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601
« on: November 22, 2010, 16:16 »
To busy making money...
602
« on: November 19, 2010, 08:28 »
No, this is not acurate, as many have stated.
Try to measure your MPM value as Yuri Arcurs explains here:
http://www.arcurs.com/advanced-stock-photography-termology-for-photographers
That will take the short half time at Shutterstock into account.
Bye,
Robert
Utter BS. this silly "half time" Yuri invented changes from photo to photo, from artist to artist and from year to year. I can find a million different statistical equations that don't really mean anything. What's important in the end is total income, RPI and like any other business ROI.
603
« on: November 19, 2010, 08:20 »
I recently checked this matter in order to find out the cheapest way to get payment in my local currency. my conclusion is that the best way to get the payment is via a regular check.
The only charge is 0.22% commision for the conversion using their much-better-then-paypal ratio.
604
« on: November 17, 2010, 11:49 »
Nobody can know for sure, but it is a safe assumption that you would AT LEAST double your income. don't forget picure prices increase as well as royalty.
And next year they can find another new way of screwing the contributor. Or what if IS starts to lose its market share? I would never ever put my eggs in one basket in this unstable business. (And yes, I have been an IS exclusive a long time ago, but when I had invested much time and effort in my portfolio I thought being exclusive was too risky. I have never really looked back)
A Smart move for IS would be to have the possibility to submit some exclusive images and get a better percentage somewhere between what an independent and exclusive contributors make.
good to know you know their business better than they do - I'll be sure to shoot them over an e-mail and let them know they aren't hiring the right people
I don't agree with some of the things they've done, but business-wise, they have shifted the model. Those that adapt to it will most gain more likely than not, those that remain here and complain about every single move will not. There are lots of websites, there's lots of ways to make money. Find the ways that work for you and go that way. Bar and pie and line graphs are nice, but you still need to take pics. And there are probably much more important ratios to look at just time-series bars
+1
605
« on: November 17, 2010, 09:02 »
A small note: as Holgs said on your blog, you yould definitely make more $$$ as an IS exclusive.
However, my income is more stable and more predictable as independent and diversified contributor.
You have no factual foundation to make this statement as you've never been exclusive nor do you know how your portfolio will fare under those conditions. People will believe what they want, but for me, its worked the other way around
Well, nobody has factual foundation to say that my portfolio would bring more $ as IS exclusive. The only way to check would be to switch to exclusive status.
Of course, I would be comparing performance of somewhat different portfolios (before and after the switch).
I am not planning that experiment right now ...
Nobody can know for sure, but it is a safe assumption that you would AT LEAST double your income. don't forget picure prices increase as well as royalty.
606
« on: November 15, 2010, 17:04 »
A small note: as Holgs said on your blog, you yould definitely make more $$$ as an IS exclusive.
607
« on: November 11, 2010, 19:15 »
Oh I agree people can do very well without iStock and hopefully the misconception that you can't goes away sooner rather than later. As far as earning potential on the other micros goes I was very pleasantly surprised with sales numbers in my first month even with a very tiny sample group of images. Based on my experience so far I have absolutely no doubt I could get back to my average monthly earnings within a couple of months without the Getty beast.
Since people never post real numbers, and just vague percentages of X up or Y down, or generalized statements, I doubt any IS contributor really has any sense of what people make outside of IS.
I'll show you mine if you show me yours 
608
« on: November 09, 2010, 12:01 »
Offline indeed.
Still in the midst of upgrading I guess...
609
« on: November 02, 2010, 17:13 »
A so-so month for us.
Down 4.8% from last month
(exclusives on IS).
610
« on: October 20, 2010, 09:52 »
Why don't you use IPTC metadata ?
611
« on: October 20, 2010, 09:00 »
Turning 31 this December.
612
« on: October 17, 2010, 08:35 »
FYI: an account can not be transfer from one person to another, at least that's IS rules. If they find out such a thing happened they will terminate the account. I don't know what other sites policy is.
Taking a portfolio as collateral is a big problem since it involves numerous copyright, contract, business and foreclosure laws which differ from country to country.
Rest assure that in order to make such a transaction and collateral legit and fault proof, the lawyer fees involved would cost way way WAY more then 6K.
613
« on: October 15, 2010, 09:28 »
Respect!
614
« on: October 13, 2010, 05:09 »
The way that I understand it is that on IStock you only need the one keyword leading to the same "disambiguated" meaning, so the if "notebook" and "laptop" both lead to the same "laptop" tickbox there's no advantage to having both words.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
You are right.
615
« on: October 10, 2010, 16:32 »
I'm still not sure if the part in the alamy terms where they say that RF and RM licences shouldn't be used for the same image appleis only to images on alamy or those that are also on other sites. It isn't clear to me and I wouldn't sell licenced there if they have been sold RF elsewhere.
I'd agree. If it has ever sold RF anywhere, it's always RF. Also the twins here keep telling us we don't know Jack, but never give a straight answer how it doesn't apply? If that was true, it's the same thing with different letters and the license means nothing? HUH?
Here's the other one that never gets a straight answer, just tossing out letters and claims.
They already have sorted it out. The L (traditional) license does not provide any guarantees about former usage, only their RM license has that sort of restriction.
Also, traditional licenses are not more expensive than RF licenses, they are much cheaper. The reason for this is the same as the reason why it is cheaper to buy a bottle of milk for use today than it is to buy a lifetime supply of milk.
The micro model vastly undervalues the RF license and I'm pretty sure the micros are only RF because it would have been impossibly expensive to monitor whether images were being reused (or maybe it was just a designers dirty little desire to pay once and have forever). I hadn't thought of it before but it would really make more sense to sell anything at the micros that is going to Alamy on the L license, as that would reduce the price disparity between Alamy and Micro RF.
BTW, the micros are all RM as well, they are "royalty-free rights-managed" to be precise. Why? Because they place a list of restrictions on the permitted use and that means they are managing the rights.
OK BaldricksTrousers please explain the L on Alamy and RM and why it's not a problem to sell these same images that are RF on pone site as L on another. Please make it clear why there are different kinds of licenses, if none of them matter? L on Alamy is RM with a different name.
I don't really care how it is called. you can call it "goat rights" for all I care. as long as it is OK with Alamy and IS as well (as an exclusive) I am fine with it too. What other sites besides Alamy aare we allowed to sumbit to ? (maybe macro sites ?) I know zazzle and presscaffe are also options.
616
« on: October 10, 2010, 13:35 »
Even though Elena seems to be a very nice person, I am afraid that FeaturePics will be the next to fall.
Check out the incident I had with Elena on my blog:
http://www.station23.com/featurepics-review/
I am not so sure she is such a nice person, only on the outside.
Maybe I am just being picky, but idk it seemed silly to me.
I went and read your blog and it seems that you understand the situation completely. "I am now not allowed to have another account." For some reaason you closed your account and now you changed your mind, but once you back out and close the door, you can't come back. It's that easy.
All the complaining about a new account, which was in error and upload limits are irrelevant. Elena got tired of telling you the same things over and over and you kept ignoring her answer.
Once you go, you're gone! And there is an upload limit, yours is ZERO. I'd guess that the site set your limit to none, so you wouldn't take up disk space and waste their time with uploads that you are not allowed to make.
Read this again, since it's your own words quoted: I am now not allowed to have another account. There, isn't that easier than writing a whole long blog page of complaining, that anyone reading will see as you being wishy washy, whining and that you made the decision, which is a done deal, now you want to come back, but it's too late. Stand by you choice to close your account and move on. If you didn't have sales for three years and your images were getting refused currently, why did you think it was a good idea six months later to come back to the same place? 
+1
617
« on: October 09, 2010, 16:20 »
I will sit here and take it... since i will be one of the very few that will go up a level. Doesnt mean that i like or agree with the changes
Let's hope I'm not right, but I think the commission cut was the smaller part. The real spanking will come from the search results
the search results (best match) is a zero sum game. meaning for every loser there is a winner.
618
« on: October 08, 2010, 15:19 »
our 2c's. sep 2010 was great! BME, october down 5% since sep but we are still optimistic
619
« on: October 08, 2010, 06:46 »
You can submit anywhere so long as you are not offering an RF license.
Yes I know this, I was asking for examples...
620
« on: October 08, 2010, 06:36 »
I know we can submit to Alamy files as RM for example.
Are there other sites that we could upload our port to without breaking the exclusivity agreement ?
621
« on: October 08, 2010, 06:24 »
win7 64bit
622
« on: October 07, 2010, 14:23 »
Problems again...
Allthough the correct sum is displayed in the bar on top, no pop-up appears nor is it listed on the right pane.
623
« on: October 06, 2010, 12:46 »
I would think it would depend in what country...
624
« on: October 06, 2010, 10:51 »
Works like a charm,
Thanks!
625
« on: October 06, 2010, 05:37 »
didn't get any updaed picniche when I searched for updates via the firefox add on auto update...
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