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Wait until someone comes up with "FourDollarPhotos"... Reminds me of the classic scene from There's Something About Mary:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2di69FmhE
Curious about the comments on the price. I thought Shutterstock's payout per sale was 35 cents or something like that... are they the exception and not the norm? Is the average higher than $3.75? I don't sell any still images, so I've no idea!
Nobody competes with fiverr with less than $5 per work
Quote from: stockman11 on March 08, 2018, 03:30Nobody competes with fiverr with less than $5 per work ?
Take a look at GL Stock Images. They are dead simple to use, lots of images, but unfortunately zero sales. Figure out where they went wrong and then fix those issues.You need to provide the licensing terms before many will join.We don't really know who you are. There's no info on the site.The name kind of ties you in forever to that price point. Maybe not a good idea.Just a few thoughts...
Nobody competes with fiverr with less than $5 per work, so it's a good chance that $5 photos stays unique. Sounds catchy, it offers simplicity, so with a good marketing it can be OK.The keyword is a good marketing, this is what made the difference between successful sites and the rest. This is why from the new sites only Canva succeeded while the others failed, and this is why from the little older sites Depositphotos is in the middle tier, while others are pretty much nowhere. Even with the coolest site in the world and excellent content, you will hardly go anywhere without a good marketing.And by good marketing, I don't mean ads on Google and Facebook, not many will click on that, by good marketing I mean right people who know the right people and who really know how to attract buyers and spread the word. Which is easier said than done. That's why there is a difference between successful sites and the others.
Quote from: stockman11 on March 08, 2018, 03:30Nobody competes with fiverr with less than $5 per work, so it's a good chance that $5 photos stays unique. Sounds catchy, it offers simplicity, so with a good marketing it can be OK.The keyword is a good marketing, this is what made the difference between successful sites and the rest. This is why from the new sites only Canva succeeded while the others failed, and this is why from the little older sites Depositphotos is in the middle tier, while others are pretty much nowhere. Even with the coolest site in the world and excellent content, you will hardly go anywhere without a good marketing.And by good marketing, I don't mean ads on Google and Facebook, not many will click on that, by good marketing I mean right people who know the right people and who really know how to attract buyers and spread the word. Which is easier said than done. That's why there is a difference between successful sites and the others.So all you have to do is get the right people. It's that simple.I wonder if that strategy has ever been tried before in other industries.
...You need to provide the licensing terms before many will join.
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Your watermarks have to be better than this: https://www.fivedollarphotos.com/product.php?id=131especially when you offer a full size preview...
Also, be more selective with accepting images, this one looks so out of focus..
REGISTRANT CONTACTName:PROXY PROTECTION LLCOrganization:PROXY PROTECTION LLCStreet:417 ASSOCIATED RD #324C/O FIVEDOLLARPHOTOS.COMCity:BREAState:CAPostal Code:92821Country:USPhone:+1.7147064182Email:[email protected]
I looked at the site's WHOIS entry and see that all registrant information is hidden through a proxy service.Code: [Select]REGISTRANT CONTACTName:PROXY PROTECTION LLCOrganization:PROXY PROTECTION LLCStreet:417 ASSOCIATED RD #324C/O FIVEDOLLARPHOTOS.COMCity:BREAState:CAPostal Code:92821Country:USPhone:+1.7147064182Email:[email protected]Also, there is no imprint on the site as far as I can see.This is a BIG red flag. Sending your valuable content to an anonymous party would be a completely silly thing to do.Good luck.
Keywords are as good as the uploader. We won't be modifying anyone's keywords.
I'm also a little confused by the 50% minimum royalty and the intro here saying 75%? You need clear license terms for the artist and the buyers.
. And all this redundant uploading is waste of time. Couldn't we keep all our work on single a cloud server and give multiple agencies access to it?(...)I have no ideas to offer (...)
If I'm a serious buyer I'll create an account at storyblocks, I'll have their 400,000 photos for 149$, and I can license any picture in their marketplace at 3.99$.
Quote from: stockastic on March 12, 2018, 13:01. And all this redundant uploading is waste of time. Couldn't we keep all our work on single a cloud server and give multiple agencies access to it?(...)I have no ideas to offer (...)Actually that's a great idea. Upload to the cloud, allow access to specific agencies with a unique key and then it's up to the agencies to adapt their infrastructure to present the images from the cloud to their customers.But this idea could only work with sufficient support from big agencies. I know ToonVectors uses Dropbox to sync uploaded files to their system. If more (and bigger) agencies would hook up to this idea,it could (and should) become an industry standard.
Quote from: alijaber on March 12, 2018, 13:35If I'm a serious buyer I'll create an account at storyblocks, I'll have their 400,000 photos for 149$, and I can license any picture in their marketplace at 3.99$.But FiveDollarPhotos isn't targetting that market, it's targetting people who just need one or a few images at a time.
Quote from: ShadySue on March 12, 2018, 17:30Quote from: alijaber on March 12, 2018, 13:35If I'm a serious buyer I'll create an account at storyblocks, I'll have their 400,000 photos for 149$, and I can license any picture in their marketplace at 3.99$.But FiveDollarPhotos isn't targetting that market, it's targetting people who just need one or a few images at a time.I know, but this is another competitor that the owner of fivedollaphotos should be aware of. The big buyers will go to the big agencies (shutter, adobe..), buyers with lower budgets will go to storyblocks (maybe envato?), the other buyers who buy few pictures per year from fivedollarphotos will barely be enough for their Operational costs
For photographers, we are also starting at a 75% royalty rate.
This charade will struggle to get off the ground. The website looks amateur at best, and let's face it, a stock library is defined by the quality of its website to a large extent