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Messages - tavi
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« on: March 14, 2013, 01:21 »
Hello. I upload to DT and other acencies for a year now. I don't have a professional port and i do it for fun. But, if i look at the stats from the pool, it's clear i have a problem at DT.
Someone opened a topic about sales/port at SS, and i saw my sales are like many others. So my images are low sellers, but match with the others that don't shoot professional but only for fun. But at DT,t hey are pathetic, and the numbers are not growing at all. I wonder if it's worth uploading other pictures. Probably it isn't.
my stats are:
febr2012 34 pics 1 sale
march2012 67pics 2 sales
april2012 103pics 1sale
may2012 142pics 3sales
june2012 184pics 0
july2012 200pics 0
aug2012 242pics 2sales
sept2012 307pics 6sales
oct2012 375pics 6sales
nov2012 447pics 6sales
dec2012 515pics 8sales
ian2013 594pics 7sales
febr2013 676pics 6sales
Now i have 717pics and so far 3 sales this month. This way. i'll reach payment after 3 years, when i will have probably 2000pics or more. I find it very weird. My acceptance ratio grew up steady at DT, and they have a graph for exposure, witch is growing also. Two weeks ago i had a file chosen for editors choice, and it is having lots of views, but 0 dlds.
At SS and FT the sales are growing with the port, IS was my best for the first 6 months, it's going down, but that's not weird.
Maybe you can help, maybe i made some mistakes at DT. Thanks
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« on: March 09, 2013, 04:25 »
I cannot find where to upload the releases. Could anyone help me please?
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« on: March 09, 2013, 04:23 »
What should I do if I upload to both sites? Upload only on Pond5 in the future?
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« on: March 01, 2013, 01:17 »
I sent them my SS link after they invited me. Then I waited for the invitation for 10 pics, but today I recieved another mail with the invitation to send the link to my port. The only difference is that the first was maned "stocksy" and the other "stocksy call to artists".
Have no idea what to do.
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« on: February 28, 2013, 01:16 »
Happy to see that some people are doing great at stockfresh. Sad I'm not in that situation. I have 1000 images and I have 1 dld/month. Or none. This is my port: http://stockfresh.com/gallery/taviphoto I'd like to have some feedback about the photos. I know they are not commercial, but 1 or 0 dld with 1000 accepted images seems strange from an agency witch made it in the middle tier.
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« on: February 18, 2013, 01:00 »
Mine are 15% of december. And the sales on IS are like my first month when I had 30-40 images...now having 550.
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« on: February 08, 2013, 08:50 »
I tought I am a very poor seller, but sad thing I'm not. At the beginning (les than a year) I was under these numbers. Now I'm slightly above, with 500 and heading to 200 dlds/month. But that's SS, at other I sell less than what it should be from the pool. DT almost 600 pictures and selling under 10 pics per month  . IS very good at the beginning (beating SS for 6 months in a row) and then going down, with this month beeing the worst- -0 dlds with 500 pics. I think this is only for fun, if you plan to make real money from it and start now or about a year ago like me, no chance. Sad thing that now I see increase only at SS, with a small and new port growing.
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« on: January 25, 2013, 14:15 »
They are adding 1-9 now for me. So they do not add to all at the same time. I'm in 6.12 now.
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« on: January 23, 2013, 02:44 »
I have PP sales for 10, 11 and 12. Nothing in 1-9. I think they didn't add them. Anyone in this situation?
60
« on: January 20, 2013, 03:09 »
Nothing for me yet
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« on: January 15, 2013, 14:10 »
The problem is that I don't see a big shift on my images. The good ones were gone a little bit down in popular due to low sales I think, the niche subjects are in their places without dlds. I checked some of my images, not all port.
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« on: January 15, 2013, 12:29 »
After a (very) good start of the year, with 2.01 beeing BDE in terms of no of sales(14) and then an EL in 04.02, now it is going down like mad. Today I have only 1 sale Maybe my port is too little to judge, and maybe things will go better in the next days. Weird thing, everyone here is complaining about low sales, when a shift in searches only means if I'm not selling, someone else will. Maybe the lucky ones do not write here.
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« on: December 12, 2012, 09:22 »
I started microstock in february 2012. Even march was better for the first 12 days than this month. By that time, I had 80 images, now I have 433. So I have wme I think. I'm loosing my trust in their reported sales....
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« on: December 09, 2012, 08:02 »
Hello. I uploaded some of my files here to test the waters. How can I see if I had sales? Cause i cannot find anything on my account about this. Thanks.
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« on: November 29, 2012, 01:21 »
Hello. When I go to "My Files", up on the page it's the message with the ID: Important Your ID must be submitted before your files can be validated and offered for sale. To upload a copy of your ID card, please visit the contributor parameters section in your Profile. I signed with them in january or ferbuary 2012, I don't remember, and I subnitted teh ID that time. My files appear to be online at this time. It's bug or I must resubmit my ID?
Thanks
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« on: November 25, 2012, 14:20 »
The second attempt. I had some luck I thick.
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« on: November 17, 2012, 09:52 »
I want to learn more about this tehnique. So, how do you make HDR images, with dedicated software or in PS by layers?
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« on: November 15, 2012, 12:40 »
Sunday I made a payment request at IS. By now, I have more $ at IS than at SS the entire month. And this when everybody is complaining about IS. I really don't know if it's not a problem with my account at SS. Only 0.25, 0.25, 0.25. And no of dlds not increasing. Very frustrating...
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« on: November 14, 2012, 02:03 »
Cypher, my best seller, if I can call it like this, is an isolation. But then, lots of animals and textures until the next isolation.
I have lots to learn about photography, I find your coments very helpful, but here the problem is the steadiness of dlds. This month I'm going again to 60, maybe some more, max 70. This is a problem in other sites as well. 123-2or3 a month even though my port is 4x that 6 months ago. PD 2 or 3 as well. DP is going DOWN for me, FT and DT are growing slowly, and IS , after a good growth, it's very steady for the last 3 months. PP dlds are going down, despite of port growth at TS. Did I hit the wall after 8 months?
I know you are saying that the pictures must be better, I admit it, that's why I discuss here and show my port, but growing 4 times the no of pics in 5-6 months, and so many agencies with the same dlds number scares me.
Excuse my english, I'm not a native speaker. And thanks.
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« on: November 09, 2012, 05:08 »
PaulieWalnuts answered right  Now, I put the question cause I want to improve my port. The problem is that I'm stucked at a number. First 5 months, 30dlds/month. The port growth did nothing. 19, 29, 27, 31, 30. Port growing from 74 to 210. Note that my max dlds/day was 3 in all this period. In sept something happened and I jumped to 59, with 266 files. October 64 with 320 files. Weird thing, max number/day jumped to 6. Now I have 347, it,s 9 nov morning and for 8 days I have, ya, 16 dlds. So I don't know what to improve, as it seems that everything remains the same. I know that they are not commercial pictures, not in demand, but for a so little port it seems too steady. I want 75, then 42, then 112, then 5. But not like this... Maybe you can help, as I want to learn to make better pictures. My acceptance ratio has increased, so I hope I learn something as time passes. But dlds are so steady... Hope next jump will be to 120, not 90  PS: Thanks a lot for the answers. Sad thing is that my number is lower than the average of answers. I'm slowly getting paranoid about the steady number of dlds.
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« on: November 08, 2012, 16:17 »
Wrong answer!!!
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« on: November 08, 2012, 16:09 »
Now I see that dirkr has escaped too without voting
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« on: November 08, 2012, 16:08 »
luissantos84, post a number and then I will tell you
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« on: November 08, 2012, 15:39 »
Today I sold 2 pictures for the first time. 6 months old , maybe 7. Weird.
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« on: November 08, 2012, 07:11 »
I'll tell you how many. Only that I want more answers first.
JPSDK: I didn't checked this. So I looked at the earnings from new content/ total earnings. Now my port is new and not big enough, but if I check for 6 months, 49% of earnings are from new content. If I check for 3 months,, only 38%. So it seems that my old files do sell.
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