Quote from: borg on October 04, 2012, 03:56

I am trying to promote my portfolio only on contributor friendly agencies, where is better deal for me...
I hope that everyone do the same...
That can be one of reasons...

Only problem is, contributor friendly agencies hardly sell that much. Its easy to promise this and that and to be contributor friendly when sales are rare. Should sales escalate, well then they wont be so friendly anymore. Stick with the bad guys.

That is "What if...!?" question..
I will stop to promote them also if they become greedy..

So greed is their "Trojan horse"!

I 've noticed big change in mentality of new generations!
Arrogance is a right word for that!
You can see  arrogance of new members also in microstock...
Yuri, this is a "classic"example...
You may notice that many of new members on this forum have type of conversation like they are almost 10 years in microstock...
They don't want to ask ( probably it is beneath their dignity), they want to provoke older member on debate so then they can collect informations...
They want instant everything, no patience, we all are guilty for them, they are destined for success etc.

Again Cannon has less MPixells than Nikon...

Quote from: borg on September 06, 2012, 18:00

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...

LB to me only works for Photodune, 123RF and DepositPhotos

What a joke they haven't told us what the new RC's are. Simply terrible way to keep contributors dangling for as long as possible. And for what, a 1% increase (as a non-exc)?! Come on iStock.

Exactly!


I don't know how they can motivate me to reach RC target with +1%... Maybe 10% isn't enough, when my start is on 16%....

Yes letter message with passwords and accounts is OK, but our family won't be able to receive money from agencies whole the time in future, on accounts named on photographer (paypal, banks etc.)!
So what will be procedure for them to redirect that money on their accounts...?

0,25$ per subs...
Ouch!

Once again!

We contributors have to promote our portfolios on agencies where is the best deal for us...
That must be aggressive campaign!

I always think that DT is the most friendly site for contributors!

Last month I changed my opinion when my sales were dropped more than 60% suddenly due to "intervention" on search engine!
Also I don't know how it is possible to lose "sales" but retain "views"?

Now even this info from Lee!

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10% Less than in May, but DT -60%