Thanx Hospitalera! Yes it is great

Perrush,

maybe lots of us are in vacations who would reply to your post, I am sorry I did not replied earlier, I wanted to reply.
So here I do it:

I think you have some good thoughts.
I build my self a website, but for photographers. I did this, because I am myself a photographer and can give others tips where to sell.
I just felt more confortable then doing a website where people can get information where to sell images, because I like selling images and have more or less success with it. So writing about it was more fun, then I think writing about buying images.
But yes I agree you are totally right, making a website to tell people where they have the best opportunity to buy photos is probably more clever. I will start a section soon, where people get information where they can buy. And another thing regarding the referral earnings. Referred photographers very often do not have good enough images to pass the application process. Buyers on the other hand do not need to apply they start buying from the beginning

The reason we are so suspicious is, that a few agencies tried to get photographers by pretending what people here accuse you to do. I have no clue why this siteowners do this, since it is really bad publicity. gustyx, the way you started this thread is exactly the pattern how those site owners tried to get photographers. I am sorry if we are wrong, but we replied in this way because of our experiences we had in the past. The way you speak about Zoonar is  suspicious. Zoonar does not seem like being the best site. Maybe you honestly think that, but maybe a lot of us could not see the reason why you praised Zoonar so high. Also the sales on this site does not reflect that. If you say you need 70 sales from other sites to equal 1 sale on Zoonar this is only partly true. You can also sell your image for a euro at Zoonar. So even if we see this topsellers having 2 Downloads we do not know if it was just a euro sell. And it is not unlikely for a photographer to have 70 Downloads on Microstock in a day or two. But I guess it is unlikely to have a download in a day or two for even for the best photographers over at Zoonar. (Microstock= low price=lots of downloads). So you cannot really compare that. And looking at the pictures at Zoonar I do not think the quality is so much better, some of those images most likely would not get accepted at the Big 5. Maybe the search engine is better, but I do not know about that.
So I hope you understand our suspicion. No offense.

Wellcome gustyx, are your by accident working for zoonar? Well maybe you have seen and served a lot of microstocksites and it is your honest opinion that zoonar is the best, but I browsed through some of Zoonar's images and have not seen any downloads for them, but maybe I was just looking at the wrong pics. If it is otherwise as I have seen please clarify, we are happy to contribute to agencies where you can sell lots of images.

BTW, forgive me since I'm a moron, but what does IPTC stand for?  I assume there's software I can use so I can easily add the respective keywords into them?

If you have windows, I can recommend this: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/photoinfo.mspx it is the tool as well as an explanation what IPTC is.

Just a short update, Getty's stock plummeted 20% over the past week. It does not look like as if buying shares of Getty would be a good idea at the moment and in my opinion also in the future. Getty = macrostock mainly --> decline

Hey Lincoln,

wellcome here! Some of us photographers do have websites which lots of information about the stock agencies. I for example   Click here
You are allowed to use the same images at the different stock agencies, as long as you do not go exclusive with one of them. If you want to go exclusive, Istockphoto would be the only one where it can make sense, however a lot of us earn more if we do not go exclusive.
Yes, you can still do with your images what ever you want, putting them on your blog or using Flickr. You still can give them away for free unless you go exclusive with istock.

Feel free to use referral links from other photographers or me, thats another way to make money on microstock.

All the best on microstock. 5000-10000 images is a lot, only very few of us have that much images.

I think you misunderstood hospitalera, we need your featurepics referral link not the 123 rf referral link

   
 However, if we only see a few names in support...... .....   can 3 dudes be an organization?  LOL LOL   -tom

What about 4  I would like to be in a microstock association..

Thanks sharply, that would be nice I wish you success too!

Seems like he can do this..:

Print Usage (P-EL):
Physical Items for Resale: includes the right to use the photos for t-shirts, postcards, greeting cards, mugs, mousepads, posters, calendars, framed artwork that is to be sold to other customers for a maximum amount of 10,000 copies (applies as a total of each type of usage). If this amount is exceeded you need to acquire this license once again. The new license will provide you with the standard amount of copies.
This is an additional license to the rights included within the regular Royalty-Free license. Note that the other restrictions still apply.

Maybe we should try that ourself, sell posters on ebay..

Thanks for linking me Idambies!

Here it is: http://www.crestock.com/todays-best-image.aspx?id=405
That image is impressive..

While checking out that image I checked also Yuris most downloaded image at Crestockphoto.  Just 14 dls... That is really dissapointing...
With all my images it would take for ever to get a payout on Crestockphoto I suppose..
Good to know I do not miss anything out by staying away from Crestockphoto.
But I like the Judge Ross thing Good idea!