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Why not both? Just not on the same outlets.
You need quality and lots of it.
Quality is a much more complicated term than it appears! What is quality? Is it Coca-Cola,McDonald's,Burger King,Domino's or CNN!!!
Quote from: fritz on February 25, 2017, 17:45 Quality is a much more complicated term than it appears! What is quality? Is it Coca-Cola,McDonald's,Burger King,Domino's or CNN!!!Yes, if you are drinking a coca-cola in McDonald's while watching CNN
Quote from: Photodune Reject on February 25, 2017, 17:54Quote from: fritz on February 25, 2017, 17:45 Quality is a much more complicated term than it appears! What is quality? Is it Coca-Cola,McDonald's,Burger King,Domino's or CNN!!!Yes, if you are drinking a coca-cola in McDonald's while watching CNN Perfect quality combination!
"Quality" is really irrelevant in microstock. "Saleability" is the name of the game. This is a business, not an art gallery. Any image that sells has to be competently done as a baseline; but to make money for the artist it needs to fit the buyer's needs.That means it should "tell a story" that many people want to tell, and for bonus points have impact in a small size. If not many artists are telling that story, you rise to the top. In addition, I have seen (and I'll bet we've all seen) some of our top-selling images on one site fall flat on another. I don't know why that should be, but it is. Month after month I find that about 3% of my images are providing 90% of my income. And, as I said, it's a different 3% for different sites. Now, if I could just unlock the "magic formula" for that, I'd only have to submit a few images if each one sold really well. The holy grail of microstock!
Quality is highly subjective. Some of what I think are my best images sell very little but those that I almost didn't upload sell well. I see a few people with small portfolios packed with images that sell well but I think that would be hard for me to do. I just upload everything that I think might sell and let the buyers decide. The best images rise to the top in my portfolio and some of them are a real surprise.Deciding what to sell on micro and macro sites is tricky as well. A high quality image on a macro site might never sell or only sell a few times and make less than it would on the microstock sites.
In addition, I have seen (and I'll bet we've all seen) some of our top-selling images on one site fall flat on another. I don't know why that should be, but it is.
So it's not so much quality or quantity, it's something that we can't affect. Luck and search engines.
Quote from: spike on February 27, 2017, 03:18So it's not so much quality or quantity, it's something that we can't affect. Luck and search engines. Luck is not independent of quantity.