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Author Topic: How do I know when I am doing bad in the Microstock Business?  (Read 34587 times)

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Goofy

« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2014, 10:13 »
+1
When Lobo is your only friend in the business...


Uncle Pete

« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2014, 10:56 »
+6
My answer was going to be: When you are in the Microstock business. But I thought too many people don't see the ironic humor in that?

Isn't doing bad in the microstock business a given?

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2014, 12:10 »
+7
When you know that taking part in a fun thread on msg is as likely to be profitable as shooting something new for iStock.

« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2014, 14:52 »
+4
When you tell an agency exactly what you think of them in their forum.

« Reply #29 on: January 20, 2014, 15:42 »
+3
When you find threads like this an absorbing distraction from ... anything else at all really.

« Reply #30 on: January 20, 2014, 15:50 »
+9
When you've got a hole in the bottom of your shoe and its pouring with rain - but you don't care because the Christmas card you got from Shutterstock provides a neat solution.
 

« Reply #31 on: January 20, 2014, 15:54 »
+9
When your cat refuses to put his paw print on your model release.
« Last Edit: January 22, 2014, 06:36 by Red Dove »

« Reply #32 on: January 20, 2014, 16:16 »
+9
When you prepare a food shot and decide it's not worth the bother of photographing it, and just eat it hot instead.

« Reply #33 on: January 20, 2014, 21:31 »
+4
Christmas card?  You got a Christmas card???  >:(

« Reply #34 on: January 21, 2014, 00:44 »
+4
When you not deal as a professional with professionals 8)

« Reply #35 on: January 21, 2014, 04:43 »
+4
When an old school friend who stands on his front lawn photographing the rainbow created by his sprinkler system and takes snapshots of his offspring picking their noses, shows you his camera....and it turns out to be worth more than your camera and the car you drove up in.

MxR

« Reply #36 on: January 21, 2014, 05:53 »
+3
when you spend more time looking lens, forums and sales statistics than taking pictures.

Me


« Reply #37 on: January 21, 2014, 07:09 »
+4
Christmas card?  You got a Christmas card???  >:(

You know you're doing bad in microstock when......you don't get a Christmas card!  ;)

« Reply #38 on: January 21, 2014, 09:53 »
+2
When after hundreds of rejections of your test photos from 63 main stock agencies you finally received an approval email from a new stock agency 'www.forevercheapeststockphotographsandillustrations.ki' in Republic of Kiribati.

Goofy

« Reply #39 on: January 21, 2014, 10:02 »
+2
When my nine year old daughter gets more money for her birthday, from her grand parents, that I make a month in the business!  :(



« Reply #40 on: January 21, 2014, 10:03 »
+3
When Lobo feels sorry for you

Goofy

« Reply #41 on: January 21, 2014, 10:08 »
+2
"When Lobo feels sorry for you"

The topic name would have to be "What happens to your business when you pass away" for this to occur which still probably wouldn't happen...

« Reply #42 on: January 21, 2014, 10:09 »
0
When after hundreds of rejections of your test photos from 63 main stock agencies you finally received an approval email from a new stock agency 'www.forevercheapeststockphotographsandillustrations.ki' in Republic of Kiribati.


Is Kiribati in the Vancouver area????? More specific Calgary
« Last Edit: January 21, 2014, 10:17 by ignard »

« Reply #43 on: January 21, 2014, 10:19 »
0
When after hundreds of rejections of your test photos from 63 main stock agencies you finally received an approval email from a new stock agency 'www.forevercheapeststockphotographsandillustrations.ki' in Republic of Kiribati.


Is Kiribati in the Vancouver area????? More specific Calgary


As Wikipedia states, Kiribati, is an island nation in the central tropical Pacific Ocean.
Kiribati became independent from the United Kingdom in 1979. It is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the IMF and the World Bank, and became a full member of the United Nations in 1999.
And I don't think Kiribati is in the Vancouver area...  ::)  :D

« Reply #44 on: January 21, 2014, 10:20 »
+2
When you leave IS and after that sales at IS increases

« Reply #45 on: January 21, 2014, 18:55 »
+2
When your returns are more than your income.

« Reply #46 on: January 22, 2014, 01:57 »
+3
When you join the MS world with hopes of fame and fortune and the vetrans there talk like they're all living like hobos, eating stale food and warming themselves by burning their dreams and aspirations. :P

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« Reply #47 on: January 22, 2014, 04:31 »
0
When you leave IS and after that sales at IS increases
The best reply lately! :D

« Reply #48 on: January 22, 2014, 04:49 »
+2
When you go faux-exclusive at iS and the SS share price rises.
When you work out that selling your mountain of gear and investing the money in a deposit account at 0.3% interest would be a good financial move.

« Reply #49 on: January 23, 2014, 04:28 »
+5
When you explain to your mother's cronies what it is you do and afterwards there is complete silence, apart from the cat releasing a fart. Then your mother says: "My other son is a lawyer."
« Last Edit: January 23, 2014, 06:49 by Red Dove »


 

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