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Cutcaster / We need buyers... so here is the plan!
« on: August 15, 2008, 03:36 »
Hi all,
I have been looking for a "set your own price" MicroStock alternative for a long time now. I think I am going to settle for cutcaster..... Mainly cause I am impressed with how involved John Griffin (the owner) is with everything and how he makes quick changes and gives quick responses here.
Great going John. You are the reason I joint Cutcaster so keep it up.
My concern is that, even though Cutcaster is great for photographers, it's not really that great for buyers. And in a competitive environment, like microstock, you just GOT TO offer buyers something really special and different or they are not going to come to you. Why should they? I mean, they got so many many alternatives. So many of them are cheaper and have huge databases of images!
So, cutcaster needs to have images that nobody else has. You need exclusivity to be there John.
But that itself is also not going to do much. If some images are exclusive to cutcaster; there will be others that are available elsewhere, maybe better and surely cheaper.
So my solution is, you need to have exclusive and niche images on cutcaster. Cutcaster needs to become the place where buyers get really rare images that they don't get anywhere else. Then you at least have your foot in the door. Once you have buyers taking you seriously, you can have all the usual stuff that everyone also has so that you become a "one stop shop".
I am sure that there is nothing new to what I have said. But here is my contribution and my plan...
I started a small blog today... http://ms-niche.blogspot.com/
The idea is simple, 3 times a week I post 10 "niche photo ideas". People shoot those photos and sell it on a place like cutcaster or snapvillage by setting your own pice. Make the images exclusive there.
This will help the photographers. This will help cutcaster. In the long run, hopefully it will help to sell all your images at a higher price.
Wooha! Huge post,
Thanks for reading!
Looking forward to your opinions.
I have been looking for a "set your own price" MicroStock alternative for a long time now. I think I am going to settle for cutcaster..... Mainly cause I am impressed with how involved John Griffin (the owner) is with everything and how he makes quick changes and gives quick responses here.
Great going John. You are the reason I joint Cutcaster so keep it up.
My concern is that, even though Cutcaster is great for photographers, it's not really that great for buyers. And in a competitive environment, like microstock, you just GOT TO offer buyers something really special and different or they are not going to come to you. Why should they? I mean, they got so many many alternatives. So many of them are cheaper and have huge databases of images!
So, cutcaster needs to have images that nobody else has. You need exclusivity to be there John.
But that itself is also not going to do much. If some images are exclusive to cutcaster; there will be others that are available elsewhere, maybe better and surely cheaper.
So my solution is, you need to have exclusive and niche images on cutcaster. Cutcaster needs to become the place where buyers get really rare images that they don't get anywhere else. Then you at least have your foot in the door. Once you have buyers taking you seriously, you can have all the usual stuff that everyone also has so that you become a "one stop shop".
I am sure that there is nothing new to what I have said. But here is my contribution and my plan...
I started a small blog today... http://ms-niche.blogspot.com/
The idea is simple, 3 times a week I post 10 "niche photo ideas". People shoot those photos and sell it on a place like cutcaster or snapvillage by setting your own pice. Make the images exclusive there.
This will help the photographers. This will help cutcaster. In the long run, hopefully it will help to sell all your images at a higher price.
Wooha! Huge post,
Thanks for reading!
Looking forward to your opinions.