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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: leaf on September 29, 2007, 18:52
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If you had a friend who wanted to buy images for say a school project. which site would you send them to buy the pictures at (not taking any referal income into consideration)
note:you can vote for up to 2 sites
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Lucky Oliver and StockXpert.
Shutterstock for referral bonuses though. ;)
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For A friend for a school project? whichever is cheapest on a per picture basis.
For any other single buyer - FP or LO for high commissions.
For general marketing, SS because most months, that's where the money is.
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Featurepics or Mostphotos, because there I can set my own price.
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I answered before reading it properly. I thought it meant which would I send someone to, to buy one of my images so I answered DT as I make the most out of it on average. If I was sending a friends to buy images I would send them to the cheapest site, probably FT.
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Reasons why I wouldn't send him to certain sites:
Shutterstock - has to buy a full months subscription when he only needs a few photos.
Fotolia - loads slow, the search is weird, and there are a lot of poor quality images.
Dreamstime - no real reason, just prefer StockXpert and Lucky Oliver better.
Istockphoto - disaster of a website.
Bigstockphoto - unattractive website, lot of poor quality images.
and the reason why I picked LO and StockXpert:
StockXpert - high quality images, neat and easy website to use.
Lucky Oliver - the theme and set up is great. the images are decent quality.
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Featurepics should have been on the list, and would have been my first choice. I have a big portfolio there, and the earnings per download are much higher.
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What kind of images are they looking for? Do they already have models in mind? Honestly, for a school project, if the models and the concepts and everything else is already lined up (so all I have to do is shoot), then I'd do it in exchange for a model release. The good shots, I'd upload to traditional agencies. The mediocre shots, I'd upload to microstock. I'd exchange the images for property/model releases.
For images already in my portfolio, I'd negotiate on my own. Why would I want to send them to competition if I could fulfill the need?
Last resort....doesn't matter in the end. Either, I've already failed to market myself as a photographer or I'm already rolling in the money and don't need the business anyway. :)
(sorry, I'm being cynical - I'm not in a position currently where I can turn business, or potential business opportunities away).
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Featurepics is my first choice. I can set any price and receive 70% commission. I don't understand why we are not promoting them more. Wont we all make more money if they do well? I would like to see links to them all over the place.
Here's mine :)
http://www.featurepics.com/Authors/Images1041.aspx
StockXpert would be my second choice as I want them to take over from istock as the number 1 site. They have 50% commission for non-exclusive images compared to just 20% with istock and the upload is very straightforward. The site doesn't seem to have the problems I have experienced with istock. The sales are good, considering they are one of the newer sites.
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dreamstime for me.
1) they are the cheapest :
http://www.perrush.be/art_buy_stock_images_ZEN_02.html
2) they have a subscription plan
Selecondly IS >:( -> still a very good search engine, a lot of good vectors and of course some exclusive content. But the most expensive of the lot.
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if it was a friend for a school project, I'd just let them use it, I aint that greedy :D
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Fotolia
1. You do not have to subscribe with hunders of dollars, you buy credits that you need, for example 10 credits, for 10$, and you do not have to buy hunderds of images if you dont want.
2. I am selling there, so buy my images. hahahahaha
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Featurepics would be my first choice, because I get a better commission from my images and they also pay me for referrals. In my website, everytime I use an image I have in FP, I put a link to it.
I picked StockXpert for my second choice, because prices and commissions are very reasonable. But on a second thought I think I won't get any referral from them, would I? If not, DT would be a second choice.
Regards,
Adelaide
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Feature Pics for me as well - good returns per image.
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DT is best for buyers and Sellers because there customer service is not rude like IS and SS
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<< OLD THREAD ALERT >>
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mystockvectors.com
Shameless plug inserted into an old thread! ;D
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Buy my photos! Following Cory's lead...shameless plug inserted into old thread. :D
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Lucky Oliver and StockXpert.
Right ;D
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Buy my photos! Following Cory's lead...shameless plug inserted into old thread. :D
I try to look through the individual artist sites that I have bookmarked when I need photos (yours included). Unfortunately, I don't buy images very often. I'd like to compile a larger list at some point. It's a pet project on the back burner now though.