Author Topic: Alamy Rocks! (Read 13113 times)

ShadySue · « **Reply #25 on:** January 29, 2011, 17:36 »

Quote from: Karimala on January 28, 2011, 16:09

Quote from: leaf on January 27, 2011, 15:19
congrats - that must have been a nice surprise on the earnings page . I have been having more and more respect for Alamy lately. I really like that they show you a breakdown of how their commissions are taken and 40% for a distributer sale isn't bad at all. Alamy gives 60% if it is an on site sale... we the photographers should be supporting them full force.

I couldn't agree more...especially considering they donate over 80% of their profits to medical research.

To be pedantic, it's a range of charities including education and conservation as well as medical research.
http://www.alamy.com/medical-research.asp

Not in any way wishing to denigrate the charitable donations, but maybe they could commit a bit more money to marketing, then maybe they'd get more sales and so they, we and the charities would get some more actual £££.

epantha · « **Reply #26 on:** January 29, 2011, 17:47 »

Congratulations! And more big sales to all.

Since all the shenanigans started over at IS I've been focusing on uploading more to Alamy and have one sale in Jan. and a lot more zooms than I used to. Also just bought a Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 that will be with me all the time and is on Alamy's recommended camera list.

leaf · « **Reply #27 on:** January 29, 2011, 18:54 »

Quote from: ShadySue on January 29, 2011, 17:36

Quote from: Karimala on January 28, 2011, 16:09
Quote from: leaf on January 27, 2011, 15:19
congrats - that must have been a nice surprise on the earnings page . I have been having more and more respect for Alamy lately. I really like that they show you a breakdown of how their commissions are taken and 40% for a distributer sale isn't bad at all. Alamy gives 60% if it is an on site sale... we the photographers should be supporting them full force.

I couldn't agree more...especially considering they donate over 80% of their profits to medical research.

To be pedantic, it's a range of charities including education and conservation as well as medical research.
http://www.alamy.com/medical-research.asp

Not in any way wishing to denigrate the charitable donations, but maybe they could commit a bit more money to marketing, then maybe they'd get more sales and so they, we and the charities would get some more actual £££.

This was discussed quite a bit once before in this thread
http://www.microstockgroup.com/alamy-com/alamy-gives-to-charity/

My main point being, how much they donate to charity has nothing to do with how much they spend on advertising.

To simply things greatly....
If they generate 1,000,000 in sales in a week or month or whatever, pay photographers $600,000 they have $400,000 left over
Let's say they spend $100,000 on office workers, they now have $300,000 left over

Now comes their advertising ... they spend $290,000 ... They now have $10,000 left over which is their profit.

Alamy says they give 89% of their profits to charity, that means they give $8,900 to charity and the owners keep $1,100.

If they increased their marketing budget by $9000, they could still give 89% of their profits to charity.

ShadySue · « **Reply #28 on:** January 30, 2011, 04:56 »

Quote from: leaf on January 29, 2011, 18:54

Quote from: ShadySue on January 29, 2011, 17:36
Quote from: Karimala on January 28, 2011, 16:09
Quote from: leaf on January 27, 2011, 15:19
congrats - that must have been a nice surprise on the earnings page . I have been having more and more respect for Alamy lately. I really like that they show you a breakdown of how their commissions are taken and 40% for a distributer sale isn't bad at all. Alamy gives 60% if it is an on site sale... we the photographers should be supporting them full force.

I couldn't agree more...especially considering they donate over 80% of their profits to medical research.

To be pedantic, it's a range of charities including education and conservation as well as medical research.
http://www.alamy.com/medical-research.asp

Not in any way wishing to denigrate the charitable donations, but maybe they could commit a bit more money to marketing, then maybe they'd get more sales and so they, we and the charities would get some more actual £££.

This was discussed quite a bit once before in this thread
http://www.microstockgroup.com/alamy-com/alamy-gives-to-charity/

My main point being, how much they donate to charity has nothing to do with how much they spend on advertising.

To simply things greatly....
If they generate 1,000,000 in sales in a week or month or whatever, pay photographers $600,000 they have $400,000 left over
Let's say they spend $100,000 on office workers, they now have $300,000 left over

Now comes their advertising ... they spend $290,000 ... They now have $10,000 left over which is their profit.

Alamy says they give 89% of their profits to charity, that means they give $8,900 to charity and the owners keep $1,100.

If they increased their marketing budget by $9000, they could still give 89% of their profits to charity.

My point was only that I wish they would spend more on marketing so that they'd sell more and make more.
% of profit only means so much: bottom line is far more interesting for me. One person could give 90% of their disposable income to charity, and it would only be $10, someone else could give 1% and it would be £100,000. Who benefits the charity more?

borg · « **Reply #29 on:** January 30, 2011, 05:01 »

Many people mix income with earnings for profit. These are two completely different item ..

Mantis · « **Reply #30 on:** January 30, 2011, 10:38 »

Quote from: visceralimage on January 29, 2011, 01:41

I was on Alamy for many years with no success; they loved my stuff but nothing every sold.

With Alamy, you HAVE TO HAVE VOLUME. They have over 20 million images, albeit a lot of it is junk. And we're talking one-off sales in contrast to Pay as you go packages or subscription. So buyers aren't using Alamy like they do micros in terms of number of buyers and download frequency. Instead they pay $30 to $300 + bucks for one image. Just keep uploading, build volume and make sure you have marketable content. I too enjoy a nice sale now and then but for the most part it's hit and miss...sometimes 6-8 weeks goes by before I get any sales.

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