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Messages - ThomasAmby
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« on: August 12, 2009, 17:35 »
Yup it must be - I found one of my own and it states the copyright holder is "TAJ" - the only place where I have my initials as a nickname is on Fotolia
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« on: August 12, 2009, 05:53 »
As I live in Denmark, I just picked one of the danish partners ( Creas). They are offering 6 months of what seems to be unlimited RF images for 2990 DKK, which translates into just $570. How can this be profitable to the contributor ? I don't get how these partnership contracts work
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« on: August 07, 2009, 07:42 »
For some reason I can't navigate on this site. How do I see my earnings and such? It drives me insane that I don't know where to click
Edit: Looks like I'm set up for a buyers account, though I have sent in and had 10 images approved. I can't find those images nor any other contributor options
There is currently no sales summary page. You'll need to scroll through the list of approved images. If you have only 10 so far, you are lucky.
If you are logged into your Veer customer account, click on the "Account" text link in the top right of page. Then click on "Your Member Page *NEW*" in the list of text links on the next page. Now on the right you should see an orange box titled "Veer Marketplace". Click on "Dashboard" and then the "Approved" tab to see your file stats.
Obviously I recommend setting up a bookmark to your member page. 
Wow, thanks! I hadn't noticed the $-statements No sales so far though If this turns out to be a new Crestock in terms of slow sales and massive rejections, I'm off.. But I don't think you can really tell by now, give it a year or two to grow
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« on: August 06, 2009, 07:26 »
Online since June 01: 50 images and 8 sales so far. I really like this site and its personal touch. So happy to be a part of an agency where I feel I'm not just a drop in the ocean, and where the owners are actually communicating with its contributors  A very special agency. Hope they never change!
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« on: August 06, 2009, 03:06 »
For some reason I can't navigate on this site. How do I see my earnings and such? It drives me insane that I don't know where to click
Edit: Looks like I'm set up for a buyers account, though I have sent in and had 10 images approved. I can't find those images nor any other contributor options
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« on: June 28, 2009, 10:54 »
Jeg er fra Albertslund, en by tt p Kbenhavn
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« on: June 20, 2009, 08:16 »
I refuse to support an agency that sells my images at 1$ and give me a 25% commission. That's just ridiculous.
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« on: June 16, 2009, 10:35 »
As a contributor I'm giving an agency a considerable percentage of every sale I have - as for Clipartof, half of what the image is sold for. Now why would it be MY job to promote the site? That is what I am paying the agency for: Selling my pictures to buyers they find to me.
I would more likely want to build up my own site with my own images and promoting that site to have a 100% commission.
Go for it.
... Sigh
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« on: June 16, 2009, 09:08 »
As a contributor, it is not my nor yours job to promote the agency.
It is completely fine if this is your opinion - nobody will force you to do something you don't want.
That's great, because I would really hate that. If you feel you are obligated to do this, then good luck with your promoting adventure.
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« on: June 16, 2009, 08:41 »
I would more likely want to build up my own site with my own images and promoting that site to have a 100% commission.
Then do it that way.
Why would I do that?I wouldn't know how to promote my site and get customers. I just said I am paying the agency to find me customers for my images. Read: I am willing to pay the agency 50-80% of an image sale if they have customers for my images. I don't know about you, but I am not paying 50% of image sales only for storage. As a contributor, it is not my nor yours job to promote the agency.
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« on: June 16, 2009, 08:13 »
As a contributor I'm giving an agency a considerable percentage of every sale I have - as for Clipartof, half of what the image is sold for. Now why would it be MY job to promote the site? That is what I am paying the agency for: Selling my pictures to buyers they find to me.
I would more likely want to build up my own site with my own images and promoting that site to have a 100% commission.
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« on: May 28, 2009, 15:28 »
Can anyone please tell me what a TAX RETURN is ? It states that I should provide the IRS with the W-7 along with my "tax return". What is this? Do I have to include it?
In April of each year, every US person needs to go through their taxes for the previous year and report their income. That is called a tax return.
Ah, thank you. So this doesn't apply to me as a danish citizen I guess? Should I just ignore it and send in the complete W-7 form a long with the documentation?
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« on: May 28, 2009, 14:29 »
Can anyone please answer this question? I would be very happy! In 6e it says "skip line 6f" if you say no. But it doesn't say skip line 6g, where you have to fill out the name of your college/university or company. In the "Line instructions" section it says about 6g: "If you checked reason f, you must enter the name of the educational institution [...]" So - do I have to fill it or not? I mean, 6e doesn't say "skip 6f and 6g", only "skip 6f" - however, in the line instructions it says I should only fill it if I checked f? I don't know what to do, I am SO bad at this. I would have asked on the Shutterstock forum if they hadn't banned me for appearantly no reason  Thanks in advance Thomas Amby
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« on: May 28, 2009, 13:27 »
Can anyone please tell me what a TAX RETURN is ? It states that I should provide the IRS with the W-7 along with my "tax return". What is this? Do I have to include it?
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« on: May 28, 2009, 12:53 »
I was just banned from the Shutterstock forum. Why I don't know - I kept the tone clean.
How WONDERFUL HUH?
Now I will never figure out how to get all this paperwork done.
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« on: May 24, 2009, 15:38 »
I DON'T GET IT!
Why would Patrick Lor even expect contributors to upload their quality work 'to get out their names' if there IS NO NAME ON THE SITE?
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« on: May 21, 2009, 15:42 »
One more bad announcement and I'll convert into a buyer instead of a contributor
I think that would be more profitable...
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« on: May 21, 2009, 15:36 »
iStock launching the Photos.com deal, Fotolia lowering prices on vectors, Fotolia giving images away for free, StockXpert being choked to death by Getty...
Only bad things are happening in microstock
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« on: May 21, 2009, 04:58 »
August last year I was looking for easy ways to make money. I stumbled across Fotolia and after reading about the concept of selling pictures I grabbed my girlfriends camera, took about a million pictures of everything and placed them in a folder called "cheap pictures". I thought the revenues were very low, so I didn't want to share any "good stuff" with them for such low prices. I didn't even want to Photoshop them before submission. I uploaded about 30 - man, they were bad (seriously bad, you wouldn't believe me). All rejected of course, so I took one picture which I kept cleaning up in Photoshop, but it were rejected everytime I reuploaded it.
I was angry I couldn't get in, as I saw this as the perfect opportunity to make money. I decided to give it a try with illustrations, earn enough money to buy me a DSLR camera, then continue with photography. So I taught myself how to use Illustrator and got accepted, saw some sales and improved with my Illustrator skills. I now have very decent sales as an illustrator and have no plans getting into photography anymore.
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« on: May 14, 2009, 10:52 »
People mostly use them for their own portfolios.
You can put your similar images in a lightbox - then bring a buyers attention to your lightbox by putting a link in a number of your images.
If you check out this image of mine
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-4726056-female-climber.php
You can see it has a link to a lightbox for my climbing images. By linking a group of your own images, you will get buyers staying within your own images (hopefully) instead of looking at other peoples.
With the microstockgroup lightboxes, we are sharing our traffic. So if a buyer looks at our image, they might also look at the microstockgroup lightbox and then also buy another one of our images.
What a great idea! One more question though; I noticed that some of my images have been added to several public lightboxes. Why would anyone bother doing this when they are not the author of my image? Does this increase traffic to the creator of the lightbox, I mean, adding images from other users?
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« on: May 14, 2009, 04:24 »
Forgive me for asking this question, but I don't know much about the "culture" of iStock
What do these lightboxes do? Do they improve sales in any way or is it just a way to categorize images?
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« on: May 11, 2009, 10:26 »
Thank you very much, I had hoped so Milinz, I guess you are aware that FP is using one of your illustrations on their site? I'm pretty sure it is one of yours http://www.featurepics.com/Image/Img.aspxRight under the search bar. Congrats!
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« on: May 11, 2009, 03:57 »
Yes, prices are far too low. Commissions are too, for a new-comer site (starting by 25 %)
VS are stealing customers from the other agencies with their competitive prices, and that just sucks.
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« on: May 10, 2009, 13:42 »
Why not email them and ask them?
Because I thought that maybe some people on the MSG forum might have the answer for my question.
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« on: May 10, 2009, 13:26 »
...Or at least a "disable" button like on Dreamstime?
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