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vphoto:
Anyone benefited from submitting free photos? I could no find them at DT, but they are at 123RF, where they are called donated.

vphoto

hatman12:
I am experimenting with this.

In October I 'donated' 48 images to the free section at 123RF and rotated them through various donation periods.

All my donated images came to an end on Nov 1st.  I intend not to offer any donated images for the month of November.

So far my income in November is about the same as it was in October at the same stage in the month.

Early days, but the evidence so far is that withdrawing the free images has had no impact on portfolio sales.

sharply_done:
Isn't one idea of giving stuff away for free to have it downloaded hundreds of times so that it has a very good search engine placement once you resume charging for it?

fotografer:
I hadn't thought about that.  I wondered why my fiotw at IS and my free image of the day at DT both went on to sell very well after being downloaded free 1000's of times. The one at DT is I believe in my top 10 sellers. (can't check at the moment as DT seems to be down.


--- Quote from: sharply_done on November 13, 2007, 22:19 ---Isn't one idea of giving stuff away for free to have it downloaded hundreds of times so that it has a very good search engine placement once you resume charging for it?

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iofoto:
iofoto is part of the stock.xchng community- currently have 17 images that have been downloaded over 20,000 times. The free images are a great way to support the designer community, build your links and brand, and eventually build sales. Really fun to see how designers enhance our photos and then use on their portfolio sites with links back to the photographer. (We also have a few free images on DT to help build sales.)

Here's our page on stock.xchng: http://www.sxc.hu/profile/iofoto

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