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You're definitely not the only one 

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Yes, we are competitors.

Nisern, even when it is a friendly competition, some information is not to be shared.   
Your question is not so general.   What you are asking is information on how to improve your sales.

Ah, but even though you may be operating in different spheres than Sean, 'the walls have ears', meaning that his post would be visible to any number of people who might be shooting in the same genre ergo are possible rivals.

For nagging of course, and spanking spammers. 

What I find amusing is that the ones who feel threatened and complain about competition the most, are the ones that bring in the competition with their endless referals. 

niserin, your upload strategy should differ from agent to agent.  No use uploading a batch of similars at an agent who's known for knocking back images because they're similar.

Good luck.

What I've learnt from him is that as soon as IS goes down the pan, he's going with them.

No I don't wish.  I personally prefer IS continues to operate on a slow downhill slump and sjlocke sits there waiting for it to pick up again while other more userfriendly sites boom.

If sjlocke is so concerned about giving anything away, he should deregister and sit in a corner of a dark room with his trade secrets.  This is supposed to be a forum where people discuss all things microstock.  People here share their sales every month and whinge when sales are low and always ask for the opinion of others.  Depending on who's asking the question, they'll either get a decent answer or if they're not in the 'in crowd', be told something stupid like "I'm not going to hold your hand".  I copped the same response when I first posted here.  The OP has every right to ask a microstock question in a microstock forum and if you don't want to help out or share, then bugger off.  It wasn't as if the OP was directing their question at sjlocke only.  He doesn't like giving business strategies away because it's bad for business, fair enough, don't respond at all.  What he does give away is that he's an egotistical wa... ahhh I better not say it... but that can't be good for business either can it?

But isn't it prefixed by "I have never been accused of being"

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