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« on: June 27, 2011, 16:30 »
Huh - I see this:
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« on: June 22, 2011, 13:28 »
IMHO none of microstock agencies has excellent logo. For example - I still don't know what is Shutterstock's green shape supposed to say.
They are all pretty awful. I was going to point out one I liked, but nothing really stands out. Veer, I guess, is almost memorable. Stockfresh is nice and clean.
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« on: June 21, 2011, 14:21 »
Hey now, Can Stock's logo is way worse.
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« on: June 19, 2011, 11:19 »
I had by far the best luck with ktools hosting.
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« on: June 09, 2011, 16:22 »
This same thing is true of many of the sites here listed as partners with Dreamstime. - morguefile.com , picfindr.com, etc.. They are referral sites that use the referral API and they drive traffic to the main site. That's all they do. But it is apparently possible to opt out of this.
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« on: June 07, 2011, 15:30 »
Anyone just get a reminder email about the targets that links to a page you can't access?
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« on: June 03, 2011, 13:33 »
I completely understand what warmpicture is and is not. I'm trying to illustrate a point by clarifying what a relationship bewteen two sites could be, since some in this thread seem wary of referrals.
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« on: June 03, 2011, 12:15 »
Sorry - call it a hypothetical question to any of the contributors. I'm just pointing out what a value proposition from a site like this would look like.
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« on: June 03, 2011, 10:38 »
So, what would warmpicture.com say if I said this: Look, I have a site that gives away a number of images I've shot myself with a few others - it has 50,000 visitors monthly, and they look at half a million pages monthly. I can show your images on every page they see, and show the images that match the search the visitor has typed in perfectly. I'll do this for free, and all you have to do is give me 10% of of the sale if my visitor buys from you. You do nothing.
Does that sounds like a good deal to you? (I'm not making a judgement, but I'm curious to know your answer, given that you may have investigated ways to promote your site.)
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« on: June 02, 2011, 10:31 »
nothing new.
if you read any webmasters forum there are endless discussions about how to monetize images "found on the web", articles scraped via rss, auto-blogging (by someone else's rss), repackaging open source scripts and templates and reselling them as commercial, and the list goes on .. most of these guys are only after the money and couldn't give a crap about actually producing something on their own.
parasites, leechers, if not plain thieves.
I agree, but this is not one of those sites. They give away their own photos as referral bait. There are quite a few totally legit sites that do this, and a lot of real work goes into them.
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« on: June 02, 2011, 09:52 »
You don't produce any photos on your own and none of the images on your site are either free or public domain.
Fact is, you're a crook, and you do it in the vain hope of monetize someone else's work.
This is my final reply to this topic. Have you even visited the website? (Definitely not) Here is a link to my portfolio with over 2,500 images under public domain http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/browse-author.php?a=1
As I wrote above no more further comments, luckily I have better things to do.
Images cannot be copyrighted and in the public domain at the same time. If they were in the public domain, I could download all of them and resell to my heart's content. You would give up control of the images. sean, As for selling and giving away the same image, it's not dumb. I'm sure it's much more profitable to give away images as a lure for referrals than to sell them at fotolia.
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« on: June 01, 2011, 18:55 »
Generally the referred buyers buy a credit package and the referring site gets a % of that purchase - 10-20%. That's how they make the money. When the buyer spends the credits, that's when you get money, so I don't think it can come out of your side.
No one has proof of this, just as no one has proof that site are reporting all your sales, or showing your images, or telling you the correct amount of the sale, etc...
I think partner sites must have an expanded API of some kind that allows fuller access and purchasing, not just the referral API - I'm not sure.
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« on: June 01, 2011, 16:52 »
Cathy, as has been pointed out in this thread by several people, this site is NOT selling your photos. They are promoting your photos. The ONLY place people can buy the images is on Dreamstime, for exactly the price listed by Dreamstime. This is NOT a partner site, they are a referral site. They only make money when someone buys AT Dreamstime.
The messenger may looks a little scruffy, but think of it this way: Every visitor at these iffy sites is exposed to tons of your images, and they can ONLY go to Dreamstime to buy. This site and others like it have no access to your images. Every time a scruffy site send buyers to Dreamstime, that's one less visitor that DT has to pay or advertise to get, thus low ad costs, thus higher commissions.
The only site that doesn't really try to attract visitors this way? iStock. How's the commission percentage there?
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« on: May 31, 2011, 20:44 »
True, the "Public Domain" title is total worthless nonsense.
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« on: May 31, 2011, 17:30 »
It's quite simple to make this type of site. Dreamstime API documentation is here: http://www.dreamstime.com/api_documentation.phpFotolia and Shutterstock and others have similar affiliate API's. No transactions are done on the referring site, so they are not "partner" sites. They just push traffic for a referral percentage of the sale. This isn't much to get excited over - this is what's supposed to happen, and the very reason the agencies develop an API. You aren't supposed to run more that one at a time, usually.
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« on: May 19, 2011, 11:26 »
There's no trial version.
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« on: May 06, 2011, 12:19 »
PNG is a clearly superior format for many things, esp. web, video and PPT applications (due to alpha availabliliy) - it can save a lot of time.
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« on: May 05, 2011, 12:12 »
I somwhat agree with the above, though what you want can be done with Ktools - FYI, the new 3.9 look of ktools script is released now, and it looks more modern: http://www.ktools.net/photostore/demo.php
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« on: April 21, 2011, 20:53 »
I use gmail for this. I only open Mac Mail once a month to clear the server.
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« on: April 21, 2011, 16:07 »
What's funny is that, as a buyer, I trust sites like this more that general agency sites.
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« on: April 19, 2011, 18:25 »
Perhaps this will work...
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« on: April 19, 2011, 09:41 »
Are you trying to change the search results to order by views? That's not in the manager, but it is a simple code change.
Not necessarily. Just trying to gain some control over what Popularity is. I might want to place a weight on Sales and another on Views, and create a custom Popularity sort. I just don't know which file this is happening in, or if it hard coded by Ktools.
Ah - the sort order is controlled by just one variable, and it can be changed, but it's still one dimensional. There's no easy way to create a weighted matrix of factors. (until v4)
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« on: April 18, 2011, 17:26 »
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« on: April 18, 2011, 12:01 »
Are you trying to change the search results to order by views? That's not in the manager, but it is a simple code change.
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