I wouldn't wait for "advertising" to kick in. There may be no traditional advertising as we know it. Yay made a big to-do about non-traditional marketing. So if visions of the late Lucky Oliver dance in front of your eyes, don't be surprised. Whenever you hear claims of cutting-edge marketing or internet-based promotion bandied about -- time to worry. Especially when accompanied by statements such as "we're not going to be spending a lot of cash."

Savvy marketers look first at what the big guys are doing and then try to do more of it or do it better. The pioneers are the ones with arrows stuck in their backs.

I've never been a believer in delayed spending either. What is their plan? To wait until their total image numbers are REALLY dwarfed by the competition? No, as sad as it is for me to forecast, I'm afraid we've got a Norwegian Lucky Olav on our hands.

I'll still keep the 200+ of my best selling images there at least until the end of the year -- in hopes that St. Nickolas will soon be there.

My sales with Lucky Oliver came close to the more established sites a few times.  I think there was more to their downfall than just a lack of marketing.  Other sites have kept going with less sales, so perhaps they had more debt or their investors were not happy?

I increased my sales by 100% with yaymicro yesterday when I had my second sale

No sales there yet, but I will give it time as it has one of the easiest upload interfaces around.

-Mark

So what? Has anybody noticed any advertisements anywhere? Or better - any sales?

Few sales already. Not much but its a start:). Had to wait 1-2 years .

Quote from: DanP68 on August 12, 2008, 01:15...What was anyone expecting? ...

I'd ask the same question, but only in response to the idea of jumping on board with yet another new and unproven company. Show me the money and I'll sign up. Until then...

I just had a look at what they have to sell at YAY - what a lot of crap. The reviewers will have to do some sort of quality control if they want to sell photos.

There are probably some decent photos, but who wants to go though thousands of worthless photos to look for something they can buy?

This issue of quality was raised before.

Seems like a rush to build a  large database. They did say that quality would be tightened up at a later stage, whether this means weeding out existing material or not I don't know.

Quote from: CCK on September 06, 2008, 20:04
I just had a look at what they have to sell at YAY - what a lot of crap. The reviewers will have to do some sort of quality control if they want to sell photos.

There are probably some decent photos, but who wants to go though thousands of worthless photos to look for something they can buy?

Got my first sale at Yay , large for 5 euros ( about 300 pics on line )

I hope this site takes off, they have the best upload system in the business. It does not get any easier short of FTP. I hope they pick up.

So they have best upload system does not mean they should sell well. I deleted all my images few months ago, and (so far) it turns to be a right move.

Things take time. SV started more than a year ago, but only the last 2-3 months have given me significant sales there. If all contributors had deleted their portfolios, they wouldn't have gotten anywhere.

It will probably take 1-3 years for Yay to become a serious competitor as well. Deleting a portfolio before that is a waste of time.

Everyone here comments how easy Yay is to use. I'm guessing customers will find the same thing. Their stated point of difference is that they don't have any of the entrenched problems that other sites have. As soon as potential customers start to realize this they will take off like a rocket.

Quote from: takestock on August 11, 2008, 20:37Hope the breeze gets up next month

Where did I hear that before? UnluckyOliver or Snapshotvillage?

I remember a time before Google. With the right formula, things can change very fast on the internet.

Quote from: epixx on November 04, 2008, 13:23
Things take time. SV started more than a year ago, but only the last 2-3 months have given me significant sales there. If all contributors had deleted their portfolios, they wouldn't have gotten anywhere.

It will probably take 1-3 years for Yay to become a serious competitor as well. Deleting a portfolio before that is a waste of time.

what time? my best earners are worse and worse every next month, and I am supposed to believe that some new agency will do better by some miracle? I would be happy to maintain this pace on FT, SS and DT. But I have to work 3 times harder every month, just to stay on the same level, to stay in game.

Quote from: averil on November 04, 2008, 18:49
As soon as potential customers start to realize this they will take off like a rocket.

Well unless those folks in charge at Yaymicro learn the very basic principals of marketing i.e. 'if you have something to sell you need to tell the people who may want to buy'  the rocket aint going nowhere, and unfortunately I think Yaymicro may have employed the same marketing guru that LuckyOliver used, in which case they're using a telepathy marketing tactic.

Any signs of life on YAY Micro from anybody? I have no sales there but would like to see if anybody is actually making sales there?

I have zero sales...

Nothing here either... It was just a great deal of lost time...

One sale per month, january, february and march. I still wait for the april download especially now when I'm one of the lucky 5 who have images on YAY frontpage.
We'll see...

I have two sales

Still waiting for that first sale.

2 sales this month.  pretty slow.

Pretty slow for me as well...  I´ve got a total of 0.2€ in Refferals