MicrostockGroup

Just received this email:


Dear Microstock Forum user and Photographers,
 
We are still waiting for the domainname microstockphoto.com to be moved to us as new owners and were planning to wait with moving the microstockphoto.com website to a new server untill this was finished, but because of this delay, we don't want to wait longer and will start moving all content this weekend.
Because of this, we will close the login to the Forum and photographer login just untill the movement of the website is completed.
 
We will also present some screenshots of the new design for microstockphoto here later today, which we will try to implement into the site asap.
 
We will send out an email to all photographers about this and hope you all have understanding if any problems should occur. (which we don't hope so offcourse)
 
As stated previously, many updates are planned, concerning updates, marketing etc. and we will try to keep everybody updated on it.
please check the forum announcement page now and then for updates.
 
Denne melding og oppdateringer ligger også på: http://www.microstockphoto.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=152
 
 
Ruben
ViaStep

yep looks norwegian to me

i'm not going to hold my breath

So anything new in this past month, other than the new look?  Has anyone noticed any improvement in sales?

Regards,
Adelaide

I though I would give this site another chance,but I have been having problems uploading there. If I try to upload four or more pictures they just never appear on the site. I emailed support and Ruben replied. After he looked at the problem, he said he was too busy to sort it out, and I would have to just upload a few at a time until he had time.
With seven hundred pictures approved on Shutterstock alone, I dont think I will be uploading my portfolio three at a time!
The site does look nice, but nothing out of the ordinary. I wish them luck.

Aquilegia,

I can't imagine i have said that im too busy to sort it out. I might have said that we are working on the problem.
Which we indeed have done and fixed any upload problems. We even offer FTP upload accounts for photographers who are interested in that solution and we would be more than happy to help you out with any problem you might have.


The last few days and weeks we have been working very hard on the site.
Some of the new features are:

- New approval system, which makes things much clearer and better to understand for photographer why a photo has been rejected.
- Improved search engines search (which has allready resulted in a climb and better rating)
- New design (which has allready been mentioned here)
- New Server
- New Forum
- and much more upcoming.

The most important thing we are focussing on now is offcourse the sales.

We are glad you all like the new look and have received great response from everybody about this.

and yes, The last line was indeed Norwegian, not Danish :-)

Ruben
Microstockphoto.com

Thanks for jumping in here Ruben.  It is great to have input from the microstock sites.

Thanks leaf,

I think its quite important to keep involved (til a certain degree) into forums like this, but on our Forum we try to keep all customers and photographers up to date on allmost everything we do. At least for now, to show that we are not sitting still and really try to improve every aspect of the site. drop by on our forum whenever you have time.

well great to see that you have a referral program but a couple questions.

you say "You earn 20% commission* from every sale that comes from your referral."

Is the referral a buyer or a seller.  That is to say, do we earn 20% of every image sale of our referred photographer, or do we earn 20% of every purchase of our referred buyer?

also in your terms of you use you say
NOT ALLOWED: All other uses of banners or links, such as newsgroups, chat rooms, ICQ, message boards, banner networks, hit farms, counters, or guestbooks etc. are NOT allowed.

Which means if people here became members of the affiliate program they couldn't put the link in their signature??  Isn't that were people usually put such links?

I think the question on a lot of ppl's minds is: When does your MAJOR marketing drive start?
My account has been dormant for a while with very little activity. Would like to see at least one sale before I do a major drive with you.
Most of my current efforts are towards the sites that are replacing my 'real job' sallary.

Thanx for the reply Ruben.
Looking forward to all the upgrades and improvements.

Lizard, ask Ruben, he will set up an FTP account for you (the pictures don't go to the site straight away, it may be a few hours before they show up).  He asks to upload 50 images max, and then wait for the results before uploading again.  The results are not emailed - yet... (I hope that this option will come one day), so you have to go and check the results on the MSP site.  I found the reviews quite accurate.

Berryspun , thank you for your advice , well I didn't  properly read the post in my previous post , I feel  stupid now.


Ruben , thanks , I just sent the  mail .