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What content you should have NOT created for Memorial day

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ribtoks:

--- Quote from: medveh on May 22, 2021, 15:08 ---I hate to be negative about someone's new project, but given the fact that this industry is paying less and less to the contributors I think that not many would spend $9 on a monthly subscription to boost their microstock business. Don't get me wrong the idea is good and I think you have the skills to be great at this.

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Thank you for your feedback and for the good words. I would actually very interested to hear how much would you pay for such service?

I think the whole idea of what I'm doing is to make contributors earn more on the long run. Constantly producing content that will sell is much better than sometimes to produce content that is a best-seller, in my opinion.

ribtoks:

--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on May 23, 2021, 12:52 ---I like your ideas and methods, I can't afford to pay more a month than some agencies pay back.  ;) Especially since I'm cutting more and more of them for minimal payback for any work.

Do I understand? Green stars are the good ones? That would be these?

Your idea is Google Volume vs Existing results and then looking at SS traffic?

Knowing what sells is real and valuable, knowing what is searched is relative, but can't predict sales. Look at Alamy sales? You can see what has sold, but you still can't see what WILL sell in the future.

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Hey Uncle Pete. First of all sorry for the late reply, I totally missed this post (does Microstock Group forum have email notifications?).

Secondly, good news is that Stock Photo Ideas became cheaper! I hope this will help you to make a right decision ;)

As for your other questions:
- green is a good one, yes
- I look first at Shutterstock Traffic + Existing results and only after on Google Volume. Google Search volume is general interest marker, but Shutterstock Traffic is way more specific
- I also fully agree with you that having internal Shutterstock sales data would create way better suggestions, but I truly believe that a) we will never have it and b) in the absence of it what I suggest is the 2nd best

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