Quote from: brian_SV on July 03, 2008, 12:04

Quote from: RT on July 02, 2008, 04:43

Brian,

Thanks for the reply, I've now changed the individual images to take the subscription option out.

Any chance of an update as to my other enquiry - FTP? then I could upload lots of images 

Hi RT:

All I can say:  we're working on it. 
Thanks for your patience.

- Brian (SV)

Work faster 

Brian,

Thanks for the reply, I've now changed the individual images to take the subscription option out.

Any chance of an update as to my other enquiry - FTP? then I could upload lots of images 

Oke, I will try that. thanks

I think you need a queue also.  The "five at a time" download doesn't bother me so much as having to immediately sit down and keyword it all.  Also hope traffic will be picking up soon on the site.

Quote from: brian_SV on June 17, 2008, 12:09

Hi All -

Thanks to tan510jomast  for pinging me on this thread:

Some info on subscriptions on SnapVillage:

 - Yes, currently 80% of the total SnapVillage library is available for subscription customers. This includes some of the 'big guns' like iofoto and AndresR (among others) who have decided that the extra payments from subscription sales are valuable. Ron Chapple's iofoto team are a smart bunch and keep an eye on the bottom line - so the fact that their images are available on subscription says something.

- Subscription sales are paid at a flat .30 per download currently. One cool thing- as we don't have tiered royalty payments - you get this regardless of your status on the site (don't have to have xx amount of images, or xx amount of sales or the like)

- Yup, you can opt-in or opt-out on an individual image basis. Most other sites don't let you do this.  We know that the process for changing this isn't perfect, and it can be a pain to change an entire large portfolio --- we're happy to change this for you on the backend until we get a better subs. management system running.

- Personally (of course I am a bit biased    )  opting into subscriptions is a good way to go. Subscription customers behave differently than a customer buying images a la carte - and those "extra" .30 payments can start to help pad your baseline earnings from single image or produce license sales.


Hope this helps. Let me know if you have questions.

- Brian (SnapVillage)

Why do sites try and make us believe that a 30 cent payment in a non-tiered systems is a blessing for photographers?

This quote:
Subscription sales are paid at a flat .30 per download currently. One cool thing- as we don't have tiered royalty payments - you get this regardless of your status on the site (don't have to have xx amount of images, or xx amount of sales or the like)

...is the reason why I hate when sites post to the forum and confirm that they have no idea whats going on.  Shutterstock gives 30 cents per download too in a non-tiered system.  123RF is at 36 cents, DT just upped it to 35 cents. -Brian, do you think Snapvillage is special because you pay a 'flat .30 per download'?

How about some FTP?  I've signed up, but refuse to submit until an FTP so I don't have to spend 50 days uploading

Quote from: Brian_SV

But yes - the homepage flash is still way too heavy and quite slow to load. We're working on a fix for that.

- Brian (SnapVillage)

Ha Ha, just realized after all the messages about "site slow" and on my old windows 98 Pentium 400 on slow speed DSL, browsing and email computer, I have no speed problems. (DUH)

I have Flash Turned off. 

I had to turn it off after so many sites started putting the heavy flash intros and flash ads on their pages, and just like the days of dialup when people had huge graphics that took forever to load (so we just stopped and went somewhere else...)

I know I'm not telling you professionals at SV anything, and I have managed websites and pages before, but a fast loading intro page, that tells the user where they are and what they are looking at, is more important than useless bells and whistles, flashing lights, graphics and interactive buttons.

You have approximately 13 seconds to grab a users attention and hold them on your site, unless that number has dropped. After that, you lost em... If your page isn't fully loaded and functional after 10 seconds, or less, it's a bomb. (not the good kind either)

Like I said before, I have no problems with the speed of the pages at Snap Village, just that I finally woke up and understand why not. 

Still very slow. I guess "beta" version for them meant "pretty fast compared with what we can really do to slow the site down once we get the hang of it."

Haven't uploaded there for about a month. No loss.  Slow site. Slow learners.

Very very slow. Imposible to use 5x upload.

Perhaps I have missed but did you answer somwhere if you will set FTP or you wont?
It is an important question for people (like me) who arent uploading until there is a confortable way to upload their portfolios

I also get sales there occasionally. That doesn't help much though, since I don't have access to the money. I'm sure PayPal is happy to keep them though   

Hi Brian,

Can I ask you if there is any intention to enable ftp upload in a near future or this will be ignored?

Its simple, yes or no.
If yes. Ok I can wait.
If no. I cant upload to SV as I cant use batch upload and one by one upload is painfull

Well, at least there some sign of life over there. No face yet but there's a pulse.