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Messages - tavi
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« on: November 08, 2012, 04:36 »
I was asking what do you think. Of course I know the number, but I am curious if it's ok. For that I asked you how many dlds do you think my port should have in a month. Nothing more. Only an opinion. A number.
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« on: November 08, 2012, 01:06 »
This is my port on SS: http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-944650p1.html I'm less than a year in microstock (and photography). My question is: how many dlds/month should I expect from these files at SS. I'm talking about dlds only on SS. I don't want photo critique here, only a number. Thank you all.
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« on: November 07, 2012, 01:18 »
Where can I find a general property release, good for all microstock sites, to avoid writing a lot of pages?
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« on: November 06, 2012, 11:09 »
I see something like this: half of my dlds are new(one month) and half older. But I am in stock photo only from march 2012... I can see at SS that I am on some kind of pattern, with 30 dlds a month for 4-5 months and then, from sept, 60. 58 in sept, 64 in oct, and this beginning of nov same trend. Seems that the port growth doesn't matter. It's not funny at all.
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« on: November 06, 2012, 10:24 »
Hi. I made 4 pictures about christmas, only to have some. I don't shoot seasonal, probably this is no good. They were on a bunch of 22. Last night (european time), they were reviewed, and I had 20 accepted. Very happy about that, but they showed in active images, and in searches, some 12 hours after. I searched after 10 hours (in the morning) and they were not active.
Now, when they showed up, searching for "christmas" I found that they were on the 8th page. So no chance of selling ever. What to do?
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« on: November 02, 2012, 02:08 »
BME for me, but I'm a beginner with port growing so it's normal I think. BME at SS for no of dlds, but the overall BME is due to a sale at IS of 30$ (don't know what has sold as it was credit card I think) and a first sale on Alamy.
Now I'm worried because for something like 10 days, the only one that sells consistent is SS. I,ve reached BME by 20 oct, and after it was disaster. 2 sales on FT, only 1 at IS, and the other disaster. November started bad as well-2 sales at SS and that's all for yesterday. Anyone sees a big drop in sales in the past 10 days of so? I have that problem to all the sites, that's weird. SS sells but no OD SOD or EL in the past 2 weeks.
I'm a poor seller with no commercial images, but the drop is so bad that I cannot explain.
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« on: October 27, 2012, 02:55 »
Growing your port should bring in more sales. I look at what DT calls database exposure, as this is the number that counts. And if this number is growing and your sales aren't, something is wrong, and not with your pictures. I know many of you are convinced that the picture quality and concept is important for sales, but with my ugly noncommercial pictures I should sell more if my database exposure is growing. And it is at SS.
Now, as I written in another topic, I was having an average of 30 sales a month:
april 74pics 19dlds
may 113 29
june 171 27
july 182 31
august210 30
until september, when something happened and with 266pics I made 59 sales.
Note that for all the months of 30 dlds my best day was 3 dlds, now I'm up to 60dlds and yes, my best day has upgraded to 6 sales, with lots of 4 and 5, a number that at some point I thought I will never get. Now you see, my port has grown slowly but steadly, my database exposure did the same, and I had doubled the sales in one moment.
You don't want to ask how many sales I have now. 318 pics and yes, 52 sales. I must make 2 today to keep the average. If I will not sell anything for the 2days of we, I know I will sell 6 monday, so the average will be 2.
Yesterday evening I thought I lost this average, missing 3 sales. At 8 pm european time, I made 3 sales in 10 minutes, in three different zones, but not United States. Sales in Europe and Africa, at an nonworking hour . After almost 48 hours without a sale. One picture sold two times in that 10 minutes, in Europe and Africa. Weird...
The theory that ugly noncommercial images will not grow your sales simply doesn't stand for me. If I have an ugly noncommercial poor executed strawberry that sells 1 a month, it's selling out from 10000 ugly noncommercial poor executed strawberries, which sell too in an average of 1 a month. So it's not a customer who wants an ugly strawberry a month, and if i upload another he will simply pick one of them, ending me with one sale. To my logic, another ugly strawberry should bring in another sale, as long as the first ugly strawberry sells one a month.
Please understand I'm not complaining, as I do this for fun not for a living. I only find the numbers very very weird. In fact, I'm beginning to like tracking this wierd pattern, and I wonder when will be the next boost and how much will add.
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« on: October 26, 2012, 10:55 »
I have 300 pictures on SS and this month so far 23.40$  . Looks like I'm blocked to 0.1$ per picture. So you do beter than me. For me IS always beats SS (8 months in stock). Probably I'm doing something very very bad at SS. If the difference between the two were what the pool says, I'd be very very happy. This month at IS I have almost 70$, with 350 pictures (yes, my acceptance rate is also better at IS). This is a BME so far at IS, but I'm worried that in the last week things slowed down very bad there.
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« on: October 26, 2012, 05:24 »
Anybody having sales here? I have 12  pictures accepted, but 0.00e... A little dissapointed. Some months with them. Someone was saying that the ports are small here but you get 1dollar a month for a photo that was accepted...
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« on: October 24, 2012, 04:50 »
And the names must be printed on the release, not written by hand? Can I write by hand the rest?
And for each site I have to make another release? By the way, the picture was accepted by all sites except Shutterstock.
Excuse so many questions but I find it strange and time consuming- maybe only the first time is like this.
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« on: October 22, 2012, 04:54 »
For me 123 keeps selling 2 or 3 pics per month. My port size increased a lot as I'm new, but they simply don't grow my sales. I think I had a month with 4 sales 
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« on: October 17, 2012, 13:46 »
I had two sales like this some week ago. Aprox 1.5$ each, and they didn't appear in my total earnings even today. I cannot see witch files were dlded. And today, 29$ were added to my Account balance, but not in the total earnings. Could it be a single sale? Can I make a payment with this money, or they have to appear in the total earnings?
Thanks
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« on: October 17, 2012, 05:35 »
And at the property owner and at the photographer info, I put my data, and sign in both places? And then, I scan the porinted file with the signatures and how I attached to the photo?
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« on: October 17, 2012, 01:26 »
Hello. I used a blueprint in one photo and was rejected for copyright. Now, I made the drawing as I work architecture, and I don't know now how to make the property release. I must print it and sign myself?
Then, I saw that you need some witness to sign. How do they know that I really made the drawings if I sign?
And then, I must scan the document with the signature and send along with the file?
Thank you, I'm a newbie and the first time to do this.
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« on: October 09, 2012, 00:49 »
For me it's about 3 or 4 days, couple of times were7 days. But on DT I have files waiting for 8 days, and at IS for 10!
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« on: October 08, 2012, 14:54 »
Hello. I'm kind of new in microstock as well as in photography. I want to share my SS port to know what you think. Expect some constructive critiques from you guys. Thanks. http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-944650p1.html
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« on: September 19, 2012, 08:15 »
I finally got a sale at IS. After 6 days. So it's site related, I don't know if it is a bug, but yesterday I've noticed I got some views after many many days without.
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« on: September 19, 2012, 01:35 »
After a good first week, it's preety dead now. IS is dead, 2 sale in 12 days(the same day) after in the first week I had sales every day. Now my redeemed credits have gone down, I don't know why, as the money are still the same. FT down after a first good week of september. Only SS is steady, eventhough the first week was the best, but it's selling.
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« on: September 18, 2012, 15:44 »
How many files do you have?
I have a small port, but I sell every day. For me seems like FT and SS are doing well. Nothing at IS for 6 days...
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« on: September 18, 2012, 06:43 »
The reviews are very very slow, More than a week, but it's a sign that is not dead.
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« on: September 18, 2012, 05:37 »
It's SS or IS?
Cause I don't sell anything at IS for 5-6 days and I don't have any views on my files. But I can find them on searches. And I do get reviews of new files.
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« on: September 17, 2012, 11:48 »
I've checked again: absolutely no views. Now I wonder if the files cannot be seen, or the views are not listed. And so I wonder if any eventual sales aren't listed as well...cause it's curious how I am not selling anything.
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« on: September 17, 2012, 09:32 »
Yes, I'm talking about no views and no sales at istock. After a good first week of september, now it's dead.
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« on: September 17, 2012, 09:19 »
Now the we has passed and absolutely nothing for me...
Strange, the past week was a slow down in sales, and now I don't have views. Images approved for a week with 0 views. And I checked older images and waited 2-3 days-no views. Anyone noticed something like this?
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« on: September 15, 2012, 07:30 »
My PP sales are not showing yet. Anyone sees them or they didn't start processing?
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