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dpimborough

« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2018, 14:53 »
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old are those, who are in the Microstock business for more than 7 years. They ran out of new ideas. And they remember the golden days.

Why 7 years? May I ask how long you have been in the business? You seem to know a lot about it.
6 years 11 months I'm guessing ;-).

Oh judging by the fact they registered here
    September 30, 2016,

Probably a lot less than that :D


ShadySue

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« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2018, 15:15 »
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old are those, who are in the Microstock business for more than 7 years. They ran out of new ideas. And they remember the golden days.

Why 7 years? May I ask how long you have been in the business? You seem to know a lot about it.
6 years 11 months I'm guessing ;-).

Oh judging by the fact they registered here
    September 30, 2016,

Probably a lot less than that :D
According to them, (in an earlier post) 4.5 years.

namussi

« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2018, 22:09 »
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I think you've already answered your own question. Sheer volume and availability. It's a question we're all faced with to some extent. For myself I've been actively focusing on direct client work and so far it's working out very well. I just don't see a sustainable future in micro any longer. As you say, the law of diminishing returns makes growth virtually impossible for most today.

No.... it's THE CAP. Woohahahahahahahhaha.

PaulieWalnuts

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« Reply #28 on: April 24, 2018, 00:59 »
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Going for Microstocks is like any other business, its a day by day struggle.

Young people come up with better ideas, are more creative, more innovative. Old people are backward-looking all the time, they simply are stuck in the mud.... and complain. Call it generation gap.

I am old...
I remember when photos were worth more than $0.25 and sold for an absolute minimum of $50 and more often than not in the average range of $300-$500 dollars and regularly more than $1000 and occassionally for $5000+
Old people like me are backward looking all the time wondering why the young people with all their better ideas and innovation decided to take a once lucrative business and devalue it.
Now I can imagine it will be all the old peoples fault for not providing you a self entitled future of success cause you were innovative enought to want to work for pennies and sacrifice yourself for your self applauding creative better ideas.
You can keep it.

I am old too. The right photos made available to the right buyers by a good businessperson will still sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars for a single use license. The assumption that all photos are now only worth a few pennies due to microstock isn't accurate.

jonbull

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« Reply #29 on: April 24, 2018, 07:40 »
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Going for Microstocks is like any other business, its a day by day struggle.

Young people come up with better ideas, are more creative, more innovative. Old people are backward-looking all the time, they simply are stuck in the mud.... and complain. Call it generation gap.

I am old...
I remember when photos were worth more than $0.25 and sold for an absolute minimum of $50 and more often than not in the average range of $300-$500 dollars and regularly more than $1000 and occassionally for $5000+
Old people like me are backward looking all the time wondering why the young people with all their better ideas and innovation decided to take a once lucrative business and devalue it.
Now I can imagine it will be all the old peoples fault for not providing you a self entitled future of success cause you were innovative enought to want to work for pennies and sacrifice yourself for your self applauding creative better ideas.
You can keep it.

ITS calles   ccompetition. what makes your image special was the cost of production and the competition. the firs is practically zero the second is one zillion.
once a good tomato photo could sell for a thousand now there are one billion tomato photos. very simple. is not that now people are so stupid or want less money, is that once there were 1000 stock photographer, now 1000000000000 stock. simply.

Uncle Pete

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« Reply #30 on: April 24, 2018, 11:16 »
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May I ask what your age group is for "old people"? Curious ...

Oh, fat old bald people like me for sure.  :)

Anyone who gets set in their ways will be old, stale and lose their creativity. You can call it the generation gap. I think they left the C off Rap. But I like Lady Gaga and Adell, Meghan Trainor and some other newer artists. Stagnant creativity or only looking back, is "old". Looking forward and accepting change is "new". I can listen to Zappa or Van Morrison and have a good time, but I don't block out everything new, just because it's new and different.

It's not your age that matters, but where your head and heart are at. You can be old in years and young at heart. Your mind can be forward and open to innovation, but be old in years. You can be young and has arrested development, stuck in the past or at some age. Because change is new and good and resistance to change is OLD! Of course the bones don't move like they used to, I'm don't leap walls like I used to, but not much one can do with mind over matter to change that part of old.

That's my personal answer but it's not just about dates and ages or how many years I've been doing stock.

I'll work on the rest: "paper or plastic"? Do you want fries with that"? "hand me my walking stick", "I remember the good old days..." Yeah get over the past, look to the future.  8) 

angelawaye

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« Reply #31 on: April 24, 2018, 11:23 »
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* straight Uncle Pete! Cheers!

« Reply #32 on: April 24, 2018, 12:01 »
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old are those, who are in the Microstock business for more than 7 years. They ran out of new ideas. And they remember the golden days.

That is not true. I still have ideas, I just keep forgetting them on my way to the studio. And sometimes I also forget why I was going there or where I am.

Dr. Josephine, is this a symptom of being in the stock business for 12 years?

Maybe you could prescribe a dose of instagram and free sharing social networks. The young people there seem to have a lot of ideas. Still confused why they live in their parents house at age 35, though...

Uncle Pete

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« Reply #33 on: April 24, 2018, 13:00 »
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old are those, who are in the Microstock business for more than 7 years. They ran out of new ideas. And they remember the golden days.

That is not true. I still have ideas, I just keep forgetting them on my way to the studio. And sometimes I also forget why I was going there or where I am.

Dr. Josephine, is this a symptom of being in the stock business for 12 years?

Maybe you could prescribe a dose of instagram and free sharing social networks. The young people there seem to have a lot of ideas. Still confused why they live in their parents house at age 35, though...

Best answer so far.

I'll add this:



« Reply #34 on: April 24, 2018, 16:05 »
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old are those, who are in the Microstock business for more than 7 years. They ran out of new ideas. And they remember the golden days.

I've been in ms for more of 10 years and I have not any shortage of ideas. What is also true is that I can't shoot some of these ideas because the returns don't justify the the associated expenses. So, I can only shoot about 30-40% of what I would shoot.

PaulieWalnuts

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« Reply #35 on: April 24, 2018, 23:10 »
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I just mean anyone who does not need the income from micro to survive.

Yes, that.  For survival, I hear that McDonalds is still hiring ...

Does Mc Donald's hire old people?

McDonalds is hiring people who can assist customers with using self service kiosks.
« Last Edit: April 24, 2018, 23:15 by PaulieWalnuts »

PaulieWalnuts

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« Reply #36 on: April 24, 2018, 23:14 »
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Going for Microstocks is like any other business, its a day by day struggle.

Young people come up with better ideas, are more creative, more innovative. Old people are backward-looking all the time, they simply are stuck in the mud.... and complain. Call it generation gap.

I don't think it's entirely age based. It's how willing and able you are to analyze and adapt to trends and change. If you are doing the same old stuff that worked five or ten years ago then you'll probably be disappointed regardless of your age.


 

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