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Agency Based Discussion => Stocksy => Topic started by: 08stock08 on March 26, 2013, 11:04

Title: Any Sale?
Post by: 08stock08 on March 26, 2013, 11:04
Has anyone got any sale to report from Stocksy? Their operations are in function now and it is live now. Some people have begun to report the initial status updates as they have uploaded the images there. I checked at least two. So far so good.

Is money coming? Is there any sale so far?

--PS
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: Monty-m-gue on April 03, 2013, 04:22
Anyone making sales at Stocksy yet?
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: leaf on April 03, 2013, 04:35
a few people have reported sales.  Not me though :(
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: Xanox on April 03, 2013, 07:30
i'm curious to see how Stocksy will either grow or die.

they're the last one in a long line of new agencies that popped up with small budgets and no clear business plans.

unless they've a few millions to invest to acquire customers i guess they'll not going far considering they expect photographers bringing in buyers in a "crowdsourcing" fashion.
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: aeonf on April 03, 2013, 07:34
they're the last one in a long line of new agencies that popped up with small budgets and no clear business plans.


Why and how did you get to this conclusion?
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: MichaelJayFoto on April 03, 2013, 07:50
they're the last one in a long line of new agencies that popped up with small budgets and no clear business plans.


Why and how did you get to this conclusion?

By the fact that they are a) Not RM b) Not Macro. Can't succeed then.  ;)
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on April 03, 2013, 08:20
Has anyone got any sale to report from Stocksy? Their operations are in function now and it is live now. Some people have begun to report the initial status updates as they have uploaded the images there. I checked at least two. So far so good.

Is money coming? Is there any sale so far?

Yep, averaging several sales a day.  Some of them are conversions by me from people looking for images they had already planned on using. 
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: asiseeit on April 03, 2013, 09:03
That's good to hear Sean.  :)
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: EmberMike on April 03, 2013, 09:28

What? Just a few sales? What the ----? This site is doomed! What garbage. Everyone should delete their portfolios.

;)

Sorry, this thread just didn't feel right without all of the usual requisite doom-and-gloom.

Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: thesentinel on April 03, 2013, 09:35


Sorry, this thread just didn't feel right without all of the usual requisite doom-and-gloom.

Well there's the requisite quantity of visual tourettes , aka winking emoticons, so all is well.
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: Xanox on April 03, 2013, 12:51
what really matters is who the buyers will be : micro buyers ? midstock buyers ? random buyers searching something in between micro and RM ?

and how much is their budget ? will they come back or they're just seeking deals ?
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: dbvirago on April 03, 2013, 14:31
I haven't had any sales there. After long and careful deliberation, I have determined that the major factor contributing to this situation may be the fact that I don't have any images on the site.

YRMV
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: leaf on April 03, 2013, 14:48
Has anyone got any sale to report from Stocksy? Their operations are in function now and it is live now. Some people have begun to report the initial status updates as they have uploaded the images there. I checked at least two. So far so good.

Is money coming? Is there any sale so far?

Yep, averaging several sales a day.  Some of them are conversions by me from people looking for images they had already planned on using. 

Nice to hear.  iStock really put you in the perfect situation by terminating your account when they did.  I only have 30 images on the site.  I'd be happy to put in more but the work involved in deactivating the images on all the sites i contribute to simply isn't worth it.  I started deactivating 5 images for the site and after 2 hours of work I decided I should just focus on giving them some new content.
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: asiseeit on April 03, 2013, 15:49
Maybe Sean will create a multi-site deactivation script for you ;)
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: leaf on April 09, 2013, 16:08
Maybe Sean will create a multi-site deactivation script for you ;)

I was creating a link page with shortcuts to the deactivation on all the sites but you still need to know the image number which takes time to hunt down.
Title: Re: Any Sale?
Post by: aeonf on April 09, 2013, 18:29
Had our first one.