Quote from: everest on July 13, 2023, 21:51
Thank you very much. I will try it for sure. I am used to stocksubmitter but with escalating prices of that software I am looking at other options.....

That is why I moved to ImStocker. They have the best pricing model out of all of the available tools.

StockSubmitter supports more marketplace auto-submission functionality, but I don't mind doing the final on-site submission process myself. It's mainly the multi-marketplace upload functionality I need, the final submission process doesn't take nearly as much time.

Did you have to opt-in, or was this automatic?

I wish more of the marketplaces would do this. I know that they aren't marketed as file storage services, but storage has become so cheap and the contributors sure appreciate it.

Glad I'm not the only one who sees Wirestock is a negative light. The main thing is that the 15% cut of the contributors sales is not worth it when you have tools like Xpiks and StockSubmitter that don't take a percentage of your sales. Then I have other issues with Wirestock, like how contributor content is not being held under their own marketplace accounts, but under Wirestock's accounts instead. I think Wirestock is bad for the contributor and the industry as a whole. With Wirestock's new announcement about charging a flat fee for submissions on top of the 15% sales cut, I predict they are going the way of Netflix by angering their custom base and causing many to leave.

Quote from: cobalt on February 12, 2023, 16:25
But it is a forum with many longtime users who have a lot of experience, this is true.

This place is a treasure trove of historical microstock information. After reading some of these really old posts, I can see how much the business has changed over the years. Gives a good idea of how competitive it has become, and also how the marketplaces have dramatically driven down the prices :/

It usually only takes a day or two for me. Maybe it's because you submitted a large set of images and its taking them longer to process?

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Quote from: leaf on June 19, 2006, 11:13
sorry, I had that same question not long ago.

I have added an entry to the MicrostockWiki   you can read it here
Tear Sheet - Microstock Wiki

This link is dead 

Yes and this thread was dead back in 2015 ~ are you just spamming the forum to draw traffic to your blog?

If so stop it its annoying

Nah mate, I was curious about what a tear sheet is. Also, I'm trying to help out the forum when I see dead internal links. It isn't my intention to spam, I'm trying to contribute to the conversation. If posting on old threads is against the rules here, I will stop. I see plenty of other members with their personal websites in their signatures, I didn't think it was an issue.

There are a few photography subs on Reddit that I follow.

You can use Feedly to follow a bunch of different photography sites from one interface, I find that very useful.

guest posting with other photographers, maybe we can exchange posts/links depending on your niche?

directory sites like blogarama

forums like microstockgroup

social sites like fb, ig, minds, mastodon, twitter, tumblr, etc.

portfolio sites like behance, flickr, etc

microstock marketplace contributor profiles on adobe stock, shutter stock, etc.

and the most important thing to remember is to make good content on your website and people will naturally link to it

That's pretty cool, I bookmarked it. The website design looks good. I will give it a try on my next batch of uploads.

Never heard of this one, although I am familiar with Minds. I think everything that has happened in the crypto world has dramatically changed the publics opinion on it.

When I read "virtual art walk", I thought virtual reality art show inside of something like VRChat. I looked it up, and sure enough it does exist. O_O

Coming from a lifelong Adobe software users, Davinci Resolve is better. Never thought I would switch away from Adobe, but I like Davinci more. It just feels nicer to navigate, and looks better too.

Interesting. Selling book cover art is something I never really considered. I could see this going hand-in-hand with the self-published Amazon/Kindle book people, that could be a target audience to market towards.

It would be extremely hard to sell stock from your own website. You are competing against massive corporations like AdobeStock and ShutterStock. They have large teams of content writers, social media teams, huge advertising budgets, massive portfolios, dirt cheap consumer pricing, etc. 

You would be better off going in the artistic print direction if you wanted to sell from your own site. Using a print-on-demand service to dropship niche art prints of your work. While simultaneously displaying your work at local art shows or small businesses.

You could try selling it as editorial, without a release form. I would consider an airshow to be good editorial content.

Quote from: leaf on June 19, 2006, 11:13
sorry, I had that same question not long ago.

I have added an entry to the MicrostockWiki   you can read it here
Tear Sheet - Microstock Wiki

This link is dead 

There are a couple dead links in the guide here.

MicrostockGroup Blog
Rasmus Rasmussen's Guide

Maybe someone deleted their reply?