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Messages - Red Dove
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526
« on: August 25, 2013, 08:21 »
IStock are like a scab you know you should leave alone but keep going back to thinking it won't bleed.
527
« on: August 23, 2013, 10:05 »
Ill thought out, ill conceived and ill advised.
Maybe they should change the company name to IllStock.
528
« on: August 23, 2013, 09:59 »
Huge potential. Smart thinking and could be seriously bad news for the rest of the big 4.
Like.
529
« on: August 22, 2013, 08:28 »
+1, but let's hope there's an official shoot released at some point.
it's a worrying sign, and i see less and less people able to judge a good photo from an ugly snapshot, for them they're all "good enough".
Hasn't that always been the case? Before I decided to shoot for micro and editorial I thought I was a decent photographer. Now I realise I'm just mediocre.....but technically proficient. 
530
« on: August 18, 2013, 11:43 »
If anyone has hard data to prove buyers are leaving microstock or supply has outstripped demand I'd be grateful for the source. Otherwise this is pure speculation. Also, we have no idea of the numbers for "active" buyers or contributors and whether this has increased or dropped - another black hole in reaching an informed decision.
Personally I'm seeing a decline in business through IS and DT - whereas SS is going like the clappers and FT, DP and even BigStock have produced record earnings this year. For me, demand is not diminishing at all - but it is shifting.
531
« on: August 16, 2013, 10:06 »
Given the GIGANTIC dung heap IS made of paying our PP earnings last month I'm.....Oh forget it.
532
« on: August 16, 2013, 09:59 »
It feels like I haven't had an EL since the Victorian era - but a sprinkling of SODs and several ODDs has put a spring in my step of late.
533
« on: August 14, 2013, 10:52 »
If the poll results on the right were for IT performance you would have to scroll down a long way to find Istock, then scroll down even further and then click on the More Poll Results button.
Their budget for IT last year was probably four dollars and loose change.
534
« on: August 14, 2013, 05:42 »
I've said this before the last time a raise came up - SS can keep the raise provided they continue to open up the BRIC countries and others - which is increasingly evident by the results on my download map and creating opportunities for me to earn larger royalties as with single/other downloads.
Shutterstocks _PROFIT_ was increasing. Profit is the money you keep in your hands and spend for your own joy AFTER the deduction of expenses. Which means: this money is not used for expanding any market, may it be BRIC or whatever nor does it help SS in any other way. It is just about shareholders satisfaction and their greed. Too, this shows that SS would not need to increase prices to give us a raise if they would be ok with a little less profit _increase_or the same Profit as the Q before.
I see and understand your point but unfortunately businesses are not created for their employees/customers/suppliers/governments to make money. Nor are they interested in environmental impact/community support/values and ethics/equality and diversity or much else that is farted out by their PR/Marketing people. Their sole purpose is to increase the dividend paid out to their shareholders - everything else is at their discretion depending on individual country regulations which they will circumvent or trample over at every opportunity to increase/protect that profit/dividend.
535
« on: August 14, 2013, 04:35 »
I've said this before the last time a raise came up - SS can keep the raise provided they continue to open up the BRIC countries and others - which is increasingly evident by the results on my download map and creating opportunities for me to earn larger royalties as with single/other downloads.
My only caveat would be that SS create a further earnings tier beyond $10,000
536
« on: August 14, 2013, 04:19 »
Just completed my mid-month analysis and Istock have dropped out of the Big 4 for the first time since 2009 - now in 5th place behind DP. Also I've just recorded a download for 12 cents - that is daylight robbery, pure and simple.
For my own peace of mind I won't be uploading or following their progress for the foreseeable future. Evidently my energy and creativity are best deployed elsewhere.
537
« on: August 12, 2013, 01:09 »
Some nice ideas to turn the company around in the above posts but it looks from the outside as though the bean counters and MBA types have control. Sadly, as with so many American and European companies in the past decade these guys think profit is about slashing costs and fiddling with their product/price.
Stuff like marketing, sales, building competitive advantage, market share and trust - basically putting the customer before the shareholder is so old-school and takes time. Plus its hard to do and they're not up to it.
538
« on: August 11, 2013, 02:11 »
Same graph here with August set to look even worse. As each month goes by, IS are starting to smell more and more like The Walking Dead of the industry.
539
« on: August 08, 2013, 16:16 »
We're at least fifth in line for any remuneration - behind the shareholders, the board, the employees and the tea lady, so I wouldn't count on it.
540
« on: August 07, 2013, 15:08 »
July was a BME at SS and the first week of August has been stonking - but then again it has to be to make up for the limp banana IS has become since mid 2012.
541
« on: August 06, 2013, 15:32 »
Thinking about it, my comments in threads like these tend to be facetious when other people are trying to be serious - but I can't help feeling agitated when people put labels or titles on other people. Perhaps because in my Corporate life I've met plenty of people called Managers or Directors who couldn't manage a pedallo hire business at the seaside or direct an old lady to a coffee shop even if it was right behind them.
Likewise, there are photographers/artists out there who are professional (in that they earn a living from it) but they really ought to be labelled as sales professionals, given their skills in bamboozling clients into paying hard cash for shoddy workmanship.
But what do I know - i would never have thought of slicing a cow in half and shoving it in an aquarium.
542
« on: August 06, 2013, 09:55 »
painter, photographer, potter or whatever. The goal is to get someone to look at your stuff and mutter, geez this dude is a real artist!
.....And fool them into handing over everything from Dollars to Albanian Leks for the privelege of owning a piece of it.
543
« on: August 05, 2013, 07:02 »
Sorry but I thought the piece was a load of cack.
544
« on: August 02, 2013, 04:24 »
I wonder how much dosh Yuri has banked since this thread started.
Yuri - next time I moor up in Monte Carlo I'll nip over with a bottle of Russian Standard and we'll get bladdered.
545
« on: August 02, 2013, 04:15 »
FT has boosted my income of late but they are sloths compared to SS and are just about hanging on to fourth place for me. I am not so easily seduced by their 99.9% acceptance rate of my work.
546
« on: July 31, 2013, 16:29 »
I don't want to add anything else to the long list of things to vex myself with in this business and until someone proves it to be the case I've decided not to worry about it PS. I'll take Jasmin's (Cobalt) word for it that all is above board for now.
547
« on: July 31, 2013, 15:21 »
After having just enjoyed my best quarter, July has been a truly naff month. As we say in London - after the Lord Mayor's show comes the s**t cart. Far too many subs has chopped my RPD in half. DT is a queer beast though and on balance is neck and neck with IS for second place in my earnings this year.
548
« on: July 31, 2013, 15:10 »
double post - oops
549
« on: July 31, 2013, 15:07 »
They are on-line stores and we provide them with merchandise on a consignment basis.
They are the same as Walmart, and their goals and tactics are the same.
Something I accepted from day one believe it or not. I also like to think of it as a giant snow globe. At SS, judging by the number of "regular contributors" announcing their sales have gone to pot, someone has given the globe a shake. I wrote somewhere else if you have 28m assets it makes sense to monetise as much of it as you can; not just the oldest; not just the best selling and not just because someone has put a lot of work into their port - the site owners and shareholders don't care, it is all one big port. One big pot of money.
550
« on: July 28, 2013, 08:13 »
My theory is that there is a global (world wide) economic crisis
So how come my sales on SS were growing, altho I didn't upload for months. When I started uploading gaain recently, they grew even more.
Because there is always one exception to confirm the rule
Now there are two of us. I've seen continuous growth even without uploading in 2012 and after starting up again in February 2013 I've seen real sales growth. May-June are the best three months I've had at SS and July might be even better. I suspect this is true of a lot of contributors who don't write about it - to avoid others copying their best sellers and being accused of insensitivity or downright mendacity in the numerous "doom and gloom" threads.
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