Thriving coops have hired staff, that are paid by the surplus.

There is nothing wrong in hiring a over energic salesperson and put him on straight commision.

first you need to establish a platform for communication.
Then an adress, and a legal entity, based on a foundation paper.

yes RUX, you weld cast iron by glowing it, so the heat does not float away from the place you weld.
That means red hot.

It is not impossible.
Crowdsourcing is many things and the net connects people.

Over here in Denmark we had great many cooperatives in the last century. Typically within the distribution of milk, butter and meat. They were not small.
They worked, they were a lifestyle and they were GOOD at competing with sheer capitalism.

The financials we typically arranged this way:
People bought small shares. Fx a farmer bought a share in the butchery.
Loans from banks.

The producers then had a stabile distribution channel, and depending on the market prices, the surplus was delivered back to the contributers as dividend or bonus.
Production greatly benifited from cooperatives, new livestock races were bread and perfected, new techniques were implemented. The result is, that Denmark today, has an advanced diary industry and is market leading in many ways.

All it takes is a dedicated group of people, who can come up with well working business plan and a description of the cooperative.
I think it can be done i 2 ways:
The slow approach, where many little fish work together, there are many contributers who are also buyers.
Or the coup d�tat approach, where a packet of money headhunts some of the key customer relations people from well funktioning agencies.
It is obvious that prices would be competitive.

I know people who started a COOP photograph distribution agency back in the 1980 ties. It worked well and had a surplus for many years.

It is possible to do, also on the internet.

But since we had the debate a couple of times, I have begun to think it might be better to make a MARKET place, for both buyers and sellers.
My guess is that the buyers are equally tired of the middlemen.

I cannot  understand their partner program.
What are they? an agency with a pool, or a distributing agency?

The logical move in a world of crowsourcing, when you step up and hire personel, is of course to crowdsource the personel also at world market prices.
Wages are not the same at different places in the world, whereas picture prices are the same, and they are low. We all complain about that.

Its amazing that Yuri could build such a succes out of the high costs in Denmark in the beginning. He is now doing what we all need to do if we want to expand: hire cheap hands to produce cheap pictures.

That just gave me an idea: To outsource my photography and send my camera to a guy in Africa, and have him photograph elephant feet, African landscapes and broken down landrovers. I could then sell the pictures and he could get 20 % of the earnings.

We live in a crude world of capitalistic competition, and the wages we are used to in the rich western world are under pressure. We microstock photographers should of all know that.

Interesting.
I have been thinking of doing such things.
How long did it take? it both opens and closes. A whole day.
What was your inteval between the single photos?

ja IS is paranoic.

I had pictures rejected there for flaws, and yes there were small flaws, and I corrected them.
BUT, first after a � year or so, when I saw the potential of the picture.
And in the � year the pictures earned a lot of money at other places. Money that IS did not earn in that period.

Is that smart doing business?
Its like they play poker, instead of trying to get business in the shop.
Im not the only one.

its because of windows 8 and whitish backgrounds.

We need to produce a whole new set of images.
If we havent already.
;-)

Now, find old Johnny Cash and listen to "16 tons"

Johnny Cash - Sixteen Tons

exclusivity = dependency

They will sell.
They are rare and bright and shiny.

I looked at one in 100% and its not really really sharp enough.
But he could always downsize it or put 4 together in for example "An areal autumn composition)

I can se he is one of thes shapes and colour guys, and he does it well, artistically.

However the pictures would sell MUCH better if they were precise on keyword and concept, like classic stock photos must be.
Now can you imagine how well a nuclear plant taken from above would sell. or a tanker, or a traffic jammed motorway, not to mention a prison.

Sometimes they even use pink or blue monarchs in Europe.