I think you need to edit it in to the right format.

Wow, social media promotion and google ads, the recipe for disaster followed by new sites for a decade now.

Like Einstein said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Quote from: sharpshot on March 02, 2016, 07:13

Quote from: christopher81083 on March 02, 2016, 06:05

By Co-operative site do you mean a site that allows the users to have input, chat etc? That's kind of what mine's aiming for, people can add bios to their accounts, leave feed back and write reviews, I don't want it to be a strict selling site, more of a community for creative people, long way to go, but it's a start.

No, what I would like to see is a site majority owned by photographers, illustrators, videographers and designers.

Well that is kind of what this is, I'm a graphic designer, the 3 people that created the site are web designers, just need a photographer to have input. I think it's a good idea, I just had a chat with Vlad from Russian on it, this is the main aim, people from creatives all over the world connecting. I know its been done before but hey ho.

Still not what I meant, I would like to see thousands of people have an equal share in a site.  Then it can't be sold to Getty and we wont get our cut of image license sales reduced to a point where it no longer becomes worth uploading.  Until that happens, I will avoid almost all the new sites because it has all been done many times before and almost always isn't successful for contributors.

Hi guys, everything is registered to me as I own a company, but I have web designers heading the project.
This all came about as I wanted to sell my templates as I'm a graphic designer, not web designer, I was advised it would be a good idea to allow others to sell their creatives as well.
There's Terms and Conditions on the site once you sign up, login you have to agree to them when you submit an item and also when purchasing, but agreed I'll ask the team to create a page on the main nav.
Thanks for the help.
And posting my address is a low blow.

That might not of been good advice, just look at the long list of sites on the right of this page.  Most of them sell almost nothing and there seems to be new sites starting every week for over a decade.  I've lost count of how many new sites closed, must be hundreds by now.  Picking a name that's very similar to one of the established sites is likely to get you in to trouble.

New sites might have a chance if they are prepared to spend millions.  I hope one day someone will try a co-operative site, that could stand a chance, if it is discussed a lot here and with designers first.

Starting a site with a similar name to 123RF and posting in this forum where they probably look seems like a dumb idea to me.

Sold my first mobile phone photo for $2.  Used a few sites but had no luck in over 6 months, so I will have to upload a lot more images.
https://www.twenty20.com/photos/3fe1283f-f225-42dc-96cb-b0721c630372

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on March 01, 2016, 01:10

Quote from: Minscer on February 29, 2016, 20:22

I don't mind competition. It's pointless to rip off my work off because I already have enough competitors. My competitors already know how well it sells, so what's left for them to rip off?

Then why not post a link to your work?

It's one thing to have competition who can look at my work, but are totally oblivious to why my images are on the 1st page. It's another to create competition with direct knowledge of my work and techniques. No, I don't have any magical sauce, but one thing I'm not keen on sharing is my search engine optimization patterns.

How would you keep SEO patterns secret if you have relatively new images on the 1st page of popular searches?  People don't just make near copies of images on the 1st page, they also copy the keywords.  Then the sites or google can change everything.

I still think the best way to deal with the huge competition is to work on things most of them can't do.

My two cents----I don't like if you have one image wrong out of the whole batch of images submitted, you have to go to Time Out for 30 days.  Please--give me a break.  I never had to go to Time Out even as a Kid.  Do you like going to Time Out?

Don't get the one image wrong then.  I much prefer their reviews to any microstock site.

I thought they were going to fill this up with clips that weren't selling well?  If not, this is alarming.

We don't know who the lurkers are here.  I think there are lots of full timers that probably glance at this forum occasionally but don't waste their time posting.

In the UK, we have to endure listening to George Osborne telling us 'We're all in this together' while cutting taxes for the richest and taking money away from the poorest.  He is a multi millionaire, like lots of the present government, how can they possibly relate to people that have to use soup kitchens to feed their family?  I wish we had a real democracy, a government that represented people from all society.  We lurch from one extreme to the other.

....What you think would be your monthly average upload in one year period if 1 million dollars would be guaranteed as reward and you would be able to give it 100% effort and focus?

For a guaranteed 1 million, I would do 1 a month, why do more