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madelaide:
Promises, promises...
--- Quote ---fredgolstein: I know this is a rough question but is the site dead or should we keep uploading?
reasonate (administrator):
Actually Fred, I'm afraid the news about our death may have been greatly exagerated smile
Nope, we're here to stay.
We are currently working on a web site redesign (web2.0 alike) that will be launched on September 30 and thus file reviews have been a bit delayed.
We're also making some changes on our business model regarding the state of the art on the inexpensive Royatly free market.
It is our strong belief that the changes will be for the best, including a major upgrade on the photographers margin. But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
More on 11/30 smile
Thank you all.
Antonio
--- End quote ---
StockManiac:
All of the new microsites are beginning to all sound the same.
"Just you wait!"
"We have lots of stuff in the works."
"You wait and see."
"We pinky swear!"
Blah, blah, blah...
As someone once said: "SHOW ME THE MONEY!"
berryspun:
'Jerry Maguire' movie, Rod Tidwell line!
Thanks StockManiac. I hope that more photographers wouldn't hesitate to express themselves on these sites so that the admin would invest more into a defensive marketing like SS does so well.
I didn't put any comments on the Gimmestock site, I'm not registered there, and probably won't in view of what madelaide mentioned. But here is my small personal contribution today at CanStockPhoto:
http://www.canstockphoto.com/forum_read.php?id=2517
Forums > CanStockPhoto Discussion > Feedback wanted!
Berryspun Photographer with < 50 sales
5 posts
September 13, 2006 (5 hours ago)
Oh, and I forgot... I would like this balance counter to be less static, so... more good exposure, go and reach the designers, which leads to more sales, and you will have plenty of happy photographers! All the rest is secondary.
madelaide:
I had some flames in CanStockPhoto as well.
Duncan said
--- Quote ---The site is a passion for me, and one that I enjoy doing. I could pay myself, but I want to grow it as much as possible.
I have an outside source of income that covers all my living expenses. So as long as that is taken care of, I'm happy to keep giving back to the site and developing it as much as possible.
--- End quote ---
I replied
--- Quote ---Photography is a passion for me too, but making images ready for sale is business. So I must say that I am a bit surprised and disappointed to see that you take CanStock as a hobby and not as a business.
--- End quote ---
and later I added
--- Quote ---I didn't mean to offend you, this was my reading from what you said. Since you don't make profits from the sales and reinvest the profits in the site, I understand they're covering the costs. And since this is not your main source of income but something you do at your free time, isn't that the definition of hobby? Of course a hobby can be something that consumes a lot of our time, money and energy, and hobby is not necessarily entertainment.
Others have expressed their concerns, which I share, about low sales here. Yes, it's worse in other places, but CanStock is not a baby site like many others, given the high amount of images online after its two years of life. But I don't complain about my sales, as my portfolio is still small; what shocks me in fact is the low number of views my images have here compared to the same images in other sites. Some other fellow photographers I know share the same opinion.
So it seems to me that the site needs some redirection in its marketing strategy, because apparently it's not attracting that many buyers - subscribers or not. Once this happens, then maybe prices may be rediscussed, but for now what we need, in my opinion, is to attract more buyers, and I'm not sure that by doing that only in your free hours you will be able to accomplish that.
--- End quote ---
And then I became an enemy.
Regards,
Adelaide
berryspun:
--- Quote from: madelaide on September 13, 2006, 17:39 ---
And then I became an enemy.
Regards,
Adelaide
--- End quote ---
Very bold and accurate Adelaide, there is no reason to become an enemy if you say things with integrity. I was not aware of what you had written but am happy that you did. I understand your comments as a wish to shake-up the CanStockPhoto leadership so that they realize that in order for them to be succesfull they have to take it wholeheartedly as a business. It's like a store. You get the goods for selling them, not for collecting them. And the photographers expect that from any stock-store. Marketing strategies are very important, and cannot be succesful if they are dealt on a free-time basis. I found your comments very supportive and well-intentioned.
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