I received a few email with invitation to participate in this discussion.
First of all - THANK YOU!

It is not a secret Featurepics is a small agency.
We are planning to introduce changes Milinz described already.
It will take a lot of redevelopment and, unfortunately, bad news are coming (slower reviewing time in May).

Please read the proposal as "efforts to help Authors to earn more".

Sorry for a very short message.
I don't want my response sounds like "advertisement".
Just want to ensure you - we will continue to work for YOU whatever it takes.

Sincerely, Elena.

Hello everybody!

We placed a few polls at:
http://www.featurepics.com/Image/img.aspx

1. What size image is more suitable for your needs?

2. What price would you be willing to pay to the Contributor for his/her image work?

3. Which image theme are you most likely to use in your design efforts in 2008?

4. What is the purpose of looking for images?

What else we would like to ask Buyers?
Let us know!
Thanks!

Our battaries did good this time. As you know, Santa Cruz was out of power almost 3 days.
And, yes, we have classic system as well. Marinko, you are right about solar backup:)

Hello!
We have a list of referral pages under "My Account"/"Account Settings".

Links to collections are referrals. Unfortunately, images are not.

Links to bio page, your home page, collections, galleries, and registration page are referrals.

I checked your collections - links work just fine for me.
Could you please to  check web browser javascript settings?

Thank you!!! Elena.

We are expecting to be down for a short time.
Power in Santa Cruz has been erratic since the storm on Friday, and our battery backup is getting weak. The power Company is trying hard to fix the problem, but as usual, power companies are less than accurate. We are trying hard to find another way of increasing our reliability, and we WILL do it.
Thanks!!!!

Quote from: madelaide on November 20, 2007, 15:01
Does it mean our 70% share will be reduced once the site expands? 
Regards,
Adelaide

Adelaide, we won't be reconsidering 70% anytime soon. For some images that were uploaded a long time ago, we are still paying 90%
If (IF!) we decide it needs changing - there will be many long discussions with our Authors and our Staff first.

CJ, please check your earnings page. All references should be there. Let me know if this solution works for you.
Still feel very bad about Stricker77s....

Oops. I am sorry to hear about the accident....
Hope you feel much better now. Elena

Striker77s - Thank you! You are always in the right place/ time:)

Firefox/Filezilla (Netscape family) and our Microsoft environment are in disagreement somewhere .
We should find what is going on...
(ftp is the simplest protocol I had deal with, but I couldn't understand Filezilla's commands - OK, it is another story)

FTP clients - may be we should make a list of recommended programs. We will be back to this subject.

Regarding prices:
We have sold images from 10 cents up to $50, so it is very hard to say the criteria visitors are using when decide to buy an image.
We have a page with our statistic
http://www.featurepics.com/Stat/Stat.aspx,
and it will be much more useful when we have serious traffic and stable sales.
$1-$5 range definitely works; $5-$15 works for artistic images.
Again, we are learning with you.
Thank you!
PS! I love "Spell Check" button on "Post reply" screen...

Sorry, I forgot to mention that we were following Leaf's specifications  for the new submission process.
Really appreciated...

I think you can try now...