to become exclusive photographer you can not sell images in differnt istock sites only in istockphoto.
this site is only a forum. am I right?

Quote from: leaf on August 20, 2008, 16:57

i think you missed the thread where we discussed the 'perfect' stock site RT...

.. and no i'm not going to start selling images here (and yes i realize you both were joking but am guessing not everyone will get it)

! I was starting to look for the upload button, and getting my complaint ready for tommorrow that I hadn't got any sales so far

Hey Leaf if you are thinking of selling images here I've got a couple of tips for you.

- Get everybody to upload their images on the promise of a huge marketing campaign once the site goes live, then do bugger all marketing.

- Once everyone's uploaded their stuff and sales are starting to come in introduce a subscription plan that screws the contributors.

- Promise FTP in the near future, and then keep promising it at regular intervals.

- When reviewing batches that include a series of shots, accept two and reject the rest for obscure reasons, contributors like that.

- Once a contributor has reached a payout level and requests payment, issue a notice stating that there's a problem with Paypal, then leave it a week or so before you payout.

- But the most important thing is to have a mixed bag of reviewers, get some with good experience in the stock industry, but also get some half blind part timers who only ever used a camera phone, and never let the contributors know about your review standards policy.

- Oh forgot to mention, make sure the search results are based on some obscure equation, only let people keyword in Mongolian and then make sure that only the 12-19th keywords are taken into account, also after every six months change it all round.

All this may sound like a stupid thing to do, but trust me there's a lot of sites making good money using these policies.