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« on: November 27, 2013, 01:19 »
nice port Newby. I sent my port to stocksy recently but have not heard back from them yet. Could you please tell me after how many days of sending portfolio, did you receive their reply ?
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« on: November 24, 2013, 10:14 »
It takes a lot of self promoting over there if you want good numbers, but worth it to put the time in.
It's important to be displayed in the right groups
http://fineartamerica.com/groups/q-collection.html
and participate in the FAA forum to be seen.
This one is new and promising:
http://qthecollection.com/qtalk/index.php
If you are active over there your sales will be much higher than if you just upload.
~Gunter Nezhoda
Portfolio Facebook Gunter Nezhoda Photography
Q is a group you created, the label Q means nothing, its not a recognised quality label, its nothing. You are picking images yourself, you are the curator of that group and when I look at your work, I dont think you are qualified to say what is quality and what isnt. The forum you linked to is probably your own forum, and only has 111 comments. Hardly a number that screams global exposure. I will get slated over this, but I just want to give balance to your comment for people who might think that the label Q has any merits. It doesnt.
well said Ron.
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« on: November 24, 2013, 07:46 »
Microsoft pro photo tool is best tool i was told in this forum. Multiple images can be handled for IPTC data and the best thing is keywords remains in same series you have entered. And yes its free.
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« on: November 24, 2013, 01:15 »
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« on: November 23, 2013, 21:17 »
Lisa. I was looking the peoples images which i have sold in FAA and zazzle and i see that i sold my 80 years old grand mom's closeup portrait, smiling with traditional India cloth sari and vermilion on forehead (which is symbolic to married Hindu woman). I had sold this image twice in both outlet before i removed from the galleries.
The other images i sold are also of Indian tribal people. Man plowing farm with bulls, females making handicrafts, family celebrating festival together, mother helping her young baby to brush his teeth lol and likewise. I was also also amazed when sold them as print or cards but now i guess where they can be used. Like here in India, i do see images of woman making handicrafts hanging in the offices/shops selling or dealing handicraft products. My aunt is a dental surgeon and she has a print of image on the wall of her clinic showing a mother with her baby holding tooth brush (which inspired me to take similar shot). And likewise other people and lifestyle images can also be used as fineart i hues and as i do sell similar images so probably people must be looking some fineart elements in them. Interesting thing is almost all of my Indian images have been by people outside India lol
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« on: November 23, 2013, 00:41 »
yes Lisa. My people and life style images do sell in FAA like any other images ie- landscape or conceptual images. I have sold some posters/prints of portraits in zazzle too when i was uploading there earlier.
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« on: November 22, 2013, 00:24 »
It totally depends on what he wants...
You guys shouldn't make the assumption thought that illustrators are so different though... I mean, good is good and bad is bad right? When I wasn't exclusive, 350 images ago, I was spending a great deal of time uploading to SS, DT, FT, and DP (Wouldn't go near iStock)... so 350 images and my total sales in a month were (drum role please)... less than $150...
go figure...
Maybe then Dreamstime (who I really like, by the way) is doing something mind-bogglingly stupid: Artificially funneling so much business towards their exclusives (who are their most expensive contributors) that very little remains for the independents. As a result, judging by their meager independent earnings, said independents would never want to go exclusive.
Is that really what's happening? Because if it is, I am considering going Dreamstime exclusive, too! (Did I mention that I like them?) 
Time to time we do see DT exclusive's messages, many of them doing quite well. And its interesting. So would it not be good idea to see a separate poll result for DT exclusives as well in the list like istock exclusive ? If i am not wrong then number of DT exclusives are the 2nd most exclusives after IS, so they should also get a chance to vote separately ?
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« on: November 11, 2013, 00:20 »
interesting thread. I am also for last 8 month in photoshelter with just couple of sales but there is no lack of traffic but as the others said above, most of them are useless and hardly any of them probably turning into customer. But again, getting so many traffic is also 1st step before getting sales and yes i used to do blogging etc for 1st 1-2 months and they did attract many people but just visitors i believe no customers. Then i left blogging. No other promotion other than that. I am now not sure whether i should continue with photoshelter or any of other self hosted sites because i have really no time for promotions etc. But i must say that i faced no glitch bug or any other site related problems with photoshelter. Would like to hear more about photodeck.
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« on: November 10, 2013, 03:27 »
Sorry gemmy12.
The contributor will have the ability to delete their own images from Stockbo if they wish to. All we ask is that contributors think about deleting them first, because when they do so, the images will no longer be available for re-download if a subscriber or buyer has lost the image that they have already purchased. We've decided to give artists more control of their art.
Regards
Kevin
The Stockbo Team
thanks for the reply Kevin. Wish you guys good luck.
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« on: November 09, 2013, 22:06 »
some queries regarding options for deleting images. how much time will you/stockbo take to remove the images if a contributor decides to delete couple of images ? Will this time be same for deleting whole port ? And will a contributor has to ask the admin or stockbo team to do so or there would be a separate delete button in the site ?
Your prices seem attractive for a photographer. Hope you become a long player among stock sites.
Hello kevin/stockbo. probably you did not read all the messages in thread after your last message. So i ask you once again (of course if stockbo has decided) how much time you take to remove once images after his request to delete them ?
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« on: November 08, 2013, 10:02 »
Australian folks are loaded, just wish they have never heard of SS
yeah. My Australian payments are almost always heavy. 
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« on: November 08, 2013, 06:23 »
some queries regarding options for deleting images. how much time will you/stockbo take to remove the images if a contributor decides to delete couple of images ? Will this time be same for deleting whole port ? And will a contributor has to ask the admin or stockbo team to do so or there would be a separate delete button in the site ?
Your prices seem attractive for a photographer. Hope you become a long player among stock sites.
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« on: November 07, 2013, 11:01 »
if i see last 5 months its
1.SS
2.P5
3.123RF (strange but i did sell some footage there)
4.IS (my 1st sell after Feb)
no sale still in Revo and CC but my footage collection is still below 100
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« on: November 06, 2013, 22:05 »
opposite to others, my experience was good with fotolia though the spell was small about 1 year. When i decided to close my account with them, my account had balance of 2.5$ and as per their promiss, i got my 1.5$ after their reduction of 1$ lol so i believe, sooner or later you will get your money.
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« on: October 19, 2013, 21:45 »
i have stopped uploadin. To getty/flickr. I find no set criteria for their images curation. The images which are certain to perform well are not selected and others are selected which dont sell well. I would prefer to go to getty through istock than flickr as at least i can remove my images from IS voluntarily. More over getty/flickr's similar rules are applied km both footage and stills. So the video similar to your getty images can not be sold elsewhere. Further i get timely response from istock support my questions. There is no guarantee that you will get a reply from flickr/getty. I was lucky enough to get their response after 2 months.
My biggest problem is stealing of my images in flickr. When ever i put my images in flickr they as spread most widely through out the world with or without my watermark and getty/flickr never move a single finger to stop that. So for me bye bye to getty/flickr. I have left the images with it once submitted and not submitting any New image.
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« on: October 12, 2013, 23:49 »
I did not see the voting,, so i prefer entropay prepaid virtual cards to pay/buy online. I just reacharge entropay virtual cards from my debit card with the only amount i gonna pay and keep that empty otherwise. It works everywhere who accept credit cards "EXCEPT facebook"
They are very reliable and i find it safest to use virtual cards rather real credit cards because i am always suspicious when pay online to someone, specially while entering the 3 digits cvv numbers
pps- best thing about entropay card is i can always delete one card and create as many cards as i want.
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« on: October 12, 2013, 01:19 »
I would use paypal. Though as per Indian govt regulation we cant store money in pp and as soon as money comes to pp, it automatically withdrawn to associated bank account. More over cant pay using debit card or bank a/c through pp, just credit card works but i believe using credit cards through pp is safer because of two safety levels (of pp & credit cards itself). But never use any prepaid or virtual cards with pp else it will be limited by pp.
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« on: October 05, 2013, 11:30 »
Though i am not in symbio yet but really happy to see these sale, wish you more symbio sales
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« on: October 04, 2013, 11:06 »
i became quite excited when i joined them in the beginning of this year and some of my images were recommended and later shortlisted as well but none was bought. I had no luck till date
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« on: September 10, 2013, 22:55 »
yes. Thanks a lot Tylor for this change. Now reading forum is more convenient.
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« on: August 13, 2013, 03:26 »
thank you pilens for the helpful talk. Hope to join you guys soon and also wish to see a much lengthy this woo ya thread.
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« on: August 13, 2013, 00:33 »
I had my Photoshelter site for 3 years and had 2 measly photo sales. VERY disappointing. I definitely had to bail out and try something different. Organic search traffic on my Symbiostock site is already by far outpacing what I had last seen for my Photoshelter site. If that continues to grow with uploading more photos, with the network becoming bigger and reaching a point of "critical mass", and with the continued joined effort of this great community, then the sky is the limit. The hard part is that it needs some (on-going) work and patience. 
thats great if your symbiotic site outperforming your 3 years PS site in gaining traffic. For me photoshelter has been performing best as far as SERP is concerned. Probably i should also come to join this network, just that i am not tech expert and afraid to tackle site related things and its hard to spend time with them. How ever i believe i should try. If not i can get my personal blog platform. Can anybody suggest if bluehost is still best or there is any other equally good option ? (just last probably off topic question)
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« on: August 12, 2013, 23:23 »
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« on: August 12, 2013, 15:23 »
do you guys get sales from buyers coming from Google search or these are your own customers referred by yourself ? I have my photoshelter basic account and many of my pages come in 1 or 2 pages for my keyword so i do get many viewers daily. But the sad thing is, just 20-30% turned into buyers or enquire me about images. So how is your symbiostock sites performing in general ?
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« on: August 12, 2013, 13:46 »
I am also planning to get a web hosting and wordpress cms, so i would also like to add that to symbiostock. But i am really afraid of setting and handling own web site.. still may i know if bluehost is best for symbiostock ? I was reading about bluehost's frequent server down problems these days..
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