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Something is wrong on pond5 sales since September 2017
pfiverzv:
I am a contributor on ShutterStock and Pond5 for almost 4 years. Every month pond5 had a better sales than shutterstock. The problems I had were how to increase sales on SS, what material should I bring, pond5 was a constant, I was pleased. In the last 4 months, pond5 lost the way, I speak only about my account, I barely sell 1-2-3 footage/month. Be aware that my account now has 12K footage. If Shutterstock has increased in the last year, pond5 I don't know why it's going down. In October I sold 1 footage from more than 11K, 1!!!! footage, November and December 3 sales, January 2018 it's 16th and I sold so far...0! Nothing!
Everyone with this problem in the last months, it's weird to keep adding hundreds of videos and selling less and less?
Thanks!
SuperPhoto:
What kind of sales did you have before?
increasingdifficulty:
--- Quote from: Jordash on January 16, 2018, 03:06 ---Be aware that my account now has 12K footage.
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If you only get 1-3 sales from 12k you have to be honest with yourself, and identify 1-4 of these problems:
1. Your content is not what people need, or there are similar alternatives that look better.
2. Your pricing is off.
3. Your SEO is off.
4. Your portfolio isn't really 12k - because you have too many similar clips, so maybe it's more around 1.2k. This happens a lot.
With good commercial content and the right pricing you should be able to get 50-100 sales per month at P5 from a portfolio that big.
prostock:
Always the same story, at some point, some contributors stopped selling without any explanation and logic, It happens in almost all stock agencies, I have not sold one video since October and I am sending it to the Pond5 since 2011 and every month I had a sale.
SpaceStockFootage:
--- Quote from: increasingdifficulty on January 16, 2018, 11:32 ---
--- Quote from: Jordash on January 16, 2018, 03:06 ---Be aware that my account now has 12K footage.
--- End quote ---
If you only get 1-3 sales from 12k you have to be honest with yourself, and identify 1-4 of these problems:
1. Your content is not what people need, or there are similar alternatives that look better.
2. Your pricing is off.
3. Your SEO is off.
4. Your portfolio isn't really 12k - because you have too many similar clips, so maybe it's more around 1.2k. This happens a lot.
With good commercial content and the right pricing you should be able to get 50-100 sales per month at P5 from a portfolio that big.
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Agreed. If I had 12K clips, and they all sold as well as my current 228 clips, then I'd be getting an average of 574 sales a month!
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