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Agency Based Discussion => Featurepics.com => Topic started by: mwp1969 on March 17, 2008, 14:16
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All,
Today I got my first sale at Featurepics. Its been an interesting story ... after trying my pricing all over the place $8, $6, $2, $5, for a couple of months with no results I was frustrated. I told myself if I was going to have to wait, then I might as well be paid well for any sale there. I rasied my price to $10.00 for all images with allowing resizing.
The next day I got a sale for $4.00 with a commission of $2.80 :)
Note: Its a picture that I have on all of my sites.
Mark
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I have often wondered about this, being new at this game. Does the fact that you have an image listed as 0.25 somewhere keep it from being purchased for $10 elsewhere. For heavens sake, I suspect that the prices are so * low that it probably wouldn't be a deterrent if the image were definitely needed. It is one thing if a designer is collecting images just to have them on hand from a subscription service or for a general mock up, but I would think if a specific image is found that can be put to a specific use right away the $10 is likely such a trivial part of the overall budget that it simply wouldn't be worth the time to check other sites. But then again, I really don't know a whole lot about this business...I am just envisioning the way I would act. Does anyone out there know for sure if this makes sense or not?
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I have often wondered about this, being new at this game. Does the fact that you have an image listed as 0.25 somewhere keep it from being purchased for $10 elsewhere.
.25 is your commission. Not what it sold for.
Mark - Congrats on the sale! I just joined but have not sold anything yet.
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Congrats, Mark.
With the recent price increases in many sites, I'm going to raise my prices in FP.
Regards,
Adelaide
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Congratulations Mark,
With a bit of luck you'll reach the $50 payout by the end of next year, of course you'll need to do a hell of a lot self marketing for that because they don't do any.
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Most of my images are at 10.00 none less than that.
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but I would think if a specific image is found that can be put to a specific use right away the $10 is likely such a trivial part of the overall budget that it simply wouldn't be worth the time to check other sites.
That's exactly it.
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In which case you would think that the micro-stocks could figure out a better pricing structure that would benefit everyone, photographers and the stock company.
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In which case you would think that the micro-stocks could figure out a better pricing structure that would benefit everyone, photographers and the stock company.
Many agencies won't do that. They want to sell subscriptions: higher, regular payments from the customers, lower payouts to the photographers.
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Hi Mark !
Congratulations.
I had my first sale there two weeks ago (and it was my first sale through a stock agency too !).
Yes, I know what some will say : I'll have to wait some time to get enough sales to get the money, but I'm not in a hurry : I am building my portfolio. And with 10$ the sale (7 for me) it should'nt need too much of them to get something.
And anyway, I like the site and their friendly attitude toward the photographers. I sent them a message with some suggestions and they answered quite quickly and their answer were dead on the point and really positive.
Good luck Featurepics.
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Congrats Mark!
Nice when they come along - only wish they were more often!
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Just checked FP after reading this and I too had just sold one for $5 so 3.50 for me ...
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I've had two sales lately and I'm sure I didin't get a email for the last one. I can't guarantee about the previous one, but I also think there was no email. So both were very good surprises.
A bit more and I'll have my 2nd payout.
Regards,
Adelaide
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I typically get emails from FP anywhere from 24-38 hours after the fact.
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With the recent price increases in many sites, I'm going to raise my prices in FP.
Me too!
Congrats, Mark! Smart move! ;)
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Congratulations Mark! I haven't sold one there yet, but I'm encouraged.
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All,
I've bumped my pricing up to $11.00 per image for RF+Extension allowing resizing. As I hope the higher commissions will be worth any wait in between sales.
Mark
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hi,
I have everything at $5, changing from $2 three months ago and now seen three bme's. will probably put it to $10 soon.
Sales for me this month are the same as crestock and canstock combined :) and within a $1 of LO who managed to more than triple their last months earnings. not at monthly payout yet, but it's coming :)
my thoughts on pricing... I cant find it now but they have a graph that shows pricing of sales. most people search at $2, $5, $10, $20 etc if you price at say $6.50 people those who search at $5 don't see it and most people who do see your image are willing to pay $10+ so you are missing out on income.
Phil
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I too have just checked to find i've had 3 sales! WooHoo!
edit: just found the bulk editor for pricing (took a while) - i've upped my prices 100% across the board - from $5 to $10.
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i like an opinion from anyone , please.
do you think collections or galleries helped you make the sales?
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I have only had 1 sale on Featurepics. $8.40 commission from it. Just wish they were a little more frequent.
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I have 20 downloads there in the year or so that I am with them, it was enough for one pay check of $51.30.
at the beginning I had all my images there set at $5.00.
I recently changed all images to $7.00 to see how it works, and each sale of a file increases it's price by one dollar, so now I have files at 7,8 and 9 dollars.
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i like an opinion from anyone , please.
do you think collections or galleries helped you make the sales?
Galleries are free images. I did it once and I don't think it boosted sales at all (as they did not in 123RF for me).
Collections are good to send a group of images to prospective buyers or put in your own website. If one of yours gets highlighted by the site, you may have many views, but I haven't noticed any correlation with sales.
However, sales are scarce for a proper statistical analysis. Anyway, I've just reached my second pay-out. ;D
Regards,
Adelaide
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i like an opinion from anyone , please.
do you think collections or galleries helped you make the sales?
Galleries are free images. I did it once and I don't think it boosted sales at all (as they did not in 123RF for me).
Collections are good to send a group of images to prospective buyers or put in your own website. If one of yours gets highlighted by the site, you may have many views, but I haven't noticed any correlation with sales.
However, sales are scarce for a proper statistical analysis. Anyway, I've just reached my second pay-out. ;D
Regards,
Adelaide
cheers Adelaide for the clarification and your opinion :)
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Recently changed to $10.00 RF+Extension for all images.
I've only had one sale there for $4.00 with a $2.80 commission back in February ...
Mark
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I had another sale today. :)
I think by the end of the month I'll increase my prices in 50%, maybe even 100%. After all the sites raising their prices, mine became quite cheap there.
Regards,
Adelaide
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I sold my first image today :)
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I sold one small picture on Featurepics months ago, then nothing for a long time, and few days ago these two pictures at $10 each (my standard pricing there):
http://photokayaker.fit2paddle.com/C1666358270/E20080907100602/index.html
I have started to link pictures used in my blogs and websites to my Featurepics portfolio, but the recent sale was not the result of that promotion yet.
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After a few sales months ago, nothing. I'm afraid FP is going the way of Lucky Oliver, Snap, and Yay, at least with my portfolio.
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Yes, Lou. I agree - but wonder do I leave my floundering port there, or do I close shop?
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I'd just leave it to rot there along with the rest of our images. Maybe someone can compost it into something productive sometime down the line.
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I had low prices at FP, between $0.50 and $1.00
I then marked up everything to at least $10.00. My no. of sales remained the same, except no I make 10 times more when I manage to sell something -
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I'm still waiting for a sale there. Plenty of views, though...
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I'm very close to a new pay-out there. Just one sale this month, yet giving me more than two in 123RF.
Regards,
Adelaide