As you may now I am a contributor to Clipartof.com as are other members on this forum.
This site is pro-artist (The others that offer 25Ē a download are just a ripoff in my opinion) so I wish to assist them.
I need to help promote them. They are a low budget. hence the Google ads on the site. (I'd rather them have those than take a higher percentage of my sales)
They don't have an affiliation program...yet and they don't promote with Google ads. (Again these options would cut into artists percentages.)
Any Ideas??? How can we promote this site?
Cheers Dennis
I said it was "my opinion"..... Your opinion is your opinion.
I'm not ranting about the negatives or positives about microstock sites here am I?
If you don't want to reply to the question in the thread I asked instead of crying for your mate that's your option I guess.
I hope you and your emailing friends would start read the actual threads instead of just wanting to attack me.
You're a member of Clipartof....you'd think you'd want to help bring in traffic to sell your stuff rather than asking me to stop. ???
so Dennis you have a nice portfolio!! how many new images did you get uploaded and on clipartof this week? A couple of us noticed a lot. 300? :D
Yes, I did them on the weekend. I'd let Jamie know in advace they where coming. Being similar helped with the upload time.
so Dennis you have a nice portfolio!! how many new images did you get uploaded and on clipartof this week? A couple of us noticed a lot. 300? :D
Yes, I did them on the weekend. I'd let Jamie know in advace they where coming. Being similar helped with the upload time.
I guess that's why I heard they can't take any more contributors right now, due to an enormous backlog. ;D
A good rule of thumb is to have holiday images up at least 8 weeks before to let designers and scrapers time to plan and do projects for those holidays! ;D
I only joined them a few months ago and being Australian (Father's day is in September)
I was not up on all the holidays.
Like I said it's because I did them similar and gave notice they where coming.
......................leave.
Sorry Dennis I will not leave.......
I give every agency one year time...........
I said nothing bad about clipart I have only something against your promotional thing TO EAGER ......
I don't understand your way of promoting an agency unless your gaining something from it.....That's all....
Bye Bye....
I agree that what started out as a seemingly well-intentioned effort to spread the word to artists about this site has turned into somewhat of a crusade that in all honesty is turning people off of the site, rather than the opposite. Someone has crowned himself company spokesperson, and then begins attacking other members of this forum? How does that reflect on the site you are promoting?
Perhaps it never occurred to you that there are people here who actually do purchase images?
I agree that what started out as a seemingly well-intentioned effort to spread the word to artists about this site has turned into somewhat of a crusade that in all honesty is turning people off of the site, rather than the opposite. Someone has crowned himself company spokesperson, and then begins attacking other members of this forum? How does that reflect on the site you are promoting?
I'm thinking if it's all worth .......sofar no sales for me, new uploads are still pending,I see a lot of new artists with a empty portfolio......
I know it's hard work for Jamie and crew I was glad that they accept me in to the agency but now it makes me wonder if it was the best step to make ......
This thread makes no sense to me. Have a lot of posts been deleted?
What sort of help are you after Dennis?
This thread makes no sense to me. Have a lot of posts been deleted?
What sort of help are you after Dennis?
Please read the first post on the thread
This thread makes no sense to me. Have a lot of posts been deleted?
What sort of help are you after Dennis?
Please read the first post on the thread
What are Jamies ideas, just so I don't duplicate?
I have seen no one that dose the same style as me on the site and so I have no competition from the new artists.
Jamie could setup a referral program for buyers with an affiliate service like Commission Junction: [url]http://www.cj.com[/url] ([url]http://www.cj.com[/url]).
If I see that actual sales are coming in I will promote the site via my own website, perhaps replacing links to Shutter and Fotolia with a link to ClipartOf. But I have first to see how things develop.
The 30% tax is payable only if a contributor resides in a country without a double taxation treaty with the US. For all others - probably the majority of contributors - paying this tax can be avoided.
ClipartOf and the contributors - or at least those of them who understand the value of marketing - could form a link referral ring, which increases exposure and traffic for all participating sites without costing anything. Since e.g. my graphics are mostly very different from the existing stuff at ClipartOf I can probably attract a totally new and different customer crowd. This might be true for some of the other new contributors as well.
Maui, could you please email Jamie and explain about the tax please?
The ring idea is great. Do you know how to set it up?
ClipartOf puts up links to the contributor's websites, and we place links to Clipartof on our sites.
Since ClipartOf has a large traffic, this will get us more exposure with the search engines = more traffic for us. The additional visitors will occasionally follow the link to clipartof, which gives them more exposure as well.
So we would just tell Jamie the link to our website, and we would place reciprocal links on our sites.
You are not talking about a true ring, right? Just a reciprocal link agreement?
You are not talking about a true ring, right? Just a reciprocal link agreement?
This is something we can discuss. I am open for both possibilities. I am not sure if one method is better than the other in terms of search engine optimization.
A little suggestion:
Maybe the site could co-operate/partner with another site that doesn't sell illustrations....like Photocase
Or co-operate/partner with site that sells only illustrations or vectors....
BTW I've been told Jamie knows how to sell and promote the stuff very good...................................................................................................
You are not talking about a true ring, right? Just a reciprocal link agreement?
This is something we can discuss. I am open for both possibilities. I am not sure if one method is better than the other in terms of search engine optimization.
I don't think it is possable? Do other microstock sites allow you to post websites or emails?
I could be wrong.
I would more likely want to build up my own site with my own images and promoting that site to have a 100% commission.
I would more likely want to build up my own site with my own images and promoting that site to have a 100% commission.
Then do it that way.
As a contributor, it is not my nor yours job to promote the agency.
As you may know I am a contributor to Clipartof.com as are other members on this forum.
This site is pro-artist (The others that offer 25Ē a download are just a ripoff in my opinion) so I wish to assist them.
I need to help promote them. They are a low budget. hence the Google ads on the site. (I'd rather them have those than take a higher percentage of my sales)
They don't have an affiliation program...yet and they don't promote with Google ads. (Again these options would cut into artists percentages.)
Any Ideas??? How can we promote this site?
Cheers Dennis
As a contributor, it is not my nor yours job to promote the agency.
It is completely fine if this is your opinion - nobody will force you to do something you don't want.
direct marketing is a quite efficient tool
Strange that Photocase ranking is low.....
I have only a few images on line 5 or 6 and the sales are better than most higher ranking agencies were I have over 500 images on line....
I would more likely want to build up my own site with my own images and promoting that site to have a 100% commission.
As a contributor I'm giving an agency a considerable percentage of every sale I have - as for Clipartof, half of what the image is sold for. Now why would it be MY job to promote the site? That is what I am paying the agency for: Selling my pictures to buyers they find to me.
I would more likely want to build up my own site with my own images and promoting that site to have a 100% commission.
Go for it.