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Crestock.com / Re: Do miracles happen?
« on: September 09, 2008, 15:21 »
I have 185 images approved there.

$3 so far this month, 9 days into September.

$6.25 in August.

$66 in nearly a year.

Not spectacular, but payouts are not out of reach.

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Firefox still looks better. But I haven't tried Chrome yet.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: August 2008 earnings breakdown
« on: September 01, 2008, 00:29 »
SS 30%
StockXpert 18%
DT 15%
IS 11%
FT 10%
123RF 10% BME
BigStock 3%
CS 3% (Crestock)

Overall earnings down 7.6% over last month.


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Crestock.com / Re: A sale here, a sale there, and then ...
« on: August 31, 2008, 01:55 »
They have made me more than Bigstockphoto have this month, and they are way easier to upload to. So I'm willing to continue uploading.

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Site Related / Re: Names in bold??
« on: August 29, 2008, 12:41 »

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StockXpert.com / Re: StockXpert low in august?
« on: August 29, 2008, 02:15 »
On StockXpert, best month for me since February. I am opted in for subs in case your wondering.

BME on 123RF.

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Adobe Stock / Re: FT rank
« on: August 26, 2008, 13:13 »
1598

I suck.   ;)

Overall rank     1497
7 days rank    2382

Not great.


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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Illustrations as JPGs on IStock
« on: August 26, 2008, 12:55 »
I have gotten a few raster illustrations past their inspections, none recently. 99% of the time they are rejected for not being stock worthy, yet the 1% that get accepted sell pretty good, a lot better than most of my photos at least. It's not really worth your time unless they change their policy though.  :-\ I don't bother much anymore.

EDIT: Actually I had a surprise acceptance of a raster illustration about a week ago.

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TimMc,

I uploaded 25 a day or two ago and they are all listed as "Needs Approval" on the manage templates page. Am I doing this right or?

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StockXpert.com / Re: StockXpert Images on Photos.com
« on: August 22, 2008, 02:56 »
We've been looking at the Compete/Alexa numbers with respect to iStock.  If you do the same for Stockxpert and Photos.com, you will find that Stockxpert gets much more traffic than Photos.com. 

In July, StockXpert had 93,000 unique visitors while Photos.com had only 58,000.  By comparison, Dreamstime alone had 344,000.

Based on these numbers, the maximum amount of sales we could expect from Photos.com initially would be 1/3 that of our regular StockXpert sales.  In addition, not every Photos.com subscriber is going to be a Plus subscriber, so that cuts into it significantly more.  I'm going to guess 1 out of every 10 sales will come from Photos.com.  If they can grow the traffic there, then it could become a significant increase for us.

I would imagine that the photos.com domain would be able to get them lots of new customers without doing much marketing at all. And now that they don't offer a crappy product like before, maybe more of those customers will actually sign up with them. Whether that is good for us or not... I'll let you decide.

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It wasn't mentioned here, and it is a bit important. They require you to upload at least 25 designs to begin with.  ;)

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StockXpert.com / Re: StockXpert Images on Photos.com
« on: August 21, 2008, 03:59 »
I managed to find a few of mine...  it looks like the database is getting there.

How are we going to see the photos.com sales reported on stockxpert?  Are they going to be reported as a 'Stockxpert subscription' or something else??

perhaps Steve-0 has input on this??

I saw the answer to this on their forums. There will be a 'photos.com subscription' line when you have one.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Does size matter?
« on: August 20, 2008, 18:59 »
Always upload the highest resolution possible to pass their inspections. That's what I go by, and it makes the most sense financially.

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i wonder how important tight keywording is on dreamstime.

is it better to have 10 keywords and miss out on some usefull ones that someone 'might' search for... or is it better to cover all the bases and have 20 keywords??

in that linked thread achilles mentions that spam is penalized heavily.  Does that mean lots of keywords is penalized heavily?

Well, if you look at the top results for most of the searches, all of the ones I looked at had at least 20 keywords, most had many more. He probably says that to discourage keyword spam.

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StockXpert.com / Re: StockXpert Images on Photos.com
« on: August 20, 2008, 15:44 »
It's all live now. Looks decent.

Catchy headline:
"We've added something special to Photos.com. Actually, we added about 1.3 million special somethings."

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123RF / Re: Do you donate your photos?
« on: August 20, 2008, 03:54 »
I did a few. Didn't see any results. Won't do it again.  ;)

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Crestock.com / Re: "Account Terminated"
« on: August 15, 2008, 00:00 »
Thank you Lior, for letting us know.. I will make sure I never sign up with them!

You better not sign up to Fotolia, Dreamstime, Shutterstock, Istockphoto, Stockxpert, and pretty much any other microstock site either. You were well aware of the minimum payout when you signed up to the site, you should not expect to be paid if you don't reach the minimum payout.
The point is Crestock being unreasonable to Lior..

Crestock is only following the policy you accepted when you signed up to submit to them.

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Crestock.com / Re: "Account Terminated"
« on: August 14, 2008, 21:34 »
Thank you Lior, for letting us know.. I will make sure I never sign up with them!

You better not sign up to Fotolia, Dreamstime, Shutterstock, Istockphoto, Stockxpert, and pretty much any other microstock site either. You were well aware of the minimum payout when you signed up to the site, you should not expect to be paid if you don't reach the minimum payout.

320
SnapVillage.com / Re: "Snapping" Into Life!
« on: August 06, 2008, 13:40 »
Absolutely dead.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Have you all seen this, SS on demand
« on: August 05, 2008, 18:32 »
This is the commission % we are getting from these new packages which can be seen here. As lilcrazyfuzzy showed, the commission we receive is even worse when buyers purchase in Euros.

I am going to assume that the average commission given out is the $500 - $3000 tier.

All Resolution
5 images for $49
+ 2.48 commission for photographers per image = $36.60 profit for SS = 25.3% commission for us.
25 images for $229
+ 2.48 commission for photographers per image = $167.00 profit for SS = 27.1% commission for us.

Lower Resolutions
12 images for $49
+ 1.07 commission for photographers per image = $36.16 profit for SS = 26.2% commission for us.
60 images for $229
+ 1.07 commission for photographers per image = $164.80 profit for SS = 28.0% commission for us.

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So 2nd lowest commission in the industry after Istock non-exclusive. Yay?

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StockXpert.com / Re: StockXpert Images on Photos.com
« on: August 04, 2008, 23:22 »
Well, if it stays as it is now. I will give photos.com a short trial. If the sales come with a lot of volume ill consider staying opt-in. But if the volume isn't enough to offset the horrible .30c EL commission. I'm out. I would much prefer to have a separate opt-in/out option for photos.com as well.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: July 2008 earnings breakdown
« on: August 01, 2008, 00:54 »
Well for the first time in awhile I uploaded some new stuff. So shutterstock got a big boost.

SS: 42% up
StockXpert: 15% up
FT: 12% up
DT: 12% down
IS: 11% up
123RF: 3% down
BigStock: 2% down
Other: 2% down

Overall up about 4.4% over last month, 3rd best this year.

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