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Falling sales

Started by PZF, May 15, 2014, 07:59

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PixelBytes

Quote from: Goofy on June 29, 2014, 22:52
wow! Are the stars falling or what? Seems like a low sales virus bug is hitting all sites  :-[

Summer, plus World Cup, plus this Friday is July 4 holiday in the US.  Will be a slow week, I think.

ShadySue

Quote from: roede-orm on June 29, 2014, 21:55
Decreasing trend in june for me - but it's football world cup - may be that's the reason?
Do most creatives stop work during the World Cup? I've seen that suggested in another thread too - would be very surprising if so - as though clients would hang around for a month in limbo.

Goofy

Quote from: PixelBytes on June 30, 2014, 01:11
Quote from: Goofy on June 29, 2014, 22:52
wow! Are the stars falling or what? Seems like a low sales virus bug is hitting all sites  :-[

Summer, plus World Cup, plus this Friday is July 4 holiday in the US.  Will be a slow week, I think.

Crap! I think I will just stay in bed the entire week  :-\


roede-orm

Quote from: Goofy on June 30, 2014, 02:40
Crap! I think I will just stay in bed the entire week  :-\

Damned good idea, I think!  8)

roede-orm

Quote from: ShadySue on June 30, 2014, 02:27
Quote from: roede-orm on June 29, 2014, 21:55
Decreasing trend in june for me - but it's football world cup - may be that's the reason?
Do most creatives stop work during the World Cup? I've seen that suggested in another thread too - would be very surprising if so - as though clients would hang around for a month in limbo.

Sue, maybe there are not the most creative people who normally buy my images ?  8)

Jo Ann Snover

It's June - summer is often a slow time.

My 123rf sales so far (and June isn't quite over) are ahead of last June, though down from May. Again, that's what I expect based on typical patterns for me.

Canonbabe

Yep.... sales going down here too! The last two weeks I had problems to log in on the site and I'm probabely not the only one, sellers won't get in either!

The last year 123RF promissed us increasing sales, better % earnings etc but nothing happened. In fact, they killed one of their easiest to use marketing tools: the free image section. Before, it was possible to give them away for a day or more and you could easily select them from all files you donated before.
In their new system, the shortest period is 10 days and selection is harder, not to mention it is much more work to add new images to your "free selection section". I wrote them several times about this issue but still no proper answer and no change of system ofcourse.
What do they expect? Expect a huge increase in your portfolio exposure! Increase your sales!! Sell higher resolution images! Since the introduction of the new free image system I haven't sold more hr images and it takes soooo much time to get them donated for free.

Let's hope someone from 123RF reads our issues and complaints and will do something. Afterall, it's US who generate their profit!

Picfre - Auto metadata tool

So.... I start to upload photo to microstock in the Feb 2014.
So.... I had no sence about "the gold time".
but I have about 900 photos and 20 vectors on 123rf, and there are only 2 or 4 sales per month.

skyfish

Already several days cannot see site with Firefox. Asked them to check - redirect error, language problem. Buyers too probably think that they are down. How many of them thought to change a browser? Anyway IE is terrible for autologin.

roidi

May 2 dl, June 6 dl, July 1.....everywhere is strange decline on previous years, what's the trend?

Karen

Quote from: PZF on May 15, 2014, 07:59
Anybody else seen their sales plummet drastically the last 6 weeks or so?
Really down here..........
My sales plummet like a stone

Karen

Quote from: skyfish on July 08, 2014, 08:56
Already several days cannot see site with Firefox. Asked them to check - redirect error, language problem. Buyers too probably think that they are down. How many of them thought to change a browser? Anyway IE is terrible for autologin.
Unprofessional

skyfish

Just checked - FF not yet, IE and Chrome ok

Angel

Hi SkyFish,

Are you still facing the same issue?

If yes, please PM your UID to me and/or email [email protected]  so that we can rectify it.


Cheers,
Anglee


skyfish

Thank you Anglee.
I did this. I know that last year is very bad for compatibility issues.
Cookies, temporary files i clean regularily, so solution i am expecting from your side.

ajt

I've never had any issues with FF there.
And June was the best month this year for me, July seems to be even better (so far) :)
My fisheye straightener: http://anglerfish.ajotte.com

Sulio

When I look back in time only 123RF and Pond has uptrend growth.

Picfre - Auto metadata tool

Quote from: Sulio on July 14, 2014, 19:27
When I look back in time only 123RF and Pond has uptrend growth.

Is it a software or a webpage app?
I want to use it.

Sulio

Quote from: whatwolf on July 24, 2014, 07:51
Quote from: Sulio on July 14, 2014, 19:27
When I look back in time only 123RF and Pond has uptrend growth.

Is it a software or a webpage app?
I want to use it.

Its Stock Performer web app.

PZF

Well - you're the lucky one! My sales at 123 terrible since March.
About 50% down.
Sighhh.....