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lcodacci:
Hi all,
since 3 months i disabled my IS exclusive agreement (pictures) and became indie.
Then i started uploading to SS, FT, DT, 123RF for RF and Alamy for RM.
I know 3 months is not so much time but what i saw it's a credit sales dls half of before when i was exclusive on IS and a lot of subs on the other agencies (which btw collect few $$$ all together).
At the moment i have 1500+ images on IS, 200+ images on DT,FT and 500+ images on 123RF. I also started two weeks ago on Alamy with 150 imgs.
What do you suggest to quickly improve sales?
I am not sure that increasing my port on every agencies will lead in fast revenues., so i thought to:
1) disable my pics on SS,DT, 123RF and FT
2) exclusive again on iS (which was 100$/month without any S+ collection pics and without videos uploaded to GI)
3) increase my video port on FT, SS and....
4)... publish tons of my quality editorials to Alamy which has large monthly gross
 
This way i'll publish my editorials only to Alamy, my commercial RF to IS only and videos only to SS/FT (with some videos exclusive on FT).
What do you think? Could it work in an acceptable time? (6 months)

authenticcreations:
Hello,

My first question is .... do you have sales on Alamy and is it higher then you would get on Istock for your editorial?

Mirco

MichaelJayFoto:

--- Quote from: lcodacci on February 09, 2016, 07:28 ---At the moment i have 1500+ images on IS
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2) exclusive again on iS (which was 100$/month without any S+ collection pics and without videos uploaded to GI)

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Do I get that right: You have 1500+ images on IS and made $100 from those when you were exclusive? And you're now making even less?

Well, rather than shifting those images back and forth I would ask myself how much "quality" images these are. No offense but you have to be realistic in what to expect, and when your sales experience is that low range you won't be achieving anything in acceptable time, no matter what you do.

sharpshot:
New images don't seem to sell well, so going back to exclusive is probably your best option in the short term.  Alamy can take a year to get sales going, you might get lucky but don't expect too much in the first year.  You should use Pond5 as well for video, if they get their current review times sorted.

ShadySue:

--- Quote from: lcodacci on February 09, 2016, 07:28 ---Hi all,
since 3 months i disabled my IS exclusive agreement (pictures) and became indie.
Then i started uploading to SS, FT, DT, 123RF for RF and Alamy for RM.
I know 3 months is not so much time but what i saw it's a credit sales dls half of before when i was exclusive on IS and a lot of subs on the other agencies (which btw collect few $$$ all together).
At the moment i have 1500+ images on IS, 200+ images on DT,FT and 500+ images on 123RF. I also started two weeks ago on Alamy with 150 imgs.
What do you suggest to quickly improve sales?
I am not sure that increasing my port on every agencies will lead in fast revenues., so i thought to:
1) disable my pics on SS,DT, 123RF and FT
2) exclusive again on iS (which was 100$/month without any S+ collection pics and without videos uploaded to GI)
3) increase my video port on FT, SS and....
4)... publish tons of my quality editorials to Alamy which has large monthly gross
 
This way i'll publish my editorials only to Alamy, my commercial RF to IS only and videos only to SS/FT (with some videos exclusive on FT).
What do you think? Could it work in an acceptable time? (6 months)

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I see no value in going back to iS exclusivity. Credit sales are dropping rapidly and subs are nothing like making up. Even total numbers of dls (subs + credits) are fewer than a couple of years back, and I'm not the only one reporting that.

How are you doing on SS, where until a few months ago many people were reporting good sales?

Also, +1 to what Michael said above, depending on how long you were there (If only a couple of years, it's not so surprising as newish files have been struggling for ages.)

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