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tab62

« on: July 17, 2013, 16:00 »
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Okay, MSG Folks- could I have you briefly look at my portfolio on DT to see what areas I need improvement on to generate sales? DT is a top tier yet even my middle tiers out perform by them. I am still fairly new to this business thus any tips will be appreciated.

Here is my portfolio link-

http://www.dreamstime.com/tab1962_info

Thanks and look forward to the 'positive' comments.

T


« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2013, 16:34 »
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This month is relatively good for me on DT but usually my DT earnings are about 25% of Fotolia and 50% of 123rf. Different kind of buyers? DT search engine doesn't like my name? I don't know and I stopped investigating it as I doubt I can change it

CD123

« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2013, 17:45 »
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I think JM has hit the nail on the head Tom. Different sites outperforms others for different people's ports. This is probably due to the difference in customer base of the agencies as well as their specific selection of your images (which of your spesific images they think will sell on their site = they can be wrong).

 I would say if your return on average co-insides 70% or more with what is indicated here under the Top and Middle tier, it will be a waste of your time to try and change your focus. But obviously, that's just me.

« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2013, 18:20 »
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I think JM has hit the nail on the head Tom. Different sites outperforms others for different people's ports. This is probably due to the difference in customer base of the agencies as well as their specific selection of your images

Absolutely true. Spend enough time on this board and you will meet many people who do great or horrible at DT. I feel it comes down to the customer base they serve, and how your images fit in with them. The same can be said for FT and even IS.

I used to do so well at DT that I almost chose them for exclusivity over IS. They seem to inspire a lot of emotion from microstockers due to the 6 month lock, and the similar images policy. It seems we either love them or hate them. I consider them one of the only agencies I still enjoy working with. DT and Alamy are the only two which give me a combination of fair commission structure plus performance.

cuppacoffee

« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2013, 19:06 »
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You could take another look at your keywords. You have a glass of red wine with hot peppers in it and you use the words champagne and macro and celebration and cup and glamor - those don't quite fit. Many of your images include the word macro and you have no macros. A macro is an extreme close-up, "usually of very small subjects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size." You also include studio and shot and that is irrelevant to buyers. Bell peppers have the words salad, diet, fitness, vitamins, refreshing, seeds, crisp, salads, nutrition, market, healthy - do you think a buyer would search for peppers using the word fitness or seeds or vitamins? I believe they would search for an image first of all using the words bell peppers and then maybe isolated. There are 7,000 other images of peppers too, you have competition for this image.

DT is all about keywords and the less the better. They weigh their words and the more you add the more diluted the search. Their search algorithm is not public but tests indicate that only the most concrete words describing the image, not implying their use or attaching an emotion won't help and may even hurt.

« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2013, 19:45 »
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you do have big titles, watch the following interview from Tyler with Carmen, pretty much short titles have advantage :) (a very long time ago I changed all my portfolio there but it haven't changed a thing because my sales are stagnated for years!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK99GYhbALc



tab62

« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2013, 20:19 »
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all good points! Thank you. Yeah, may old images were poorly done on keywords. I wonder if I should remove some of those photos since they suck compared to my newer ones? Red hot pepper in wine- I must have drank too much wine prior to shooting!

gillian vann

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« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2013, 02:27 »
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Red hot pepper in wine- I must have drank too much wine prior to shooting!

lol, you could have been describing a shiraz, but it's probably unnecessary for a visual keyword (as is "delicious" yet we see that everywhere)

Dan

« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2013, 08:18 »
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     Thats  why  they  have  slipped  to  no.2  for  me.  No  sales  and  lots  of  rejetions,

« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2013, 08:21 »
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I think old profiles make better money at DT. New folks get few sale in the beginning. Your RPI is almost half per image.  Number of images and sale are just looking opposite to each other. 

Someone pointed out the keyword strategy, that is good knowledge. I will also put to practice. My numbers are 62 and 0 sale.  I am doing several experiments with subjects.

High number of views and low number of downloads are pretty much pattern at DT. As people are pointing out the July blues, it may be another pattern.

Hopefully, Things will be better in future. Just stay focused and motivated.


 

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