I find MS artist very much like Amway salesmen, they buy into the BS from the agencies.

I am not here to offer you anything. I'm simply saying there are viable alternatives to being a Micro-stock slave.

Micro-Stock will be so watered down and priced so low in a few years it will make all points here irrelevant.

Personally I think Pond5 will be the number One  agency in 2 years if they stick to setting your own price. All other models will fail.

I'm pretty sure most of us here have enough business savvy to have figured that out. You could have said that, with that one sentence, in your first post. I see links to sites and blogs from you, so I'm guessing it's not that you are offering us anything, it's that you want something from us, like maybe traffic to your sites? Just wondering what the whole point here is.

It would be great, though, if you WOULD share your secret to making $5000 a month. I could sure use the help.  

Again there is that suspicious attitude... like everybody is a scam. Get over yourselves, your not that important.

I offer 800 free pics through a download service. People have to fill out a survey to get the download.

It's free. But people sure get all worked up and suspicious.

Rather humorous.

Again the rather petty remarks of driving traffic to my sites.... quite childish.

I've had 15000 hits at *link removed* in the last 10 days and climbing. A few clicks from here is not a big deal.

Get over yourselves, your not that important.

Thats the humorous part.

Wheres Sean.. he would get a kick out of this.

Listen. I posted this entry this morning at it already has 450 hits.
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I don't need hits from MS group.

I guess your not very adept at an Ebay search.
... I am not selling something... yet you want my secret ingredient for free.

If you're the seller and the buyers can't find your product then you are clearly 'not very adept' at how to list items on Ebay.

If you want to keep your 'secret ingredient' then why start the thread in the first place? You just sound like yet another failed 'wanabee' microstocker. Not everyone has the talent to make a living from microstock but those who do enjoy an extremely privileged lifestyle.

Your flippa listing said you made $500 a month selling DVDs on Ebay.  Here you're telling us $5,000.  Which is it?

Is this pic of a water drop good enough for MS?
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Please don't be a photo thefter. Looky only.

Good job coming into a microstock forums to talk smack about microstock. We've never seen that one before. Very original.

Well somebody just clicked on the pick from this site.

I got Wordpress Stats. I can see.

Talk trash about MS. Free world do what you want.

wait I wanna be rich quick too... may I send you 250 photos I will give you 50% share!

So.... the water drop... good enough for MS?

It might be accepted if it is good enough technically at 100% __ but sales are another matter. The buyers have a huge range of high-quality images to choose from;

http://www.istockphoto.com/search/text/water_splash_isolated/source/basic/#51bb5d8

Why not upload it and find out?

So.... the water drop... good enough for MS?

I made better shots wen I was ten. Not many... two or three out of hundreds, maybe. MS is not about the ability of making one good shot now and then, but of producing and uploading many acceptable or good pics a week. That's how this works.
That said, there must be ten thousand or so water drops photos, many more commercial than yours, at the MS sites. I don't like the black background, but that's just my taste.

I did not know you can post free advertising here!