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« on: April 08, 2014, 16:42 »
FT, IS and a couple others look like they are sinking - with everyone on board baling out like mad but not realizing they are dumping the water into the each others' boats. Madness.
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« on: April 07, 2014, 04:31 »
In the UK we have a word now added to the Oxford English Dictionary, which seems entirely appropriate for IS and a few others.......
OMNISHAMBLES
Meaning: A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.
Most famously used to describe the wet mongrel of a budget put out by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2012
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« on: April 06, 2014, 06:10 »
I think their strategy people have just caught up to the late 2Oth Century business model - where you would sit in a meeting and hear people say:
"Let's run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it" or my personal favorite: "Let's put this out on the back porch and see if the cat licks it up."
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« on: April 06, 2014, 05:58 »
I thought Badgers was a reference to the thread on SS about chaps with beards - who generally look as if they are eating one.
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« on: April 05, 2014, 09:22 »
Whilst I agree the collections are growing exponentially, so is the market. Twenty years ago people read magazines and newspapers. They still do. We all know that the advent of PCs, laptops and especially tablets and smartphones has been a big bang event for business and the need for imagery. We have yet to see widespread billboard technologies implemented but five years from now you could be standing at a bus stop in Nepal and there will be images moving across an LCD strip trying to sell you something.
In the near future, you will have moving images, stills, animations in 2D and 3D on just about every surface marketeers, politicos, evangelists and vendors can buy up. Portable technologies will become cheaper and cheaper as advertising and click through revenue negates production costs. We will be able to buy stuff almost by thinking about it. I could go on but I'm in need of tea. All I would add is:
There is no way supply will exceed demand in this business - but there will always be supply that does not meet the demand.
Even if this has some truth to it, it's not happening at nearly same rate (bolded above). This means that the experience contributors are feeling from uploading content and seeing flat sales will get worse because the delta between the collection sizes and demand will continue to widen.
I see your point but if the market is not growing fast enough my strategy in any business has been to look for where the market is and what it wants. Some of this information is put out by agencies of course, in their "wants" and articles on market trends/styles in vogue etc. In any event, I work hard not to be in a position where my last sentence above in bold becomes a problem - by ensuring as much as possible that my supply is tuned to ever changing demand.
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« on: April 04, 2014, 10:47 »
The chap who wrote that piece thinks "The Matrix" is a documentary.
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« on: April 04, 2014, 10:15 »
I suppose these are the comments made by that mischief maker and ne'er do well who finds it amusing to provoke and undermine. In which case they have no value and are best ignored.
PS. He is banned from here (as far as I know) and should have been booted out of SS long ago.
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« on: April 04, 2014, 09:58 »
Whilst I agree the collections are growing exponentially, so is the market. Twenty years ago people read magazines and newspapers. They still do. We all know that the advent of PCs, laptops and especially tablets and smartphones has been a big bang event for business and the need for imagery. We have yet to see widespread billboard technologies implemented but five years from now you could be standing at a bus stop in Nepal and there will be images moving across an LCD strip trying to sell you something.
In the near future, you will have moving images, stills, animations in 2D and 3D on just about every surface marketeers, politicos, evangelists and vendors can buy up. Portable technologies will become cheaper and cheaper as advertising and click through revenue negates production costs. We will be able to buy stuff almost by thinking about it. I could go on but I'm in need of tea. All I would add is:
There is no way supply will exceed demand in this business - but there will always be supply that does not meet the demand.
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« on: April 04, 2014, 05:04 »
In answer to the OP's question: Yes. However, as you will gather from this thread, there are various factors and varying degrees of success but the old "y" words work in this business just as well as any other:
Profligacy,originality,efficiency (cost) etc etc.
And remember to do something about it instead of talking about it and if something isn't working or sales are seemingly out of your control, try something else, measure it and if it proves successful, wring it out and use it up. Then move onto the next thing. Look forwards - the good old days are not a measuring stick for the present.
Good Luck.
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« on: April 04, 2014, 04:42 »
We still get paid. The "free" bit is a marketing/sales hook.
This is what embedding should be - as opposed to the finagle carried out by those villains at Getty.
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« on: April 02, 2014, 08:00 »
Naturally, I'd like to be paid more but the FB deal has generated $75 per month for me on average. This is a fresh and growing revenue stream from newly acquired market share. Good business.
How do you know that $75 is all $.38 SOD ? Is there a way to list your SODs for a day, or are you just checking the contributor app for $.38 licenses?
As per response from dirkr. I'm doing very well out of the deal, although I can't yet put my finger on why. Strangely, days will go by with zero FB sales in the SOD column and then I have a day like the 31st March where I racked up just under $20 in short order.
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« on: April 02, 2014, 06:23 »
BME at: SS, BP, FT and DT
No BME at IS but a 30% improvement on March 2013
In Dinosaur order:
SS - Tyrannosaurus Rex
BP,DT,FT - Triceratops
IS - Stegosaurus
Others - Squashed Tree Frog
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« on: April 02, 2014, 06:09 »
Naturally, I'd like to be paid more but the FB deal has generated $75 per month for me on average. This is a fresh and growing revenue stream from newly acquired market share. Good business.
Do you mean that $0.38 SOD sales are ONLY Facebook sales? Or in other words: How do you calculate your FB generated sales per month?
Thanks in advance.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but yes, I'm working on the basis the 0.38 SOD sales are all FB sales. I arrived at the $75 just by deducting all other SOD sales over and above $0.38c when I worked through my monthly sheets. And April could be a bumper month - just under $15 in FB sales already. On a side note, at least SS haven't been so cavalier with my property as others and given FB an embedding deal.
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« on: April 02, 2014, 01:40 »
Naturally, I'd like to be paid more but the FB deal has generated $75 per month for me on average. This is a fresh and growing revenue stream from newly acquired market share. Good business.
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« on: April 01, 2014, 03:30 »
Bobs Your Uncle!
I don't know about that - one of my aunties had a beard so we were never quite sure. On the art thing, put a headset on the Mona Lisa.
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« on: March 31, 2014, 04:45 »
The weekend surprised me with some large credit sales and I've sailed past my previous BME.
I'd like to think this uptick is a sign of things to come however, after a good quarter, DT usually likes to put me back in my place by exiling me to the realm of the unwashed and unwanted.
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« on: March 31, 2014, 04:34 »
I've read all four pages and I'm none the bloody wiser. Therefore, I intend to forget all about the notion of earning three large from just 500 - 800 images and aim for 5,000 - 8,000.
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« on: March 29, 2014, 07:11 »
Not even an email for me this time....Just scooped out $17 with their mucky little fingers.
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« on: March 27, 2014, 10:34 »
A decent month and heading for my best quarter since joining in 2010 - but they are still plodding along several fences behind the rest of the top four...looking increasingly like a tired old nag ready to be put out to pasture.
PS. Site is down again for me.
Quite a few sales of reasonable size flopped in the door like teenagers late home from a rained out music festival (from 25th and 26th??) which makes me feel slightly less hard done by.
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« on: March 27, 2014, 10:22 »
That's a big ask for 800 images. Here's a guess; I reckon it might be an editorial portfolio of very niche subjects/people in candid situations.....perhaps Kim Jong Un wearing his budgie smugglers at the beach. Or it could be cupcakes and vintage filters. Or even unwashed poodles wearing a hat.
PS. If it were my port, I wouldn't tell anyone about it.
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« on: March 26, 2014, 08:38 »
A decent month and heading for my best quarter since joining in 2010 - but they are still plodding along several fences behind the rest of the top four...looking increasingly like a tired old nag ready to be put out to pasture.
PS. Site is down again for me.
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« on: March 26, 2014, 07:09 »
It's very simple, really. If you are a world-class photographer with unique vision and fabulous subject matter then you would be an idiot to sell it as microstock. If you are a proficient technician who can produce excellent quality images like everybody else's then the value of your work reflects its ordinariness. You can't change the value with wishful thinking or because the quality is up there alongside the best of all the other similar sort of images.
world class photographers ask world class prices, and they can do it because in one way or another they know how to get rich deals with rich clients, no matter if their photos su-ck big time as they often do.
i could write a long list of famous photographers doing sh-it and selling it like hotcakes, 99% is marketing and they know the score but it doesn't mean they're great photographers once you consider their clients are totally clueless and in the art world once you're famous even your far-ts are "artsy", it just means they managed to make a famous brand out of themselves, no matter how and why.
Agreed. But ain't it the same all over? I've worked with and for people who couldn't find their own arse even if it had a signpost sticking out of it. But they somehow became Vice President/Director of something or other. Main skills: 1. Able to talk at length on conference calls without actually saying anything useful. 2. Making successful results look like their own work 3. Making poor results look like someone else's fault 4. Making their own minor achievements look like a pivotal moment for the industry and for mankind as a whole 5. Ability to make a sentence like "engendering brand loyalty via a spectrum of marketing strategies based on real time cognizance of consumer buying imperatives" seem profound and ground breaking.
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« on: March 25, 2014, 09:29 »
On quality, when I look at the new work in the "people" category, the standard is still very high, exceptional in many cases....but we've seen almost all of it before and will again.
And as I've opined previously, without the ability to drill down into it for real data, the 200,000 is a meaningless number. It might as well be 2,000,000
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« on: March 23, 2014, 07:12 »
^^You're right. This is a waste of my time.
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« on: March 23, 2014, 06:53 »
I don't mind SS having a posh new office in NY but I do mind if the shop isn't open 24x7.
Sort it out.
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