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berryspun

« on: October 07, 2006, 09:49 »

Just received this email:

Dear Microstock Forum user and Photographers,

We are still waiting for the domainname microstockphoto.com to be moved to us as new owners and were planning to wait with moving the microstockphoto.com website to a new server untill this was finished, but because of this delay, we don't want to wait longer and will start moving all content this weekend.
Because of this, we will close the login to the Forum and photographer login just untill the movement of the website is completed.

We will also present some screenshots of the new design for microstockphoto here later today, which we will try to implement into the site asap.

We will send out an email to all photographers about this and hope you all have understanding if any problems should occur. (which we don't hope so offcourse)

As stated previously, many updates are planned, concerning updates, marketing etc. and we will try to keep everybody updated on it.
please check the forum announcement page now and then for updates.

Denne melding og oppdateringer ligger også på: http://www.microstockphoto.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=152

Ruben
ViaStep

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pelmof

« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2006, 10:07 »

Quote from: berryspun on October 07, 2006, 09:49

Just received this email:

Dear Microstock Forum user and Photographers,

We are still waiting for the domainname microstockphoto.com to be moved to us as new owners and were planning to wait with moving the microstockphoto.com website to a new server untill this was finished, but because of this delay, we don't want to wait longer and will start moving all content this weekend.
Because of this, we will close the login to the Forum and photographer login just untill the movement of the website is completed.

We will also present some screenshots of the new design for microstockphoto here later today, which we will try to implement into the site asap.

We will send out an email to all photographers about this and hope you all have understanding if any problems should occur. (which we don't hope so offcourse)

As stated previously, many updates are planned, concerning updates, marketing etc. and we will try to keep everybody updated on it.
please check the forum announcement page now and then for updates.

Denne melding og oppdateringer ligger også på: http://www.microstockphoto.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=152

Ruben
ViaStep

Just got the same email. Looks to be Scandinavian?

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leaf

« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2006, 10:39 »

yep looks norwegian to me

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dbvirago

« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2006, 12:28 »

Guess I'm glad I never deleted my portfolio there. Never sold anyting with 500 online for 6 months. Hopefully, the new guys know how to market.

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leaf

« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2006, 16:32 »

i'm not going to hold my breath

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dbvirago

« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2006, 17:03 »

True, but they're already way ahead of the clowns that bought TotallyPhotos.

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madelaide

« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2006, 16:14 »

So anything new in this past month, other than the new look? Has anyone noticed any improvement in sales?

Regards,
Adelaide

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dbvirago

« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2006, 21:10 »

Not a thing. Just saw the new look. Hopefully, they spent some bucks on the acquisition and there's only one way to recoup it... by making us money

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Aquilegia

« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2006, 03:35 »

I though I would give this site another chance,but I have been having problems uploading there. If I try to upload four or more pictures they just never appear on the site. I emailed support and Ruben replied. After he looked at the problem, he said he was too busy to sort it out, and I would have to just upload a few at a time until he had time.
With seven hundred pictures approved on Shutterstock alone, I dont think I will be uploading my portfolio three at a time!
The site does look nice, but nothing out of the ordinary. I wish them luck.

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jeancliclac

« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2006, 06:11 »

the last sentence on the first thread is in danish not norvegian.
jean

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microstock

« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2006, 10:07 »

Aquilegia,

I can't imagine i have said that im too busy to sort it out. I might have said that we are working on the problem.
Which we indeed have done and fixed any upload problems. We even offer FTP upload accounts for photographers who are interested in that solution and we would be more than happy to help you out with any problem you might have.

The last few days and weeks we have been working very hard on the site.
Some of the new features are:

- New approval system, which makes things much clearer and better to understand for photographer why a photo has been rejected.
- Improved search engines search (which has allready resulted in a climb and better rating)
- New design (which has allready been mentioned here)
- New Server
- New Forum
- and much more upcoming.

The most important thing we are focussing on now is offcourse the sales.

We are glad you all like the new look and have received great response from everybody about this.

and yes, The last line was indeed Norwegian, not Danish :-)

Ruben
Microstockphoto.com

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berryspun

« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2006, 10:46 »

Ruben, thanks for posting here. Since your intentions are to re-actualize the site, I wouldn't mind having my portfolio up again. Would it be easy from your side to retrieve the pictures I deleted on Sept.5, or are they completely erased ?

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leaf

« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2006, 10:49 »

Thanks for jumping in here Ruben. It is great to have input from the microstock sites.

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microstock

« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2006, 10:51 »

Quote from: berryspun on November 10, 2006, 10:46

Ruben, thanks for posting here. Since your intentions are to re-actualize the site, I wouldn't mind having my portfolio up again. Would it be easy from your side to retrieve the pictures I deleted on Sept.5, or are they completely erased ?

If you have deleted them than they are indeed gone, since we are on a complete new server we don't have access to any backups on the old server.
but i can create an FTP account for you if that makes things easier for you.

drop us a mail through the website http://microstockphoto.com/support.php asking for an FTP account and I will set it up for your right away.

Ruben

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microstock

« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2006, 10:53 »

Quote from: leaf on November 10, 2006, 10:49

Thanks for jumping in here Ruben. It is great to have input from the microstock sites.

Thanks leaf,

I think its quite important to keep involved (til a certain degree) into forums like this, but on our Forum we try to keep all customers and photographers up to date on allmost everything we do. At least for now, to show that we are not sitting still and really try to improve every aspect of the site. drop by on our forum whenever you have time.

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microstock

« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2006, 18:06 »

Just to let you know, we have implemented an affiliate system at MicroStockPhoto.com, which anybody can join for Free.
http://affiliate.microstockphoto.com/index.php

Ruben
MicroStockPhoto.com

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leaf

« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2006, 04:16 »

well great to see that you have a referral program but a couple questions.

you say "You earn 20% commission* from every sale that comes from your referral."

Is the referral a buyer or a seller. That is to say, do we earn 20% of every image sale of our referred photographer, or do we earn 20% of every purchase of our referred buyer?

also in your terms of you use you say
NOT ALLOWED: All other uses of banners or links, such as newsgroups, chat rooms, ICQ, message boards, banner networks, hit farms, counters, or guestbooks etc. are NOT allowed.

Which means if people here became members of the affiliate program they couldn't put the link in their signature?? Isn't that were people usually put such links?

« Last Edit: November 18, 2006, 04:19 by leaf »

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microstock

« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2006, 08:31 »

Quote from: leaf on November 18, 2006, 04:16

well great to see that you have a referral program but a couple questions.

you say "You earn 20% commission* from every sale that comes from your referral."

Is the referral a buyer or a seller. That is to say, do we earn 20% of every image sale of our referred photographer, or do we earn 20% of every purchase of our referred buyer?

also in your terms of you use you say
NOT ALLOWED: All other uses of banners or links, such as newsgroups, chat rooms, ICQ, message boards, banner networks, hit farms, counters, or guestbooks etc. are NOT allowed.

Which means if people here became members of the affiliate program they couldn't put the link in their signature?? Isn't that were people usually put such links?

Hello Leaf,

We have updated the Terms. yes, you can off course insert an affiliate link inside your signature.

You will earn 20% of every purchase of your referred buyer.

Ruben

« Last Edit: November 18, 2006, 08:37 by microstock »

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nightowlza

« Reply #18 on: November 29, 2006, 09:10 »

I think the question on a lot of ppl's minds is: When does your MAJOR marketing drive start?
My account has been dormant for a while with very little activity. Would like to see at least one sale before I do a major drive with you.
Most of my current efforts are towards the sites that are replacing my 'real job' sallary.

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microstock

« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2006, 09:34 »

well, MAJOR is a big word.

We have allready worked very hard on the website, which is the most important part before redirecting anybody to it.
Affiliate system is in place, are working together with www.soholaunch.com on a contest, increased search engine opt. and much more to come.
and have a lot of work off course approving images.

Much more to come, but am not going to tell everything

Trying the best we can, but can't do everything at once, i hope you understand this.

Ruben

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nightowlza

« Reply #20 on: November 29, 2006, 11:01 »

Thanx for the reply Ruben.
Looking forward to all the upgrades and improvements.

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Lizard

« Reply #21 on: November 29, 2006, 11:43 »

Quote from: microstock on November 10, 2006, 10:51

Quote from: berryspun on November 10, 2006, 10:46
Ruben, thanks for posting here. Since your intentions are to re-actualize the site, I wouldn't mind having my portfolio up again. Would it be easy from your side to retrieve the pictures I deleted on Sept.5, or are they completely erased ?

If you have deleted them than they are indeed gone, since we are on a complete new server we don't have access to any backups on the old server.
but i can create an FTP account for you if that makes things easier for you.

drop us a mail through the website http://microstockphoto.com/support.php asking for an FTP account and I will set it up for your right away.

Ruben

Well , i decided to give it a try and i joined the site today , but I cant find any FTP upload option. Does anyone know , how to upload by ftp , do I have to request a ftp account by contacting someone or ... ?

Tnx

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berryspun

« Reply #22 on: November 29, 2006, 11:59 »

Lizard, ask Ruben, he will set up an FTP account for you (the pictures don't go to the site straight away, it may be a few hours before they show up). He asks to upload 50 images max, and then wait for the results before uploading again. The results are not emailed - yet... (I hope that this option will come one day), so you have to go and check the results on the MSP site. I found the reviews quite accurate.

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microstock

« Reply #23 on: November 29, 2006, 12:55 »

Lizards,

drop us a mail through the website http://microstockphoto.com/support.php asking for an FTP account and I will set it up for your right away.

Ruben

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Lizard

« Reply #24 on: November 29, 2006, 14:37 »

Quote from: microstock on November 29, 2006, 12:55

Lizards,

drop us a mail through the website http://microstockphoto.com/support.php asking for an FTP account and I will set it up for your right away.

Ruben

Berryspun , thank you for your advice