Let's try something different - I was thinking a list of tips on how to FAIL in this business thus a great source of information for us to share and to avoid these pitfalls. Here is my first tip on how to fail-

1. Stop submitting images-  I've heard this is the kiss of death on a lot of sites. They even lower your rankings.

1) submit your work only during the weekends.
HINT: 90% chance of failure
even if your work is well-shot as always ...
the renegade weekend reviewer is sure to find something wrong with it.

NOTE: this tip  works even better to eff-up your life, ...
if..
you just broke up with your bf/gf/etc
you just got fired from your day job
your mate told you on friday night, "no tonight, i have a headache"

WAIVER:  not responsible for those with suicidal tendencies
then again, if you have been submitting to ss during the weekend
and been getting 98.6 % rejection and still alive,
you enjoy living dangerously

We must create a " NOT SARCASTIC Tips on how to FAIL in this business "

Me guilty

Hit the wall.

after getting accepted by ss with 1/10 approved
invite the friends to the bar and call out, "drinks on me, i am a professional !!!"

a month later after receiving the credit card statement and the balance does not
merge with your first shutterstock payout,
go to the washroom, put your head in the can and flush !!!

after passing the harsh test of iStock I make even less than you did on shutter- thus I just go straight to the toilet and flush myself 

Quote from: Mr Nobody on June 26, 2016, 22:26

Let's try something different - I was thinking a list of tips on how to FAIL in this business thus a great source of information for us to share and to avoid these pitfalls. Here is my first tip on how to fail-

1. Stop submitting images-  I've heard this is the kiss of death on a lot of sites. They even lower your rankings.

Actually I think you have the wrong thing at number one.
It should really be:


1. Get involved in the microstock business.

if you stop submitting you're no longer involved 

after passing the harsh test of iStock I make even less than you did on shutter- thus I just go straight to the toilet and flush myself 

LOL condolence to you !!!
actually ShadySue sums it all up perfectly...

Spend $500 on location, props and models, and many hours, on a shoot, and earn back $499, all the time boasting about how good your sales are because you make the 'right' kind of images.

so, morale of the story is...
if i had to do it all over again, i would just spend all my money getting drunk on alcohol , women and $ex and oh yes, rock and roll.
the money spent will at least give me satisfaction...

and i would not come to know things like (who the f*ck is this Atilla or $*b weekend-reviewer)
and i never would have to worry over (OOF, blur when viewed 100% , poor composition)...

nothing like that with S.. D.... and rock n roll 
... no worries like dirt in the sensor, noise, etc..

Quote from: etudiante_rapide on June 27, 2016, 08:46

after getting accepted by ss with 1/10 approved
invite the friends to the bar and call out, "drinks on me, i am a professional !!!"

a month later after receiving the credit card statement and the balance does not
merge with your first shutterstock payout,
go to the washroom, put your head in the can and flush !!!

Seriously, you need to pass only 1 at SS nowadays? Wow what has to world come to

I was sad to hear about that as well. I guess volume is more important to them instead of quality...

Upload every day so your portfolio is full of content that doesn't sell.

Yeah, right. And 78.4% of your images have sold at least once or more- not a bad average compared to most.   

business ? what business................