Quote from: gameover on May 16, 2022, 20:45

Quote from: zeljkok on May 16, 2022, 20:14

Quote from: gameover on May 16, 2022, 18:14
...58 

Next Stop:  100 

I don' think so, probably tomorrow is over. It was fun.
By the way, your image is much, much better, it is really a beautiful shot. I understand why people are buying it.

...117 

Quote from: zeljkok on May 16, 2022, 20:14

Quote from: gameover on May 16, 2022, 18:14
...58 

Next Stop:  100 

I don' think so, probably tomorrow is over. It was fun.
By the way, your image is much, much better, it is really a beautiful shot. I understand why people are buying it.

...58 

Quote from: zeljkok on May 15, 2022, 21:14

Quote from: gameover on May 15, 2022, 09:03


Ah, my sales keep going, now are 48 ! Quite unusual and this is not among my best ones.

That is quite extraordinary.  Continuing sales are not so strange - Adobe search engine ranks higher images that sell, specially recent sales - but initial 26 in a day is very intriguing

Images that are best from photography perspective are not necessarily highest sellers.  This is my image with highest # of downloads on AS - 131



Also nothing special  and there are better images of this place, but for some reason this one picked up.  If you search for "santa catalina arch antigua guatemala" there will be 5 pages of results, but this one is second on first page & getting couple of downloads every week which keeps it high on the list

Interesting, thank you! Great image 

Frankly I do not understand why are you submitting to WireStock.
Some months ago I gave it a try, but
-  you cannot delete any of your images: it is not a button for that, you can ask and they make difficulties to do it, I closed immediately my account telling them to remember that the copyright is mine.

_ There is not your name on your image, only WireStock (on Alamy, -> Photographer: WireStock). I don't tell you any more else...

- It is not true you can have more visibility uploading with them. WireStock has.

Quote from: zeljkok on May 14, 2022, 23:36

Quote from: MatHayward on May 12, 2022, 12:08
take a look at the curated asset collections seen at the bottom of stock.adobe.com. If you image is featured there, it could explain the sudden jump in sales.

-Mat Hayward

Image was not there, but I enjoyed looking at that collection;  some really nice images there.  This is my favorite,  not so easy to produce

splendid image, nice to share! it is a pity not to know who the author is, it is written only wirestock there...
Congrats, it is difficult to sell with Dreamstime.

Ah, my sales keep going, now are 48 ! Quite unusual and this is not among my best ones.

Quote from: cathyslife on May 12, 2022, 21:07
Great image! Congrats. I've had this happen in the past. Sometimes buying multiple same images is cheaper than buying a multi-seat license. At least that's what I thought was happening.

Thank you! yes, it could be, but keep selling today too.

Quote from: zeljkok on May 12, 2022, 19:50
Wow, nothing really special - just deli store front.  At any rate, congratulations!
(Was this editorial or RF?)

Yes, nothing really special, but the composition is good. Don't remember, maybe RF. It is an old one that sold several times

Quote from: MatHayward on May 12, 2022, 12:08

Quote from: gameover on May 12, 2022, 11:06

Quote from: thx9000 on May 12, 2022, 10:06
I've had this happen on fotolia with 40+ consecutive downloads of the same image. After reporting it support answered that it's just some unusual way of paying for a specific licence.
Report it, just in case.

oh, it could be, sure. Thank you, interesting.

That's fantastic! Without seeing the image it's difficult to know what could be the trigger. One thing you may want to do is take a look at the curated asset collections seen at the bottom of stock.adobe.com. If you image is featured there, it could explain the sudden jump in sales.

-Mat Hayward

Thank you Mat! The image is this https://stock.adobe.com/de/stock-photo/id/163032063

Quote from: thx9000 on May 12, 2022, 10:06
I've had this happen on fotolia with 40+ consecutive downloads of the same image. After reporting it support answered that it's just some unusual way of paying for a specific licence.
Report it, just in case.

oh, it could be, sure. Thank you, interesting.

Quote from: Firn on May 12, 2022, 09:35
I don't think it's a "glitch",  just being lucky that multiple people looked for and bought the image in a very short period of time. That's usually making an image shoot to the top on most microstock search algorithms.

I know, I was self-deprecating 

Quote from: Firn on May 12, 2022, 09:06
It's unusual for Adobe, but it does happen. I once sold a single image over 400 times in a month - It just means that you got lucky, 3 or 4 people bought the image right after it was approved, so it got a high ranking and now it's probably somewhere at the top of the search for some relevant keywords. Once you achieve a top ranking on Adobe, an image becomes a gold mine. It happens way too rarely though.

400 times! wow. Thanks for clarify. Yes, I supposed something like a lucky glitch of their search engine

Hi, since yesterday I keep selling by Adobe the same image. At the moment there are 26 sales. Happy but quite unusual.
Anyone else?

Quote from: Annie on April 21, 2022, 21:39

Quote from: gameover on April 21, 2022, 18:26
Here my last post about Shopify and selling images
https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/2022/04/21/stock-images-on-shopify-how-to-sell-them-some-ideas/
Enjoy 

Hi Luisa,

Re your blog:

but lacks the means to automatically upload images in bulk, even by using the apps they recommend.

So, are you saying that we cannot use something like this to bulk upload?

https://apps.shopify.com/bulk-images-upload

Is there a  reason why?


ETA: Its ok. I think I found your previous reference to it:

"At Shopify the same additional functions are performed by "apps": they are neither transparent nor open-source and most of them store your data "somewhere" , irrelevant perhaps as long as it's about physical goods, but if you're selling digital goods those uploaded files are your wealth.
More's the pity that in such a way you can't import/export in bulk your products to/from your shop – no backups, no certainty that they get really deleted if you decide to withdraw them.
Those apps come at a monthly fee and are generally quite expensive when compared to the corresponding WP plugins – without offering more (sometime actually they offer less...) and the choice is very limited. Only very few of them are free or offer a free plan."

Yes indeed, I wouldn't recommend to use most of them

Quote from: cascoly on April 21, 2022, 19:57
Pixify looks like a great solution

Yes, I think so

Here my last post about Shopify and selling images
https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/2022/04/21/stock-images-on-shopify-how-to-sell-them-some-ideas/
Enjoy 

Quote from: Uncle Pete on April 11, 2022, 16:29

Quote from: gameover on April 11, 2022, 07:43

Quote from: Uncle Pete on April 10, 2022, 17:12

Quote from: gameover on April 10, 2022, 08:49
Nice pic uncle Pete! appreciated.
it seems that with Shopify you can reach a high ranking without marketing. I hate marketing, you know and I am curious enough to give a try. How? I'll write some ideas in my new post.

Can I embed my Shop in my websites?

What about uploading. Say I have 5,000 images to start with. No bulk upload or is there a pay app to do this and populate the data?

I think could be possible, I have to dig a little more to investigate.
Bulk upload: Jacob Lund will launch his app this year.

I never move too fast anyway, so waiting for Jacob, I hope his price is reasonable and worth the time and complex entry effort.

The other part I did some searching. This is not comprehensive, just an example, from Shopify forum: (bold is mine)

1) You can create products in Shopify and use the Shopify Buy Button to add your products to your current website. For each product or collection, you create a buy button with, a code will be generated that you add to the theme of your website in the area that you would like your products to appear.

When a customer visits your website and sees your products, they can add products to a cart directly on your website. When they're ready to pay for their order, they'll be brought to your Shopify checkout. The customers' order information will appear in your Shopify admin under Orders.

The Shopify Lite Plan is a good option if you're wanting to use the buy button on your already existing website and manage your store information in the Shopify admin. Since the plan doesn't come with a website (because you already have one) it's $9 USD/month.

2) The second option is to create a separate website for your online store with Shopify. Next, create a spot on your website that says something like Store or Shop that links to your Shopify store where you sell your dropshipping items.

So that answers my basic question and yes I could create Buy Buttons using Shopify which will take them to checkout on Shopify. I don't understand a cart on my site and then switching someone to the checkoput, but that's not the question. Just if we could sell from our own websites... yes!

Hi Pete,
I have heard of the Shopify Lite Plan, but I don' t know if it works for images to download automatically after the checkout. Sure it works for physical goods.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on April 10, 2022, 17:12

Quote from: gameover on April 10, 2022, 08:49
Nice pic uncle Pete! appreciated.
it seems that with Shopify you can reach a high ranking without marketing. I hate marketing, you know and I am curious enough to give a try. How? I'll write some ideas in my new post.

Can I embed my Shop in my websites?

What about uploading. Say I have 5,000 images to start with. No bulk upload or is there a pay app to do this and populate the data?

I think could be possible, I have to dig a little more to investigate.
Bulk upload: Jacob Lund will launch his app this year.

  Nice pic uncle Pete! appreciated.
it seems that with Shopify you can reach a high ranking without marketing. I hate marketing, you know and I am curious enough to give a try. How? I'll write some ideas in my new post.

Here my second post about the differences between Shopify and WordPress with the aim of selling images by yourself.
https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/2022/04/07/wordpress-versus-shopify/
Honest, maybe brutally honest citing Alex Rotenberg 

Yes, Shopify is principally designed for selling material goods, but the essential to sell digital with automatic download after checkout is there and free. I verified also the possibility to have different range of prices for different kind of licenses (web, print, merchandise). Today I sent a message to the Shopify people to clarify some last points. Usually they answer quick.

Quote from: Annie on April 01, 2022, 22:03

Quote from: Uncle Pete on April 01, 2022, 14:40
Interesting reading. Yes if I thought I could recover the $29 a month for basic USA, I'd jump in. Not sure I can do that with just photos? As for collectibles, I have very little high end, just things that I like that are fun.

With any volume at all, I can see why $29 a month would be less than the 15% that eBay takes.

Paulie Walnuts wrote about trying this maybe that was last year. Maybe he'll pass through the forum and add some more.

Right now, I'm just watching and evaluating. Sure would be nice to have a "self hosted" store. I'd still like to read some more about digital asset fulfillment? Is it automated or manual? If someone pays for an image, do I have to manually approve, or does Shopify handle that? In the Summer I'm sometimes unavailable for a day or two or might miss an order. I don't think that would be good business to be unresponsive.

After I set Shopify up for Nick, I wanted one for my digital downloads but didn't get around to it. It works really well for his physical products, but after I posted above, he reminded me that a friend introduced him to some Facebook groups where he posted links to his Shopify store, and that drives a lot of traffic to his shop. I forgot about that.

So it looks like you may still need to do some of your own marketing in social media or similar. Getting people to sign up for the monthly newsletter, and sending those out regularly with new listing updates, helps too. Also, I used to drive a lot of visitors to my current website by writing related blogs and posting them to social media. In fact I've noticed that since I stopped doing that, my current website's views have dropped by nearly 1/2.

But Shopify's basic monthly account definitely has all the features you need, and the rest is up to the individual.

And yes, I am interested in how the digital downloads side of things work in Shopify as well.

Quote from: Annie on April 01, 2022, 01:02

Quote from: Uncle Pete on March 31, 2022, 19:47
Sounds good and I'm looking forward to how this goes. I started a WP site, couldn't even get the gallery to show. And then there are people who said, you have to re-write the code to make the Marketplace work. I still have a site which is nothing but the front page... the gallery is invisible.  Somehow I missed how to get it to populate onto the website.

My experience with WP and Symbiostock was that WP would update and the site would crash and Leo or someone else would have to rewrite some of the code. That happened a number of times. I'm just skeptical of how well WP functions as a business site?

So maybe this will work out? I know it will be better for me, except the costs. So please document that part as well?

Part one questions. Jacob says the SEO is easy and works well, and he gets visitors. That's very positive.

Why? "To make life easier he developed a dedicated app to bulk-upload images stripping the keywords and the other metadata to fill and optimize the pages." Why do I want to strip the data, or do you mean extract the data for entry to the Shopify pages? Dedicated app? Where can I get it if I need to do that? 

As you know Pete, I set up a Shopify store some months ago for my husband's collectibles that he used to sell on eBay. And he loves it. It has a wealth of features, lots of historical and analytical data, really good shipping features, ability to send out monthly newsletters, and lots more. Plus it looks good and very professional, which a few of his close contacts/buyers have commented on.

On the downside it costs him $40 AUD a month, but he compares that to the fees that he used to pay on eBay - and having a shopify store is much more profitable. He gets a lot of traffic without any effort on his part - but he does have some very sort-after items, and several return buyers.

Hey Pete, happy to hear you again!
Sorry, I mean extract keywords in order to fill your product pages for the SEO optimization.

As Annie says at Shopify you pay a monthly fee, but the basic plan give you all you need to sell and you don't have to pay a hosting for your website.

In my blog I begin a series of articles about selling on Shopify and the differences between hosting a personal stock images website on WordPress and using the Shopify platform.
The first one is an introduction to the argument
https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/2022/03/30/shopify-first-look-from-inside-with-a-big-thank-you-to-jacob-lund/

I opened an account and closed it when I realized I couldn't delete any of my images by myself. 
The keywording job is poor, I don't know which kind of visibility they can achieve on Alamy

No more sales indeed, but the huge advantage is that you can redirect your domain there as your self-hosted website. And the membership fee is lower than any other alternative. Pity that Picfair does not make advertising...