MicrostockGroup

Hi Everyone,

I know you all have very high expectations of Stockfresh, and we're trying to live up to that. However, please don't forget that we're a small team with limited funding as opposed to other newer agencies who have either had huge investments (Depositphotos) or have a massive community to build on (Photodune). Without those it's simply not realistic to expect stellar growth so soon. Stockxpert started off quick because we had 500,000 potential customers on SXC already, but keep in mind that it took 4 years for SXC to grow that big. It's very easy to build on a huge community, but when you start literally from zero, it takes time to build a customer base, get your name out, establish yourself, saturate the search engines etc. It's a lot of work and whoever thinks it's possible to become successful within just 1-2 years has no idea what it takes to establish a business like this. Anyway, we're working on it, I believe we're on the right track because traffic is growing nicely and even though sales might be disappointing at the moment, I hope one day you'll all be satisfied!

Happy holidays!
Peter

Yes true, it does take a while for an agency to establish itself. I would say that we should keep supporting sf and stay patient. If it does take off eventually then at least sf aren't the kind of agency who would do a money grab like ft and IS, or so I would hope.

I'm staying in as well. Uploading takes no time (I upload to all sites at once) so there's nothing to lose. But I think more marketing couldn't hurt.

I am staying in as well, but I don't think they'll be around for another year.

Application review took over a week so I cancelled out.

Maybe I'll give them another try someday.

I've been with Photodune less than a month, only half of my portfolio is online and I've made more money with them that I have with Stockfresh since it started 18 months ago. Sorry Peter you're a nice guy and I wish you the best but I've had enough of the excuses and empty promises, I upload my photos to agencies so that they can market and actually sell my work, I've lost faith that's ever going to happen with Stockfresh.

It's going a tad slow indeed, but i see less and less time between different downloads, so i'd think there is some growth. The site excells in its simplicity and user-friendliness and the quality of the collection looks excellent...you guys have a lot going for you, i'm in for the long haul too (unfortunately im a small fish)
I also like contributors now can convert their royalties into credits (at a nice rate!)!

Umm here's another one.

Call me old fashioned but why not try what every other single business on earth does when it starts up - marketing or advertising. Oh let me save you the time in replying with something like "we don't want to rush in and waste a load of money on marketing until we've ............blah blah blah

Who said you should be ashamed because you're smaller? and maybe people are inpatient because almost a year to the day you said on this forum (I've bolded a relevant excuse part):



As I said best of luck but I'm no longer going to upload to Stockfresh, I'm in this as a business not a charity.

My fist Stockxpert image uploaded had file ID#150 (around that) so consider it the very beginning of Stockxpert.

After all Peter went through, I have full confidence that he knows what he is doing.

Kindly remember, that he had built a company from nothing that was attractive enough to be picked by bigger macro stock agencies, not everyone is getting such offers, I would think.

Anyway. Considering the stability of the site, review times (!!!) and communication I don't see how they are worse than any other agency in the business. We get a decent commission and Stockfresh is not anyone's sole income from stock anyway, so I don't see the issue here.

Whether it's worth your time performing those few clicks to submit your images after FTPing them or not, is up to you.

A year ago I applied for acceptance - and 2 months went by heard nothing, emailed them - nothing - I watched their site but all they obviously wanted was microstock portfolios of high sellers from other agencies... so to be honest I thought why bother and withdrew and closed account.   They have alienated people by not fulfilling their promises so nope the graphics people and advertisers I work with I do not mention them in my reccomendations.  Sad really big start and no follow through.   

I applied recently, took weeks to get reviewed and I also canceled out.
Like RT, I'm also in the processing of holding my uploads from agencies that bring nothing in return.
I'm not looking for storage space, I have HDD's for that, I'm looking for sales!
Rejection goes both ways people!

same thing happened to me, the application status was rejected long time ago, and I have emailed at least 2 times to check how I can re-apply it again, but nothing is heard.

26 downloads in total and just $3.5 short of a payout - looking forward to being able to withdraw. Earningswise SF is on par with (or perhaps slightly better than) FeaturePics, Cutcaster and YayMicro for me - sites that I also upload to in the hope that I'll get paid once or twice a year - still worth it in my opinion. What's to be impatient about? Get your large payouts every month from Shutterstock and Fotolia while slowly building up extra income from the smaller sites. I understand that some are afraid the small agencies will shut down while keeping unpaid earnings, but has that even happened before ? When Snapvillage closed I received my balance of ~$7 via PayPal. I was paid my due earnings from StockXpert as well when closing my account (after the Getty mess). LuckyOliver perhaps? I never had an account there so can't tell what happened..