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General Stock Discussion / Re: Closed to new contributors
« on: July 31, 2011, 09:14 »
They don't because quality of the gallery would suffer
Part of this success is the simple fact that those contributors who are $10k + submitters provide good images that the buyers want.

You're agreeing with me and saying no.  LOL  I don't know how to refute that.

I'm saying if two images sell and one's from a guy who started today and one is from me, mine cost Shutterstock 56% more to pay out.  The fact that buyers tend to buy my images over the other is what I meant by the gallery would suffer if they removed the $10k people.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Closed to new contributors
« on: July 30, 2011, 10:57 »
These suggestions/ideas make me think you don't understand the economics of microstock.  Shutterstock would be far better off getting rid of everyone who's made $500 or more and keeping all the new photographers who just started.  They don't because quality of the gallery would suffer but they make a lot more money on a new photographers sales then they do mine or someone else who's crossed $10k. 

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Oh, I get sales (plus the full backup feature) but yeah, I'd like to know about the sales before 3 weeks have passed! lol

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Ok, that's sarcasm. (Shocker, I know)


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This image could cause someone distress.  Should knape be put in jail?




I'm distressed. But cya in a year. ;)

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StockFresh / Re: I wish I asked ealier :-(
« on: June 09, 2011, 17:32 »
You can only import 25 a day so uploading more is sorta silly. I uploaded 2000 at once and have been pushing & pushing to get them done but you can only do so much.

I would strongly suggest sticking to 10-20 a day everyday and just be faithful about it.  You'll get it built up long before they have real sales.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Arrogance Abounds -- PERIOD
« on: June 03, 2011, 20:54 »
They are all trying to be the most profitable, best businesses they can.  If it works, they succeed. If not, they fail.  Nobody is too big to fail in this economy.  Who knows what will replace them.  Think of Circuit City...

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Yaymicro / Re: Help us show off your images
« on: May 05, 2011, 11:22 »
I asked about the (Ingram) licensing deal and was not even replied to to say "we can't add you" or anything. I'll promote Yay to my readers and twit followers when Yay promotes my work to the buyers who actually buy things, like Ingram.  I know people are making decent money at Yay on that program, I just don't happen to be one of them.

On a side note, I promote GraphicLeftovers because I make $3+ a sale, no categories, and they're easy to work with. 

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Yaymicro / Has Yay crashed?
« on: April 30, 2011, 23:59 »
All I see are errors on any page I try and hit in my cache.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Allow me to do the 10k dance...
« on: April 22, 2011, 08:53 »
how long did you take to reach this degree?

It's a loaded question since I didn't start microstock for real until March 2008 so ... say 3 years of part-time work.  I joined Shutterstock *long* before that, though...but had under 150 images online for the first bit.  My usernumber is #137. LOL  So if you factor in my entire time there, a VERY long time... but really about 3 yrs.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Allow me to do the 10k dance...
« on: April 21, 2011, 19:05 »
Yes! I had my first few .38s right after this post. LOL  Thanks for letting me celebrate a bit guys! Big milestone for me!

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Allow me to do the 10k dance...
« on: April 21, 2011, 17:33 »
now you are 1% of your way to a mil (just on one site)

LOL And accelerating! Two months ago ws my BME by about $500 overall.  So yeah - good times!

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Shutterstock.com / Allow me to do the 10k dance...
« on: April 21, 2011, 12:11 »
I finally hit $10,000 on Shutterstock!


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Alamy.com / Re: Problems uploading releases at Alamy
« on: April 18, 2011, 12:23 »
I haven't had any problems uploading releases before but maybe something stuck in the script cache?  Try clearing and going again?

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Selling Stock Direct / Re: Contributor's Collective
« on: April 11, 2011, 09:06 »
BTW there are many contributors who signed up with us but never uploaded a single file.  I know people are busy and I am not going to rush them.  But if they still haven't uploaded after several weeks, we will probably assume they had a change of heart, and fill their spots with other contributors and move on.

I'm one of those. I am going away tomorrow for a week in South Carolina to shoot a wedding though. I'll try and get some up before I go but don't axemurder me! :)

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Selling Stock Direct / Re: Contributor's Collective
« on: April 05, 2011, 12:11 »
How hard is it to submit and get rolling? I'd play. I don't know if I'm a high level contributor but I have 4k images I could add.

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My March istock royalties?  Is that the funniest thing so far? lol

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Image Sleuth / Re: 60 watermarked images
« on: March 30, 2011, 12:40 »
What if they just want to educate us and then could claim educational fair use?  

:-)

(btw. this is a joke. I know I have to clarify sometimes.)

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Now if I could just figure out where my vector brain and heart are at LOL (and no definitely not in my vector body ;)


Tineye your heart. I just tried to reply to this but my post closed. :(  There are over 20 results for the heart.  Didn't even check the brain yet.  You have a lot of tears online. You just need to use the Tineye plugin and maybe not the Tineye uploader.  You have *tons* now.

Here's one from Equifax:
http://tax.equifax.com/2010/11/tax-schemes-and-tax-turkeys-stay-away.html

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I'm still disappointed.


I went in search of one for you before and came back emptyhanded.  Not this time.

http://newamericamedia.org/2011/01/obama-defiant-optimistic-on-health-care-reform.php

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GLStock / Re: GraphicLeftovers - any good news?
« on: March 23, 2011, 11:14 »
Any batch features on GLO? I sent about 700 files and they're in "Upload Queue". I'm not really excited about having to go one by one and send them to approval.


http://www.microstockgroup.com/new-sites-general/how-graphicleftovers-workflow-works/

I think a quick read through how it all works Xalanx and you'll be alright. You don't have to really do much of anything at GL. :)

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