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« on: August 30, 2013, 07:24 »
Great to see sales, congrats Don a nice concept image, hopefully more to follow.
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« on: August 28, 2013, 06:41 »
I couldn't get the slider to go full width on the standard home page template, so I decided to use the home page simple and it worked, giving me the look I wanted and took all those WordPress sections away on the right hand side. I also added the homepage widgets for text in the lower thirds, just to get some text on the homepage for SEO. I cannot however get the featured images to display on the home page. Like you I don't know what I might be missing using a different homepage template, but it gave me the look I wanted for my site, so I have moved on from thinking about it.
It is an uphill struggle for someone like me with no WordPress knowledge or coding skills, it's just trial and error and searching this forum and asking questions here. Cathy has been very helpful to me.
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« on: August 20, 2013, 11:51 »
It would be nice to have a Wikipedia Symbiostock page and try and make Symbiostock a term for stock sales direct without an agency. I have no problem with taking the name "microstock" out of symbiostock.
My EULA is my version of simple, with a few points made about protecting models and me etc. I tried to make it short enough that a person would read it!
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« on: August 20, 2013, 07:55 »
I added it to my network also
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« on: August 20, 2013, 07:27 »
I have the basic child theme and free plugins, I'm at the stage where the investment is minimal but I'm looking for an element of success before I invest more $, I have tried in the past with Photoshelter and never got a sale or significant traffic. Symbiostock has already far exceeded the Photoshelter experience I had because of the forums we have here and the willingness of other artists to share information and help get your site online and functioning well.
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« on: August 19, 2013, 09:14 »
That's good to know the minimum size for 300dpi, maybe the default medium size needs to be increased from 1200px to 1500px, as 300 dpi would seem to offer better value for a customer. Thanks for your research.
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« on: August 19, 2013, 09:03 »
Thank you so much, I just set my medium to 2000px updated the settings and now my medium files are 300 dpi. So much to learn and read, Thanks again.
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« on: August 19, 2013, 08:49 »
I see some photographers have the medium file size set to 300 dpi same as large, how do you do this as mine is 72 dpi for medium.
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« on: August 18, 2013, 15:43 »
Symbiostock must be a brand, it has a Woo Hoo thread !! 
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« on: August 18, 2013, 15:39 »
How do you know if that new registered user is spam
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« on: August 18, 2013, 12:28 »
I think it might be important to add that symbio site owners need to keep in mind who their customers are likely to be when setting up pricing. A customer who is willing to pay a hundred dollar fee for an image is probably not browsing google for the appropriate image. On the other hand the customer who finds you via the search engines may not have ever used an agency. I try to ask myself what I would pay for this image and set my pricing accordingly. If you have the type of images that will appeal to professional buyers and you feel like you can reach them direct then charge for it. But if you are more likely to get the 2nd category of buyers you should adjust your pricing for that market.
I agree Also through the eight years I have been doing this the biggest market for my images has been web usage. I have only had one large print deal (bus shelter advert), most are web pages or 1/4 magazine or newspapers pages. The market has moved from the traditionally high fees and is continuing to evolve and we can't change that. Between free images from Google for Google drive and magazines that should know better going after free Flickr images for the thrill of a credit line, I'm happy with my price points, I'm attempting to give buyers good quality images at fair prices and hold onto 100% of the image licenece fee.
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« on: August 17, 2013, 08:36 »
I would love to price my photographs at higher prices..............but I have all my Easy Buy Photos on microstock sites and if I don't reflect that price level I'm undermining my Symbiostock site and wasting all this time and effort. I do have images with Alamy a lot exclusively there as RM and have not decided to put them on my Sy site. I hope Symbiostock will grow as a concept into a higher value marketplace but it has been born from a microstock idea of fair pricing for artists. We are after all discussing this thread on The Microstock Group.
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« on: August 16, 2013, 08:45 »
Just had another sale. Wonderful. Buyer managed to get the image, but she said it was constantly downloading as an HTML, how do I fix that again?
Anyhoo, she bought the large version, so thats 17.50 euro, about 23.50 dollar. Again outperforming at least 4 sites. If I can get 2 / 3 sales per month, I am a happy camper.
Congrats very encouraging...............back to uploading and Yoasting!
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« on: August 15, 2013, 19:01 »
If you enter site:yoursiteurl.com in google search, you will see your images that have been indexed. If they are there, google has them. But lack of seo might move them farther down in the search.
Thanks for this information Cathy, I just searched doing this and only have 24 photos indexed plus my slider photos, so it's going to take sometime. Congrats on having a sale. Norman
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« on: August 15, 2013, 13:48 »
First sale was back in April and have numerous sales since.
Sales were down a bit in July, but August is off to a great start with 11 sold images so far.
Congratulation with those amazing results already!
I Wonder if I must doing something wrong; I have almost 4000 Pictures; have been running since (almost) the beginning but have not a single sale so far. More disturbing to me is the very low number of views I have (only 1 today for example and not more than 5/& 6 a day those last weeks ....).
I havent yet done much for the SEO, have started optimizing with yoast but it will take quite a long time!
Thanks to Leo to have put this together; it is an exiting project, but discouraging as well sometimes....
Jean
That is surprising as your photographs are great
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« on: August 15, 2013, 11:28 »
The Royalty Free Image addition to the title, is built into the SY template to find it, go to your dashboard select Symbiostock>Author Options, scroll down the page to Append Text to Title :Royalty Free Image you can change whats in the box.
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« on: August 14, 2013, 11:06 »
MSG name: easybuyphotos.com
Website: http://easybuyphotos.com
Topics: Photography only: people, lifestyle, travel, food and objects
Portfolio size: 300, another 2,000 images to add
Would like to link with: similar subject websites to mine
Great work!
Thanks, I like your homepage slider!
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« on: August 14, 2013, 10:43 »
MSG name: easybuyphotos.com Website: http://easybuyphotos.comTopics: Photography only: people, lifestyle, travel, food and objects Portfolio size: 300, another 2,000 images to add Would like to link with: similar subject websites to mine
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« on: August 11, 2013, 13:50 »
Another thing to consider is the number of Buyers who are photographers and illustrators and have had their goodwill to agencies tried to the breaking point, who are open to a Symbiostock concept. When I got involved in microstock in 2005, one of the key features of the microstock concept was bringing professional style images to Mom & Pop shops and business's who could not afford traditional stock photography, so these business's had clip art adverts that the local newspaper had as freebies, now look at how very small business can look so professional in all aspects of their operation from print to point of sale and T.V. These business's haven't gone anywhere and are a good potential customer of each Symbiostock website, small business trading with small business owners.
I think you made a valid point. Furthermore, most of the local businesses that I see using stock photos only have a few. They don't need several of them, let alone 250 new ones per month. Buying a credit plan with a stock agency is largely a waste of their money. The other side of the coin is, don't expect much in the way of repeat business. They just a few new photos now and then to freshen up adverts.
I agree but increasingly these small business's are hiring local graphic designers who I believe are the key to this market, so that is who we should be getting the Symbiostock story to. The future of Symbiostock is marketing beyond and in addition to seo and if this concept evolves something like a system wide "advertising membership $% or fee" that could be a growing pool of funds to buy the print ads or other relevant marketing efforts to grow the network.
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« on: August 11, 2013, 11:35 »
Another thing to consider is the number of Buyers who are photographers and illustrators and have had their goodwill to agencies tried to the breaking point, who are open to a Symbiostock concept. When I got involved in microstock in 2005, one of the key features of the microstock concept was bringing professional style images to Mom & Pop shops and business's who could not afford traditional stock photography, so these business's had clip art adverts that the local newspaper had as freebies, now look at how very small business can look so professional in all aspects of their operation from print to point of sale and T.V. These business's haven't gone anywhere and are a good potential customer of each Symbiostock website, small business trading with small business owners.
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« on: August 09, 2013, 16:01 »
I have my photo in most areas apart from one, how do you get the photo in the drop section of your author site. Let me explain, if I go to a site I'm linked with and search their site for a subject, the network results that show are a sliding bar of images, when you click on the bar "persons name network results" a drop down menu appears, the photo in that drop down menu where is it in the settings so I can check why mine isn't showing up, I get the default SY logo instead. Thanks
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« on: August 09, 2013, 13:14 »
A lot of posts are about finding models and do you pay or TFP but I would like to know how you find interesting interior locations for models shoots and do you pay for the location and if so how much.
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« on: August 09, 2013, 07:30 »
After a couple of days of seeing the upgrade nagging me on the dashboard and my site seemingly working I couldn't resist any longer and upgraded everything to get rid of the notifications. Yes the uploader disappeared but I saw the comment by cathy replying to someone else with the same problem. I activated the theme with the wheels, then instantly activated the main Symbiostock theme, then the child theme and have had the uploader working ever since. Just checking logging on today, still there.
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« on: August 08, 2013, 15:48 »
Does your slider get you to set the size of the display etc and then have an upload button to load photos directly into the slider. I used the Soliloquy slider plug in and that's what you do with that upload directly into the a new slider, name it set the display size, timing of the slides and paste the code to the page you want it to display on, the slider photos are uploaded directly from my computer to the slider widget.
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« on: August 08, 2013, 08:51 »
If we never try anything new non of us would be on any stock agencies or microstock sites, I think SY is worth a try, it's a very low cost to get involved and then it's only your time getting content uploaded. Microstock has improved my photography skills by making me achieve higher quality images, Symbiostock is starting to teach me computer coding skills and the mechanics of site development which I can take into any area of blogging etc.
I have also had a chance to look at keywords and descriptions again as I upload to my easybuyphoto site and realize how inadequate they were from some years ago and how I can improve the chances of sales by editing again.
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