If you are planning to get ANY support from anyone serious about this you might want to provide two pieces of information:

1. License terms for the images sold through your site
2. How you plan to attract buyers.

" i have some work going on on the website"

Honestly, if you want to be taken seriously (and we're about done with these homegrown sites), you should have finished at least replacing all the stand-in "Lorem ipsum" text.  I mean your "copyright 2013" line just points to cmsaccount.com for a store script.

I did a google image search on one of your images (manhole cover) which took me to other sites with those images. Are you affiliated with or the owner of those sites?

http://www.stockphotopro.com/

http://alamy.ca/

The above appears to have nothing to do with the agency Alamy

http://www.yourwebgraphics.com/photo-download/

http://www.yatangomobile.com.au/

no, seriously,..

you have already been met by 2 of our gate-keepers.

and now the sphinx asks 2 questions:

1) how many images of marijuana do you have right now???
2) why would i need 4 approved to join you when shutterstock only need 1/10

no, seriously,..

you have already been met by 2 of our gate-keepers.

and now the sphinx asks 2 questions:

1) how many images of marijuana do you have right now???
2) why would i need 4 approved to join you when shutterstock only need 1/10

Didn't you see the name of the site?  Looks like they only want images of spoons.  Maybe spoons are the next big thing?  Marijuana is so 2015.

Wow, social media promotion and google ads, the recipe for disaster followed by new sites for a decade now.

Like Einstein said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I am always hopeful for a new site to bring something different to the table.
Every new site has to start at the beginning.

But as was mentioned there are some fundamental things that need te be in place before anything else happens. As was mentioned - licensing terms have to be clearly defined, pricing and commision structure has to be defined, and the BIG, BIG thing here is you need to have some customers in place. That either takes very good sales team or already have connections with buyers.

Running a microstock site takes capital - having sales people, reviewers, leasing storage and servers that are reliable, etc.etc

Like I said, Im all for new competition, as long as things are fair for artists, and there is reason to beleive in having success because a good plan is in place. Many have come and gone as quickly in this industry, with dreams of making easy money. Those days are long gone, noone is making easy money anymore, even the big guns spend big bucks to retain customers they already have, never mind going out and aquiring new ones.

I would be interested if everything mentioned would be addressed and clearly spelled out for us.