MicrostockGroup

I'll reply to everyone's PMs later tonight.

I'm confused. I meant my own affiliate program, so I would pay you a percentage for each sale you drove to my site. That way I'm paying for performance, and I don't have to worry about getting priced out of an advertising program. I haven't set up an affiliate program yet, so I'm open to suggestions on that. It would mean less upfront capital for you, but I think it would work better in the long run. You'll have sales statistics, so you can move your best performing sites to the top of the list and searches or as featured sites.

Also, I'd prefer not to have people leave my site for another similar site. Even if they can't find what they want, it is possible I can create it, so I'd rather have them contact me as opposed to leaving to find it somewhere else. Those are my concerns with the way you've described the setup.

Best of luck with your proposal. But it doesn't work for me. I don't want to have my own website I simply don't have enough time to run one.

In a perfect world what I would be looking for is a non-profit agency that provides 50% commission and uses the rest to run the site, make it better, advertise etc. No shareholder to provide an every increasing profit to.

The obvious problem is the start up period where there are lots of costs and no income.  Microstock IPO ?

At the moment I'm supporting stockfresh hoping they can provide us with some fair royalties (until they get successful and cut our commissions) 

   

Now I am confused. I don't understand why I would be interested to drive traffic to your site in this scenario - to get a couple of bucks a month from your sales? I was talking about generating new traffic to the portal site so everyone benefits from new hits and we don't lose customers to outside because we can't provide required content.  But I think I explained that already, no point in repeating.

Do any of the agencies have a policy against its contributors forming a competing agency?  I know you're not talking about starting a new agency in the strictest sense of the word, but if you're kicking around ideas such as aggregated searches and common licensing platforms, it looks more and more like a competitor in the eyes of the agencies.

If I joined, I would lose sleep over one or more of the big players seeing the site and deciding to shut down the accounts of its founding members.  If I were Ford Motor Co, I wouldn't allow the guys starting Tesla to be on my payroll.