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Milleflore

« Reply #75 on: April 29, 2022, 13:47 »
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For anyone who knows, or at least have some ideas, because I really don't have any good ones? IF someone wanted to do some marketing for a better exposure and possibly getting noticed by buyers, what would they do? How would someone proceed to get noticed?

Does that cost money, or some investment besides time or posting to social media? I can't see spamming all my friends, who aren't image buyers, with "Here's my latest upload to FAA" or some Twitter announcement that's sent to everyone. Second account, and then how do I get the right kind of friends, the ones who buy things.  :)

Thanks Annie, interesting from someone who makes some sales on FAA. Mine are fulfillment for sales and that works well. I get an occasional Pixels sale. Last month I sold a tapestry of all things. Someone has one of mine hanging on a wall someplace 51x60 inches.




Start a new thread for this, Pete, and I will add some of my thoughts and hopefully others will too.


Justanotherphotographer

« Reply #76 on: April 30, 2022, 07:31 »
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I used goigle ads, amazon ads and Facebook ads in the past to sell POD stuff and also to drive traffic to my site (when I sold stock direct). You can pretty much set your own revenue if you spend enough on ads. That's what informs my view of how important search placement is on the micros. If you get enough eyeballs you will sell. The problem is I was spending $12 for every $10 to me. Also don't ever give fb your money, much worse results than the others and exposed as BSing ads customers more than once.

Milleflore

« Reply #77 on: April 30, 2022, 15:22 »
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I used goigle ads, amazon ads and Facebook ads in the past to sell POD stuff and also to drive traffic to my site (when I sold stock direct). You can pretty much set your own revenue if you spend enough on ads. That's what informs my view of how important search placement is on the micros. If you get enough eyeballs you will sell. The problem is I was spending $12 for every $10 to me. Also don't ever give fb your money, much worse results than the others and exposed as BSing ads customers more than once.

Thanks! Very interesting, especially the part about: "The problem is I was spending $12 for every $10 to me."

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I've used social media for free marketing before and plan to get back into it, possibly next month, and to answer Pete's questions above, this is what I've learnt:

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Does that cost money, or some investment besides time or posting to social media? I can't see spamming all my friends, who aren't image buyers, with "Here's my latest upload to FAA" or some Twitter announcement that's sent to everyone. Second account, and then how do I get the right kind of friends, the ones who buy things.  :)

Free Social Media Marketing: just requires 15 to 30 minutes a day on the big 4: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. But my recommendation is to just choose 2 at a time and build those up, otherwise it becomes just too time consuming, and your attention may get too scattered.

There are 2 ways you can do this. The first, the easy way, is just to increase click throughs and therefore views on your products, which will help with their search placement. I've had up to 40 views on a new FAA product from just doing this.  I used to regularly get about 20 to 30 views on products listed on DesignBundles, which really helped with their search placement. Here you just need to regularly post links to your product/website/blog. I recommend that you do this for new listings/uploads especially, because lots of interest on a new product seems to really help with the algorithm.
 
The second is to really go full-on to develop a dedicated audience. And that takes a lot more time and you need to understand how to use hashtags, or write interesting blog posts, create some lead magnets (freebies), or even go as far as developing an email marketing list.

I have separate business social media accounts to my personal ones. It just works much better that way, and yes, you are not then spamming family and friends. Its also best to keep your own political or social views out of your business account. You dont want to alienate anyone. I was starting to use my business Twitter for personal interests, and then decided to stop.

If youre starting out and dont know what to do, then just go on Pinterest and type in a search question for what you need to know. For example: how to get followers on Instagram?, and there should be hundreds of blog posts and quick tips. Some are just click-baits, and some actually have some good answers. For example:

https://www.pinterest.com.au/search/pins/?rs=ac&len=2&q=how%20to%20get%20followers%20on%20instagram&eq=how%20to%20get%20followers%20on%20ins&etslf=9447&term_meta[]=how%7Cautocomplete%7C0&term_meta[]=to%7Cautocomplete%7C0&term_meta[]=get%7Cautocomplete%7C0&term_meta[]=followers%7Cautocomplete%7C0&term_meta[]=on%7Cautocomplete%7C0&term_meta[]=instagram%7Cautocomplete%7C0

 
I found that you dont necessarily need thousands of followers if you use the right hashtags. So, understanding how to best use hashtags is a good place to start. Once again, just type that into Pinterest search and you should get hundreds of blog articles about that.

If you can work out who is your target audience, then you can hone in on those by following these people, and often they will follow you back. The other way is to join social media groups. (People who like vintage postcards? Racing cars? Racing Sports?). For example, my husband joined a FB group who were interested in what he was selling on Shopify and now he gets lots of regular sales and return buyers from there. On Pinterest I found a specific group in my target audience range, and used to just post there because I got far better response than just posting to everyone.

But like anything, just start small and learn as you go. Just post links to your products, and hashtag, hashtag, hashtag. Hashtags will open you up to a greater audience than just your followers. And also perhaps consider joining some groups.

If you start to feel that your account is becoming too sell/sell/sell and starting to put people off then write some interesting (related) blog posts. Maybe something in your area of expertise (vintage racing cars?? Where you find your vintage postcards??) and post those. Or post some interesting articles (from other sources) in that area as well. Think of interesting or helpful things that your audience would like to know more of.


« Last Edit: April 30, 2022, 15:57 by Annie »

Dee

« Reply #78 on: May 01, 2022, 11:02 »
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I made the mistake of uploading some of my photographs to Freepik in 2018, around 130 files, and I have still not reached the 100 eur payment threshold. I expect to reach it maybe next year. Ridiculous.

Justanotherphotographer

« Reply #79 on: May 02, 2022, 08:55 »
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Thanks! Very interesting, especially the part about: "The problem is I was spending $12 for every $10 to me."

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With the POD sites I could never quite make it work for any length of time. It would look like I was turning a profit for a certain period but a couple of weeks later I would be in the red again. Frustrating when the difference was often small enough that a slightly bigger cut from the agency would put me in the green.

With my own site I was doing okay, like the amount I make at a mid tier agency, but I shut it down when the EU rules regarding getting VAT registered came in. I couldnt be bothered with the extra paperwork; I like to keep things simple!

JaenStock

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« Reply #80 on: May 02, 2022, 13:21 »
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I made the mistake of uploading some of my photographs to Freepik in 2018, around 130 files, and I have still not reached the 100 eur payment threshold. I expect to reach it maybe next year. Ridiculous.

Remember that when you close your account with them, the photos will remain in their agency for a year without you seeing a penny

Milleflore

« Reply #81 on: May 02, 2022, 15:09 »
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Thanks! Very interesting, especially the part about: "The problem is I was spending $12 for every $10 to me."

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With the POD sites I could never quite make it work for any length of time. It would look like I was turning a profit for a certain period but a couple of weeks later I would be in the red again. Frustrating when the difference was often small enough that a slightly bigger cut from the agency would put me in the green.

With my own site I was doing okay, like the amount I make at a mid tier agency, but I shut it down when the EU rules regarding getting VAT registered came in. I couldnt be bothered with the extra paperwork; I like to keep things simple!

With the PODs, I don't think I would bother marketing them anymore, its not really worth my time. Mainly because my target buyers could be anyone. But promoting sites, blogs and targeted products who have a specific audience (like the examples I used for Pete above) can definitely be advantageous. And yes, I too am finding that my non-microstock sites can out-perform the mid-tier agencies.
 

Is there any way, we can move these marketing comments onto its own thread? They are getting lost on here - plus people are still posting some very useful comments about Freepik, which are getting drowned out.


MOVED TO "SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER MARKETING' THREAD ....


« Last Edit: May 02, 2022, 15:16 by Annie »

« Reply #82 on: January 29, 2023, 20:21 »
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I wanted to upload to freepik. psd files. I am a graphic designer and photographer. more than once I need to download something for a poster and I have to correct their files. I have about 200 files of good quality isolated photos. they rejected me 3 times. let me calm down

Uncle Pete

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« Reply #83 on: January 31, 2023, 14:29 »
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I wanted to upload to freepik. psd files. I am a graphic designer and photographer. more than once I need to download something for a poster and I have to correct their files. I have about 200 files of good quality isolated photos. they rejected me 3 times. let me calm down

At the risk of making you and some others even more angry. Last week I thought I'd look at Freepik and see what they were all about. I uploaded the ten required test images and linked to my SS account, so they could look. 5 of 10 passed and I'm live. My account is activated.

Then I recalled the $85 tax form that I had to have from the US, or I could pay 25% tax to Spain. Since I don't know how much anyone actually gets from Freepik, because all I get for an answer is some guesses, I'm not going to pay for a tax letter that verifies I'm a US citizen, just so I don't have to pay 25% in taxes?

I had my first DL in under 5 days (with only 5 photos?) and it shows my earnings are 12 cents.

I mean, what if I work all year and get $35? Then I just paid $50 to be tax free and lose money, having a site give me a share of some unknown amount of money, per download?

And all my images are Premium, which means pay. If I'm understand right, and please someone correct me, all the images I upload are PAY not Free, and I will get one "share" for every download. So my images are not gifts to people who are too cheap to pay for an image use.

I opened an account, looked for an image of mine:
Premium image
Unlock this file and get unlimited access to over 44,829,000 Premium assets


Does anyone know where the free images come from? I think Wirestock instant pay. Make that I know, as I found one of mine. The Freepik search is horrid. If I typed in "Vertical closeup shot of Saint Theresa statue" which is what WS tagged it. The results are tens of thousands? What? So I shortened it to "Saint Theresa statue" and still got 56k images. They don't search the phrase, they search all words.

To find my photo I had to search for "Saint Theresa" which brought it down to one page.

OK until someone tells me different. 12 cents? Or is that the early part of the month and that number will fall as more people get downloads and shares?  ;D

« Reply #84 on: February 01, 2023, 08:18 »
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This is the kind of thing I'm talking about, if you want to write articles shouldnt you be a bit less biased? Reports are that RPD is usually around 7c but lets go with your 9c.

I will go with vectors as that seems to be mainly what Freepik has a history in and still mainly trades in. Some of these sites I no longer upload new work to because of poor RPD (BS, DP, IS, SS) but as a comparison all approx based on last year and so far this year:

Bigstock RPD: 45c
Depositphos RPD: 48c
123RF RPD: 90c
DT RPD: 75c
AS RPD: 95c
IS RPD: 70c
SS RPD: 68c

So whats the difference you ask? The answer is HUGE, VAST, an order of magnitude in some cases. Is this the sort of journalistic integrity we can buy too?

rpd...  meaning 'return per download'... you see a 90 cent return from 123rf? Do you get many sales? I've gotten the odd one or two/year..


 

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