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« on: April 08, 2016, 13:34 »
Sorry, Cathy - I didn't read that. I guess I could say that great minds think alike?
Steve
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« on: April 08, 2016, 10:28 »
Humm!! I guess someone read my book "How to make $1000 selling books teaching how to make money with stock photography" You know what they say - those who can, do, those who can't, teach! I have probably made more from the sale of my book than from most of the smaller stock sites combined! Steve PS - only 4 days before the price goes back up!
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« on: April 05, 2016, 11:31 »
I'll tell you what - I'll give you all a special offer on my own eBook for the next week. Its $7.99 on Amazon but I'll make it $4.99 on my own site. Then you can make your first $1000! Steve http://www.backyardsilver.com/stock_photography_ebook/
554
« on: February 20, 2016, 09:02 »
Dreamstime just rejected the same images with a reason - could contain elements that are subject to copyright/trademark. I hope it isn't the pencils I used that they are complaining about!
555
« on: February 19, 2016, 17:22 »
Nope - just rejected with the reason "Altered Editorial". Oh well, the agency sets the rules I guess!
556
« on: February 18, 2016, 19:45 »
I have had a series of images of the current year IRS tax form 1040 rejected by both Shutterstock and Fotolia this week. No issues with previous years - anyone know if they have changed their rules - I always thought US government documents were not copyright by statute. Steve Here is an example - pretty boring, I know: 
557
« on: January 25, 2016, 19:53 »
I just got an enhanced download and was paid $20.40 and I'm just about to hit the $50K earnings threshold
Steve
558
« on: January 11, 2016, 20:38 »
And there is Canadian Thanksgiving in October as well
559
« on: January 11, 2016, 18:40 »
I think I'll move to a topic of its own - I would never read a topic like very low sales in 2016 normally which rather defeats the object of my post.
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« on: January 11, 2016, 16:27 »
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« on: January 04, 2016, 11:19 »
I think we said earlier in the post that Symzio had just been launched and that some of the users of the Symbiostock plugin were adding their images to that site. I added mine in December. So of course it doesn't have 100s of thousands of images - it is just getting off the ground. This post was intended to announce that it was starting to see if any readers were interested in finding out more.
Steve
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« on: January 02, 2016, 19:48 »
Hi Dianajo
You have misunderstood the pricing. All pricing and licensing on an individual's site is up to the individual. You can charge one time license or RF, you can make things editorial or not as you see fit. You can avoid having anything to do with Symzio if you want. You can display the Symzio images as an affiliate if you want and not include any of your own images in that system.
Symzio is an optional extra - we are currently debating how best to handle that editorial question on our forum and things change as the community works things out. Pricing on Symzio has one common component - the small web size download at $1.99, but the larger size is priced by the contributor - no control of that price. I chose $49.99 for mine, for instance.
What is different to Leo's efforts is that there is more standardization. If you can't support Imagemagick, then it does support GD, but why should the developer try to meet every possible variant? It diverts attention from other things. So if it doesn't work for you, stay where you are with the old version.
Steve
564
« on: January 02, 2016, 15:30 »
Hi Martha When you talk about the extra words you put in, do you mean the changes you made to the description in the old site? I transferred all my 4000 or so images from the old Symbio to new, and the bold fonts and also the reference to a graphic about editorial use made its way seamlessly to the new. The transfer was very smooth - it just happened and all my titles, descriptions, categories and keywords came across. Here is one example of a font change I made in the old site that is now on the new one: http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/image/martin-luther-king-monument-dc-3/Steve
565
« on: December 31, 2015, 19:54 »
566
« on: December 31, 2015, 18:00 »
Steve
The two things are totally different. You can choose to use the plugin and create your own site - great, that is one choice and I've been very happy with its performance.
Then, you can choose to put certain images into Symzio - on a one by one basis if you like. Symzio is a new venture, so of course there are not many images there. Hence the post on this forum to let people know it was starting.
Steve
567
« on: December 31, 2015, 15:43 »
Hi VB
I'm another of the old Symbiostock supporters that have moved to the new plugin and am supporting Symzio. I think you are misunderstanding the pricing here - someone can get a full size JPEG on the other micro-sites under an RF license and use it as many times as they want in as many projects as they want, for ever. Here on Symzio we are selling a single use 800 pixel image suitable for a website for $1.99. Anything larger takes a price as set by the contributor themselves. For simplicity that is a full size JPEG with an RF (multi-use) license.
The individual contributor sites can separately sell different sizes at different prices if they want.
Is everything perfect - no, but at least we are giving it a go as a contributor driven venture.
Steve
568
« on: December 30, 2015, 10:40 »
Micro = you make pennies
Macro = you make dollars Micro - you make pennies often Macro - you make dollars from time to time
571
« on: August 12, 2015, 09:36 »
Thanks Martha - I was thinking the same way before I started, although I had 3500 images that I had worked on. Then, the day before I started, someone bought two images from the old site, but it didn't deliver an email to them with the downloads, so that made me determined to move.
I'm working now on some auto backup processes that I will write about on my blog as well. Feel free to ask me any questions privately.
Finally, Google is indexing the new images that I have added to the new site, so that seems OK.
Steve
572
« on: August 12, 2015, 08:00 »
Hi Steve, and thanks for that input. I really do appreciate hearing about your experience.
I have to ask: in making that switch, did you need or get any personal help from Robin? Or did you handle it all by yourself?
I'm tempted but not sure how much help Robin would be if I got stuck, or if I'd be totally on my own. Hi Martha The instructions in the documentation area on the new Symbio site are very thorough, although I had some server issues at first. Robin was very helpful, investigated, logged onto my server and identified the issue and helped me explain to the hosting company what I needed. Questions on the forum are answered pretty quickly. All in all, I had no issues that I couldn't either fix myself or Robin quickly helped me with. I don't get involved with what happened and why, but I do find the new plugin and the theme to be very easy to work with and fast - no caching needed, for instance. Steve
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« on: August 11, 2015, 20:48 »
I decided to convert to new Symbiostock about 2 weeks ago. I found it to be a pretty simple exercise and I also was able to maintain all my original image URLs so that the Google searches still go through to the same image after conversion. All descriptions, titles, keywords and categories transferred across and the plugin appropriately marked editorial shots. I wrote a blog post about how I did it at http://www.backyardsilver.com/2015/07/learning-points-from-creating-a-new-symbiostock-website/ if that helps anyone. I have added over 1000 extra images since I converted - very smooth and easy and my site performs very smoothly now. You can check it out if you are interested at http://www.backyardstockphotos.comOf course I have no idea if the sales will be better (or worse) but I decided the work I had put into this was not something to throw away. Steve
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« on: June 17, 2015, 08:41 »
Is this the "X" price that is always defaulted to the minimum level. I found the new contributor indexing page (once I found it) to be great at correcting that for new uploads. I wrote a brief "how to" about using that area as I did find it confusing at first. http://www.backyardsilver.com/2015/06/fotolia-some-big-improvements/Nice Job, Fotolia. Steve
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