New to stock, got accepted to some agencies and still have a tiny portfolio. I went the presumably tedious way of using all the different web uploaders and manually re-tagging all the pictures, which I imagine is a very classic newbie thing to do.

I want to be as efficient as possible going forward, so I would be very appreciative of any advice of workflow from more experienced users.

Say I have a batch of 20 new images. Can you add IPTC data in Lightroom for instance and then just upload to each of the site's FTP accounts with your user log in? Or are there more steps involved?

Thanks in advance