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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: Tyson Anderson on March 10, 2016, 15:38
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Hello, I'm new to Microstock Group and this is my first post. Been following discussions for a while and figured I'd get involved. First question is one I've been wondering for a while. Has anyone experienced an increase of traffic to their portfolio or sales after offering clips or images for free?
(I apologize if this has been covered before)
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Never tried it. It devalues my hard work and I doubt people looking for free stuff will turn into paying customers.
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I have never seen any evidence that freebies boost paid sales for my own portfolio. Back in the earlier days of microstock (before agencies were solidly established) I viewed the free image offerings as a way to help the agency build traffic for itself and I did offer images for a weekly freebie. That was then. I wouldn't do it now.
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Did that several times a few years ago and I never saw increased sales.
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They're only designed to draw more traffic to the site. It will do nothing for your sales. It's common sense, why would it? If a buyer wants an image in addition to the free one they will do a general search on the site.
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Ok, sounds pretty unanimous, hasn't helped anyone. I appreciate everyone taking the time.
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NO.
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About 8 months ago I offered one of my clips as a free video of the month. I did see a slight increase in related sales. Out of the 5000 free downloads I had 10 sales of a related theme. So nothing to amazing but deffinatly a slight increase. It also helped a file reach higher in the search and so I've been getting more sales since.
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I have never seen any evidence that freebies boost paid sales for my own portfolio. Back in the earlier days of microstock (before agencies were solidly established) I viewed the free image offerings as a way to help the agency build traffic for itself and I did offer images for a weekly freebie. That was then. I wouldn't do it now.
just as "Black Friday" specials which the whizz kids at Harvard et al have "now discovered" to cost money overall...
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About 8 months ago I offered one of my clips as a free video of the month. I did see a slight increase in related sales. Out of the 5000 free downloads I had 10 sales of a related theme. So nothing to amazing but deffinatly a slight increase. It also helped a file reach higher in the search and so I've been getting more sales since.
Thanks. Which site was it?
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Its the lie the agencies try to sell you
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They are not getting anything free from me. Soon we will have to pay them for letting us upload a photo.
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I've found its either useless or hurts sales. If your image is part of a set of complementary elements (the others of which you sell ) you might see success.
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About 8 months ago I offered one of my clips as a free video of the month. I did see a slight increase in related sales. Out of the 5000 free downloads I had 10 sales of a related theme. So nothing to amazing but deffinatly a slight increase. It also helped a file reach higher in the search and so I've been getting more sales since.
Thanks. Which site was it?
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