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« on: April 06, 2009, 16:22 »
i always find your comments interesting, FD but this one is over my head. can you explain it to us simpletons what they mean  Well Keith from Zymmetrical catched it quite well  The pageviews of Crestock and Pixmac go up fast, as measured by compete.com, and probably by Alexa too, compared to Zymmetrical. But if you look where many of those page views come from, you'll see they come from India, Bangladesh, Iran, Indonesia, and some other wonderful countries that are known to buy stock like hell.  I hope you are aware of link circles, link farms, and pay-per-click sites, and I have this faint idea that a buyer in Manhattan will have less time (= money) than some clicking-zombie in a netcafe in the middle of nowhere, who will see his 1$/day income doubled by another 1$, clicking 1000 links.  
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« on: April 06, 2009, 16:01 »
It seems the Search engine changed again, for the worse...  Yap. The whining mob got what they wanted. They're so happy now...
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« on: April 06, 2009, 15:59 »
hmmmm...looks like i have a download too, no $$$ though. What we see here is the final point Omega of subscription microstock. After going down all the time, we finally reached the stage of the 0$ download. A new era is born, that of zerostock.
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« on: April 06, 2009, 15:55 »
It makes DT stupid for cornering its contributors by not allowing a mass de-activate button where they can de-activate all photos eligible. What other site has such a button? At least DT answers. Crestock hasn't any deactivate button and they even ignore mails.
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« on: April 06, 2009, 15:51 »
Well, the joke was a way to say that rare birds,rare nature etc... are probably not microstockworthy since it's hard to imagine how they could endorse a product. You probably need to upload it to specialized sites. But of course, the rejection reason "too many" is funny. They should have said LCV in microstock.
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« on: April 06, 2009, 14:58 »
.since the only reason for the rejections they give is "we have too many of that subject", mind you, some of the pictures where of a Purple Gallinule, a native bird of the Florida's Everglades, Did you try a a Purple Gallinule, cheering with a headset, making a business wingshake with a Crested Caracara?
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« on: April 06, 2009, 14:24 »
One site I just found out about requires that you upload your initial 10 review images to their Flickr style site where they can be downloaded for free until they are approved. Ridiculous. What site is that?
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« on: April 06, 2009, 14:21 »
It is not 6 months. AFAIK you can never actually remove a picture from DT. They stay at the site despite being deactivated. Well that's exactly the same case at Istock; it only allows deactivation too. What happens is they keep it backed up in the database in case you might change your mind later, but it's not for sale any more.
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« on: April 05, 2009, 19:32 »
Now I see the game I told you so. What's more, your images are locked for a year, so if you get a request for exclusive buyout at Dreamstime in the mean time, you'll have to deny. Goodluck with sales!
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« on: April 05, 2009, 07:11 »
The tradition when you have good sales while other people don't is to do not tell it Well my sales died at iStock recently, while people cheer all the time they have BMEs. Doesn't seem a tradition to me.
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« on: April 05, 2009, 07:09 »
I have been very active in that thread, praising DT all the time. I got everybody against me then
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« on: April 05, 2009, 03:19 »
has anyone ever tried closing their account with Crestock? is there a link ? Yes, No. You can't even delete individual images one by one. They have an anal-retentive complex. I finally managed to escape the infamous black hole by gravely insulting Judge Ross on the forum. On the other hand, see this.
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« on: April 05, 2009, 02:49 »
I had 3 sales in a row 2 months ago, then nothing. The prices are set much lower than Zymmetrical and the commission they ask is much higher so I'm afraid they will end on the loser's side of the line new sites/no income - new sites/low income. Upload (it's easy), forget, and check every 6 months.
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« on: April 05, 2009, 02:39 »
I guess for most folk in the US and in most of Europe, this is not likely to be an issue, since bandwidth is FAR cheaper than in 3rd world countries. Really? In Belgium I pay 44.4 euro p/m for a connection with max 30 gig p/m, and in the Philippines I pay 999 pesos p/m (13 euro) for an unlimited connection.
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« on: April 05, 2009, 02:09 »
I shot a cheering girl with headset once, and I found out that everybody before and after me is copying me
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« on: April 05, 2009, 02:07 »
I shoot newbies that put up dumb polls
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« on: April 03, 2009, 19:10 »
I had a bunch a crazy rejections and I emailed them about it They rejected most of my good non-person sellers at other sites, so I doubt their reviewers. I also doubt their programmers since it took months before they came up with a password > 6. Wasted too much time on it. I stopped uploading. Time wasted there is better spent on new shoots or paying more attention to iStock.
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« on: April 03, 2009, 18:37 »
Here's the question. why? Where is your portfolio?
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« on: April 03, 2009, 18:32 »
Please, if you find out how to delete an account from Crestock, let me know, I've being trying to close mine for almost 2 months now!!! I sent them several emails, no reply. Then I tried it the tough way. Start posting insulting stuff at their forum and make a big row. My account got suspended and my shots are not online any more, as far as I can see. No email at all to confirm it. The money in the account, well, they can stuff it where the sun doesn't shine. It's a bunch of morons. Period.
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« on: April 02, 2009, 09:01 »
I think you mean 'monkeybusinessimages' , which is indeed a similar set up to iofoto, it was founded by Cathy Yuelet a british woman who started BananaStock. You're right, as usual. Blame the "monkey".
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« on: April 02, 2009, 08:55 »
As much as I like the information from these posts, it makes me curious and skeptical why fintastique posts only one post per month and just shows percentage breakdowns, but never contributes to any other threads. Maybe he is too busy shooting.
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« on: April 02, 2009, 08:07 »
The Mariana Trench is 10km deep.
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« on: April 02, 2009, 07:59 »
I never understand the point of these percentage threads since you can have different numbers for different amounts of time at different agencies. You don't know the amount of royalties, the number of images added per month or anything. I can't see how these stats are any use at all. One should assume that the poster uploads the same images at all the sites around the same time, That the ports are approximately the same, That the port is > 500. Your statistical noise and bias will be reduced then, but never eliminated. The use might be to pay more attention (type of images, postprocessing) to sites that underperform in comparison to the graphs of others, without neglecting the site that makes most income.
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« on: April 02, 2009, 07:43 »
So what's your inspiration?
Paying my mortgage...
That's not inspiration but motivation. The best artists die poor anyways. Van Gogh didn't have an eye for the market at that time. Renoir did, painting high class rich ladies on social events with colorful umbrellas.
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« on: April 02, 2009, 07:25 »
25-day: 51%
OD: 15% (exactly the same as February)
EL: 34%
For relevance: port size N=783.
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