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« on: May 20, 2008, 00:05 »
SS is based on volume sales. To get that, they need to show the customers new photos every day, so that they get "value" for their money. I don't think this will change, and I don't think that SS is what I will count on for my retirement  Last year, SS represented 41% of my microstock income, ytd 18 May 2008, it was 35% May this year so far, it's 28% Last week was 25% If it continues like this, three or four other micro agencies will pass them long before the end of this year. When they pass 15% on their way down, I will consider to stop uploading to SS. It's not worth selling my photos that cheap for 15% of my total earnings.
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« on: May 18, 2008, 01:28 »
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I'm probably missing something important here...
Yes, you are.
madelaide disagrees with the philosophy of subscription models, and thus refuses to use SS. As far as I am aware, she stands alone in putting her money where her mouth is, so to speak. There are many others on this forum who, though they also disagree with subscriptions, continue to license their imagery on SS.
I have a big question mark placed at SS as well. Even with a 50% bigger portfolio than last year, better photos and the recent rise, my sales there are stagnant. Add to that the fact that sales decrease further if I don't upload at least once per week, it becomes quite clear that SS is not a long term investment. Subscription sales represent a diminishing share of my stock earnings, and it's only a question of time before I leave all agencies where it's not possible to opt out, SSS included. It may take a year, or even two, but this is developing faster than what I thought just a few months ago.
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« on: May 15, 2008, 21:52 »
I too just closed off Featurepics. They sent me an e-mail within 2 hours saying the exact thing. All class over at FP. Too bad they couldn't make it to a top seller for anyone.
So because they haven't made it into the top 5 within 2 years, they are dead meat? If that is the criteria of success, most commercial enterprises should close their doors sooner rather than later. Or maybe I'm just old fashioned
404
« on: May 14, 2008, 06:31 »
Pay per sale up 20%.
Sales per image per month down 40%.
That's not what I call an increase. I call that a decrease.
405
« on: May 13, 2008, 19:13 »
I wonder what's happening. Suddenly, I have my BDE at FT, with a solid margin, and there are many hours left.
Same here. We must be the lucky ones 
If it was consistent, yes, but it isn't. The two weeks preceding this day have been my worst there in months.
406
« on: May 13, 2008, 12:48 »
I wonder what's happening. Suddenly, I have my BDE at FT, with a solid margin, and there are many hours left.
407
« on: May 12, 2008, 09:09 »
Sinking like a stone as well. Fotolia was one of the agencies that grew fastest for me the last six months, but now it's just a disaster.
408
« on: May 10, 2008, 03:47 »
A good example of that might be Intel for interior PC parts, and Microsoft for software. Two independent companies, but they design their products to work with the other's products as a default.
If you mean that Microsoft is a good example of the positive sides, we are further apart than I imagined. People don't buy Windows because they want to. They buy it because they have to. Here in Asia, most people use pirated software, and I can't say that I blame them. If it's a monopoly or not isn't really interesting. If the market is dominated by a small number of players, the suppliers will get screwed.
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« on: May 10, 2008, 01:22 »
Compared to 2007, I'm 25% down on the first 9 days of May at SS.
YTD 9 May, I'm 14% up, but that's not nearly as much as the growth in my portfolio.
410
« on: May 10, 2008, 01:10 »
So in the end, there will be only IS and SS, and they can lower the photographer's cut to 1.5%, and we will all smile, because we don't have to waste time supporting the competition. Monopolies are good, diversity sucks 
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« on: May 02, 2008, 21:20 »
I don't have it, but have a look at these images: http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/642051If it's possible to take images like those with it, I don't think I need any other arguments to buy the lens.
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« on: May 01, 2008, 19:58 »
When I click "View your portfolio" at SV, and choose the default "most recent" option, my photos now appear in a random order. Not completely random apparently, since more or less the same photos appear on the first page every time, although in different sequence, but still. I have no idea what they are thinking at SV, but seeing my images with the newest ones first, is actually quite useful sometimes. Oh well... I suppose we just have to let them do their thing. The microstock agency of one of the world's leading stock agencies have now been in beta for close to a year, after entering the market very late. And still, they screw up on a regular basis. If I had been on the board of that company, I think I would bring an ax to the next board meeting 
413
« on: May 01, 2008, 09:40 »
Congratulation! Way to go. Luckyoliver rocks!
Sinking like a rock?
414
« on: April 30, 2008, 23:25 »
Sales up and down are compared with same month 2007.
SS 37% - up 57%
IS 18% - up 3%
DT 13% - up 16%
StockXpert 8% - up 207%
FT 7% - up 27%
BS 4% - up 37%
IV 3% - no sales last year
123 2% - up 9%
FP 2% - up 946%
SV 2% - no sales last year
SSP 1% - no sales last year
CanStockPhoto 1% - down 16%
IC 1% - no sales last year
Total sales were up 47% compared to April 2007.
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« on: April 30, 2008, 18:44 »
A little brainstorming??? They need to look out the window, and see if there's something to learn from the outside world.
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« on: April 29, 2008, 20:19 »
I used to upload to PD, but everything they say about Microstock and about themselves are mostly wrong. I've had ELs at MS agencies earning me more money than a typical sale at PD, and at PD, I had to send an invoice, wait for the money, pay PD etc. Alamy is a much better option for RM.
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« on: April 28, 2008, 14:14 »
I'm 13.5% over 2007 ytd, but my portfolio there has grown much more than that.
418
« on: April 28, 2008, 14:08 »
I've always thought that presenting the "worst photo of the day" the way they do, has been in very bad taste. On the other hand: what else can we expect from one of the "lowest selling stock agencies in the world"?
Great photo btw. Just goes to show that they don't have a clue what they're talking about.
419
« on: April 27, 2008, 00:41 »
are you ppl making your forecasting selections based on YOUR OWN SALES?
that is not a viable barometer of who is going to go down next.
Of course. We are all experts here, more or less professors in microstock, actually To be honest, I think this thread is very useless. First of all, we don't know the whole picture, we don't know the total sales, we don't know the funding and we don't know the costs of any of these agencies. We can have suspicions, but little more. The one site that was easiest to read, was LO. They looked like a high cost operation with all their stuff, and most of us knew that they didn't sell well. Places with low costs and a reasonable portfolio, can probably run for years or forever, even if it looks to us like they don't have enough to survive. Look at a place like ScanStock. The website is so boring and primitive that any 16 year old could probably have designed and programmed it. I guess that it's a very skinny operation. Their review times indicate that. But they sell photos, day after day, or at least they do for me. I believe that they, and a few of the other low-cost operations will be among the survivors, and as long as commissions are trickling into my account, I'm happy.
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« on: April 25, 2008, 02:58 »
I had way more regular sales before sub came , so I think that proves that subs model its puling nice part of the regular buyers.
Same here, and still they haven't even had subscriptions for 6 months. This doesn't look good for the future. The contrast to StockXpert is interesting. I opted out of subs there from day one, and my sales are soaring.
421
« on: April 24, 2008, 19:21 »
Any amount paid for uploads would have to be taken from somewhere. I'd rather see the money spent on marketing or higher paybacks to the photographers when we actually see some sales.
422
« on: April 24, 2008, 07:35 »
I have 900 photos uploaded already. Very fast uploads. Will be interesting to see if they get the marketing right.
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« on: April 24, 2008, 07:30 »
Actually Miz, the last time I posted a rejection here, I received lots of useful feedback and learned a couple of new things about post-processing. But obviously, one has to accept that the reviewers are right and the photographer wrong now and then 
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« on: April 23, 2008, 04:40 »
Most of mine are at $10, some more unique shots at $25 and images that are also available at macro agencies are priced at $50. Most of my sales so far have been $10, with one or two $25.
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« on: April 23, 2008, 04:38 »
Dan,
When I compare 123rf with FP, I don't compare number of downloads, but earnings. I need 20 subscription DLs at 123 to match one sale (most of my photos are priced at $10) at FP.
FP has been a very slow starter, but time seem to work well for me there. I compare it a bit to macrostock, where sales are even less frequent, but pay better still.
Crestock sold a bit for me to start with, but now, it's just the occasional subscription sale. Ytd 2008, they haven't even generated half of what FP has generated for me. The other Norwegian agency, Scanstockphoto, is doing much, much better for me.
It must be added though, that these things are very dependent upon portfolio. I don't have many "isolated on white" photos, but lots of industrial, travel etc., and a growing editorial portfolio. "Unique" photos are rather pointless at places like Shutterstock if they only sell once in their lifetime, while one sale at FP (or a macrostock agency) changes the picture dramatically.
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