Author Topic: Anyone selling at Featurepics? (Read 90892 times)

mwp1969 · « **Reply #125 on:** March 30, 2008, 20:14 »

I continue to upload to FP and now have a total of 141 images online there. All are now set to $11.00 RF+Extension and allowing resizing.

I had my first sale there this month

Mark

madelaide · « **Reply #126 on:** April 07, 2008, 17:17 »

3 illustrations sold today. FP is my 3rd best site this month!

Regards,
Adelaide

DanP68 · « **Reply #127 on:** April 07, 2008, 22:26 »

Four months, still nothing. I'm on pace for my first $300 month in microstock. If a company cannot deliver me a single sale in 4 months, they are no longer worth my time. Sorry FP, you seem like nice people. But you are just wasting my time and energy at this point.

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #128 on:** April 07, 2008, 22:56 »

Same as you Dan. The site design and options are great but if I'm going to market a site I'll create my own and keep 100%. I have limited available time and I can't justify spending any time where there is little potential for earnings.

DanP68 · « **Reply #129 on:** April 07, 2008, 23:16 »

Absolutely Naz. What I will say is I am okay with giving up 30% of the profit to a company if they will be handling the sales, credit card information, storage, backbone, etc. That is more than fair.

I just don't have time to start and maintain my own site, designed around FP. I honestly doubt the profits would cover the cost of the domain name. And not least of all, my work is simply not advanced enough to justify my own website and domain name. Maybe some day, but definitely not now.

RT · « **Reply #130 on:** April 08, 2008, 02:28 »

I'm waiting for one more sale at FP, then I'll make the payout and I can delete my portfolio there.

I make more in one day on other individual sites than I've made at Featurepics in 1 1/2 years !!

I once saw someone quote the "if you build it they will come" line, I truly believe that this is Featurepics whole marketing strategy

takestock · « **Reply #131 on:** April 08, 2008, 02:59 »

The sales are now so few and far apart that I have stopped uploading for the moment.

Hard to keep interest!

sharpshot · « **Reply #132 on:** April 08, 2008, 09:17 »

I get 1 sale a month and have stopped uploading. It is a shame but the future doesn't look good if they have such low sales. They make Lucky Oliver look good at the moment.

tdoes · « **Reply #133 on:** April 08, 2008, 10:53 »

I've been at FP for a few months and have sold approximately 6 photos there. I price my RF portfolio's cap price at $5 & $10. I also have this site linked to my personal site because if it gets alot of customers I can get the most potential earnings here!

gbcimages · « **Reply #134 on:** April 08, 2008, 11:14 »

sold two in march nothing so far in april

RT · « **Reply #135 on:** April 08, 2008, 13:32 »

Just out of interest does anybody know how much it would cost to have a server that could host a few thousand images, and to run a website like Featurepics.

Storage costs nothing these days, so I'm wondering, Featurepics seems to do nothing other than run the website, it relys on all the contributors marketing their own work and then on the rare occasion somebody accidentally stumbles upon the site and buys something they take a 30% cut.

Could be an easy little set up to run from my kitchen cupboard

madelaide · « **Reply #136 on:** April 08, 2008, 16:32 »

Maybe somehow I found a niche in FP customers, because I sold one today and now they are number 2 for me this month (also because other sites, except StockXpert, are slower than March for me).

But I've reached my second payout in my BME there.

Regards,
Adelaide

camera shy · « **Reply #137 on:** April 10, 2008, 09:41 »

Thought I'd share my first sale at Featurepics.

I've been submitting to them since January with high hopes that I might get an occasional sale. Well, I couldn't believe it when I saw a download today - one of my funky photoshop abstracts. I set all my abstracts at $10 with resizing and it sold at the second smallest size giving me a profit of $2.92.

There is hope.

mwp1969 · « **Reply #138 on:** April 10, 2008, 18:25 »

"Currently have all priced at $10.00 RF+Extension with resizing enabled. I am still awaiting a 2nd sale there ... $:-\$ "

Mark

05/30/2008
Now all priced down to $5.00 RF+Extension with resizing enabled to try and prime this dry pump of a stock site ...

Mark

grp_photo · « **Reply #139 on:** April 10, 2008, 18:46 »

Just for the record i had sale for 128,- Dollar net last month (small business extension) of a picture uploaded more than year ago a very simple picture rejected by all other micros i am submitting. FP is a low earner for sure but i really don't understand why people want to delete their portfolio there if your not satisfied with the selling price you can adjust it anytime (this would be the only reason for me to delete a portfolio for example Canstock with its extremely subscription sales without a possibility to option out)

Phil · « **Reply #140 on:** April 10, 2008, 22:41 »

Quote from: epixx on February 04, 2008, 00:19

Quote from: mwp1969 on February 04, 2008, 00:11
Oh ... by the way ... how many images are on other sites that have never been approved by the likes of IS or Shutterstock ?

This is a very important point: if a buyer finds a photo at FP that hasn't been approved anywhere else, and if that is the exact photo that he needs, he'll pay more. The fact that a photo has been rejected be SS and IS doesn't mean that it's any point selling it cheaper at FP.

you could argue that if it is rejected at ss and is it is worth more as it less available

(my 4 highest earning images have all been rejected at is (and 2 of them at ss) for "not stock", they have then gone and had multiple sales in the macrostock world

mwp1969 · « **Reply #141 on:** April 11, 2008, 13:22 »

I heard that suwaneeredhead just got an EL from Featurepics paying her around $13.00 or so ... The pricing must be levered to whatever the set price for the image is ...

Mark

fotoKmyst · « **Reply #142 on:** April 12, 2008, 08:00 »

i like FP because i can set my own price, also the support ppl respond to you with good advice and quick. something BigStock is also fantastic for.
i like FP and BigStock because they seem to show they want your business and want to help you sell.

but also, to sell everything $1-$3 , i don't think that is good strategy.
you are showing the customer you need to give the photos away, so obviously the client will recognize you as "cheap or desperate"
and they will stop looking at the photos the moment they see your name.

just my impression.
if you notice, the top sellers don't give their photos away.

fotoKmyst · « **Reply #143 on:** April 12, 2008, 08:02 »

sorry, posted twice

toneteam · « **Reply #144 on:** May 30, 2008, 03:46 »

I have my first sold, 9$

I like this kind of stock, I prefer to stablish my own price, If everybody goes agree we could sold higher, I mean, we should sell at least at 30$ if a photo is actually a good shot with commercial sense. But we don't live in my oniric world

kind regards

ParisEye · « **Reply #145 on:** May 30, 2008, 08:27 »

I had my second sale there a few days ago too : 7,82 $ (5,47 for me) for a view of the Père Lachaise (a french cemetery). I had just upgraded my prices a few days before to 39$ (from 9.99) in order to be on level with Mostphotos where I have the same portfolio (but no sale) and this concern the smallest size available.

khwi · « **Reply #146 on:** May 30, 2008, 08:35 »

hardly

Milinz · « **Reply #147 on:** December 05, 2008, 02:16 »

Yes, I have had some money already on my MB account. There you can get highest RPI if you look at statistics and try to follow price trend.

The main point is that I have mainly 6mpix (downsized 12mpix at 1/2). I made all photos at $5 full resolution and allowed resize option. So, under that prices image which is web size is selling for approximately something below $2.

Illustrations are something different and I've used StockXpert prices as pointer... Sales are there too.

But, I can't understand contributors who sells vectors for peannuts and they will have to make numerous sales to get close to few images monthly I sell and to match my earnings.
Also, FP is not volume site and under that rule it is quite ineffective to sell for less than $5+ simple vectors and $5 6mpix photos...

I saw people are offering their vectors for $1 - $3 which is quite kick in their own stomack due to low volume of sales there.

goldenangel · « **Reply #148 on:** December 07, 2008, 05:03 »

I just had my first sale there. I recently repriced all my photos to $5 with resizing allowed. Today I sold an image that I just uploaded a few hours ago.

OneO2 · « **Reply #149 on:** December 21, 2008, 08:42 »

got my first 3 sale this month, $10.00 price set with resize option enable.
Total Earnings: $14.82

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Author Topic: Anyone selling at Featurepics? (Read 90892 times)

mwp1969

madelaide

DanP68

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RT

takestock

sharpshot

tdoes

gbcimages

RT

madelaide

camera shy

mwp1969

grp_photo

Phil

mwp1969

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fotoKmyst

toneteam

ParisEye

khwi

Milinz

goldenangel

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