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Newbie Discussion / Re: How do you upload to multiple sites?

« on: October 23, 2009, 13:31 »

Quote from: 7fttallrussian on October 23, 2009, 01:50

You can try picNiche toolbar for Firefox. It has the upload feature to major stocks.
It also helps tracking your earnings.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11474

I'll look into that. Thanks!

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Newbie Discussion / Re: How do you upload to multiple sites?

« on: October 22, 2009, 15:46 »

You know, that's what I thought re: categories. I bought stock photography back when I was in the marketing business and I knew what I was looking for most of the time and keywords were a lot better for me than going through the categories.

Besides - I thought about all the photographers that upload 100+ images at a time and could not imagine them going in and selecting multiple categories for them all. Especially on multiple sites.

Thank you for the advice. I think I'll try and FTP a bunch. Also, Photoshop allows IPTC so I will try that as well. Thanks again!

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Newbie Discussion / How do you upload to multiple sites?

« on: October 22, 2009, 13:17 »

Hello, I currently submit images to 6 websites and it has becomes quite the process. Here's what I do:

1. After I save my image, I enter it into my spreadsheet along with the keywords. That way I can copy/paste the keywords to the sites after uploading.
2. I open 6 tabs in Firefox, open all of the websites and upload to all the sites at the time.
3. Whatever website uploads first, I will enter all of the information and submit. Repeat for the rest.

It takes me a little time to figure out the perfect categories. Luckily some of my sites don't require them.

When I think about each step that I take, it doesn't seem like it takes a long time, but when I take into account the entire process, it can take 45 minutes+ just to upload a handful of pics.

Are you all using FTP?
-OR - Are some of you skipping the categories?

I don't mind putting the time in if that's how it is, but I just have a feeling that everyone else has a much simpler process.

Thank you!

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Print on Demand Forum / Re: Can you use microstock photos for Zazzle, Cafepress, etc?

« on: October 19, 2009, 16:10 »

My own images that I sell on microstock sites. I just didn't know if the microstock companies frowned upon us selling our images through other merchandise-type websites.

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Print on Demand Forum / Re: Can you use microstock photos for Zazzle, Cafepress, etc?

« on: October 19, 2009, 15:02 »

Thank you for your response!

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Newbie Discussion / Re: New to stock, should I also have a blog

« on: October 19, 2009, 14:47 »

When I was considering microstock, I read a lot of blogs from other beginners and I found it very informative. It was nice to read about their expectations and also their struggles. So, when I decided to start submitting stock photos, I created a blog so that others could read about my experiences.

Do I think it will bring in business? No, not really. But so far, I'm having fun doing it.

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Print on Demand Forum / Can you use microstock photos for Zazzle, Cafepress, etc?

« on: October 19, 2009, 14:06 »

I've been looking at all of the posts about selling business cards, t-shirts, prints, etc. through various websites and I was wondering if I could use my existing microstock portfolio as the images?

I would assume so since I still own copyright, but was curious what everyone else did.

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Newbie Discussion / Introduction - New to Microstock

« on: October 19, 2009, 12:40 »

Hello everyone, my name is Brandy and I am brand new to the microstock business. I've started portfolios on 123RF, BigStockPhoto, CanStockPhoto, Dreamstime, Fotolia, and Stockxpert. I've already received 3 sales from Fotolia (1) and Dreamstime (2), but I'd like to think that I have just been extremely lucky. I'm getting ready to start my 3rd application on iStockPhoto and I'm currently waiting the 30 days to re-apply to Shutterstock. But it sounds like those two companies are pretty tough, so I'm okay with waiting a bit until my portfolio is better.

I've started a blog documenting my journey at untilitclicks.blogspot.com. I thought that other photographers would enjoy reading about my struggles (and few successes every now and then).

I've enjoyed reading everyone's posts and I look forward to getting better with my photography!

So hello everyone!