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1726
« on: September 14, 2012, 00:15 »
The twitter links above are showing the tweets are 42 years old.
Yes, that's accurate. I've been collecting the links for a while.
1727
« on: September 13, 2012, 06:41 »
I feel free files are great for the agency as advertising and seo but serves no purpose for the photographer. Both Fotolia and Dreamstime actively try to get us to offer our images for free but we aren't doing ourselves a favor - we are doing them a favor. We are essentially paying for their advertising. That is something they should be paying for themselves with their generous share of the commission. That's what we're paying them for.
1728
« on: September 13, 2012, 05:36 »
There's an ongoing change in ideas about photographic imagery. When I was a kid my Dad had the camera (kids didn't) and he carefully lined us up for formal portraits. Today, 15-year-olds all pack cameras and shoot by sticking the phone out at arm's length, unannounced. To sell products to kids today, you need photos that look like they were taken by their peers, not their parents.
Finally, someone who gets it! Gets it so much I wanted to quote it.
spot on. I gave you a heart for that 
1729
« on: September 13, 2012, 04:57 »
Here's the full press release
2ten supporting a fair deal for stock contributors
Hello,
I have just arrived in New York City and was in Starbucks. Having parted company with $2.85 for a coffee for a colleague, I was further reminded how expensive coffee is compared with the best images as sold by stock agencies - in particular as part of a subscription plan.
The subscription Mafia 7, in order of power
Shutterstock 33 cents per image
iStock 31 cents per image
Fotolia 33 cents per image
Dreamstime 32 cents per image
123RF 29 cents per image
Depositphotos 24 cents per image
Veer 38 cents per image
I thought to myself, Ill see if I can get a similar deal from Starbucks. Look, I said someone from our company will be back in here every day for the next month, so, can we do a deal on 15 coffees per day? What kind of deal? they asked. I thought you might do us a subscription deal? I replied.
Needless to say they looked at me as if I was completely mad, but did kindly point me in the direction of a Starbucks reward card. To be honest though, I was looking for a deal in the region of 10 cents per cup, not a free refill every now and then. You win some you lose some.
We like your pricing
At Pocketstock we have our largest file size priced at around $53 or higher.
Now, if I take the average price of a monthly subscription of 31 cents and compare it to our pricing, subscription comes in at 17,000 times less expensive than ours per file.
Thats 17,000% less expensive than Pocketstocks list price.
Now, if you were an image buyer, who would you go to for your content?
Clearly we are in a no win position here and I believe, have only two ways to go forward, we either reduce our prices by a few thousand percent or, we try to help stop the rush to the bottom, that is the subscription price war.
2ten
We have decided through the development of 2ten, to stick to our beliefs and try change the industrys pricing structure, for new images at the very least, through a strategic 3 step plan.
Should you be supplying your best images to subscription plans?
Well, thats your choice, but if you continue to do it in the way you currently are, expect the worst.
What is the worst that can happen?
You dont want to know how bad it will get, but Ill give you an idea of what will happen in the short-term - within months, subscription pricing per image will be in single figures and I dont mean dollars of course, but cents. Yes, thats right your images will be sold for less than 10 cents if you dont do something about it right now.
One of the subscription mafia 7 is already offering your content for 13 pence per image in the UK (thats around 20 cents) and they are throwing in 1000 additional free credits for good measure as an incentive.
Shouldnt 13 pence per image be enough of a bargain?
Is it worth producing images if they are going to be sold for these prices?
Only you can make that call.
Collectively, we can make a change and stop the constant lowering of stock content prices, which will destroy your earnings and fair competition, but still line the pockets of those that sell your work.
$2 for the smallest file size and $10 for the largest
So having now set up 2ten to help support a fair deal for stock contributors, the objective is simple, get all contributors to refuse to allow any subscription agency to sell their new content for less than $2 for the smallest file size and $10 for the largest.
This way we hope to change the pricing structure that is currently so destructive for all contributors.
Sign up
Check out the latest subscription offers at www.2ten.info and maybe, just maybe, it will convince you to sign up and help change the way your content is sold.
Spread the word
Please tell all stock contributors about this campaign and ask them to sign up. The more support we get, the more we will be able do about the pricing scandal perpetuated by big business, who are currently commoditizing your material into something that is worth less than a cup of coffee, much less.
www.2ten.info
We promise never to use your name or personal details. All information will be treated as confidential.
Russell Glenister
CEO
Pocketstock
1730
« on: September 13, 2012, 02:05 »
I think that anybody waiting for an upsurge will be disappointed.
The only way to increase income is to increase photosimprove qualityimprove keywordingimprove self promotionAny improvement in the economy will only be a couple of percent. There is no way in my opion that improvement of the economy will offset factorsincreased competitionreduced commission %aging of your portfolio
And yet there are many folks who have done that, lisa being one of them, and yet still reporting drops in sales. I just think it's the state of the economy, all around the world.
edit: I think leafs been playing around again. Sorry about all the bold.
hey.. don't blame me..  I don't think I had anything to do with this one
1731
« on: September 12, 2012, 17:30 »
Like we need more cut down trees for our sad little over consuming lives. Either we cut trees down or we literally make keyboards out of oil.
Bamboo is a grass not a tree. It can grow 4 feet in a single day, it doesn't need to be replanted when cut down (the roots are kept in tact) and takes 4 years to reach maturity while wood takes 20-100 years.
1733
« on: September 12, 2012, 07:50 »
If you are genuinely interested in opening up the lines of communication you need to actually give us an idea of what you are doing. I am finding your responses really evasive so far.
I am sorry to try and pin you down like this, but this is an ongoing issue and we need to know whether to withdraw our images.
I understand your point that with this information you will not decide to refrain from opting out. Im afraid though that I cant give you more detailed information.
That will not be the answer you want to hear, and Im not happy about it myself, as of course I would love to have all of you staying in the current way, but I can not say more about the feature. If the explanations given are not enough, then - as much as I hate to say it - you will have to opt out of partner program sales.
Thanks for the honest reply Marius and for jumping in the thread to clear things up and provide a little more info on the situation.
1734
« on: September 12, 2012, 06:30 »
I found my solution
The problem with putting a file at 0 credits is the software assumes you haven't entered anything and the prices the file at your default amount for the original file. I found if I typed in .0 credits however, the priced indeed stayed at 0
Also make sure that you have allowed customers to check out even if their cart has $0 worth of goods.
1735
« on: September 11, 2012, 15:20 »
Leaf,
I understand why you made the change and find the new way of looking data very helpful, but found the old way, (top company at 100) to be much easier to comprehend because the base was 100 so the math was simple enough I could do it in my head.
Would it be possible for you to give us a toggle so we could switch between the two views?
that might create more confusion that it would solve but perhaps a mouse over with a % would be a solution?
1736
« on: September 11, 2012, 14:22 »
Yeah, I'd certainly buy used. I'd go into a store (or ebay) and just get the best Canon or Nikon I could. I don't follow used cameras too much but like gostwyck said a 5D MK 1 or a 30D 40D 50D etc.. the highest number you can afford For a lens, skip the kit lens and just get the 50mm 1.8
1737
« on: September 11, 2012, 13:47 »
Do you have a free stock photo section in your store and if so, how have you implemented it?
In the digital version tab of an image you can set the original copy to be 'free' but I'd like to have just the 600px file free on some images but the larger files pay files. Also, on the original copy solution - the user doesn't even have to sign in to download the image.
1738
« on: September 10, 2012, 16:13 »
1739
« on: September 10, 2012, 04:52 »
Sundays are generally 1.5x Saturday and .5x a regular weekday
1740
« on: September 10, 2012, 04:00 »
I'm simply opting out because I want to upload to Alamy myself. I realize that I don't have my Alamy port. totally up to date so I may be missing out on a few uploads but that's fine. I'd rather have that than have some duplicate content if a mistake is make and risk lower commissions.
1741
« on: September 09, 2012, 16:12 »
Does shutterstock have a gauge? If so, mine doesn't show up. Also, where do I check to say I want the gauges to show, or do they show automatically when I enter a portfolio number?
No dials for Shutterstock as they don't publish sales stats. The dials are calculated like this: Portsize+sales in a percentage of 25,000 so if port+sales is greater than 25,000 then your gauge will be at full speed
1743
« on: September 09, 2012, 13:40 »
Fotolia is pretty infamous for selling a few images lots and the rest of the images very little or not at all. It's not that Yuri's entire port isn't saleable it's that Fotolia has a habit of favoring a small selection of photos. If your photos aren't lucky to get in that group you won't see downloads.
1744
« on: September 09, 2012, 12:54 »
A number of posts were removed from this thread consisting of petty personal disagreements. If you have problems with another member, send me a PM, you don't need to make a public statement about it. Please stick to the topic and not attack each other.
1745
« on: September 09, 2012, 12:05 »
I can't find the permalink feature for a post - not sure if I'm missing it somehow, but it's very useful if you want to link to a specific post in a long thread.
I like having a symbol for portfolio size idea as long as it's just a few general brackets - for those who are anonymous it helps keep it that way and we get as much information from knowing a portfolio is over 5K images as we do from knowing that it's 9,750.
I'd suggest 4 brackets: under 500, 500-2000, 2,000-5,000 and over 5K
The gauges need an update so your suggestion may be a good idea to implement. I'll certainly consider it. I've missed that link button too - I'll try and get it working tomorrow.
1746
« on: September 08, 2012, 12:43 »
Thanks for the fix! And, yes, I'd like more portfolio link options. Regards, David.
Ok. I've added Veer, Yay, Cutcaster and PhotoDune
Thanks again for the quick work! Now what am I doing wrong with the Cutcaster link? It just takes you to the whole site and not my port. I used the 10 digit number sequence at the end of my referral code, which I assume is my UserID number there. I only just added it a few minutes ago -does it take a while to work properly? Regards, David.
If you view your portfolio (find a link inside cutcaster) it will say in the URL seller=XXXX for you it says seller=2589 that's your number
1747
« on: September 08, 2012, 06:37 »
Thanks for the fix! And, yes, I'd like more portfolio link options. Regards, David.
Ok. I've added Veer, Yay, Cutcaster and PhotoDune
1748
« on: September 08, 2012, 06:23 »
Isn't it better and easier to calculate the relative ratio with percentages...?
percentage of what?
Of whole sum of earnings...
I sum up my total earnings of all agencies... (SS+IS+ DT+ etc.)
Then I divide amount of every agency with complete microstock earnings (example: SS earnings / total earings=0.32, which means that SS is 32% of my total monthly earnings)...
So, sum of all percentages should be 100%
Then you can track two relative movements every month for each agency (percentage part of each agency and monthly changes (also in %))...
So, you can find average earnings for each agency (with constant votes) from polls and then make the same thing..
If you want absolute values, you have to show us average earnings in $ for each agency after polls voting...
That is an interesting thought but I don't think it would be as accurate as it sounds. Lots of new photographers can't get into Shutterstock for example. For them, they are earning say 50% on iStock, 30 on Dreamstime and 20% of Fotolia (just for arguments sake) They will put in their numbers but put in nothing for Shutterstock. Shutterstock will have a lower overall percentage 'market share' even though the photographers who do submit there are earning a respectively large part of their income there. I feel the way the polls work now show what happens when you actually have images on site X. There are problems with every strategy. I guess either way the results or order would probably be quite similar, the numbers would just be slightly different.
1749
« on: September 08, 2012, 06:17 »
Great to have the gauges and portfolio links back. Thanks! None of the links to 123RF seem to work -you just get a wikipedia article on Link Rot.
fixed Also, any plans to add more portfolio links like before -Veer, Cutcaster, Yay etc? Regards, David.
If people want them I will. Are you saying you want them?
1750
« on: September 07, 2012, 17:43 »
Leaf, V4 = PhotoStore Pro, I'm pretty sure, so you have Pro.
V4/Pro is all uses the Smarty template engine, so it's easier to mess with the layout once you see how it works.
There is a pro and non-pro version of V4, I have the non-pro one. But yes, it uses the smarty template engine as well as lots of CSS. I've played with the layout quite a bit.
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