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General Stock Discussion / This is a Generic Brand Video
« on: March 26, 2014, 14:46 »
In case you could use a quick smile, This is a Generic Brand Video:
- Ann
- Ann
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General Stock Discussion / This is a Generic Brand Video« on: March 26, 2014, 14:46 »
In case you could use a quick smile, This is a Generic Brand Video:
- Ann 27
Alamy.com / Re: Why encourage me to upload again?« on: February 04, 2014, 14:06 »]Well, comparing what percent of its total library a subscription site sells over a year to what percent a non-subscription site sells is certainly worth noting, but is also missing significant relevant info, such as what commission is earned from typical sale for each.... But, more importantly, if a contributor determines an agency is not working out for him, acting on that makes sense, of course. I can certainly relate, since I now have active files on just 2 images agencies - the other ones were either a waste of time and/or didn't treat contributors in a satisfactory way and/or were no longer a fit for where my photography's going. (As an aside - Except for those already successful at stock, I no longer see it as something worth working harder and longer and smarter at, in hopes of becoming more successful. Unless one's geography, health, family, skills, time... limit options, better to find less speculative ways to increase one's photography income.) I think those are automated emails. As soon as you hit a time trigger you will get an email. 28
General Stock Discussion / Re: What is your most selling image?« on: February 03, 2014, 07:25 »
Bright kitchen with colorful tulips at side sold over 1,000 times.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: .« on: December 20, 2013, 01:06 »The following error or errors occurred while posting this message:The message body was left empty. 30
Off Topic / Re: Christmas campaign 2013« on: November 28, 2013, 00:02 »
Super, Adelaide! I've enabled notifications for this topic.
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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy changed payment threshold« on: November 24, 2013, 21:44 »But that first sentence really isn't a FACT, is it? Ron: "[size=78%]Alamy is in no rush to collect money, since they give it all away to charity anyways. And when they need extra funding to open a new office, they lower the royalties...."[/size] Two votes down for stating facts. Alamy themselves said they lowered royalties to fund the new office. When you vote down, at least sure its not obvious you vote down the person rather then the comment. 32
Alamy.com / Re: Review time« on: October 19, 2013, 20:44 »
Approval took around 24-48 hours for my most recent submissions.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Accepted into ImageBrief« on: October 03, 2013, 17:16 »
congrats, Ron, and hope to read about your first sales there down the road... lined with lovely yew trees.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Accepted into ImageBrief« on: October 03, 2013, 11:33 »
bhr: in that situation, you could Contact Alamy's Member Services to tell them situation and see if they can help you out. Bottom of this page has link to "Drop our Member Services Team an email": http://www.alamy.com/contributor/help/default.asp
Something I was wondering and cannot find the answer to: is it RM exclusive or can we submit stuff which we are offering RM (non exclusive) at Alamy ? Are the clients always going to be looking for an exclusive period of use ? 35
General Photography Discussion / Re: At what point do we become 'photographers'?« on: August 04, 2013, 19:16 »
One of the useful points Gavin Seim makes is to be more specific than to call oneself a photographer - similarly to how rather uninformative it is to refer to oneself simply as a writer - much more meaningful to say one photographs milestone events for clients, or freelances for X magazine....
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Stocksy / Re: Stocksy Invitation« on: June 29, 2013, 17:14 »
Saptak, LOVE your "Baby Girl with Mobile" and more.....
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Alamy.com / Re: Do you want to ask the Alamy CEO a question?« on: June 21, 2013, 17:16 »
Meant to submit question about making watermarks more effective, perhaps more informative, but let the deadline pass, alas.
Part 1 was worth watching, so looking forward to video response parts 2 & 3. 38
Alamy.com / Re: Alamy strange keywording requirements« on: June 19, 2013, 00:19 »
My average commission is rather good, considering the times, and this is probably a big reason why: when potential buyer 'g images' any of my A files, they're available only on my site & perhaps other macro site.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: this is what sell at Alamy!« on: May 31, 2013, 19:12 »
No, it's not all generic content.
Perhaps the observation is based on visiting a few pages of a few posters' portfolios? If one were to look at some random pages from mine, for ex, one could assume all I cover are politicians (or parades or protests or pets or angels or cities or astronauts or vintage cars...) depending on the pages landed on. 40
Dreamstime.com / Re: An Interesting Commentary by CEPIC to Dreamstime About Giving Images Away« on: May 28, 2013, 11:34 »
Blog posting by Gwyn Headley, Managing Director of fotolibra, on DT's "A Million Free Images":
http://blog.fotolibra.com/?p=3517 And, as mentioned in earlier posts on MSG here, DT's policy of requiring opt out for rejected image = free image, and requirement to disable image unsold for 4 years = free image so clearly works against best interest of actual creators of images & photographers in general. -Ann 41
Selling Stock Direct / Re: Google Analytics visit count inaccurate?« on: April 16, 2013, 02:39 »
I don't think it helps traffic reporting that my homepage = "mydomain.com" -- but separate gallery and image pages = "mydomain.photoshelter.com/....."
Plus, ever since I added extra tracking code suggested on g.a. site to get more precise traffic reporting, # of visits reported increased, but larger percent show up as 1 page, 0 seconds, new visitor (including times it can't be so). 42
General - Top Sites / Re: I am being offered Istock exclusive contract« on: April 06, 2013, 10:55 »
Double check your sent email to make sure you didn't inadvertently accept exclusivity.
If not, and if you decide not to go exclusive, stand firm if they later say you 'accepted' exclusivity by not contacting them when they unilaterally decided to make files Vetta. Great question - so wise to look carefully before you possibly leap into exclusive relationship Provide a link to your port so we can see what they are doing. 43
Alamy.com / Re: Alamy launches NEW site !« on: April 04, 2013, 11:04 »
mtkang - thanks for explaining how to work batch edit - saves a lot of time. How I managed to overlook that feature until now is beyond me.
Hi Cobalt,OMG thank you so much. I had no idea that you could batch assign the attributes. That will save me so much work. 45
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock 'Offset' - a new high end marketplace for stock photos« on: March 22, 2013, 19:38 »
Ponke, that agency's requirement is surprising since not all MPs are created equally.
Nikon's flagship D4 at 16.2 MP wouldn't make it?! I am with an agency that excepts nothing less then 50mb uncompressed, which comes down to about 18mp. All I am shooting is panoramas and stitched images for them. Love it. 46
iStockPhoto.com / Re: istock update for non-exclusives« on: March 21, 2013, 19:45 »
Each file bought from, or uploaded to, IS is a vote that their prices, commissions, terms... are acceptable. Period.
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Off Topic / Re: Snacks have been saved« on: March 20, 2013, 20:19 »
You were allowed to have Coke (the cola) as a child?! A spoon of coffee in a cup of milk was the most we could hope for.
Except for that, though, sounds like your mom & mine had very similar takes on food. Unfortunately, I developed sweet tooth anyway
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Study shows that social media sites rip photo metadata!« on: March 14, 2013, 18:07 »
Here you can see the chart without going on pint'rest - "Photo Metadata Test Results Chart" (I came across it in today's fotoLIBRA pro blog post):
http://www.embeddedmetadata.org/social-media-test-results.php 49
Shutterstock.com / Re: Outlines of states are rejected?« on: March 06, 2013, 18:21 »
I understand how the message behind your vector is meaningful to you.
But, like kisbear, I also live on Long Island, NY, and that area of your map is so off, it might have been better to have skipped LI altogether. all the best - Ann 50
Alamy.com / Re: Alamy prices vary so much & no data on iQ sale size« on: March 04, 2013, 19:05 »
My $ bookmark for agency is set to Balance of account page with statement period of 3 months selected.
(I'm guessing New Revenue page is the go to one particularly for contributors with high volume sales.)
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