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I believe in quality.
Tror:
--- Quote from: Pauws99 on November 09, 2016, 06:11 ---
--- Quote from: Tror on November 09, 2016, 05:53 ---I believe in Santa Claus 8)
Or in other words > Microstock is like Democracy: you can have a very elaborate, developed and wise concept, but if the majority of your customers/citizens are not capable of understanding that and prefer to take the mental shortcut, you are better off with offering low level / high impact products / concepts :-)
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What YOU or I think is quality is irrelevant customer perception is king. Its about "fit for purpose" not hanging great art on the wall
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And we all try to find out best what customers need :-)
The point is that "Quality" cannot be easily defined anymore as such.
In the past e.g. we tried to focus on technical Quality to e.g. satisfy high res/gloss prints. Nowadays it seems to be not so relevant anymore since most of the publishing switched to the web.
Nowadays I prefer a strong composition / mood design instead of high photographic Quality in a technical sense.
PureArt:
--- Quote from: Josephine on November 08, 2016, 13:47 ---... do you believe in your heart, that you will succeed in getting more money by putting your signature under a petition? ...
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Why not try?! If you do nothing (do not sign the petition) the result is predictable (and not acceptable). If you do something it may become better.
Sometimes we must send a message to microstock agencies just to remind them we exist and we are real people, not just the numbers.
Pauws99:
"The late American Management guru Peter F. Drucker said, “Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for.”
Customers judge quality through their perceptions. This makes measuring customer satisfaction difficult because customers cannot clearly specify in numeric values what makes them satisfied. Yet quality is delivered when you achieve the minimum requirement of a specified performance standard. Over the years business has had to find a way to define and measure quality so that companies can make products and deliver services to definable standards their customers will accept." (not my words but sums it up I think) From a business perspective its not about "excellence" as it might be when we give the word its everyday meaning. I rather suspect that photographers and microstock sites (in the past anyway) were always more concerned about technical excellence than the customer ever was. Though what complicates it is the same image might be used for a throwaway web blog or a massive bill board.
alno:
--- Quote from: Josephine on November 08, 2016, 16:40 ---Checking the Top-100 Shutterstock Authors where they come from I read: Uruguay, Russia, Romania, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Turkey, Latvia, Belarus, Poland, India, Indonesia, Kazakhsan, Estonia, Pakistan... what does this mean to you?
Are they more talented? more creative? better motivated? better qualified? What´s their secret?
Are these countries represented in this forum?
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I'm from Russia and I'm "better motivated" because stock sites now is real opportunity to get more money then working in f**d up industry I used to. The secret of those countries is too obvious, they have poor average salaries and still good internet access in general.
Josephine:
thank you Irena, I am very happy to read your comment.
Living in Africa the microstock business gives me a tiny piece of paradise on earth, for me and my entire family. This boosts my motivation to compete and to be better than others. Some of the comments in this forum let me think about evil eyes when it comes to contributors in "poor countries" with "low standard ov living", who spoil the market of the people in the rich countries.
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