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Messages - goober
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« on: July 29, 2014, 03:02 »
I'm done with iS. Doesn't matter about Most Popular. Doesn't matter if your keywords are Mickey Mouse. They control the system for iS above all else. It's the end for me. I'm moving on.
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« on: July 28, 2014, 00:30 »
Got to love how some innocent person wonders into the forums, asks a newbie question and gets hammered for it.
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« on: July 28, 2014, 00:23 »
I suspect that hidden powers want to take out Iran, but they have to contend with Syria and Russia to do it. Now Russia has a nice little fire in it's backyard and Israel has a nice little fire in it's backyard. Us regular people just sit and wonder what the heck is going on.
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« on: July 23, 2014, 20:08 »
70% sounds good to me. Setting your own prices was number one on my wish list at iS.
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« on: July 21, 2014, 19:53 »
It's kind of meaningless when someone says best month ever or best year ever. Unless we know what sort of photos you're producing, where you're selling, how long you've been selling and how big your port is, BME is meaningless. Show us some graphs and stats. If a person with 40 photos uploads a winner (by accident) then their results are going to spike upwards. A person with 5000+ images and a ten year track record has a more balanced indication of how the stock industry is doing.
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« on: July 21, 2014, 19:43 »
I don't even get people asking for freebies let alone freelance.
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« on: July 21, 2014, 18:56 »
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« on: July 21, 2014, 18:42 »
I don't know how they can continue to pay inspectors to inspect files that never get views. I wonder if that has a lot to do with the quality downgrades. I've found myself just throwing up anything I think could possibly sell. It's like a closing down sale. Everything must go.
I think if we were inside hearing all that goes on we would understand but we're kept outside in an opaque, murky side of the business.
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« on: July 21, 2014, 18:24 »
I hope you get a big payout from it but chances are you'll just end up wearing it.
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« on: July 20, 2014, 21:56 »
Could it be that the whole world is in a slow down despite what the stock markets say? This money printing, QE forever, seems to be pumping up stock markets but not stock art sites.
I would agree expect that I am 31% higher this month than compared to last year thus only DT is the one being a lazy dog in the heat of summer on me 
Does that take into account the percentage of new images you have uploaded for the year? What number of images do you have online?
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« on: July 20, 2014, 19:54 »
Could it be that the whole world is in a slow down despite what the stock markets say? This money printing, QE forever, seems to be pumping up stock markets but not stock art sales.
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« on: July 18, 2014, 06:38 »
50/50 sounds good. Thanks.
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« on: July 18, 2014, 06:12 »
I'm still hoping they get the logos section up and running. 
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« on: July 17, 2014, 21:09 »
Chapter 4
Far to the north there were partisans - bearded artisans and tattooed faeries who had escaped from the forest in brightly colored VWs and on old bicycles. They lived a simple rustic life in a secret commune which was not on any map and was difficult to find - a tranquil idle which smelled of fresh coffee and sourdough bread.
Tell me, where is this place? Are you talking about the nut kickers, stocksy?
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« on: July 17, 2014, 21:05 »
istock still works good to me  i'm having 250/300 dollars a month with a 1000 pics
Get back to us in six years. Not only was I earning more than $300/month in 2008 when I had -/=1000 files (up to $860 in Nov 2008, which is still my BME), when files were much cheaper, I'm now well below what I was earning then each month but one this year with 3500+ files.
It's almost impossible for an indivdual supplier to keep increasing their port at the rate the entire collection is growing, and we have no control over the best match, or where our files end up, or them suddenly deciding to change how our %age is calculated, or them suddenly deciding to undercut exclusive files by indie files on their own site, or offering subs. There are too many imponderables to make any projections, even short term.
300/month isn't that great. Kind of feeds into my suspicion that IS is spreading the views out to encourage general production rather than specialists.
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« on: July 17, 2014, 20:36 »
If you have the only image of a polar bear wearing pants in 2006 you get the sale when an ad agency needs a polar bear wearing pants. When another company needs the same image in 2009 there are 6 images of polar bears wearing pants at different price points and you miss out. In 2014 there are now 32 images of polar bears wearing pants, but the CEO says, "cut the advertising budget for the next year as sales are down, no more images of polar bears putting on pants" and the blogger gets to use a small one for free. Nobody gets a sale.
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« on: July 17, 2014, 20:05 »
Go to 'my uploads' page and click on 'Last DL' to see what last sold in order of sale.
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« on: July 07, 2014, 19:13 »
Chapter 3
The government decided to frack and coal mine the giant valley because they were stone broke paying for all the wars, welfare programs and debt on the fiat money creation. The water supply was contaminated and the soil never recovered its fertility. The deer silently moved away to other areas. Then a newbie deer turned up on the edge of the forest asking, "can you make a living from doing this ?"
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« on: June 27, 2014, 00:23 »
iStock is more like a group of deer that stumbled on a giant open valley with the most beautiful green grass, rich and fertile, unlike any they had seen before. The deer frolicked and played in the field eating, romping and sleeping to their hearts content. The leader deer spent their time partying running silly competitions. Unknown to the istock deer, at the other end of the giant valley, other groups of deer had also found the rich untouched valley. They started eating furiously day after day moving closer towards the istock deer. The istock deer were playing party games when one day in 2012 the shutter stock deers roamed right pass them eating much of the pasture where they were playing. The istock deer panicked. They slaughtered their leadership and made a pact with a hedge tailed eagles who brought in extra dry grass from another field many miles away to keep them alive. A few months after the initial leadership kill there were more leadership kills by the eagles and the area was thrown open to invite as many deer in as possible to try and out eat the shutter stock deer but there wasn't as much grass left. The istock deer were now looking very skinny and gaunt. TBC.
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« on: June 27, 2014, 00:05 »
The stock market has been hitting record highs for a long time. There is no real economic basis for this kind of optimism - it's just that the Fed has kept interest rates so ridiculously low that you can't make any interest so people have to buy stocks to have a hope of beating inflation. Anyone buying stocks at these highs will probably have to wait years to make a profit.
In the current situation, I can see why someone would sell. It may have more to do with the overall market than the company.
Agree. We're living in a giant game of Monopoly where the bankers are helping themselves to the till, the politicians are the gate keepers and the real economy is taxed to within an inch of its life to keep the game going just a little longer.
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« on: June 26, 2014, 23:56 »
I had opportunity to thumb through several versions of the Choice magazine this week. The vast majority of images were credited to Shutterstock. Choice is a magazine that specializes in testing and evaluating consumer products and rating them so that the general public can determine which is best.
Choice has decided that Shutterstock is the best. They have a subscription model which suits volume buyers and enough images to suit any article.
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« on: May 29, 2014, 19:52 »
I'm confused.
On Getty my vector images can sell for $700. The same image on IS is around $34. Using subscription service it's about $1.70
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« on: May 29, 2014, 18:57 »
File 1: Sold previous $9, sold subs for $0.75 - need 13 subs sales to get same income.
File 2: Sold previous $5+, sold for $0.75 - need 7 sales to get same income.
File 3: Sold previous $9+, sold subs for $0.75 - need 13 subs sales to get same income.
Subs aren't so bad when comparing PP sales for photos but for vector sales on IS they are terrible.
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« on: May 29, 2014, 01:15 »
I just checked on one of my files that sold under subs. In November I got just over $4 for one normal sale. Under subs I got .34cents. It was a vector so file size is not a issue.
Get out your bugle!
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« on: May 29, 2014, 00:04 »
And now the edit unfinished uploads are not showing up but when you mouse over them they are still there. Click on the area where the edit file used to be and it takes you to the step 3 page where you can't see the preview image. Can't see previews, can't see uploads. My goodness.
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