At least they are truthful about their inspection process...

Alternatively, you could provide us links to your portfolio at other stock sites. The larger your portfolio at other sites, the higher your rating will be on our site. A high rating at our site grants certain privileges, including: the option to participate in the Promotion Program; quicker approval of your files; greater respect from our inspectors; individualized help uploading files at our site; higher search result positions, and many others.

As a newbie I know with this company I will be at a disadvantage over seasoned Pros....

I am not sure of their numbers level...but I am sure that my 100 gets me less respect.... which isn't a problem for me.  I KNOW I have to "pay my dues".

What I like about this is they are up front and truthful.   Which makes me think that other sites do this as well.... they just don't mention it.

I know if I ran a site I would help the 2000 image person over the 20 image person.

No wonder why the take 30 days to look at my wimpy portfolio and my losy 3 sales a month at a whooping .30 cents each.

Well, I now have 2000 photos up at DP and it is my worst performing site: it is behind SS, IS, FT, DT, CS, BS, 123RF, and Alamy. At this point, I'm a little disappointed . . . .

I have a small, but constantly growing port there and to be quite honest - considering I am still waiting for SS contributor approval for  images (already accepted for footage) DP is my top seller.

As a newbie I know with this company I will be at a disadvantage over seasoned Pros....
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I wouldn't waste any energy worrying about it.

There's only one way to become a seasoned pro yourself...

tarot?

sorry Teresa but DP being top seller for you doesn't mean much, you have 4 sales

Quote from: luissantos84 on February 24, 2013, 17:59

sorry Teresa but DP being top seller for you doesn't mean much, you have 4 sales

Are you suggesting I shouldn't bother posting in the threads because I'm a newbie?

have I said that? pretty much if I say SS or IS or DP is my top seller, I won't back it up with 4 sales because it is somehow a very small universe (next time say how relevant it is)

Quote from: luissantos84 on February 24, 2013, 17:59

sorry Teresa but DP being top seller for you doesn't mean much, you have 4 sales

Are you suggesting I shouldn't bother posting in the threads because I'm a newbie?

I'm a newbie myself and I would say post your thoughts, etc.  However, understand that as newbies we have: a) small portfolios, b) limited sales, c) been 'live' on sites for a short amount of time, or d) a combination of all of these.

What that means is that our numbers (both DL and $$) are not statistically significant for discussion.  Meaning that it's too difficult to draw any conclusions or trends from what we see. 

I use this forum to learn from the more experienced people and for industry trends.  Until our portfolio, sales and time on-line become significant/relevant, I would limit comparing ourselves to people who have been at this for many years and have experienced trends worth noting.

Quote from: luissantos84 on February 25, 2013, 14:24

Quote from: hotwalkn on February 25, 2013, 13:50

Quote from: luissantos84 on February 24, 2013, 17:59

sorry Teresa but DP being top seller for you doesn't mean much, you have 4 sales

Are you suggesting I shouldn't bother posting in the threads because I'm a newbie?

have I said that? pretty much if I say SS or IS or DP is my top seller, I won't back it up with 4 sales because it is somehow a very small universe (next time say how relevant it is)

I would not expect you to back a "top seller" comment with 4 sales considering your ports, but I would not judge you if 4 were all you did have either. My 4 sales are VERY relevant to me with my port size. Its all a matter of degrees. 4 sales to me - 40 or 400 to you, how ever you wish to view it.

I have tried to explain you, too bad you haven't understood it, anyway best of luck!

Agreed.  He is simply saying that if your numbers are small it is hard to make any statistical relevant conclusions with them.  If a person's sales are 1 sale one week and 5 another week, that is 500% difference week on week.  I think when sales start to level out to 10% variation week on week for several weeks one can start to draw conclusions... but even then it is very statistically small.  The person selling $1000 a week is still a drop in the bucket of iStock's $10,000,000/week

I think the idea is that someone with 10,000 average (but sellable) photos is more serious about stock than someone with just a few really good photos.

Someone with just a few photos, no matter how good, may be picking the accidentally good images out of their thousands of unsellable vacation and family photos.  Just a punter who thinks they can make a few bucks off of the pictures they have taken anyway, without having to put much effort into it.

This is about how many pictures and being serious, not quality? How did I make that mistake. If I have a big car, waer expensive clothes and use a expensive camera, I'm a better photographer. Can you show us your portfolio I can see what a true professional microstocker does. I want to be as wonderful as you.