Click, another good way to promote your work if you haven't already is to set up a facebook page and some squidoo lenses because they're high on the SEO charts.  

Cheers


Edit:  your work on zazzle I meant.

I forgot to mention that I don't tweet my microstock items individually on twitter because the high views to downloads ratio may effects my search rankings.  I reckon it's best to allow buyers to search for microstock images directly via the agent site.  You're more likely to get browsers clicking on an image or link on google just out of curiosity rather than people looking to buy it.  I do on occassion tweet my portfolio wording it in a way that targets designers.

He typed the keywords in Yay with his elbows 

Quote from: FD-regular on August 23, 2010, 07:30

Quote from: Colette on August 22, 2010, 18:27

Two wishes are left here: Hoping that Yaymicro will get more sales

Oh don't be too mundane! Sales are just a detail. As long as it looks good! 
Try to look at it as a buyer: search for "business success cheering". YAY: 3 images: 2 Arcurs (you can find on a gazillion sites) and 1 badly lit bleached out shot that was probably rejected elsewhere. DT: 441 images, great variety to choose from. Why would any buyer with a minimum of common sense buy from YAY instead of from DT? Sad, but that's business.

Hi FD-regular

I'm a bit confused what you mean? I did your search and
http://yaymicro.com/search.action?search.search=business+success+cheering&search.first=true&x=0&y=0&search.searchLanguage=English

gave 3489 search result. Would be interested in knowing how you came about getting 4 images in your result? Could you maybe post the link from the browser, and I will have a look at why you don't get more results.

Bjorn

Hi Bjorn, 

I joined yesterday and submitted a few illustrations.  Do you mind telling me roughly how long reviews take?  I want to submit the rest but I'm holding off incase there's some technical hicup with the first batch.

I don't like the idea of having my earning online for one.  I know that you can make your data "private" but is it really?  The webmasters sure can see it and are they or will they ever be shared with third parties?

...and yeah I find it more useful on an excel file because I can alalyse the data how I want. For instance, from my basic table, I have a pivot table and chart that show these:
- sales by image
- sales by month and agent
- sales by agent and month
- sales by resolution
 
I also click on a figure in a one of the pivot tables and it lists all the items that make up that figure so I can further analyse that.

On the same spreadsheet, I can also update sales for PODs as well as microstock and sales for competitions and compare them to microstock.

i found that it is easier if everything is on internet..

Do you find it is more useful to use an excel file?

I am able to log in microstockchart.com now, i find it is okay for me..all i want is to take a look what i had earned from all website last month.. compare which website make most in certain month.. and it is accessible wherever i am.

Quote from: sunnymars on August 21, 2010, 05:32

mtkang, any reason why you don't use excel?  it's quite easy to set up a simple spreadsheet and then use various pivot tables and pivot graphs to analyse your data.

EDIT:  What I mean was.. need a hand?

If sjlocke is so concerned about giving anything away, he should deregister and sit in a corner of a dark room with his trade secrets.  This is supposed to be a forum where people discuss all things microstock.  People here share their sales every month and whinge when sales are low and always ask for the opinion of others.  Depending on who's asking the question, they'll either get a decent answer or if they're not in the 'in crowd', be told something stupid like "I'm not going to hold your hand".  I copped the same response when I first posted here.  The OP has every right to ask a microstock question in a microstock forum and if you don't want to help out or share, then bugger off.  It wasn't as if the OP was directing their question at sjlocke only.  He doesn't like giving business strategies away because it's bad for business, fair enough, don't respond at all.  What he does give away is that he's an egotistical wa... ahhh I better not say it... but that can't be good for business either can it?

What I've learnt from him is that as soon as IS goes down the pan, he's going with them.

I read the first page of this thread earlier and read through the many praises from old StockXpert members.  I then had a look at the site, the terms and the pricing and thought it looked promising.  With the backing of a good number of people here I registered.  Then I came back to this thread and read the rest of the 11 pages and had a bit of laugh about how most of you turned on SF just because you got impatient.  

Peter was accused of false advertising and playing games etc, even though he's explained several times his reasons for taking it slow.  The site may be fully operational but that doesn't mean as a startup they have the resources to deal with everyone's applications and reviews all at once.  If they approve everyone's applications at once you'll all then be whinging about having to wait a long time for reviews.  They probably didn't expect such a positive impact in the beginning when they announced it... on the other hand they should have expected the negatives cause all you people seem to do in here is whine.

Give the guy and the company a break.

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