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« on: October 30, 2008, 17:14 »
Thanks all for all of your comments and observations. I am looking to develop some kind of flagging methods to set direction of future projects, and possibly the timing of them. Most interesting above is the model royalties percentage. That's something I never really thought of.
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« on: October 30, 2008, 08:59 »
Thanks, sounds reasonable.
It is just a bit tempting to upload bigger amounts to see fast returns, but I'm holding myself back for the time.
Rejections until now have been ok, 46 approved, 18 rejected.
Does it make sense to re-submit rejected pictures (e.g. downsize to remove noise/focus problems)?
Take a look at the rej reason, and see how it applies to your image. Usually if they reject for noise, it really is there. If the image can be fixed or improved, then yes, do resubmit. You will learn from the rejections so don't take them to heart.
453
« on: October 30, 2008, 08:55 »
I had a boss once who loved pie charts. You could feed him any nonsense in a report as long as you generated a pie chart. That's what graphs are worth.
454
« on: October 30, 2008, 08:32 »
Thanks for your valuable feedback.
455
« on: October 30, 2008, 08:29 »
That's a good starting pace. You can then do an easier assessment of what's doing well. Many find that sometimes on mega batches, they can ht a cranky reviewer, then boom, almost the whole bunch shot down in flames. Get some more confidence there, analyze any rejects, and go from there.
456
« on: October 30, 2008, 08:25 »
Keep laughing. Assigning copyright to the buyer, who will likely be an unknown recipient is just wrong, and anyone experienced in the industry knows this.
457
« on: October 29, 2008, 22:43 »
Here's the domain info. I still can;t stop laughing  Registrant: NoEquivalent Art Ltd. 5863 Leslie St. Suite 445 Toronto, Ontario M2H 1J8 Canada Domain Name: NOEQUIVALENT.COM Created on: 18-Sep-07 Expires on: 18-Sep-09 Last Updated on: 18-Sep-08 Administrative Contact: Lai, Sean NoEquivalent Art Ltd. 5863 Leslie St. Suite 445 Toronto, Ontario M2H 1J8 Canada 6472997326 Fax --
458
« on: October 29, 2008, 21:25 »
Assign copyright to the buyer? You're kidding, right? Please tell me you are 
459
« on: October 29, 2008, 17:37 »
Maybe the reflection got this one bounced back.
460
« on: October 29, 2008, 17:35 »
I work with many sites - about 12 active ones, I think. I only track each image sales, not earnings, although I add a comment if an image receives an EL. I follow only overall earnings on a site-per-site basis, but I take note of each sale (that is, "1.2+0.5+2.6" and not just "4.3"), so I can also calculate average earning/download if I want, and also see what sizes are selling more.
I started a new spreadsheet for RPI, but that was when my PC crashed months ago and, as it took me a while to get a new one, I ended up not following this.
Regards,
Adelaide
Ouch on the crash. I had that happen last year. Luckily had a good backup system. So is image sale trending important at all to you? Just wondering if it helps you plan future projects. There will of course be seasonal trends, like with holidays now approaching. I am looking at a way to flag image subjects and how they do. For instance, do my images of money sell more than than the business handshake? Wonder if nitpicking down to this level is worthwhile at all? Interested in your thoughts.
461
« on: October 29, 2008, 16:01 »
Does anyone here track individual image sales? If so, wondering what methods do you use?
Is it important to you to see sales trends, such as how one agency performs with certain images against another? For instance, does it matter to you that the red haired female model outperforms the blond haired female model? Or if a certain pose sells better than others?
Just wondering how far people go in tracking, and if such tracking is useful in assessing sales potential of future projects.
If there was an automated utility available to perform such tasks, would you use it? Just kicking some ideas around here as my portfolio is approaching critical mass.
462
« on: October 29, 2008, 15:40 »
Hard to tell at small size, but this one does look a little dodgey. They face of the meter looks to be in the shadow. My quick opinion is "not well lit"
463
« on: October 29, 2008, 15:37 »
Good points. You said
"People sat on their hands and left their valuable collections online."
Very true. Some admitted on comments this was their only backup. How stupid. And one very frustrated post from a guy on one of the business blogs who did all his keywording through DRR. Now how stupid is that?
464
« on: October 29, 2008, 15:29 »
Posted by SS Support this morning
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:03 am
Thanks to everyone for reporting that. We believe that we have found the cause of some new images failing to show up properly in searches ordered by newest first, and expect that everything will be back to normal sometime this afternoon. We'll be keeping an eye on it. Thanks again for reporting it, and thanks for your patience.
In general this week very slow for me. A little disappointing since October has otherwise exceeded expectations for me. It will be a BME, but with the little slowdown, will not reach the sales figure I had hoped based on the projection from the first 3 weeks.
465
« on: October 29, 2008, 15:17 »
My photography really does not sell on Zazzle. Only a few cards, two posters. But the stupid stuff I do, which would never be accepted for stock, does. T shirts about beer, politics, and just plain really stupid stuff, do ok. The more idiotic it seems, the better. My revenue there about $500 so far for the year.
 i can do idiotic stuff too. if it sells, i wouldn't mind trying
but like sharpshot says, it's more work than micro.
do you find it so stormchaser?
When I first started Zazzle it was kind of addicting. But I had a lot of silly ideas that would never fly with stock, so it was the ideal arena for it. Funny thing, if I really think about a concept or design, it will just lay there. But then I'll come up with something very stupid at 3 am, post it on a whim, and I'll sell 20 shirts. When Eliot SPitzer, NY governor went through the prostitute mess, I just used the stupid text tool right on Zazzle, slammed something stupid on a black shirt, and sold about 40 in 3 days. I also had a caustic Hillary Clinton Shirt there that did very well. Zazzle does not support IPTC, so you have to put in keyword,description etc and I find that a huge pain. So yes more work there. Because Zazzle is such a cess pool, full of teenage kids, copyright infringers etc, it can be tough to sell anything serious. But putting up a blog that relates to your content helps. The Zazzle pages are not search engine friendly, so you really won't be found through search engines. So I just design some silly stuff maybe once a week, write a little blog thing with a design I like. I haven't worked really hard at it since my addition there has expired. But the sales do come a few times a week. And if I think of something fun regarding current news, I get it posted really fast before they are flooded with them. If it appeals, I'll get a nice little sales bounce. In order to sell serious photos there, well Zazzle flooded with the stuff. You would absolutely have to supplement with a blog/website. Stupid shirts, hats, buttons, do much better there. I stopped posting photos on cards and posters long ago. Sharpshot mentioned calendars - yes those are a lot of work, but the singe image stuff goes up quite easily.
466
« on: October 29, 2008, 14:36 »
Lisa's right about the exposure. What was your subject? Models against white, studio still life? Just curious.
467
« on: October 29, 2008, 14:33 »
Have to agree with Vince's blog article in saying this is Shameful. There could be even more backlash on this. DRR had some guys knocking down some serious cash. And it looks like many migration attempts to PhotoShelter were in vain. I think we'll be hearing more regarding the wrath of DRR users..
468
« on: October 28, 2008, 16:56 »
Most dislike IS at times. It's just the way things work there. Good luck in the future.
Fotolia on my bad list these days. I'll just let what I have sit there, but don't upload too much anymore. I just hate their category picking on uploads. And the fact that I can't edit keywords after, like for spelling errors.
469
« on: October 28, 2008, 15:30 »
If you feel you're wasting your time, then don't submit there. Problem solved. No more bad days.
for me I stock is 1/3 of my stock income, and people that work sometimes face things that they dislike a lot in their work, you cannot just quit all the time, neither you gotta swallow the crap every time.
Boy what a turnaround. First the whining and stomping of feet, then you see reality.
470
« on: October 28, 2008, 15:28 »
Not sure if anyone here uses DigitalRailroad, they have gone under and have a notice when you log in saying that you have only 24 hours before they pull the plug, so if anyone here has any images over on DigitalRailRoad it is time to pull them, or they could get sold with the servers who knows?
David
Yes, I saw a "could be sooner than you think" post on one of the photo business blogs yesterday.
471
« on: October 28, 2008, 00:06 »
Two things about the second release.
What do all the other sites have, if it isn't photographers uploading files?
The lnk will take you to this. "
Description: An application error occurred on the server."
1.Yeah really. 2. Anyway the lnk did take me to a welcome page. Maybe they were doing some maintenance.
472
« on: October 27, 2008, 19:49 »
If you feel you're wasting your time, then don't submit there. Problem solved. No more bad days.
473
« on: October 27, 2008, 11:42 »
If you don't want to ship to far off lands, it's also a good idea to check college newspapers etc. Sometimes these can be picked up at diners, coffee shops, that the students frequent. I got rid of an old TLR last year and the student was very appreciative. Also gave him some old circa 1970s books that I no longer referenced. On the local meetup he bought me coffee and a pastry. Was payment enough for me, and now the old beloved cam doesn't sit in the closet.
474
« on: October 27, 2008, 11:28 »
I only had one sale in about 6 months and deleted most of my portfolio there. I couldn't put up with not having a watermark. It is far too easy for people to take the large unwatermarked preview image and print their own cards.
I prefer zazzle but haven't found the time to upload much there.
sharpshot, is zazzle giving you much sales? i 've been told i should get some of my archive to a place where they make cups, tshirt, cards,etc... but did not know too much about where.
now , as always, through this forum, i find zazzle.
is it the same method as micro, where you just UL your images...
do you ul the same image format like we do with stock?
My photography really does not sell on Zazzle. Only a few cards, two posters. But the stupid stuff I do, which would never be accepted for stock, does. T shirts about beer, politics, and just plain really stupid stuff, do ok. The more idiotic it seems, the better. My revenue there about $500 so far for the year.
475
« on: October 26, 2008, 17:55 »
SS is very hard on the first ten. After that, things ease up a tiny bit. Submit your very best work on the next try.
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