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Gregor909:
How to improve vector sales?
Improve your skills, and produce stuff that sells. That's my experience.
You don't need lightboxes, image of the week, free images,Istock hot shots, contests etc. You don't need all that extra exposure and you don't need to be exclusive.
Produce quality and it will cream to the top.

If you don't believe me.... look at the Istock Hot Shots, image of the week, free image of the week and the contest winners. Their sales aren't always that great, and sometime even pathetic.
Istock puts those images there just to show the clients that they have variety. They don't need to give exposure to the bestsellers. Bestsellers find their way to the top on their own.

fotografer:
On IS if you see a lightbox that suits an image of yours you can sitemail the owner of the lightbox and ask if they would mind including your  image.

--- Quote from: steppysteph on June 06, 2008, 07:47 ---I also wanted to be part of a lightbox and trying to figure out how to do it... but I think you can only get into a lightbox if the moderator of the lightbox adds you or you are the starter of the lightbox. Not sure though...

Thanks for the help!

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Susan S.:
Actually image of the week on istock (at least for photo) makes a huge difference in sales, if the image is at all stockworthy (speaking from experience). I think the vector image of the week gets a bit less exposure.
A lot of getting good sales on istock for a particular vector image is a combination of research, luck and skill (in roughly that order). Even new comers to istock can get lucky. You have first of all to produce a really saleable image. if you look at the top selling vectors in the last month, the top seller was one of the very first uploads by a new vector artists that just got picked up by buyers a few months ago. It's very simple, there are maybe a couple of hundred almost identical fies on istock. So they just got lucky both in terms of getting the image approved as such simple files tend to get knocked back, and by getting a quick download which bumped it up the pecking order of the best match search. It got a couple more and hasn't looked back since. 
If you upload a lot of good quality saleable files then it means the chances of getting lucky are increased.

(My vectors are more to please me than to generate huge amounts of income - it's a hobby for me, and I don't do the research and don't generate large volumes of simple files. So my sales have been steady but a long way from spectacular, and they are only just starting to get going after submitting vectors for six months)

Microbius:

--- Quote from: Gregor909 on June 07, 2008, 10:47 ---How to improve vector sales?
Improve your skills, and produce stuff that sells. That's my experience.
You don't need lightboxes, image of the week, free images,Istock hot shots, contests etc. You don't need all that extra exposure and you don't need to be exclusive.

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100% agree

steppysteph:
I added some of my illustrations to lightboxes. Yes, of course it is always producing quality files that will make it sell. I guess I am still new at this and don't know what really sells. Sometimes its the easy files to create that sells. I have less than a month's experience in selling illustrations so hopefully I'll get better at this soon. Thanks!

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