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And, please learn a bit of economy before you start to speak loud.
Quote from: Milinz on May 20, 2009, 04:29And, please learn a bit of economy before you start to speak loud.Sure... as soon as you learn some manners before speaking to other people.
Quote from: MichaelJay on May 20, 2009, 04:00Quote from: Noodles on May 20, 2009, 03:40Quote from: sharpshot on May 20, 2009, 03:16Wow, those 27 uploads have 1356 downloads. istock should be trying to get your portfolio on their site.Less is more Exactly what I thought when I see 10.000+ images on Dreamstime of which less than 2% had 10 or more sales. There are certainly quite a few brillant images among them. Why not drop the other 98% and double the amount of work spent on the rest...Because that images are sold for miserable 30-50 cents commissions to authors. And, please learn a bit of economy before you start to speak loud.In mass there should not be found one of your quality images - if you have two, five or six thousands images you will have more sales. It is the way things are set up. No one and nothing can change that volume has advance over quality on microstock!
Quote from: Noodles on May 20, 2009, 03:40Quote from: sharpshot on May 20, 2009, 03:16Wow, those 27 uploads have 1356 downloads. istock should be trying to get your portfolio on their site.Less is more Exactly what I thought when I see 10.000+ images on Dreamstime of which less than 2% had 10 or more sales. There are certainly quite a few brillant images among them. Why not drop the other 98% and double the amount of work spent on the rest...
Quote from: sharpshot on May 20, 2009, 03:16Wow, those 27 uploads have 1356 downloads. istock should be trying to get your portfolio on their site.Less is more
Wow, those 27 uploads have 1356 downloads. istock should be trying to get your portfolio on their site.
Quote from: Milinz on May 20, 2009, 04:29Quote from: MichaelJay on May 20, 2009, 04:00Quote from: Noodles on May 20, 2009, 03:40Quote from: sharpshot on May 20, 2009, 03:16Wow, those 27 uploads have 1356 downloads. istock should be trying to get your portfolio on their site.Less is more Exactly what I thought when I see 10.000+ images on Dreamstime of which less than 2% had 10 or more sales. There are certainly quite a few brillant images among them. Why not drop the other 98% and double the amount of work spent on the rest...Because that images are sold for miserable 30-50 cents commissions to authors. And, please learn a bit of economy before you start to speak loud.In mass there should not be found one of your quality images - if you have two, five or six thousands images you will have more sales. It is the way things are set up. No one and nothing can change that volume has advance over quality on microstock!Somehow i doubt that will ever happen BTW I'm not sure about other people but i'm pretty convinced I would make less $$$ if i would spend more time on single images. Let's say i spend 3-4 hours on an image which nets me 100$. Pretty cool, but in that very same time i could easily produce 50 simple images that earn 4-5$ each and might have bigger sellers among them. Also there's a lot less risk of your images getting buried in the search engine since you've got more of them. (again this is just my personal experience/idea, i'm sure other people have different ideas). I remember spending an entire day on a single file which sold.. 0 times and ended up in me deleting that image alltogether
That is exactly how microstock works.
BTW I'm not sure about other people but i'm pretty convinced I would make less $$$ if i would spend more time on single images. Let's say i spend 3-4 hours on an image which nets me 100$. Pretty cool, but in that very same time i could easily produce 50 simple images that earn 4-5$ each and might have bigger sellers among them. Also there's a lot less risk of your images getting buried in the search engine since you've got more of them. (again this is just my personal experience/idea, i'm sure other people have different ideas). I remember spending an entire day on a single file which sold.. 0 times and ended up in me deleting that image alltogether
Trying to get a basic/simple rastered image on iStock is imo.. close to impossible and extremely frustrating I've got 15.000 images on SS (and usually over 10.000 with other major sites) while iStock has so far accepted 27 LOL On the bright side: life has gotten a lot less frustrating now that i've stopped regular uploads on iStock and plan to stop uploading alltogether No more cursing on best match changes/horrific uploading/weird policies/insert other complaint
Quote from: Milinz on May 20, 2009, 06:21That is exactly how microstock works.No, this is how Shutterstock works.
Quote from: Argus on May 20, 2009, 05:49BTW I'm not sure about other people but i'm pretty convinced I would make less $$$ if i would spend more time on single images. Let's say i spend 3-4 hours on an image which nets me 100$. Pretty cool, but in that very same time i could easily produce 50 simple images that earn 4-5$ each and might have bigger sellers among them. Also there's a lot less risk of your images getting buried in the search engine since you've got more of them. (again this is just my personal experience/idea, i'm sure other people have different ideas). I remember spending an entire day on a single file which sold.. 0 times and ended up in me deleting that image alltogether You make valid points and I can understand why your system works for you. But in the long run quality will always shine and while it may take longer to build such a portfolio, it will produce excellent results over time - IMHO of course
You are second time wrong... First time you accoused me on copying other copies of my own images...Now you say that sitting for hours creating coplex vectors or taking expensive images will win at last on microstock?Yes if we all turn to be crazy to give such works for cents... Happilly there are very few of us ready to comply to give up from $50 and more commissions and hope to get more on thousands of 1 dollar download sales on microstock....Microstock is as its name says... Micro in quality, micro in investments and micro in revenue per image....Yes it comes to good point when you realize that you could sell that image for few thousands dollars and it get you just hundred or even less....
Sorry sljocke, but you are exclusive on iStock - how may you know how microstock works?You just know how iStock works ;-)
Exactly what I thought when I see 10.000+ images on Dreamstime of which less than 2% had 10 or more sales. There are certainly quite a few brillant images among them. Why not drop the other 98% and double the amount of work spent on the rest...
Quote from: Milinz on May 20, 2009, 09:30Sorry sljocke, but you are exclusive on iStock - how may you know how microstock works?You just know how iStock works ;-)Because from what I read here, people have to keep shoving stuff into the SS collection as fast as possible to keep sales up. Not so much true at IS.
You make valid points and I can understand why your system works for you. But in the long run quality will always shine and while it may take longer to build such a portfolio, it will produce excellent results over time - IMHO of course
I guess you are not going to reveal your secret how you can upload nearly 20 images/illustrations every single day for 2 years straight (rejections not counted).On a 10 hour working day, that's 2 images per hour including keywording. If you count 3 minutes for keywording, that's another 1 hour a day just to tag the images. Then you still have to categorize them. Are you on life support or do you ever leave the house to go shopping for food? I get dizzy uploading 10 a day to all the agencies including keywording and categorizing...Keep going.
Quote from: MichaelJay on May 20, 2009, 04:00Exactly what I thought when I see 10.000+ images on Dreamstime of which less than 2% had 10 or more sales. There are certainly quite a few brillant images among them. Why not drop the other 98% and double the amount of work spent on the rest...The problem is a bit you never know in advance what those 2% will be. I have some weird (in my opinion) good sellers and some very bad sellers that I thought would make it to the top. And the weirdest is they are largely different at different sites. So how to chose? I don't have a clue.
Ahh well umm.. welcome to the new and exciting world of delegation. Last time i keyworded and categorized an image by myself must have been over a year ago You'd be amazed at how much time you can save by outsourcing a few boring/dull tasks.
Quote from: Argus on May 20, 2009, 14:35Ahh well umm.. welcome to the new and exciting world of delegation. Last time i keyworded and categorized an image by myself must have been over a year ago You'd be amazed at how much time you can save by outsourcing a few boring/dull tasks.You find it is cost effective to delegate uploading and keywording? Do you have someone in house do it or do you outsource to a company that does that?Just curious. I like doing everything myself and keeping my costs low.
Issue/Question:Not suitable as stock my ass. So tired of this complete BS rejection reason for every and any raster illustration. -- Comment:Congratulations, a scout ticket that you have submit has resulted in a rejection being overturned! Regards,scout.
To follow up on this topic, the result of the scout review:QuoteIssue/Question:Not suitable as stock my ass. So tired of this complete BS rejection reason for every and any raster illustration. -- Comment:Congratulations, a scout ticket that you have submit has resulted in a rejection being overturned! Regards,scout. http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=9390292
Because from what I read here, people have to keep shoving stuff into the SS collection as fast as possible to keep sales up.
Quote from: sjlocke on May 20, 2009, 11:04Because from what I read here, people have to keep shoving stuff into the SS collection as fast as possible to keep sales up. True enough __ exclusivity at IS is almost certainly the better bet.
Well, not anymore... SS has changed its search results and now it is similar to iStocks best match... I have mass of old images selling ;-)
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