Show Posts
1
Alamy.com / New approach to Alamy?
« on: July 22, 2013, 06:38 »
Hi all,
I run a small non-exclusive photo agency called incamerastock and were looking for a small number of new contributors to work with.
We place our images mainly on Alamy where we have an excellent AlamyRank i.e. our contributors images are returned in keyword searches starting at the top of Page 1. This means we make a large number of sales each month for the number of images in our collection.
Currently, Alamy customers are mainly newspapers, magazines (editorial) and textbook publishers but they are making good progress in securing creative (ad, marketing and design agency) clients. At the moment our collection is mainly RM, but because of Alamys push for creative clients and their increasing number of deals with publishers where the licence designation is essentially irrelevant, we are looking to increase the quantity and quality of our RF images.
I started off as a solo Alamy contributor in 2004. Ive never placed images on microstock because by the time I had my foot in the macro door and started making regular sales I could see I didnt have the time needed to build a microstock folio as well, and I shoot & produce stock full-time. I started incamerastock in 2011 to help out a couple of friends with good stock folios but a poor Alamy Rank (because they didnt understand how it worked) and weve gone from there. Weve been through all the Alamy changes and have remained constantly at the top of the search engine due to well-processed, high-quality, saleable images tailored for Alamys target audience and our sales figures continue to grow: http://incamerastock.com/2013/07/10/theres-still-money-in-stock-photography/
To ensure we retain our search position and also to make sure you have the type of work which appeals to their customer base, we will edit your images. We also do all the keywording from scratch, because Alamy has a non-standard keywording approach and getting it right is a vital part of making sales there. So all you need to do is provide us with the images and a caption we do everything else.
We know how frustrating it is to spend time and effort uploading images to agencies that dont perform thats why we dont take on everyone who wants to join incamerastock. Well be honest with you about whether we think your images would sell on Alamy. Check out this page to see if you have the kind of work were looking for: http://incamerastock.com/photographers/
If you are already on Alamy but are buried in the pack, or want to try Alamy for the first time and are not sure how to go about it, check out: http://incamerastock.com/ and if you want to know more about how we can help you, contact us via the email contact form on the website.
Jon
I run a small non-exclusive photo agency called incamerastock and were looking for a small number of new contributors to work with.
We place our images mainly on Alamy where we have an excellent AlamyRank i.e. our contributors images are returned in keyword searches starting at the top of Page 1. This means we make a large number of sales each month for the number of images in our collection.
Currently, Alamy customers are mainly newspapers, magazines (editorial) and textbook publishers but they are making good progress in securing creative (ad, marketing and design agency) clients. At the moment our collection is mainly RM, but because of Alamys push for creative clients and their increasing number of deals with publishers where the licence designation is essentially irrelevant, we are looking to increase the quantity and quality of our RF images.
I started off as a solo Alamy contributor in 2004. Ive never placed images on microstock because by the time I had my foot in the macro door and started making regular sales I could see I didnt have the time needed to build a microstock folio as well, and I shoot & produce stock full-time. I started incamerastock in 2011 to help out a couple of friends with good stock folios but a poor Alamy Rank (because they didnt understand how it worked) and weve gone from there. Weve been through all the Alamy changes and have remained constantly at the top of the search engine due to well-processed, high-quality, saleable images tailored for Alamys target audience and our sales figures continue to grow: http://incamerastock.com/2013/07/10/theres-still-money-in-stock-photography/
To ensure we retain our search position and also to make sure you have the type of work which appeals to their customer base, we will edit your images. We also do all the keywording from scratch, because Alamy has a non-standard keywording approach and getting it right is a vital part of making sales there. So all you need to do is provide us with the images and a caption we do everything else.
We know how frustrating it is to spend time and effort uploading images to agencies that dont perform thats why we dont take on everyone who wants to join incamerastock. Well be honest with you about whether we think your images would sell on Alamy. Check out this page to see if you have the kind of work were looking for: http://incamerastock.com/photographers/
If you are already on Alamy but are buried in the pack, or want to try Alamy for the first time and are not sure how to go about it, check out: http://incamerastock.com/ and if you want to know more about how we can help you, contact us via the email contact form on the website.
Jon
