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Painter:
Recently joined Alamy and got accepted at first try. I am a hobbyist but have been into microstock for some years now. I have checked the Forum but still have some questions:

Microstock pictures that are not editorial, do they really sell as RF on Alamy if also available at other sites? Is it worth the effort to upload?
Editorials that are not news but rather pictures from big cities etc, is it better to sell them exclusively as RM on Alamy or RF at Alamy and SS/DT etc?

Alamy is quite high in the poll. You who sell well there, is it from RM?

Thanks.

ShadySue:

--- Quote from: Painter on February 14, 2018, 13:35 ---Recently joined Alamy and got accepted at first try. I am a hobbyist but have been into microstock for some years now. I have checked the Forum but still have some questions:

Microstock pictures that are not editorial, do they really sell as RF on Alamy if also available at other sites? Is it worth the effort to upload?

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Jury's out. Some people have reported that they've had files searched on Alamy then selling on micros, at least one person has reported they have not seen that. Might be a case of suck it and see.


--- Quote ---Editorials that are not news but rather pictures from big cities etc, is it better to sell them exclusively as RM on Alamy or RF at Alamy and SS/DT etc?

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Again, reports are varied, suck it and see, or make a personal choice.


--- Quote ---Alamy is quite high in the poll. You who sell well there, is it from RM?

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I sell only RM there, but I'm probably more like 'average' there.
I have a higher rpi/total but much lower rpd on iS.
Everyone will have a different experience, depending on their content and other decisions. I really don't think you can second guess it. And once you've decided, you can't possibly know if the other choice would have been better.

Not very helpful, sorry; but this has been chewed over endlessly and the results are totally inconclusive.
As are reports there about RF sales. Rather suprisingly, the RF sales $$ which have been reported are not much higher (if at all) than RM sales, which is contrary to expectation. Sadly, that's probably the way things are going.

wordplanet:
Congrats on your acceptance!

I sell both RM and RF on Alamy and don't really see much difference in price between the two, however, while I have a few similar images on both the micros and Alamy, most of my portfolio there is different than what I have on the micros.

I just wrote a series of articles that were published over the past few weeks specifically directed at people like you who are new to Alamy but who have been on the micros, and it includes examples of some of my moderate-sellers on there as well. You can find the articles here:

https://www.greatescapepublishing.com/articles/breakfast-stock-club/selling-stock-photos-alamy-part-1/

https://www.greatescapepublishing.com/articles/breakfast-stock-club/selling-stock-photos-alamy-part-2/

https://www.greatescapepublishing.com/articles/breakfast-stock-club/selling-stock-photos-alamy-part-3/

I hope you find them helpful. Your question was perfectly timed!  8)

EDIT:
As Shady Sue said, typing at the same time as I was, the jury's out on whether or not you should upload all your micro images to Alamy. I've lost sales because the images were on the micros and Alamy, and I've sweated it out worried about a refund when one of my photos that was on both the micros and Alamy went for $200 or above, so I keep my portfolios separate. But others swear it makes no difference. Ultimately you have to make a choice and not second-guess yourself. I wasted a lot of time trying to decide where to upload certain images and worrying I'd made the wrong choice, until I decided that I'd stop second-guessing myself.

pancaketom:
You might lose some sales from images that are on Alamy and the micros - that is they might sell for cents instead of $$. Of course if you just leave them on only the micros, they will never sell on Alamy instead of maybe sell a little less than if they were only on Alamy. Is it worth the trouble to upload your micro images there - I don't know, that is something you must decide based on how well you think your images might do and how long it might take to upload them there. Sales on Alamy for me seem to be a pretty random event and I have no ability to predict what might or might not sell - so I would have no way to decide which images should go to Alamy instead of the micros if I thought that having them in the micros would sabotage sales at Alamy.

Also the Alamy license might be closer to an EL at some places, so take that into consideration when comparing sales.

angelawaye:
Congrats! I don't do editorial but I hear they are good for that.

Alamy is my lowest earner ...

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