Author Topic: How many sites do you sell your pics on?? (Read 12148 times)

PixelBytes · « **Reply #25 on:** June 30, 2009, 10:31 »

Quote from: Noodles on June 30, 2009, 00:11

You're right! Sorry. But the point I made is probably true and I think even more so these days because the standard is getting so high.

Oh, yeah, I see your point. We can sure all work on improving our quality.

Sorry if I misinterpreted your prior post.

timburton · « **Reply #26 on:** July 01, 2009, 23:39 »

Only iStockphoto, Shutterstock, StockXpert, Dreamstime, Fotolia- but Im looking at Bigstock

PixelBytes · « **Reply #27 on:** July 02, 2009, 09:39 »

Quote from: timburton on July 01, 2009, 23:39

Only iStockphoto, Shutterstock, StockXpert, Dreamstime, Fotolia- but Im looking at Bigstock

I wouldn't spend a lot of time on Bigstock. Sales are steadily dwindling there even though I keep uploading new material. I just had my worst month there in about two years even though I more than doubled the portfolio I had back then.

louoates · « **Reply #28 on:** July 02, 2009, 10:52 »

Quote from: timburton on July 01, 2009, 23:39

Only iStockphoto, Shutterstock, StockXpert, Dreamstime, Fotolia- but Im looking at Bigstock

I'm on those as well. But if I had to drop one Bigstock would be it. I wouldn't really notice the loss.

gbcimages · « **Reply #29 on:** July 02, 2009, 11:00 »

I'll stay with BS,IF I DROP ANY IT WILL BE FT AND FP

a.k.a.-tom · « **Reply #30 on:** July 02, 2009, 16:03 »

SS, IS, StockXpert, DT, BigStock, FT, FP AND ALAMY.....

Best results for me. SS by volume of sales
IS by size vs $
StockXpert.... much of it is thru Jupiter subs
BigStock and DT... slow but regular

FT, FP, ALAMY.... small portfolios...so i can't complain about low sales.

I have not actively uploaded in over a year now.... maybe a dozen or so pix...and I bailed out of several sites... most recently 123rf in May... I was as high as ... I believe 15 agencies... but the tracking work wasn't worth the return... so I 86'd them all. Of course two of them LO and NLS went belly up.... although NLS restructured and is now back up.
Last time I talked with Darrell (a while ago), he was looking for images to be exclusive to NLS, you didn't have to be, but the image did.

to each his own.... it all depends on how much time you want to put into it and if you have a port that sells.

=tom

microstockinsider · « **Reply #31 on:** July 06, 2009, 23:30 »

20 at the moment - soon to be 19 (no I'm not mad - I kind of have to for my site), but any agency that gets about 200 uploads and no sales in three months gets dumped - I stop uploading but leave the images there and just keep and eye on what's happening

As for getting fed up of uploading, FTP or isyndica, and you won't be fed up of the uploads, + in the past couple of weeks a few sites have streamlined their categorisation making the whole process take about an hour for a batch of 7 or 8 images to those sites. only IS and StockXpert are a pain now.

It's the little things in your workflow like having a list of links to each site when you submit (or having firefox bookmarks in a folder and clicking "open all in tabs".

leaf · « **Reply #32 on:** July 07, 2009, 05:41 »

Quote from: Kngkyle on June 28, 2009, 21:10

I sorta split my uploading in two. Some sites I upload to as soon as I have the image ready, others I just let them stack up until I have a large batch and upload them all at once when I'm bored or have nothing better to do.

Regularly:

iStockphoto
Shutterstock
StockXpert
Dreamstime
Fotolia

Occasionally:

Bigstockphoto
123RF
Canstockphoto
Crestock

Not sure where Veer will fall. Waiting to see how it performs.

yeah same here. Sites that are easy to upload and have at least ok earnings I upload to right away. The others get stockpiled until I'm bored and have extra time on my hands, or for some reason thing that the site is going to improve (like what happened with Canstock recently)

hlth · « **Reply #33 on:** July 07, 2009, 14:12 »

iSyndica (.com) was specifically created to address that issue. You upload your file once, the platform takes care of distributing (syndicating) the files to all the sites you want (and stores them on the cloud). You will soon be able to send them to flickr or facebook accounts as well.

As mentioned elsewhere in this post, aside from the big channels, the small ones individually contribute a little bit to your revenue. However, if you add all the small ones up it can be a good amount (sometimes 40% of revenue), it's just not worth the time generally unless you can reduce the time to submit/upload.

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