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Messages - cthoman
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« on: June 01, 2010, 14:17 »
I really want to encourage everyone to join this site. 50% is a fair commission so please help support it, this may be the only way to affect agencies that are paying insultingly low commissions.
Yes, I might be a dreamer. But anyways, the site looks nice and I'm applying right away.
I'm still waiting to see what it is 50% of.  I couldn't find any vectors on the site for a reference point.
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« on: June 01, 2010, 09:27 »
May was a little down, but there were 5 weekends and it end on a holiday.
3253
« on: May 31, 2010, 22:06 »
I'm always interested in new sites. Feel free to drop me an email or I'll email you tomorrow.
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« on: May 31, 2010, 12:10 »
That does sound a little odd. They should be taken out of DT's share because referrals are basically advertising fees.
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« on: May 29, 2010, 13:01 »
Click, are you seeing the same trend across all sites, as I am, or is it just on DT?
I wonder if part of this is that nobody has really given us a huge raise or bump in a while that wasn't offset by some kind of royalty reduction. IS exclusives got their nice little bump, and I was hoping to see SS react to it. But so far, they haven't blinked.
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« on: May 29, 2010, 11:36 »
For me, I thought Dreamstime was going to challenge IS and SS for top spots, but last summer Dreamstime sales took a big hit. They basically went from being a consistent 20% of my stock income to a consistent 10% in a month. They seem to have stabilized at 10% and seem to be growing with new images. So for me, it really isn't about them dying. It is more about them not growing as fast as I expected and losing ground to other agencies. I know they have made a lot of changes in the last year to royalties, image tiers and price, so I guess that is part of what happened.
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« on: May 27, 2010, 12:08 »
So this begs the question why waste even a minute there. It's just about all mindless.
You just need better friends. Just kidding. Personally, I appreciate knowing what is going on in my friends', family's, old roomates' and former coworkers' lives. Yeah, I could probably pick up the phone instead and have a much more meaningful conversation, but there is something to be said for having them all hanging out in one place 24/7 to entertain me. The privacy stuff is definitely a concern, but that pretty much goes for everything on the web.
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« on: May 26, 2010, 12:15 »
You lucky! My customers don't even know the difference between 'vectills' and 'rastills' That's funny! I usually give them a pdf too and tell them it's the same as the eps. That way they don't keep asking me what's in the eps file. I just imagine they throw out the eps and send the jepg to the printer most of the time though.
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« on: May 26, 2010, 08:49 »
Your spreading vectills to your customers? I hope they've had their shots. Isn't a one-word word for vector... vector? Or eps or ai. For rasters, I usually ask my clients if they want a jpeg or psd. I'm not sure I'm down for the jargon revolution.
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« on: May 25, 2010, 19:19 »
We should have this problem corrected by tomorrow.
When they say "fixed", does this mean that it will be broken for everyone tomorrow?
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« on: May 25, 2010, 10:38 »
I've actually noticed less impact of feeding the beast at SS in the lat year. I don't know if they have changed their formula or just so many contributors are producing so many images that it doesn't matter.
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« on: May 25, 2010, 08:54 »
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dddAi8FF3F4[/youtube]
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« on: May 21, 2010, 09:13 »
Hmm... I'm not sure. What kind of file are you saving it to? EPS version 8?
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« on: May 18, 2010, 13:45 »
I think this slander thing is way overblown. You all read the same internet I do, right? I was thinking of that web comic where a guy is feverishly typing on his keyboard and his wife says, "Honey, are you coming to bed?". He replies, "I can't someone on the internet is WRONG!!!"  Besides there are lots of ways to insinuate someone is doing something wrong without actually accusing them. Just turn on Fox News to see how it's done.
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« on: May 18, 2010, 11:44 »
I know Pig Latin. Does that help?
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« on: May 18, 2010, 11:19 »
Here my suggestion if you're really worried about defending your copyrights, stop uploading to 10 or more agencies.
All it takes is one.
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« on: May 18, 2010, 09:08 »
I contacted a buyer that was using my image without an EL to remove the product from their Etsy store. They claimed that they always buy EL's and that mine must have accidentally been purchased, but they did take it down. I don't see a problem with harassing people that you know are violating the licensing agreement.
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« on: May 17, 2010, 15:55 »
Yeah, I can't say I hate any one agency. I definitely have frustrations with all of them at times, but nothing serious enough to make me want to leave (yet). I've come to realize that these companies don't necessarily have the same vision of my business that I do, but I also realize that our vision is close enough to make it work.
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« on: May 17, 2010, 15:46 »
My theory on the best match search is that if they screw it up too much, people will just use the other search options. That's what I used to do when I didn't like its results, but maybe I'm a rebel. I also like to color outside the lines.
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« on: May 17, 2010, 15:35 »
Hasn't it always been this way? A handful of new images pop onto your most popular for a week and then settle back in with the pack.
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« on: May 12, 2010, 09:31 »
I assume we are talking about roughly 50k a year. That seems like enough to make the jump, but Sean is right. Taxes and expenses really take a bite out of things when you are self employed. As for me, I'm not sure if I'd want to do stock full time. I kind of like having breaks from stock to keep my mind fresh. Whether you do that with a full time job, part time job or freelance or contract work, it's nice to have something else to do to keep you interested and focused on stock. Otherwise, it just becomes another full time job.
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« on: May 12, 2010, 09:21 »
If your income is slipping, that doesn't mean microstock's future is gloomy, but rather your future is gloomy.
And here I thought I was the only one that blames myself when something goes wrong in my life.
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« on: May 10, 2010, 21:37 »
The lesson was figuring out how lightning got in the bottle, and why wasn't it hard? It took me over a year of trying to duplicate my earlier successes to figure out why I succeeded. It boiled down to this... the buyer is buying the idea and not the picture. I could knock myself out composing pictures with lots of cool detail and obsess over minutia in PhotoShop, but it took me a while to figure out that less is often more. My instinct was to keep adding for the sake of "art" but I came to realize that the additional time investment would not make a sale more likely and therefore wasn't worth it. Don't let "art" get in the way of a concept that can be communicated in the most direct way possible, and you'll be bottling lightning on a production line.
Makes sense. I used to have an illustration teacher that would stand 10-15 feet away from an illustration and say I should be able to understand the concept from here. I always thought that was a good lesson of not getting carried away with the detail. Too bad it took me a while to understand what he was saying.
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« on: May 10, 2010, 12:04 »
Of course, I put this out there at the risk of educating my competition, and will be called a fool for doing so. But I've learned a good deal about microstock in this forum and I believe in giving back. I hope it helps.
What was the lesson? That it is hard to catch lightning in a bottle?
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« on: May 07, 2010, 17:50 »
Wait...I...umm...Huh? 
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