Author Topic: Fotolia - Poor Sales (Read 22645 times)

fritz · « **Reply #50 on:** September 07, 2013, 18:04 »

Quote from: robhainer on August 28, 2013, 13:55

For me, even Bigstock has blown by FT for earnings.

Same here!

tab62 · « **Reply #51 on:** September 07, 2013, 18:05 »

"Sales for AUG were down and SEPT is looking the same (even with my sub sale today). hopig things will pick up."

Sales will pick up if you spend time learning to light and setup better Dan. Did you finish the Strobist 101 and 102 courses already?

Sitting around hoping your sales will pick up isn't going to do much.

Here's another good string to start learning----

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2013/08/annual-road-trip-and-major-site.html

PS
Okay, this will be my last time trying to direct you. The old Saying- "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make them Drink"

gillian vann · « **Reply #52 on:** September 09, 2013, 06:08 »

well I just sold an XL file and earned myself 27c, let's break out the champagne!

how much longer will we all take this? I hardly upload to FT anymore, but it hurts to see niche shots selling so cheaply.

OM · « **Reply #53 on:** September 09, 2013, 18:48 »

Strangely, FT has been better than normal for me last month and Sept so far. I even reached payout after 5 weeks instead of the recent norm of ~8 weeks!

Loads of subs but with XS dl's earning even less than a sub, I am learning to love subs too.

(No I'm not really. Think I dislike XL and XXL subs even more-too many pixel for too little pecunia).

Beppe Grillo · « **Reply #54 on:** September 10, 2013, 04:03 »

Quote from: gillian on September 09, 2013, 06:08

well I just sold an XL file and earned myself 27c, let's break out the champagne!

how much longer will we all take this? I hardly upload to FT anymore, but it hurts to see niche shots selling so cheaply.

You have a lot of fortune, they give me only 25 ¢ for an XXL

cobalt · « **Reply #55 on:** September 10, 2013, 04:24 »

I am still a newbie to many sites,but Fotolia has a much higher return per download than SS at the moment and sells really well. Maybe keywording in German gives me an advantage, but they are performing much better than I expected.

OM · « **Reply #56 on:** September 10, 2013, 07:41 »

Quote from: cobalt on September 10, 2013, 04:24

I am still a newbie to many sites,but Fotolia has a much higher return per download than SS at the moment and sells really well. Maybe keywording in German gives me an advantage, but they are performing much better than I expected.

Therein lays the clue IMO. And lets face it, if you are a continental European with your own language, what is easier and better to be able to search in that language?
You also have the added advantage of receiving credits and payouts in whole euros too, I assume.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #57 on:** September 10, 2013, 08:15 »

mann - 193,322 results
man - 2,143,850 results

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8294845/man.JPG
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8294845/mann.JPG

cobalt · « **Reply #58 on:** September 10, 2013, 08:55 »

Yes, I get paid in euros,makes a big difference. And the difference in German and English keywords can be staggering. It is even more drastic with very special words that don´t really exist in English,so the english speaking contributors wouldn´t even be able to add an equivalent.

Instead of competing with 60 000 files, in some searches I am suddenly in a comfortable club of 600.

It must be the same for French or Spanish speakers, huge language specific buyer base.

And of course like this Fotolia attracts a lot of local content, they certainly have the biggest choice in local German files.

OM · « **Reply #59 on:** September 11, 2013, 03:33 »

Yep. Pity I didn't realise the advantages when I joined. I'm a Brit in NL but joined FT UK because I didn't fancy wading through the application to join in German. Getting paid in € would be an advantage compared to lousy X-change rates and 0.75£ credits but then I'd have to keyword in German and I doubt I could.

I did set up a second account in Euro and English when FT made that available (around 2009?) but that never really got going compared to the UK account. Maybe contributors to the Euro-English FT are at a disadvantage in the search anyway....if I ran it to make the most profit, I would not be too pleased with getting in US$ from customers and having to pay out contributors in Euros. When customers search in German or French, it's pretty certain that they're paying from a Euro account (Euros in and Euros out =OK).

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