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« on: May 16, 2012, 07:30 »
are you old hippy or macrosaur ?
427
« on: May 16, 2012, 06:49 »
extended licence on photodune ?
428
« on: May 16, 2012, 05:01 »
Brian, he's moved onto other stuff than answering here.
429
« on: May 16, 2012, 03:48 »
I see one of mine on there $245 for the largest size.
Hope I'm not getting a couple of dollars if it sells.
430
« on: May 13, 2012, 16:29 »
I don't think he meant that larger sizes should be cheaper
431
« on: May 12, 2012, 01:47 »
how many posts did that person say "this is lame"
432
« on: May 09, 2012, 21:19 »
egad !!! I haven't been measuring my "cool quotient" at all.
Do Istock have a chart for the cool quotient for my portfolio ?
Of course it wouldn't update properly.
Obviously some customers are price sensitive. The balancing act that has been run by IS is increase prices to the point where you gain more money from the increase than you do by moving customers to cheaper options. eg maximise revenue. I believe that they've gone past the tipping point, more people have left than stayed to pay the higher prices. The rubber band has broken, they stretched it too far.
Things like bad treatment of contributors, problems with the search and site availabilty significantly effect their stratedgy. Some designers are willing to pay double (or much more) for an image if the search and site are available and work well. The cost of time at designers hourly rate if the seach doesn't work is much more significant.
Spend more time on keyword policing to improve the search. Time and time again you come across images that just don't fit the keywords. You could make the first few pages of a number of searches alot cleaner without too much effort. You wouldn't need to worry too much about policing the images low down in the best match search. Someone getting paid $15 / hour could easily do this work.
If you want customers: make the site work, don't treat them rudely; don't screw the suppliers (who are also customers)
If I was exclusive I'd be starting to get my images together ready when the walls come completely falling down.
433
« on: May 07, 2012, 02:37 »
I think it's been a month since anything of mine got transferred to TS, so I assumed the connector was busted/offline/resting again
Resting ?? more lik asleep at the wheel.
434
« on: May 05, 2012, 19:39 »
I'm lost to what this thread it about, but it seems that everybody is posting in this thread.
Seeing I missed the million club I better get in on this one.
this is by far the greatest topic regarding speculation in MSG, so pop in and raise the bar!
Is Andres getting a puppy ?
435
« on: May 05, 2012, 19:20 »
I'm lost to what this thread it about, but it seems that everybody is posting in this thread.
Seeing I missed the million club I better get in on this one.
436
« on: May 04, 2012, 22:58 »
I have a similar story with Veer. Some they take some they don't.
Its frustrating when you know that people will buy them.
If you have a few best sellers that they didn't accept, I'd wait awhile, do some slight tweak and resubmit. Of course the slight tweak you made was to increase the production value.
I wouldn't both doing that unless they are really good sellers as veer is one of my worst performers. (probably because of their rejection policy)
edited for spelling
437
« on: May 04, 2012, 19:14 »
3rd world still retains whiffs of colonialism and condescension and since the 2nd world has collapsed, it also doesn't make much sense anymore.
countries like India which might have been called 3rd world now have over 200 million in the middle class and along with china will continue to grow
the G8 countries are now the G20. globalization is real and expanding
so, yes, it is time to retire the phrase; 'emerging nations', 'developing nations' are much more neutral and less patronizing
Isn't 'developing nations' equally condescending and patronizing? It suggests that 'proper countries' have already fully developed and they're sort of marking time in a kindly way whilst waiting for their less capable counterparts to be helped along.
I know of no country that is 'fully developed'. All countries are developing, it's just that some are ahead of others. It is all just snaphots in time. Thailand today, for example, is vastly more developed than any Western country was even 70 years ago. In some ways it is actually more developed than Western nations in the social cohesion, lack of unemployment and low crime rate. As a Westerner who spends much time there I feel we could learn much from them. They may be following us to some degree, but boy are they learning from our mistakes. I'm sure the same could be said of many other 'developing nations', so to speak.
In regards to social cohesion. You must have missed the weekly bombings and shootings in the southern provinces. Or red shirt protests in Bangkok.
438
« on: May 04, 2012, 06:12 »
I think your not comparing apples with apples when you say that Thailand etc is as expensive as travelling in Europe. Sure if your sitting by the pool sipping cocktails it can be expensive but public transport, local food, entry to tourist sites etc much more affordable.
Just got back from Vietnam and Laos this morning, it was unreal.
Also how much are you taking into account the depreciation of the US dollar and Euro ?
I would say I am. I spent 1k for 2 weeks in Spain (because I am from Europe and plain tickets cost me 70 or so). And I was constantly eating out, I was eating good, I was drunk almost every day and we (2 of us), rented a car and drove around the whole country. And Spain is not considered an inexpensive country to travel to. But if you look around and ask hotel employees (well if they speak English, most of them don't, or at least don't want to) you can drink sangrias/beer for 1, eat delicius tostadas (toasts) or montaditos (small sandwiches) for 1, while daily menus are 8 in many cities. The only cities that are really expensive are Madrid and coastline cities (Malaga is really super expensive, even more than Madrid and Barca). And even in those cities that particular chain of restaurants has their joints where almost everything costs 1.
Here's the proof, a photo taken in Sevilla (I felt like being in a 3rd world country because of the ridiculously low prices)
And these mouthwatering delicious gourmet sandwiches (pintxos) cost 1,8 a piece. Not cheap, but worth every cent, so incredibly delicious
I travelled in Spain and Portugal, great part of the world, definitely more affordable parts of Europe. If you use the same "local" knowledge type spending habits your talking about I think you'll find that South East Asia would run at much cheaper than what your talking about in Europe excluding things such as air flights. Can you tell me where to buy beer from a bar for 1 euro in Norway ? For example Vietnam. glass of local tap beer 4000D = 20 cents Bowl of Pho (noodles and beef) = 15000D = 75 cents Air conditioned car with private driver for site seeing for 6 hours = 20-30USD Europe and Asia are both so big and diverse that we could go on forever saying which ones cheaper or more expensive. eg Spain versus Japan Sweden versus Vietnam. India versus Switzerland I think we should both agree that there are great things to see all over the world and they can be done affordably if you go to the effort to find out how and have enough time and self will to do it cheaper. Obviously being able to speak the local language gives you a great step ahead. Anyway you said you weren't interested in Asia and I haven't been to Central or South America or Africa so I can't contribute any more.
439
« on: May 04, 2012, 05:31 »
I think your not comparing apples with apples when you say that Thailand etc is as expensive as travelling in Europe. Sure if your sitting by the pool sipping cocktails it can be expensive but public transport, local food, entry to tourist sites etc much more affordable.
Just got back from Vietnam and Laos this morning, it was unreal.
Also how much are you taking into account the depreciation of the US dollar and Euro ?
440
« on: March 16, 2012, 16:43 »
While we're tracking down this mystery keep your eyes out for Yeti's, Alien's and the lost city of Atlantis.
441
« on: March 15, 2012, 04:56 »
I think the happy medium should be somewhere between Dreamstimes approach and submit every photo thats in focus approach. Both ends of the scale have their problems.
Sometimes if a photo that I think is good but doesn't take off, I'll upload another from the series to see if it just didn't get a fair run in the best match war when the orginal photo was new. Especially if it sells on one site and not another.
Overall I think that I don't upload that many similar photos. Definitely not compared to some sequences you see coming across the latest upload lists.
442
« on: March 14, 2012, 15:19 »
Yeah that made me look silly
443
« on: March 14, 2012, 03:46 »
They have preorders at one store in Australia for the Mk3 in Australia at $AUD4199 , the Mk2 is $AUD2399. That's a significant difference.
What did the 5dMKII list for orginally in USD ?
Down to $3999AUD at the store in question.
444
« on: March 14, 2012, 03:44 »
old thread alert
445
« on: March 13, 2012, 05:01 »
It seems that it might be best for you to not worry about microstock and move on to something bigger and better.
Unless of course you enjoy trolling ?
Your posts call everyone involved in the agencies either a Muppet or a puppet. Royalities are pathetic, the list goes on.
Next you'll be talking about how you make more money flipping burgers etc.
446
« on: March 11, 2012, 14:07 »
editorial reviews are quick
447
« on: March 09, 2012, 23:12 »
nobody better submit any photos of goldfish. Search on istock and you'll see the biggest example of copying in the history of microstock.
An tehere are millions oh photos of people too. Subject is irrelevant, is perfectly possible generating ypour own concept with goldfish.
My point was that there are plenty goldfish concepts that have been "repeated" time and time again by new artist inspired by the existing collection. (gold fish jumping from bowls into computers and alike) Much the same as the example highlighted to start this thread.
448
« on: March 09, 2012, 08:14 »
nobody better submit any photos of goldfish. Search on istock and you'll see the biggest example of copying in the history of microstock.
449
« on: March 08, 2012, 03:10 »
They have preorders at one store in Australia for the Mk3 in Australia at $AUD4199 , the Mk2 is $AUD2399. That's a significant difference.
What did the 5dMKII list for orginally in USD ?
So basically about $900 more than the price in the US. Same as everything else in Australia - you have to pay significantly more.
And the retailers wonder why more and more people are buying online. The price difference is almost an airfare to Hawaii
450
« on: March 07, 2012, 01:26 »
They have preorders at one store in Australia for the Mk3 in Australia at $AUD4199 , the Mk2 is $AUD2399. That's a significant difference.
What did the 5dMKII list for orginally in USD ?
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