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« on: March 16, 2011, 14:10 »
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Just wanted to report that I was surfing my hometown's newspaper for an article about a relative, and noticed that a huge vertical banner ad for StockFresh was present along the left side of the content. Maybe they have started their marketing campaign? Seems like a great time to do so, that's for sure!


nruboc

« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2011, 14:17 »
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Just wanted to report that I was surfing my hometown's newspaper for an article about a relative, and noticed that a huge vertical banner ad for StockFresh was present along the left side of the content. Maybe they have started their marketing campaign? Seems like a great time to do so, that's for sure!

Saw some web ads as well, they looked nice!

« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2011, 14:25 »
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seen a few too


« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2011, 07:43 »
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Great news. I'd love to see Stockfresh make it. Neat looking site, fair commission and the fact that StockXpert kept their 50% commission till the end (as far as I remember - correct me if I'm wrong) makes me want to support this site.

« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2011, 12:11 »
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I also noticed a large Stockfresh banner on failblog.org, a site I check almost daily.
Nice to see this and hopefully sales will pick up finally!

« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2011, 13:24 »
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I also noticed a large Stockfresh banner on failblog.org, a site I check almost daily.
Nice to see this and hopefully sales will pick up finally!
I see Dreamstime adverts there everytime I go to the site which like yourself is practically daily :)

« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2011, 13:35 »
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Curious :)), those Dreamstime banners I didn't see..

« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2011, 18:51 »
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Woo hoo!  My first StockFresh sale.   Only $1 - but that's the equivalent of 4 downloads at Shutterstock. (And it is was an image SS rejected for potential copyright issues).  Plus, they just accepted 100% of my 24 uploaded images - all within an hour after uploading.   I agree - would love this site to make it.

« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2011, 00:08 »
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Whooot! Sold my first image too  ;D

« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2011, 21:15 »
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Ditto, a $1 sale for me also

« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2011, 07:01 »
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A stockfresh banner on http://howjsay.com/ as well

lisafx

« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2011, 14:38 »
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Sales picking up for me too.  Whatever you guys are doing, Peter, keep it up!  :D

« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2011, 04:59 »
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Yeah, here too :)

I have a suspicion that the Stockfresh banner is targeted towards people like me who browse microstock sites and forums 90% of the time. Because the Stockfresh banner is everywhere now, most recently I saw it on garfield.com. Yes, it's on GARFIELD.COM. I guess for people not involved with or interested in microstock the banner shows something else

« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2011, 10:39 »
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seems like great new site - will upload some stuff there :D

Thumbs up

« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2011, 13:32 »
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the banner has been following me everywhere, although I think it's taken a break for the Easter weekend. Nice to see it though.

« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2011, 19:37 »
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i am still waiting for my approval to be reviewed, guess it had been like 6 months or more? have sent them an email..

« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2011, 19:47 »
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Ok I'm trying to get excited about StockFresh.  I look at their site and see that it says "We believe in fair compensation and fair pricing."   And right next it that it says "subscription packages - 35 cents per download".
« Last Edit: April 24, 2011, 20:04 by stockastic »

« Reply #18 on: April 24, 2011, 23:18 »
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Ok I'm trying to get excited about StockFresh.  I look at their site and see that it says "We believe in fair compensation and fair pricing."   And right next it that it says "subscription packages - 35 cents per download".

I couldn't find that..but there are a lot of pages and I just went to the homepage. I did find in the 'why shop with us' widget, "We take pride in the fact that our photographer commissions are among the highest in the industry. If you shop with us, your money goes to the right place to those who work hard to deliver these great images."

Which sounds good. I should really start submitting more to them (I managed to sneak in somehow), as it may be a good investment for the future, the only thing is they don't accept much of what I send, I've sent 92, but only 27 accepted. They have gone in to the Big agency philosophy on accepting images, I guess you have to think big to be successful, but new agencies need images. I was shopping on DepositPhotos recently, they have 3 million images now and I can pretty much find everything I need, but on agencies with 500,000 to a million photos, I don't know why buyers would go there instead of the others.

edit: replaced wrong word
« Last Edit: April 25, 2011, 02:32 by Microstock Posts »

« Reply #19 on: April 25, 2011, 02:17 »
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^^^They're far more lenient than the big sites.  I really don't think they should lower their standards any more just to get a bigger collection.  I just upload my best and they usually accept over 95%.

« Reply #20 on: April 25, 2011, 09:31 »
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Ok I'm trying to get excited about StockFresh.  I look at their site and see that it says "We believe in fair compensation and fair pricing."   And right next it that it says "subscription packages - 35 cents per download".

I couldn't find that...


http://stockfresh.com/info/contributors

Do we want to contribute to the success of yet another 35 cent subscription site?

« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2011, 10:24 »
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Ok I'm trying to get excited about StockFresh.  I look at their site and see that it says "We believe in fair compensation and fair pricing."   And right next it that it says "subscription packages - 35 cents per download".

I couldn't find that...


http://stockfresh.com/info/contributors

Do we want to contribute to the success of yet another 35 cent subscription site?

We could always just submit to macros. All the microstock agencies are becoming more about subscriptions. They all want a piece of ss's pie. It wouldn't be wise for an agency not to have subs, when the other agencies have them.

WarrenPrice

« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2011, 10:33 »
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Ok I'm trying to get excited about StockFresh.  I look at their site and see that it says "We believe in fair compensation and fair pricing."   And right next it that it says "subscription packages - 35 cents per download".

I couldn't find that...


http://stockfresh.com/info/contributors

Do we want to contribute to the success of yet another 35 cent subscription site?


I like success.

« Reply #23 on: April 25, 2011, 10:34 »
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We could always just submit to macros. All the microstock agencies are becoming more about subscriptions. They all want a piece of Shutterstock's pie. It wouldn't be wise for an agency not to have subs, when the other agencies have them.

Well, that's what I'm wondering.  We all complain about IS driving it down to 22 cents, and wonder if SS is steadily herding all their buyers to subscriptions, and talk about how subscriptions are the nail in the coffin.  Should we be getting behind StockFresh if it's just going to be a clone of SS?  What's the point in helping them siphon off some small portion of SS's business, just so we have the hassle of submitting to more sites and can start getting our 35 cents from another source?

« Reply #24 on: April 25, 2011, 10:48 »
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We could always just submit to macros. All the microstock agencies are becoming more about subscriptions. They all want a piece of Shutterstock's pie. It wouldn't be wise for an agency not to have subs, when the other agencies have them.

Well, that's what I'm wondering.  We all complain about IS driving it down to 22 cents, and wonder if Shutterstock is steadily herding all their buyers to subscriptions, and talk about how subscriptions are the nail in the coffin.  Should we be getting behind StockFresh if it's just going to be a clone of Shutterstock?  What's the point in helping them siphon off some small portion of Shutterstock's business, just so we have the hassle of submitting to more sites and can start getting our 35 cents from another source?

Yes, u make a convincing argument actually. But you just can't stop it though, there are too many of us already clambering in to try and get in to Stockfresh as it is. If some of us take your view point, it doesn't stop everyone else from piling in. I know some people who refuse to upload to ss because it's mostly a sub site, however they only lose revenue because of it. It's all going to get siphoned off eventually and we'll be blaming the sites, when it was actually us who nailed the coffin because of uploading. It's catch 22 in a way though.


 

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