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Messages - Steveball
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« on: July 13, 2015, 03:54 »
Also decline here, no matter if upload or not, go more exclusive or not, its the same downward trend. SS is the only one I care about since it accounts for probably 80% of my microstock earnings. FT is much worse btw and other agencies are of no more importance to me.
Good luck to those who are starting out and want to take this business seriously, yikes!
This business is dying for many of us so now is probably the best time to seek other outlets for your stock/art and react to the decline by holding uploads or removing work from portfolio's. If we keep whining while continue uploading or keeping our work online the agencies get the upper hand and continue their path of greed, simple as that.
The ones doing well in micro these days are becoming very rare. It's just not worth the time and effort anymore unless you live in a lower standard country or use this as a hobby.
I've seen people brag about their sales on the SS forum but these guys upload fine art (ex skylines and landscapes) that are probably bought for a few pennies and then sold on print for hundreds of dollars. I do not envy them, on the contrary, I pity them for thinking they make good money while they don't have a clue what they leave on the table.
Others invest more then they get out of this by renting models, locations, props, gear and what not.
It's always a lose-lose situation for us no matter how you look at it.
Not to mention why we are so eager to put each other down instead of being more unite. The action that many (including myself) took towards DPC was a good example of how we should react to these manipulations.
If more established contributors would come forward people would realise this decline is spread out amongst many and we need to do something about it. But no, they rather hide in the corner and pray for better times again or that it will only affect their fellow contributors. Some pro's, afraid for retaliation so they rather keep their pants down and bent over.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
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« on: June 23, 2015, 04:30 »
90% drop since Adobe and zero sales for 13 days, are they open!
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« on: June 22, 2015, 11:13 »
Still suspended as far as I know. What are sales?
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« on: June 20, 2015, 11:21 »
Haven't had a single sale to tip me over to silver in 9 days! Unusual.
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« on: June 16, 2015, 18:19 »
Hasn't worked for me - 1140 downloads, 'only 140 sales to reach the next rank' (silver). Less sales to reach silver than before but silver was 1,000 sales. Now it's 1280 sales?
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« on: June 11, 2015, 07:25 »
Anyone else getting uploads stuck in the upload queue? Tried browser and FTP and the status bar is empty with the grey stripes moving. It's been doing this for 3 days (3 attempts). Is it me or them!
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« on: June 04, 2015, 05:42 »
Same here, tried 3 times and gave up!
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« on: June 01, 2015, 18:44 »
My first -1, for stating facts about my review times and lack of sales! What fun.
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« on: June 01, 2015, 03:45 »
8 days and counting, used to be a day at most. No sales anyway, everywhere.
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« on: May 29, 2015, 04:13 »
About 20% of normal, virtually dead since redesign.
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« on: May 28, 2015, 09:29 »
I like Segoe and I'm a graphic designer too.
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« on: May 26, 2015, 06:00 »
Still having to fill in keywords etc after uploading, what a pain. Any fix on the horizon?
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« on: May 19, 2015, 19:40 »
8 months since the last one, given up ever seeing anything over 2.70 again.
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« on: May 09, 2015, 04:00 »
I had the same thing happen about 6 months ago and I eventually found out the sale was cancelled so it never showed up in Sales! I hope this isn't the reason for yours, maybe takes a while to appear on the site. Good luck.
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« on: May 05, 2015, 04:01 »
Worst month for 4 years. 5 zero days (very unusual to have one), hardly any SODs and ODs, no EL for 7 months. Something has to change.
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« on: April 30, 2015, 11:12 »
And why does the X price still auto appear as 30 and not 60! Hope the exclusivity and free choices are remembered too (only uploaded one file - twice because the first upload didn't appear then I had 2 copies to index).
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« on: April 30, 2015, 10:36 »
+1 for earnings and rankings at the top of every page. Not a fan of everything white (a design disease) with a lot of thin fonts, the old layout was more intuitive and easier to find what you're looking for. Three green boxes (with small thin text)! Looks like a load of random text boxes were dropped down the stairs onto a Word page!
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« on: April 30, 2015, 10:25 »
Is the only way to upload via FTP now? I can't see any other link for uploading! Not sure it's worth it anymore as the last 6 months sales have pretty much halved every month. Not much further to go and it will be 0!
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« on: April 29, 2015, 08:23 »
However easy the upload process is I stopped submitting 2 months ago due to everything being rejected and sales have increased by 3x!
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« on: April 14, 2015, 10:22 »
Same here, less than half normal sales everywhere.
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« on: April 03, 2015, 11:56 »
Shutterstock - 8 months and still waiting!
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« on: March 31, 2015, 06:29 »
1 enhanced download for every 470 too.
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« on: March 31, 2015, 04:12 »
What ELs? Haven't had one (or a SOD over $5) at SS for 6 months. Shock of the year was getting an EL at BS for $25, didn't think they had it in them!
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« on: March 23, 2015, 08:14 »
I've had between 300 and 500 in review for about 2 months and when I receive the rare reviewed email I generally find that between 2 and 10 pics have been reviewed! Zero sales.
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« on: March 23, 2015, 04:29 »
Over 2 months and still waiting! Anyone making sales there for photos/illus?
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