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Author Topic: What to do?? What to do??  (Read 1850 times)

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« on: May 15, 2008, 17:15 »
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We are both photographers and illustrators.  Currently our portfolio is mostly photographs, with a handful of fractals and illustrations tossed in.  After researching vector requirements, we feel we are ready to enter that phase of this business, and have a few test vectors up in submission queues to test our work.

The question is, at this point, with profit being our main goal, should we begin pushing our vector drawings?

What would be the best game plan, to rapidly increase profits?

What would you do?


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« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2008, 18:01 »
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Vectors have a much higher potential rate of return, especially if you do not offer the same vectors for all-one-price subscription sales as you do on sites that pay you significantly more for them.

Have you already been approved for vectors and are submitting the first batches now? or are you still in the application process?

« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2008, 15:59 »
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We have vectors pending at 2 agencies, and are ready to get our initial submissions into iStock.
We fixed the RGB color profile and one is up at SS already.
I'm hoping that will be our only obstacle...

suwanneeredhead

  • O.I.D. Sufferer (Obsessive Illustration Disorder)
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2008, 17:12 »
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My ports are mostly photographs as well but I am a graphic designer (having designed county maps) so I have a few vector illustrations in my ports as well...

and on both IS and SS my best sellers are vectors, no doubt about it, make up an overwhelming proportion of my sales even with very few illustrations.

So... that's what I would do, concentrate on vector art... I wish I could, I'm a single mother right now trying to finance a move across the country, don't really have time to be drawing pictures when I could be designing a website for a lot faster cash flow!

Good luck and let us know what happens!


 

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