Many reports about discontent old and new agencies.
We make our website and hope for success.
May be worth trying to microstock with minimal disabilities?

[pulls up chair and popcorn]

There are many people who believed that life - it's a movie.
And all my life, they only ate popcorn

I see no reason that it is impossible

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on August 25, 2012, 06:01

[pulls up chair and popcorn]

There are many people who believed that life - it's a movie.
And all my life, they only ate popcorn

I have my own movie thanks.

About once every week or so, someone, usually fairly new, starts a "we should all start our own site" post.

In summary, the results of that post are usually

• Lack of capital or funding
• Lack of a management model that everyone can agree on
• Lack of a revenue model that everyone can agree on
• Lack of business plan that differentiates the business from any other
• Lack of a leader who is willing to commit to making something happen
• Arguing and lack of agreement on anything
• Insults
• Responses removed
• Locked post

This then usually leads to a post about needing a union. The result of that post is the reality that this is a fragmented industry and most people will default to doing what's human nature, looking out for themselves.

The biggest missing piece is the leader. You sound like the leader the community has been waiting for. Make it happen.

Now, back to shoot, upload, repeat.

The best thing to do, if you have a billion dollars laying around, is start one. Then once it's up and running, invite others to join in, buying shares or something. And market the heck out of it to buyers. That might work.

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Groundbreaking idea!  Knock yourself out.

You are wrong. My site - my site. For many they are. My website - it's not an agency. My dream - to make a collective agency with a minimum of effort on intermediaries

Ooooh, I'll share the dream, as a minimum-effort intermediary.
Sadly the old adage seems to be generally true: no gain without pain, though the converse can easily be true.

I do not see that every week is a theme.
But I see that the interest of small

I looked at your site.
It says, "maximum size of image at the lowest price"
   "and for that reason, I'm out" (TM?) - straight away
But it's not true: your lowest size is 50c, but your largest size is $3.
You'd better get your marketing right and don't get bogged down in legal 'false advertising' cases.

The words "cooperative" and "agency" can't coexist. They are, by nature, incongruous.

you should have continued your last thread, this is useless sorry

http://www.microstockgroup.com/selling-direct/and-i-made-82038203a-site/

When I have questions about my site. I'll write in there.
In this section, I listen to the answers to work together

if so there are plenty of topics about this matter

I will be glad to criticism and advice about my site. But in my theme

you look like the owner of the forum and perhaps us members too, go ahead

Interesting idea if the microstock people would band together and setup something like that. Although i personally do not believe in the microstock model as it is now, it can only get better if people from the practise work together to improve the microstock business and take it away from pennies to a level where hard work is rewarded.

This is basically how we at GraphXT started to think in 2009 and from a few pieces of paper we've arrived somewhere in 2012 with a ready  business model. Created from the perspective of photographers who invest in their work and want to see that returned by content buyers.

On a different note; I wanted to post in the section "new sites" but it seems a first post has to be made to an existing thread.

Maybe it's time to make a cooperative microstock agency?

No. No, it's not.

This is a horrible idea, it's been discussed ad nauseam, it will never work, etc etc.