never got EL sales on IS..congratulations, may i know how much is the EL sale?

my experience of fotolia is the eps vector approved is very fast..could be in 5 minutes. JPG image takes longer, but it seems the view counts will only appear after few days...

like all new uploaded had been 0 views few days, but then all suddenly got few views in a day.

may i know what kind of sales that make $28.65? thanks.

This month was good. I sold some and one for $28.65, what isnt too bad.
Keep fingers cross that we can make more-

so are those microstock website on right side which have no rating is arranged by voting too?

I mean I saw mostphotos are 3rf from the bottom, it means pond5 and photospin had better sales than mostphotos, for most contributors?

thanks.

it is true that online data is not secured, when i log in by using facebook account, i will asked to be allowed to get information from facebook profile blah blah..

well, maybe keeping on own hard disk is a secured way if you don't want it to be published.

I don't like the idea of having my earning online for one.  I know that you can make your data "private" but is it really?  The webmasters sure can see it and are they or will they ever be shared with third parties?

...and yeah I find it more useful on an excel file because I can alalyse the data how I want. For instance, from my basic table, I have a pivot table and chart that show these:
- sales by image
- sales by month and agent
- sales by agent and month
- sales by resolution
 
I also click on a figure in a one of the pivot tables and it lists all the items that make up that figure so I can further analyse that.

On the same spreadsheet, I can also update sales for PODs as well as microstock and sales for competitions and compare them to microstock.

Quote from: mtkang on August 21, 2010, 11:58

i found that it is easier if everything is on internet..

Do you find it is more useful to use an excel file?

I am able to log in microstockchart.com now, i find it is okay for me..all i want is to take a look what i had earned from all website last month.. compare which website make most in certain month.. and it is accessible wherever i am.

Quote from: sunnymars on August 21, 2010, 05:32

mtkang, any reason why you don't use excel?  it's quite easy to set up a simple spreadsheet and then use various pivot tables and pivot graphs to analyse your data.

EDIT:  What I mean was.. need a hand?

i try to login with my yahoo ID and after i log out and try to log in again, there is this error message..

The OpenID was invalid

You are also welcome to use our free service www.MicrostockCharts.com

It doesn't need to be pure white (255,255,255), as long as it is white enough to make the item isolated then it is okay. If you want to make it pure white then the best way is to use something like using pen tool.

Hello everyone again.

I am hopeing that someone can help me. I have taken a close-up of an object for a microstock picture but the white background is not perfect.  I have read references to isolating the object in photoshop (i have elements).

Please could anyone tell me the easiest way to get the perfect white background?

Thanks a lot

It is so true. ha.

I see why someone wouldn't want to share information, but I do not see why they would want to frequently share that they do not want to share information. Why come in to a thread and write; "I do not want to answer your question".  

Regarding the main topic; I would mix and split, and upload smaller batches. You never know when you'll meet a happy reviewer or an angry one.

Hi PaulieWalnuts, I don't fully understand what you mean..I don't want to give my images free for a website to attract buyers and i got paid 0 but the website get $.

I am not sure of how other website giving out free images, but 123rf make it quite right for people who offer free images, and only XS size is free, that's like 400 x 267 px only, and when a buyer look at the page, all other size format are available for buying.

at least the image i want to sell is viewing by someone and there is a possibility the buyer finds XS is too small for his need and he/ she decide to buy for it.

anyway, my thread isn't able asking you to give your images free. But i just think 123rf free images are worth to try if you want to improve your sales among their buyers. They do it fair enough and you may want to see how it can help you.




 

If a site wants to offer images for free to attract new buyers than this should come out of their marketing budget from the 50-80% of money they already take from contributors. They wouldn't be so generous giving away contributors free images if they had to pay commissions on them.

And, isn't the purpose of a freebie to let the buyer sample the product to determine if it worth spending money on or joining? I think if a buyer was given access to 5-10 images of their choice that's more than enough to evaluate. What's the purpose of giving buyers access to tens of thousands of free images? IMO all that does attract freebie hunters who keep a list of everything that's free and it also allows buyers to get images they normally need to pay for.

I get the idea but I think the execution of it could be better for the site and contributors.

what i know about shutterstock, is they sell subscription plan to buyers so that can download certain amount by paying a price.. US249 one month and you can download maximum 25 images a day..

so other than buyers search what they needs, some of the buyers may just search for ''good images" they like every day, that's why they may have downloaded most of the ''most popular" photos, they may just check new uploads everyday..

however, a good quality images that last is still the way.

photos 0.20 euro, vector 0.35 euro, and i think you may get pay 50% less in some case that the buyers will get 50% discount, so the minimum may get is 0.10 euro and 0.175 euro.. and it is free download for educational or some kind of usage.

I am not sure whether seller will get 50% for a 49 euro download..

anyone know is it possible to get paid by oversea contributors?

thank you.

I have no idea how they would make sure the customers stick to the rules, but I likes this part of their terms from the FAQ:

"License: The price for free download of all images is EURO 149 per month. As long as you have a license, you can download as many images as you like. If you stop the license, you can use the downloaded material for 12 months.

Prepaid Card: You can also buy a prepaid card with 100 credits for EURO 249,- (100 credits = 10 stock images). A prepaid card is valid for 1 (one) year. Afterwards the User Rights exceeds after 5 years.

Single Image: If your need for images is low you can buy single images for EURO 49,- a piece. The User Rights exceeds after 5 years."

This has been suggested in several other threads in this forum; that the rights to use the pictures should have a time limit. I wonder how well it works in real life.

I see a lot of colourbox-images in magazines in Norway. It looks like most of the major printing houses have contracts with colourbox and Istock, and that istock is only for the pictures they can't find in colourbox. High quality illustrations e.g.

Hi the payment option is too choose your country, Bank account, IBAN, and SWIFT.. does it mean it can direct wire transfer to bank account in any countries?

It pays 0.20 EURO for a photo, 0.35EURO for a illustration vector, and more for a video..

I am not sure will you get paid more when buyers paid other plan..

so far i had 1 sale for a vector.