Author Topic: Best seller - not just at SS (Read 4282 times)

Dan · « **on:** May 05, 2013, 17:28 »

I have one that has the potentail of becoming a best seller. So far 19 times at fotolia - selling several times a month. It's not a big amount now but given time it can skyrocket.
31 times over 4 agencies. At least it proves i might be on the right track with the pic.

CD123 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 05, 2013, 18:14 »

And the more the get of those, the better and better the market indication will help you to focus your work. A good seller at 1 site might not always be a good 1 at another. Not due to the image not being good, but due to the difference in client base.

Enjoy the sales. It is nice to have a constant seller, make you feel really better about the little time you spent on that one, compare to the hundreds of hours you did on the none sellers.

Poncke v2 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 05, 2013, 18:16 »

How long has it been online? Averaging 8 sales per agency is quite slow considering a best seller gets downloaded daily, unless you uploaded it last week. My best seller across all agencies has about 500 downloads which is not much either, considering an image needs to get thousands of downloads to bring in real money.

31 downloads is probably around 15 dollar.

Good luck.

Edit: As Charl says, study it and make more of those quality. Its a good indicator of what the buyer wants. If you have a portfolio full of such images, you are doing well

CD123 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 05, 2013, 18:40 »

Glad for your edit Poncke, V2 is definitely an improvement

Dan is a starter, so getting that number of sales on any image at this stage is an achievement for him (might not be in other people's books).

ShadySue · « **Reply #4 on:** May 05, 2013, 18:56 »

Quote from: CD123 on May 05, 2013, 18:40

Dan is a starter, so getting that number of sales on any image at this stage is an achievement for him (might not be in other people's books).

And it is so much more difficult now as a starter than it was five or more years ago.

Dan · « **Reply #5 on:** May 06, 2013, 07:06 »

more of a re-starter. after health problems - i'm really puting in an effort this year. i'm hoping i can get some more really good sellers but even a few that move slow may show me which direction to go in. one step at a time.

Imagenomad · « **Reply #6 on:** May 06, 2013, 12:21 »

Good for you Dan.

Like you I've had health problems meaning sporadic uploading and like you I had a minor microstock victory last week (my first ever EL sale *wooyay*) but these small things are what keeps you going and as said above, help you improve.

BTW, I think Poncke uses a hexadecimal base system so v2 is actually nearer v1.6 (only kidding R

).

Dan · « **Reply #7 on:** May 07, 2013, 09:27 »

poncke - i'm trying to figure out how to get anoher that will sell. So far no very many have come to light.

CD123 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 07, 2013, 09:46 »

Quote from: Dan on May 07, 2013, 09:27

poncke - i'm trying to figure out how to get anoher that will sell. So far no very many have come to light.

That Dan, is what we all try continuously to figure out

Dan · « **Reply #9 on:** May 08, 2013, 06:43 »

thanks for all the replies. (my conputer skips typing a letter now and again). the last couple of days have been hectic as well as rainy. oh well - things will get better.