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Is it possible to launch own subscription site?
charged:
--- Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on August 16, 2019, 15:05 ---I really can't imagine you'd find four people, let alone 4,000. It's really hard to get buyers. And then once they download everything, they quit.
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You might be right. I have no way of finding out without actually going through with it. And I've already said I'm pretty reluctant to test the waters given how much my income would drop if I cancel the exclusive contact.
Over a 6 month period this year, I've sold about 30,000 images. People obviously like my stuff enough to download them.
The idea I'm thinking about here is more or less exactly how Shutterstock started out.
charged:
--- Quote from: cascoly on August 16, 2019, 14:19 ---
--- Quote from: charged on August 16, 2019, 11:17 ---... I sell a lot of photos. Like between 25,000 - 50,000 images, per year, mostly all subs. Most of my photos are of one genre that graphic designers use a lot of. If I just charged a $5 per month sub fee, and I got 4,000 people to sign up, that would be $20,000 per month, before expenses. ...
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2 rather large 'IF's -- and why would an agency who already has a sub to search hundred millions of images buy another sub to search a few thousand??
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You ask fair questions!
Because I "think" for the genre that I shoot in, I'm very good. To get my photos, $5 sub is cheaper than they can get on iStock, because I don't sell anywhere else. My collection is pretty big.
My collection is much much bigger than a few thousand. And I've learned a lot in the last 12 months. I've learned enough the I could by myself pump out several hundred thousand new images each year if I want to. Basically it comes down to learning to be more efficient. Shot models based upon a template of poses. Have a custom software that does most of the keywording automatically, because all the photos are shot based upon a template. For example, in the past, one hour of shooting usually equals to about 3 hours of keywording. Now one hour of template shooting is equal to 10 mins of keywording. It is 10 mins because some part of the keywording process can't be templated, but most of it can.
Pauws99:
--- Quote from: charged on August 16, 2019, 15:26 ---
--- Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on August 16, 2019, 15:05 ---I really can't imagine you'd find four people, let alone 4,000. It's really hard to get buyers. And then once they download everything, they quit.
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You might be right. I have no way of finding out without actually going through with it. And I've already said I'm pretty reluctant to test the waters given how much my income would drop if I cancel the exclusive contact.
Over a 6 month period this year, I've sold about 30,000 images. People obviously like my stuff enough to download them.
The idea I'm thinking about here is more or less exactly how Shutterstock started out.
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Yes and when they started they had one competitor.
charged:
--- Quote from: Pauws99 on August 16, 2019, 15:37 ---
--- Quote from: charged on August 16, 2019, 15:26 ---
--- Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on August 16, 2019, 15:05 ---I really can't imagine you'd find four people, let alone 4,000. It's really hard to get buyers. And then once they download everything, they quit.
--- End quote ---
You might be right. I have no way of finding out without actually going through with it. And I've already said I'm pretty reluctant to test the waters given how much my income would drop if I cancel the exclusive contact.
Over a 6 month period this year, I've sold about 30,000 images. People obviously like my stuff enough to download them.
The idea I'm thinking about here is more or less exactly how Shutterstock started out.
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Yes and when they started they had one competitor.
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True!
Sean Locke Photography:
--- Quote from: charged on August 16, 2019, 15:36 --- I've learned enough the I could by myself pump out several hundred thousand new images each year if I want to.
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How excruciatingly mind numbing that sounds. You'd burn out in no time. But seriously, how many "funny poses on white" or "guy in prisoner outfit" does the world need?
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