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951
« on: October 13, 2012, 03:42 »
There is absolutely nothing that you can do except maybe produce images that would be good for book covers or calendars and even then there is no guarantee that anybody will want them. My els are all on totally random images. I have never seen a pattern to the sort of images used.
952
« on: October 12, 2012, 14:45 »
If you work for money or wealth or income, you get into a cycle of never having enough and always wanting more money and therefore miss the enjoyment of living. It becomes just as bad of an addiction as drugs. Money won't make you happy, but neither will poverty.
Happiness comes from inside!
So true. I read somewhere that if you are a happy person and win the lottery you will be a rich happy person but if you are a miserable person and win the lottery you will be a rich miserable person.
953
« on: October 12, 2012, 09:24 »
You are correct when you say that newer images are still selling from Emeralds ports. Some of my newer files are selling very well but virtually nothing of more than 6 months old is selling. Everything older than that is nowhere to be found in the searches. If I stopped uploading for 6 months I would barely have any sales at all.
954
« on: October 12, 2012, 08:39 »
The real reason why a diverse and large well selling port is suddently going on ground is usually competition.
The port is being replaced, by better and cheaper content.
Mechanisms that apply to single pictures also applies to whole portefolios. Or even to agencies.
So you who are hit, take a look at the competition, are your pictures being replaced? Are whole big portefolios with the same content as yours being uploaded?
Doesn't apply in this case. It wasn't a gradual process of better content being uploaded it was a sudden death of all different type of images suddenly not selling and it happened to quite a few of us at the same time.
955
« on: October 12, 2012, 06:42 »
Anyka I'm european and emerald and mine dropped by 70%. My sales are also european working hours. Rarely sell much during the european night .
Wow 70% ! In that case I really don't know why my sales went down "only 18%" compared to the other Emeralds. I cannot see your portfolio, but I assume it's not totally US-oriented.
I often make images with the idea of appealing to the US. I just don't think that fotolia sell a lot more in Europe.
956
« on: October 12, 2012, 04:50 »
My Fotolia sales is down 15 to 18% compared to last year, but only in August, September and October. Before that, I still had monthly growth of about 5%. I am Emerald. So the theory of Emeralds being punished severely does not apply to me, unless you call 18% "severely" (and if you do, how would you call Lisa's -90%?). Of course, -18% does not make me happy, as Fotolia is my n2 seller!!
I do notice that 90% of my Fotolia sales happen during my (European) working hours, so I suppose the main % of their buyers are European, and so am I.
Anyka I'm european and emerald and mine dropped by 70%. My sales are also european working hours. Rarely sell much during the european night .
957
« on: October 11, 2012, 16:25 »
Actually it is of significance, as it seems many of the small fish (unfortunately not me) are benefiting from the drought of the big players. Looks like a more even spread to the bottom. Is there financial benefit in it for FT (selling more images of lower ranked contributors and less of the high ones)? Surely they save on commission payouts? If so, it might not be a blunder on their side, but rather a "clever" business / financial strategy.
You've summed it up very well. I like the quotes around "clever" because I do wonder about the long term viability of such a strategy.
Lisa, haven't you improved at all since the begining of the month? I was sort of hoping that you had then my good month might not be just random but actually a push for emeralds.
958
« on: October 11, 2012, 15:38 »
Is it just coincidence that I'm now seeing within-thread adverts, or were they always there, even for premiums (just not at the top of the page), and I only just noticed after reading this thread?
I've got a couple of very annoying flashy things on the right which I didn't notice until yesterday.
959
« on: October 11, 2012, 15:10 »
grp_photo has left the building!!
960
« on: October 11, 2012, 07:39 »
dont want to start a fight but looking at your referrals around all agencies I dont actually feel the need of paying the 25$, even if it goes to Kiva at first (already there on MSP team) sorry but I am just being honest 
Nobody is saying that you should, that is why it is a voluntary payment. Some of us think that the service provided outweighs any "earnings" that Leaf might get from it.
961
« on: October 11, 2012, 06:10 »
Hi!
#16 is actually in my wife's portfolio, and had 160+ downloads over the years (100+ on SS), with extended licenses too (on IS)
All in all - not completely useless - there must be something wrong with those buyers ...
:-)))))))))))))))) That was actually one that I thought shouldn't be there as it is quite a useful image.
962
« on: October 11, 2012, 05:33 »
It's a nice idea but a bit impractical. I'm sure that nobody likes cleaning toilets etc so if we all did this none of the horrible jobs would ever be done. Saying that I have always told my children get an education and then to go for something they will enjoy even if it earns them less money that something they would hate doing.
963
« on: October 11, 2012, 02:35 »
I was thinking about starting a thread for the opposite reason, to ask if the emeralds that experienced a drop have gone back up a bit. I'm about 70% up from the first 10 days of September. It's been too consistant now to be just good luck so with what you are all are saying I'm guessing that there has been another seach change.
It's great to finally be one of the lucky ones.
Will be interested to see what Lisa has to say as her trend seems to have mirrored mine.
964
« on: October 10, 2012, 08:07 »
Jealousy sets in when ppl, declare way over, 100 bucks per day. what a pitty, so sad! my heart is bleeding.
What is that supposed to mean? Nobody has mentioned being jealous of downloads. This thread is about reviewing not dls. You seem to exist on a different plain to everybody else.
965
« on: October 10, 2012, 05:32 »
How much longer is this reviewer going to be cashing a 123RF pay cheque before they realize they've made a mistake?
Forever if you just re-submit without reporting it 
966
« on: October 10, 2012, 02:01 »
Sorry to hear that Cora. Keep positive and wishing you a very speedy recovery.
967
« on: October 09, 2012, 10:04 »
Yes, I agree with the ads not flashing.
968
« on: October 09, 2012, 08:34 »
Post read 99 times. Come on some of you it's well worth the 25$ to help keep this site open.
969
« on: October 09, 2012, 08:33 »
I have no problem with seeing ads although it doesn't help the financial situation. We really need to get more people on board but so far only people that do pay have answered the thread although I'm sure others must be reading and hopefully will get a prick of conscience and sign up.
970
« on: October 09, 2012, 04:06 »
I've never really noticed the ads. I pay it to support the site as I find it so useful for so many things and as you said it saves going to all the sites or at least gives me a heads up to go and check out a thread. Well worth the 25$, not even 50c a week!!!
971
« on: October 08, 2012, 16:30 »
I use firefox and don't remember ever having a problem.
+1
No problem here.
what? how are you guys getting it to work. It loads and loads forever for me then 95% of the time gives a timed out error
Which version are you on? Latest is 16. Try to go to Tools then Add-ons. Select plugins and select the Check to see if they are updated blue highlighted text. Also make sure your Java and Flash are up to date. If all of that is done and you still have a problem, buy a new PC 
Isn't the latest version 15.0.1 or are talking about the beta. Surely a beta software shouldn't be needs to make a current website work.
Plug-ins are up to date.
I'm using 15.0.1
972
« on: October 05, 2012, 16:43 »
I use firefox and don't remember ever having a problem.
973
« on: October 04, 2012, 18:09 »
Making it even easier for people to keep an eye on the ports of people they want to copy!
974
« on: October 04, 2012, 16:20 »
LOL lucky you. Mine says 0 followers!!!
975
« on: October 04, 2012, 08:50 »
Are you still uploading there Lisa? I would be 90% down as well if it wasn't for images uploaded in the last 6 months. It seems to me that they pick one image out of each batch I submit and put that one up in the search. These images get multiple sales daily for a few months and then seem to die down again. Hardly anything except for the 'chosen' image sells. 7 out of 10 of my sales are from these images.
ETA I'm still 70% down from a couple of years ago but this year has not dropped so drastically
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Believe it or not, I have been uploading, and I have experienced what you are talking about. One or two images per batch seems to take off and sell a few times a day. But you may have hit on one of my problems. I normally upload over 1k images a year, but this past year it's about half that. You know how it is, real life happens.
But FT is the only site where I've seen that sort of drop. By comparison, Istock, with their nosedive, is down by half what FT is.
Despite the same low uploads, SS and DT have held up well.
I've just looked at my last 20 dls and 16 of them come from 4 images
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