I am glad to see more sales. I am constantly working on telling more buyers about the site and signing up deals to get on large buyers vendor lists.  It is a hard process but I am making good inroads and happy w the progress. I'm off to make more sales calls and follow up with customers but wanted to say thank you again for the patience and congrats on the sales. I am happy that more are coming in and for the ones who have not sold yet I hope that you won't throw in the towel and will keep supporting us so we don't end up in a world dominated by 25c subscription payouts and 16% commissions.

Great to see you are still positive and working at it John. I don't have a large portfolio with you and I don't have any sales, I'm keeping my images with you, cos you never know.

When you talk to potential buyers is price ever a serious objection?

I have my images priced using your system, do you adjust this as you get more feedback?

1 EL after months of nothing. I will keep waiting :-)

From what I can gather through telephone conversations is that price isn't a factor or are they shopping at Cutcaster, finding what they want, and then shopping somewhere else to buy it cheaper.  Has that happened though in the past? Maybe.

Price is rarely a discussion and when it is I think buyers are sort of shocked that people price their images so low bc most are used to seeing $100-1000+ invoices. 

I hope that time is coming when contributors will choose agencies with good prices for their work...
We will be next part of internet photo stock evolution...

Good business John, I am for BID ASK pricing system, always...

Regards!

I still only have one sale, but I also haven't had many images on Cutcaster until recently. Hopefully the increased uploads will bring in some sales.

In light of recent events with StockXpert closing, the crappy ThinkStock deal, Fotolia's (mis)management, etc., I'm more hopeful than ever that sites like Cutcaster see increased growth. It would be great to see Cutcaster grow to the point where it is a serious threat to some of the bigger agencies.

Kick some ass, John. We're pulling for ya.

I appreciate it and am not stopping. I'm doing everything I can to tell people about Cutcaster and talk to as many photo and vector buyers as possible. 

More good things to come. What do people think about the new lightboxes we just released?

I had a sale on Jan 5th but never got an email or notification. I happened to check my account in February and noticed it. With so few sales (1 a year) it would be nice if we could get an email option.

Quote from: johngriffin on February 11, 2010, 05:26
I appreciate it and am not stopping. I'm doing everything I can to tell people about Cutcaster and talk to as many photo and vector buyers as possible. 

More good things to come. What do people think about the new lightboxes we just released?

The lightboxes are fine and I'm seeing plenty of views. If I could get sales I might kick some exclusives/best work CC's way and drop some agencies. Hope you will enable me to do that because I'm getting ripped off at subscription prices.

Good luck to you.

Quote from: Red Dove on February 12, 2010, 21:31

Quote from: johngriffin on February 11, 2010, 05:26
I appreciate it and am not stopping. I'm doing everything I can to tell people about Cutcaster and talk to as many photo and vector buyers as possible. 

More good things to come. What do people think about the new lightboxes we just released?

The lightboxes are fine and I'm seeing plenty of views. If I could get sales I might kick some exclusives/best work CC's way and drop some agencies. Hope you will enable me to do that because I'm getting ripped off at subscription prices.

Good luck to you.

We seem to be caught in the same "Catch-22" Red Dove.  I would be glad to make more images exclusive if I were getting sales.  Maybe we need to make images exclusive to get sales?

Quote from: johngriffin on February 05, 2010, 19:03
I am glad to see more sales. I am constantly working on telling more buyers about the site and signing up deals to get on large buyers vendor lists.  It is a hard process but I am making good inroads and happy w the progress. I'm off to make more sales calls and follow up with customers but wanted to say thank you again for the patience and congrats on the sales. I am happy that more are coming in and for the ones who have not sold yet I hope that you won't throw in the towel and will keep supporting us so we don't end up in a world dominated by 25c subscription payouts and 16% commissions.

It just gets better and better. Sold a package of 7 images yesterday. 

Keep it up, Cutcaster.  You're looking more and more like our answer to subscriptions.

12 of my images are exclusive there but so far no sales yet.  Just wonder what I'm missing to get in on the sales.

Uploaded a tone more images recently and got 2 sales yesterday. Things are looking up...

Quote from: Anita Potter on February 21, 2010, 04:07
12 of my images are exclusive there but so far no sales yet.  Just wonder what I'm missing to get in on the sales.

I don't know the answer, Anita, but I think linking a lightbox to all the search engines with keywords included has helped bring buyers to my portfolio.  There is a blog article on Cutcaster explaining how to create these links.

Quote from: WarrenPrice on February 23, 2010, 00:59

Quote from: Anita Potter on February 21, 2010, 04:07
12 of my images are exclusive there but so far no sales yet.  Just wonder what I'm missing to get in on the sales.

I don't know the answer, Anita, but I think linking a lightbox to all the search engines with keywords included has helped bring buyers to my portfolio.  There is a blog article on Cutcaster explaining how to create these links.

I'll look into that tonight to see if it'll help.  Thanks

Ok, I know many people won't want to reveal their CC pricing, but I'm not shy - mine are all $5 and I have yet to make a sale after several months.   I do get some views, making me wonder if even $5 is too much. But, these images sell on other sites for typical micro prices.   

It also seems like my views have fallen way off in the months since I first submitted.  I wish I could reset the view counts to 0 to see if I'm really getting any at all, these days.

Quote from: stockastic on February 23, 2010, 17:52
Ok, I know many people won't want to reveal their CC pricing, but I'm not shy - mine are all $5 and I have yet to make a sale after several months.   I do get some views, making me wonder if even $5 is too much. But, these images sell on other sites for typical micro prices.   

It also seems like my views have fallen way off in the months since I first submitted.  I wish I could reset the view counts to 0 to see if I'm really getting any at all, these days.

I don't mind, Stockastic.  Mine were all exclusive and editorial only.  Prices were from $20 - $25.  I just requested my third payout from Cutcaster ... $108.  I'm tickled pink.   

John suggested that I raise my prices. 

Warren,

wow, I have no sales till now. What is your secret? :-)
Can I see somewhere on the CC which images were sold to give some idea what type of images are requested?

Yes, Warren is truly the "CutCaster Master".   I'm encouraged by his success although my shots are nothing like his, and maybe the right buyers aren't there yet.  

Right now I'm trying to motivate myself to upload some more.  Hey maybe my prices have been too low  


Say Warren, what's a "lightbox to all the search engines"? I see the blog posts explaining lightboxes, but what's the "search engines" link you're referring to?

Quote from: IF on February 24, 2010, 08:15
Warren,

wow, I have no sales till now. What is your secret? :-)
Can I see somewhere on the CC which images were sold to give some idea what type of images are requested?

Mine is a "niche market," IF.  They are motocross racing from the 80s.  Here is a link to the lightbox:
http://www.cutcaster.com/clipfolders/viewclipfolder/Motocross-Legends/1218

Notice that many are black and white.  The sell too.

Maybe I should move these to the Macro Market?   

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Quote from: stockastic on February 24, 2010, 15:51
Yes, Warren is truly the "CutCaster Master".   I'm encouraged by his success although my shots are nothing like his, and maybe the right buyers aren't there yet.  

Right now I'm trying to motivate myself to upload some more.  Hey maybe my prices have been too low  


Say Warren, what's a "lightbox to all the search engines"? I see the blog posts explaining lightboxes, but what's the "search engines" link you're referring to?

Stockastic,
It is a blog article explaining how to click the "share" button and link your collection to any and all available "social networks" and search engines ... google, yahoo, facebook, and many, many more.  It is more than a year old.  If you can't find it in blog articles, email John and ask for a repost.  John swears by it himself.

I do too.  More than 2300 views of the Motocross Legends Clipfolder (lightbox)

Also, try a google search on Motocross Legends or just Motocross.  Cutcaster is on the earlier pages ... 3 or 4, I guess.

edited by op: Oooops... make that PAGE ONE!!!

Thanks Warren. For small potatos like myself who will never enter the Promised Land of IStock Exclusitvity, I think maybe the future will be all about bypassing the search engines on the microstocks themselves and getting our images picked up by Google, Bing and the rest.  How Facebook might fit into this, I don't yet know.

Quote from: stockastic on February 24, 2010, 17:30
Thanks Warren. For small potatos like myself who will never enter the Promise Land of IStock Exclusifity, I think maybe the future will be all about bypassing the search engines on the microstocks themselves and getting our images picked up by Google, Bing and the rest.  How Facebook might fit into this, I don't yet know.

I really think it is a combination of approaches.  Talk to John.  I think his philosophy is to help his contributors help him make sales.  It really is a team approach and following his lead, we small potatoes will make some pretty good soup.   

As proof of my endless will to believe in the possibility of a better future, I've resumed uploading to CC and just had a batch approved.  The CC "algorithm" assigned various prices to them, for what reasons I know not;  is there a way I reset them to the same value, all at once, myself?