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Messages - travismanley
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« on: April 09, 2009, 16:39 »
Just useless referral information that I find interesting. Shutterstock is clearly gives the best referral earnings:
I have 34 submitter referrals on Shutterstock. Of them only about 4 have accepted images and only 1 seems to actively upload and have a portfolio of over a hundred. I've made $324.36 from them.
I have 23 submitter referrals on Dreamstime. All combined they have 301 images online. I've made $47.45 from them.
That is pretty interesting. My one referral at SS = $5.22 with 10 photos in less than a month, my one referral at DT = $3.70 with 200 photos online for a few months.
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« on: April 09, 2009, 16:30 »
Just a reminder, though, we already have a sticky thread for these findings in Tear Sheets - Post your finds here
Thanks for letting me know.
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« on: April 09, 2009, 15:46 »
iStock actually removed one of my car shots.
There was a model in the shot & she was the main subject, but
The type of car was still too unique and recognizabe for their comfort.
That would suck, especially with all the upload restrictions.
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« on: April 09, 2009, 15:45 »
Your acceptance problem will disappear if you get in closer so that it's not possible to tell the make of the car. Rather than having things on a white background, you might do better showing the car in it's natural surroundings: 'traffic jam', 'flat tire', 'breakdown', 'morning commute', 'road trip', 'speeding', 'fun on the backroads', and 'finding a parking spot' come immediately to mind.
Thanks for the tips. I think they just dont want the car as the main subject. It seems (in my opinion) that cropping would only lower the value of the photo, but I guess if that is the only way to get them accepted that is the only option.
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« on: April 09, 2009, 15:25 »
I have always liked taking photos of cars and isolating them, those photos have always sold pretty well for me to but recently im having a hard time getting them accepted. Fotolia wont take them, and istockphoto sent me to this link http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=413&Page=2 when I asked them about it. This seems pretty crazy to me. Some cars are pretty obvious what they are even if all the logos are removed, but what about the more generic Hondas, Mazdas, etc? This is one am having a hard time with that luckily was accepted by Shutterstock.  What drives me crazy too is that there are so many car photos out there already what good is it doing by not taking any new ones? Wouldn't all the old ones be just as much of a copyright risk?
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« on: April 09, 2009, 14:26 »
If someone has reffered Yuri to SS. Hed get around 1000$/month  . based on 1000/day. may be more though. (0,03*1000)x30
That would be crazy. I wonder how he works that out when he is signing up at a new site? I doubt He just clicks on random referral links.
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« on: April 09, 2009, 14:05 »
How about this I have 99 thats right 99 referrals on dreamstime. Not a single one has uploaded more than 10 images and hardly have uploaded any at all
ouch...I have four at DT, and only one uploads regularly. Three at SS, only one with about 10 approved uploads.
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« on: April 09, 2009, 13:48 »
I wonder why so many people click on these links, but never follow through?
It could also be that the referral went to someone else. I remember when I joined Cutcaster my referral was given to another person and I had to write John to correct that. Another more recent was a friend was referred to another site and I was not added as referral. It was until he wrote me to check that I noticed the error.
So, given these two cases, we don't know how many of those people came through your link . They may even have joined but if they didn't tell you about it. You wouldn't know either. My 2 bobs worth of guesstimation 
I have had similar problems with FT and SS and they were never willing to fix the error.
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« on: April 09, 2009, 12:11 »
I had a great surprise flying with United last month - the Hemispheres Magazine that is behind each seat had an article about Washington DC, and on the main index page - page 7, was my photo of the Jefferson Memorial surrounded by Cherry Blossom. You can see it in the on-line version of the magazine http://www.ink-live.com/hemi/2009/mar/ although the actual photo is:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=5744322
It shows Copyright Getty Images so I assume it was picked up off iStockPhoto. I probably got $3!!
Steve
http://www.backyardsilver.com
Congrats Steve, very cool!
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« on: April 09, 2009, 10:27 »
I only know of two sites that let you keep track of how many people are clicking on your referral links, but not actually signing up bigstockphoto and crestock.
After looking at these statistics I think I would rather not know.
BigStock: Number of clicks on your referral link - 1108
Number of sign-ups from your referral link - 4
Referral Commissions Earned: $0.00
Crestock: Affiliate clicks - 167
Sign-ups - 2
Earnings - $0.13
I wonder why so many people click on these links, but never follow through?
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« on: April 08, 2009, 18:34 »
I agree with Richard, I doubt there are a lot of istockers out there adding and removing our keywords out of the goodness of their hearts. Why would you waste your time?
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« on: April 08, 2009, 16:50 »
What you're seeing is not iStock randomly rekeywording your images, it's buyers and/or contributors 'correcting' the keywords you used.
Ahhh...thanks for clearing that up. So some random person can go in a change all my keywords on any given image? That seems kind of crazy.
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« on: April 08, 2009, 16:16 »
Me and the wife went to Florida a couple years ago (Disneyworld) and it was so ridiculously hot and humid...in October! It was like a constant adventure to get from one air conditioned place to the next.
My first digital camera actually fried due to the weather, luckily it was just a point and shoot.
Guess im not used to the heat being from WA.
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« on: April 08, 2009, 15:58 »
ive been seeing a lot of subscription sales too.
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« on: April 08, 2009, 15:23 »
If you check whitechild's profile you will see he is from Serbia, not USA.
I assumed he was not from the US.
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« on: April 08, 2009, 14:20 »
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It doesnt really matter though because IS randomly will rekeyword my photos so its a never ending battle.
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Huh? You think IS is randomly rekeywording your stuff?
Every now and then I get emails that keywords have been added or removed from my photos.
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« on: April 08, 2009, 14:04 »
you don't live in American for $300!
no kidding...not even close. maybe if you still live with your parents and dont have a mortgage, rent, car payment, etc.
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« on: April 08, 2009, 12:26 »
This is an old thread that was needlessly resurrected yesterday.
If you're interested in comparing your sales to others at IS go here: http://istockcharts.multimedia.de/
alright im #4,378 im going to go cry myself to sleep  lol
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« on: April 08, 2009, 12:19 »
I was getting a lot of rejects for keywords so I finally started rekeywording everything for IS using deepmeta. It is a pain, but deepmeta helps a lot. I just add around 10 of the most relevant keywords and after they are accepted I usually go back and add some more. It doesnt really matter though because IS randomly will rekeyword my photos so its a never ending battle.
I think if you keep your amount of keywords to a min when you submit you dont really have to worry about keyword rejects. I think it just sends out a big red flag when you have like 50 something.
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« on: April 08, 2009, 12:15 »
25 is good if they are all relevant, I wouldnt do more than 50.
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« on: April 08, 2009, 09:40 »
Here, average monthly salary is about 300$ and people live with that.
$300! Where do you live? (if you dont mind me asking). I might need to move there when I retire lol
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« on: April 08, 2009, 09:33 »
It's about quantity and quality
Exactly
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« on: April 07, 2009, 10:57 »
DL number is set to 0 again. Looks like it just was a test. 
Yup, mine is back to zero also...what a tease lol
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« on: April 06, 2009, 15:56 »
hmmmm...looks like i have a download too, no $$$ though.
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