Available slots for upload: 20
Sales on 1 October: 24
Sales in September: BME

it's not going bad for everyone 

No, it's not.  I've only been on IS for 7 months.  I just looked at the stats and September was my BME.  In October I have already passed my worst 2 months, of course that's not saying much. LOL My portfolio was infantile in march and april. I guess the point is, I'm experiencing growth in sales proportionate to my upload each month
       I'm pretty happy with IS.  I came in after all the disambiguation insanity.    -tom

Quote from: Peat_Bog on October 01, 2007, 14:02

I already have three other websites covering my various interests but now I�d like one for photography. Does anyone have any suggestions for a domain name that isn�t already taken?

I assume you register your domain with GoDaddy and not with the hoster, or you will find yourself a hostage by your hoster if you want to change hosting. On GoDaddy it's easy to look up what's still free.

Nowadays you have to work backwards. Think of a domain/brand name first, check whether the domain is still free, then register it - and afterwards you can work from that name on...
Don't forget to register the same name on Yahoo, GMail, Blogspot, etc...
After all that, you can Trademark the name officially, and you're set.

Amen!!   I went with GoDaddy as well.   Finding a name?  Good luck.  Try it yourself.  Just pick two words that have nothing to do with each other and google it.  Odds are, it's a name already..  LOL LOL.
  I literally spent months trying to come up with something, I wrote down hundreds (no exaggeration) of names, ones I would have bet the farm no one had.  Good thing I didn't bet!
   I didn't want family name, didn't want something common... wanted something different.  I also got this bug in my head that I wanted a number in it?  why?  ........no clue.  I thought I wanted something 'spacey'  as in outerspace....  finally,  I decided if I found the name of the newest star discovered/named in the universe,  how many could possibly have that already?
     The newest star named at the time was Pegasus 35.   I wanted a number, so I picked 8,  the number in my family.   And since we were going to be doing illustration and graphics besides photos,  we went with  'imagery'.
     I did the latin plural of   'us'  which is 'i'   and put together  "Pegasi 8 Imagery" .   It wasn't taken,  I went to GoDaddy, bought it and five domains close to it in net, com and biz.   

   Also, if you are going to use it for a business, you might want to make sure the name isn't already registered as a business in your state or local.  We went to the state and fed, got registered, got our federal ID number....   Now, we are doing business as Pegasi 8 Imagery, LLC. 

STILL don't have the website completed, in fact still in the embryo stage. It's a lot of work.  For that we went with Better Photo.com.

But... the money is coming in.  I'm already published in magazines, books, internet.... so is my wife.   We started 'pro' in micros a little over a year ago,  now, microstock  is the least of our income in photography.  We are at this time turning down work.      SOooooo  Peat Bog,  GO FOR IT!   It's tough in the beginning, but it's worth it!  A year and a half ago, if someone told me I'd be doing what I am doing now... I would have laughed and called them fools.  Impossible!

  Nope, it isn't.

I'm sure you can find many other similar stories from the gang here!               
                               -tom

 

Thanks, Kyle!!    -tom

Kngkyle,

I think it isn't quite a good approach to exagerate and have many people commenting the same image.  I suggest that, once an image has already been commented, if we want to help each other we should comment another by the same member.  If I were LO staff, I would consider such "massive" commenting a misuse.

Regards,
Adelaide

I agree.   I've been going into each ones portfolio and actually looking for images I really do enjoy ( and it isn't easy narrowing it down, some great work you folks have).   As someone said earlier,  I too am being humbled!
  This way,  I can honestly say I am commenting because I feel a personal need to comment for reasons why I enjoy the image, which is what LO wants to be done anyway!

and thanks to all who have returned comment to me..  thanks very much!  -tom

Just to clear the air...   

if i was ready to give up on LO  ..... I wouldn't have pix waiting for review or dozens in the que waiting for me to keyword them.... and a list of pix to upload.

..... I put the same pix on LO  I have put  everwhere else.  They sell at IS, SS, DT, BigStock, StockXpert .... and sell well.   I'm still hoping they will sell at LO...........  eventually.    I find it hard to believe I'm not getting views because my images suck. They don't suck elsewhere, they sell.  Does LO have a client base that is completely different than all those other sites?  Not likely.    There must be a reason.  Now Bryan just said a reason might be...  might be....

4. New images might take some time to get exposure based on our search engine.  As our traffic increases this will minimize, but short term it might have an impact on views.  We also have a couple new features which will increase visibility of images.

Fine. Okay.  We'll see.  Based on other sites,  if my pix get viewed, they seem to sell.  They aren't getting viewed now at LO.  Does the side show help?  According to what I've read here in MSG,  yes!   But. if one is in a  no view loop and spiraling downward,  then sales never come. The sales don't come,  neither does the side show (or payout)...   it's a no win,  lose/lose situation.

............. I've been with LO for over a year,  one of the first to upload at LO...   I'm still here,  and I'm still uploading.   I'm trying to keep the faith.

Patiently waiting..   -tom

aka-Tom, does that mean you are making money at all of the rest? I ask because I see NLS in there. Are you making money there?

Sorry, sbonk,  good point.  No, not making a thing at NLS yet,  but there I'm not expecting to anytime soon.  I'm willing to hang in there for some time (up to a year) and give Darrel a chance to build it up.  I hope it takes off as a good portion of my stuff is nature and landscape (national parks, etc)

Alamy, just got accepted, so no there as well. There it will be a slow build  as I only want to upload  material that I don't have on the micros. I'm sure a customer would be ticked to buy a pic there and then see it later on SS  for a quarter!

 The rest?   Yeah,  I'm happy with the sales,  especially IS.

I contribute to Crestock, which I've found to be a waste of time. Despite the fact that I've been profiled on their blog, have had 4 images as 'Today's Best Image', as well as 4 images in their free wallpaper promotion, I've only managed to sell $41 in just over 1 year. I can make more than this in one day on SS and IS.

I abandoned them long ago, but recently resumed uploading again in hopes of eventually getting $100 from them. Unless you already have stuff with them, you'd do better to put time in on improving sales on higher yielding sites.

I just signed up last week... haven't uploaded anything yet....
Sharply_done... your opinion is valued!   
I'm  on IS, SS, StockXpert, DT, BigStock, NLS, FT, LO, 123rf, FP, & Alamy... 
Making hardly any money on 123rf, LO and FP - payouts will be decades in the future, my greatgrand kids will cash 'em in!  I'm thinking about picking up more.  What/who would you suggest? 

Thanks!   -tom

I got the same  'Can't upload' on  IS  last night,  but they're still reviewing, just had a batch approved this afternoon.  -tom

modify:  I just checked,  I can upload to BigStock.   

..........guess I did it right...   I got accepted on Alamy.... 

My experience is the EXACT REVERSE of yours and the past fortnight I have had a series of best days ever.

Strange.... same for me... each month has been bigger and as a matter of fact,  I just got done running my daily talley and today was my best day sales ever at IS.             I can't complain about IS.  It's been productive for me since day one.  If it continues on its current sales pace, it will become my #1 earner (even passing up SS) within a couple months, certainly before year's end.   
   Then again, maybe I'll nosedive too, who knows...   
      Forums?  This is the only one I participate in.  I used to dabble in LO's but don't even go there now. No time  =tom

yeah, they're still lagging,  I've got stuff in there  2 weeks old....

however, I haven't had a change in rejection levels..  maybe the Jupiter folks are being kind to us   lowly micropeople... LOL  -tom

...2nd thought...  watch everything I have in que get the 'bum's rush'... ha ha ha ha...  maybe I should keep my big mouth shut... LOL

I thought I knew what was wanted... now...  i'm confused.........

My files come out of the cam  at 18meg.

My understanding was that I had to uprez them to 48meg. (pixels approx 5100 x 3300 )

That's what I did ....and uploaded them to Alamy.

Did I do the right thing ...or will I be getting a fat reject from the other side of the big pond? 


signed, confused in  new jersey.    -tom

....on top of what  pr2is and  freeze  and hatman said....   whew... i'm out of breath...........SS is a tough one to get onto... so hang in there, Whiz

 and while we're on the topic of SS... any of you folks seen an increase in rejections last week or so?  I went from a fair-haired-child who could do no wrong,  to  under 50% acceptance all of a sudden.  Some of them, yeah, okay, maybe there's some noise there,  but many others... well, I'm not the kind to get upset over rejections, but, some of these others..  I just didn't see it.  Wondering if any of you have seen a jump in rejections?

None-the-less, Whiz.   Keep hammering away at it!  SS is my top selling by volume of pix and #2 in money!  It's a good outfit and well worth the effort to be accepted on.   I'm not complaining above, just wondering if there's some new & zealous talent on the review monitor.  -tom