Hi Anita,

We've been adding so many images lately that our uploader has been getting stuck and I've had to un-jam it a few times It should be good now and there shouldn't be as much of a delay as you saw before. Thanks for being patient!

Thanks danoph.  no worries   I'm happy with it.   Sounds like ya'all are getting a lot new contributers and a ton of uploads  

Oh!  While your here (I know this is another thread and I'm lazy today) I noticed you've started adding stock photos to the site.  Have photos been selling or is it too soon to tell?

Thanks  

I know it's not instantaneous.  I uploaded 11 pm last night and checked them this morning and showed up nowhere in pending or approved.  I think there might be a glitch in there system so I tried uploading again this afternoon and will check again this evening.  If they don't appear anywhere then I'll contact support.  This is just very frustrating.

*cough*8*cough* June 2009 with a tiny port and my port is like 3 times it was back then and the most I've been able to get was 5 a few days ago.

I got a sale this past weekend on GL not much but I'm happy.  Now if I could just get Cutcaster going and the3dstudio (and on that one need to figure out blender and make them some 3d images which could help with getting going on that site

Very easy to upload to once I asked for an ftp account heh!

All of mine are in folders marked eps, large jpg, small jpg and the like.  I also sort by month.  My stuff stays outside of the target folders until I upload once that's all done at the 8 sites I'm on I move my images into their respective folders and I get on with doing more.  I upload once a week and basically 10 images so it's relatively easy for me to keep track.  I don't worry too much about the accepted/rejected stuff anymore what get's accepted into my port is more important than the rejected ones.

For me in the microstock industry it's been an uphill battle.  I've been wondering to myself all week what do buyers want?  I apparently haven't hit on the right thing yet.  I'm still a relative newbie with a small port and being offline for 8 months when the computer had a coronary didn't help either.  I started with my first site back in April/May 2009 but have only really been doing this for maybe 4 months due to the computer problem.

I myself am not looking to get rich with this just enough to pay our internet bill every month would make me happy.  I do vectors only at the moment and am still learning Illustrator but I've been consistently creating an average of about 10 new images per week (it probably would be more if I wasn't running our business at the same time while the bf works his full time job .

You definitely have to stay focused on what you're doing.  I too have a list of images in a notebook that I'd like to create (it stands right now with a list of 58) and have been trying to stick too it although I'll get distracted and make other things that aren't on my list.  I do hear from a lot of people that your port should be varied and cover a wide range of subjects but I also hear from others that if you find something that sells well, stick with that.  So who really knows which is right...my guess probably both.

I also believe that your only competition is really just with yourself.  I fight with my inner me all the time going "Man!  My stuff must suck badly because it's not selling at all" as well as..."Man!  Why can't I create something like that!  I must suck at this royally!"  And I'm probably not the only one that this happens to either.  I have sales at all but 1 of the agencies that I belong to and hope that this year I can actually build a decent port and make payout.  That would be nice

And I realize that I don't think my post has a point but I felt the need to say something even if it was nothing at all

Definitely if you have 3d renders go to http://www.the3dstudio.com also Graphic Leftovers http://www.graphicleftovers.com is good too but email support and ask for an ftp account as contributors have had problems with the html upload system (I found this out the hard way).  I'm currently apart of SS, DT, FT, GL, 3d, Cutcaster and deposit photos.  I'm part of another one but am going to drop them as they rejected almost half of my portfolio esp the ones that sell well on the other sites.

Good luck with what you decide to go with.

Anita

Nope no sales yet hopefully it'll happen sooner than later.  Congrats to those that have gotten sales.

Quote from: Anita Potter on February 20, 2010, 23:07

12 of my images are exclusive there but so far no sales yet.  Just wonder what I'm missing to get in on the sales.

I don't know the answer, Anita, but I think linking a lightbox to all the search engines with keywords included has helped bring buyers to my portfolio.  There is a blog article on Cutcaster explaining how to create these links.

I'll look into that tonight to see if it'll help.  Thanks

You only have the full daily upload quota is your approval rate is 80% or over. If not, you will have 1/5-th of those quota = 10.

Ah yeah said it's at 69.1% probably going off the last time I uploaded which was back in June and had some rejections.  I just wish their review process was a wee bit quicker.  90+ hours everytime I do manage to upload is getting annoying.  It didn't used to be that long.  I think I'll wait until I get 10 done before I upload again.

Thanks.

Okay that makes up my mind then.  Thanks.

Yeah I'm not going exclusive anywhere.  I'm just tired of not making much of anything over there.  $2.16 since may 2009 not good.  I'd rather spend my time uploading to the other sites I'm on.  I'll have to wait until next week to take care of it.  It's a little too hard to try to do this on my phone.

Thanks