear some recommendations too.
I suspect there is not the demand to drive the need for Rookies to perform prints in many cases. Why pick someone with less than 10 prints when for the same price there are people with dozens or hundreds of prints?
@keebie81 suggestions are good ideas, hub views arent always indicative of orders, ive had close to 200,000 views on my hub
trying to get your hub services started is always slow at first, some ideas are to join local makerspaces, go to the next 3d hubs meetup, do more prints for family and friends! feel free to ask me any questions if I can help
If it is the fact that we dont have many orders, we could internally inflate ourselves by getting new hubs to print for other new hubs
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I guess that would work. I could order 10 prints from you and you could order 10 prints from me then we would both have more under our belt :-p
Going to a few 3D printing and makerspaces would probably help me. I think doing a few more showpiece prints would help me too.
I could setup a subreddit for this and invite low order number hubs 
I think like 3 or 4 orders per hub would be enough since it will trigger the “returning client” flag in 3d hub’s algorithm for suggested hubs
The thing with that is a big majority of the people at those events have a printer so they wouldnt order from other printers.
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Hi Nikolay. Don’t forget my response from your other forum post - building a Hub on 3D Hubs will take months of time, not days. Glad to see you have taken my advice on the UK postage rules, that’s nice and clear for customers to see. Repeat custom is key too - you need to entice users to use you via cheaper prices, faster turn around, going above and beyond. Then they will not even check other hubs for other projects they may have. I am very fortunate to have won several users custom and they come back to me with parts several times a month.
You’ve got some great looking pics, so I think they will help you sell your quality, you don’t need to worry about that. It’s just orders through the door now!
To help with your stats and expanding on @wirlybird info - I have 75 orders done and over 33000 views of my hub… it’s a slow process, don’t be relying on this to pay your rent!! 
Best of luck with the Hub!
Steve
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I’m working with a 0.1% Conversion with no advertising.
30,000 Views, 30 Orders.
Its paid off my printer though and that was the intention.
With advertising you might hope to bring that up to 1%, but it will never be much higher than that.
Over what amount of time is that?
So instead of working on legit ways to improve your hub you’d rather just scam the system? @Filemon
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11,000 hub views just means when they clicked the 3d print button you showed up in the list of hubs to select
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I was reading this is a lighthearted discussion about ways to best improve the likely search result metrics rather than a serious plan to cheat the system. I am not sure that using redit to advertise for more jobs would be a scam of the system either.
It would be better if hubs were encouraged to order prints off of one another rather than buying a new colour filament or similar. That would be a more honest reason for one hub owner to order prints from another. Rather does go against the motivations for most hobbyists though. We got printers to print stuff ourselves instead of contracting others.
While yes in a way it is scamming the system, no one loses in it.
The printers get the bigger order number next to their hub in the search results
3D Hubs gets the 12.5% of all these orders
Thus creating more profit for the hub and 3d hubs.
And I never said that we wouldn’t actually print the order. So in a sense, it is a legit order just done between printers.
If this is against the terms somewhere, I’d like to see it and obv if it is not allowed, I wont do it.
But currently in my eyes, that total order number seems to be the biggest hurdle.
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And as a follow up note for Nikolay, I am not being very aggressive in drumming up business locally so my stats reflect that a little bit but it is ok for me. Slow and steady or not so steady is ok for now!
Don’t count on it! I had a recent order from another maker with a broken print who needed a part. I was able to make him a high quality part and also test some options to make sure it would be just right. He was thrilled and I was happy to help get him back up and printing!
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True true - i’ve had two “printer parts” orders. When you can’t print it or can’t get the part right, you need to reach out just like any other customer! Printing for fellow Hubbers makes you go the extra mile as you are basically printing for your competition - so you have to show off! 
Steve
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I’m starting a new hub myself (not all verified yet - waiting on the postcard). At any rate, the only advantage I could come up with is to only charge 50% initially to hopefully get things rolling
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I think you are correct. I might offer some near free small prints for a while. I would be operating at a loss but it would generate a customer base and get the ratings started.
@Slic3DBread I think your Minimum order value is too high at 7.50 should be closer to 3-5
