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Messages - Pheby
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« on: May 01, 2011, 03:29 »
I'd write a ticket to support and ask them to raise the price of all the files in one go.
52
« on: April 30, 2011, 19:12 »
I'm even curious if any sites allow us to disable ELs. When one starts at Fotolia, with the ridiculous low price of 20 credits, it is indeed tempting to disable that, but do they (or any other site) allow to disable ELs?
Maybe many do, but ELs were always such a desirable choice that I never thought about it. 
Yes, you can choose at Fotolia; you click a box to opt in when you upload. And at istock you can opt out too. I'm not sure about Shutterstock and Dreamstime, though.
53
« on: April 29, 2011, 11:57 »
I understand you can set it up to sel EL for more $$, can i do that.
BTW: im only bronz right now, i might not have that option?
Bronze members can set the prices of ELs to 50 credits, silver members and above to 100 credits.
54
« on: April 15, 2011, 10:23 »
ooops! Thank you very much!
55
« on: April 15, 2011, 10:04 »
Thanks!
ETA: That actually reminded me of one of the most positive things that ever happened to me: I'm actually "funding" my PhD solely with my microstock earnings. And I have a higher income and much more freedom than PhD students holding a position at University.
56
« on: April 15, 2011, 09:48 »
And in unrelated news: I just received an academic award.
Hey, congratulations! I read somewhere (probably here) that you were concentrating on that last year. I'm still trying to complete mine.
57
« on: March 07, 2011, 22:37 »
One that comes to mind is Internet Explorer vs. Firefox. But I'm sure there are better examples.
Myspace vs. facebook would be an example of such a process. An exodus from myspace began when facebook became cooler and the myspace users grew up and into the design of facebook which is more neutral, less playful and appeals to all kinds of people beyond puberty. And now the only people who still have a myspace account are those who where to lazy to delete it.
A really good example. I'm sure many MySpace users initially said they couldn't leave, because all their friends were on MySpace, and no one they knew was on Facebook. And yet it happened.
Yes, but sadly, the myspace friends don't translate into the microstock dollars. Dollars (or in this case Pennies) are just the more powerful magnets. People left myspace and took a few friends with them, discovered that more and more people where joining facebook and started looking for old school friends and so on. We say goodbye to our pennies when we leave, not to fun and smalltalk with virtual friends in front of an awfully designed wallpaper (mmmh, well, let me think... that suddenly sounds a familiar setting after all!).
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« on: March 07, 2011, 22:00 »
One that comes to mind is Internet Explorer vs. Firefox. But I'm sure there are better examples.
Myspace vs. facebook would be an example of such a process (of course minus the obvious differences to microstock, such as nobody earning a living on myspace). An exodus from myspace began when facebook became cooler and the myspace users grew up and into the design of facebook which is more neutral, less playful and appeals to all kinds of people beyond puberty. And now the only people who still have a myspace account are those who where to lazy to delete it.
59
« on: February 24, 2011, 13:20 »
Yes, that's new. It's called "annual limit subscription plan". All it says on the page titled "Contributors" is "Using this Subscription, users can download images, vectors and videos at the highest available resolution", but it doesn't really explain what it actually is. I think it was mentioned in January's newsletter as well, but the text there wasn't any more elaborate either.
60
« on: February 17, 2011, 23:09 »
Apparently he's also poor. All hail angry parakeet.
I get the impression he's suffering from dementia. He seems to be completely forgetful or totally unaware of who is actually paying his f*cking wages.
yeah: the people he is disciplining. In which other business would you ever find an absurd constellation like that?
61
« on: February 17, 2011, 12:42 »
Unfortunately, your message above is wrought with reciprocal messages. Just about everything you mention above turned out to be the opposite for Fotolia after they followed suit with Istock.
No, not really. The only point that has changed for Mat is that his files no longer cost 5 credits for an XS sale (it has been limited to 3 credits). His royalty rate of 54 percent has stayed the same, and Fotolia still is the market leader in Europe. He still has no upload limit (neither has anybody else), and he can still submit to the infinite collection. I'm sure the emeralds (exclusive and not) will be affected by the next royalty cut, but the deal that he as an exclusive emerald has got still looks to me like one not to be found anywhere else.
Yes but applying his message to all contributors isn't the same. Royalties have been cut and the rudeness they have practiced when doing this by sanitizing their forums is right in line with what he is insinuating Fotolia wouldn't do, but they did. Now, did he have any way of knowing this? That's a different issue. Shows how fast businesses can change.
He didn't apply his message to all contributors (cf. the title of the thread). The conditions changed for the lower-ranked contributors, which he isn't. As for insinutaing that FT would not cut commissions, I'm not sure. He was only stating his reality at FT and comparing with IS. And as I said, he still has a much better commision deal that most of us.
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« on: February 16, 2011, 19:41 »
Unfortunately, your message above is wrought with reciprocal messages. Just about everything you mention above turned out to be the opposite for FT after they followed suit with Istock.
No, not really. The only point that has changed for Mat is that his files no longer cost 5 credits for an XS sale (it has been limited to 3 credits). His royalty rate of 54 percent has stayed the same, and FT still is the market leader in Europe. He still has no upload limit (neither has anybody else), and he can still submit to the infinite collection. I'm sure the emeralds (exclusive and not) will be affected by the next royalty cut, but the deal that he as an exclusive emerald has got still looks to me like one not to be found anywhere else.
63
« on: February 13, 2011, 19:17 »
I didnt know you could have image-only exclusivity at FT???-------- is that right?
Yes, FT has image exclusivity. You can raise the prices of exclusive files according to your cannister level, and you can opt your exclusive files out of subs (which seems to hurt their best match placement though).
64
« on: January 25, 2011, 13:13 »
Fotolia has changed their best match search quite radically (it doesn't favour new images at all as it used to), and they have implemented an "online since..." function. The site was down twice for about five minutes.
No fuss made.
65
« on: January 17, 2011, 00:23 »
Don't get the point of the blog article. Or, in other words, don't think it has that much substance, at least not for well informed, active microstockers:
People who start out now can acheive great success and make a good living from microstock, as long as the circumstances (talent, investment, luck) are absolutely exceptional - we knew that before. Daniel Laflor is a very successful IS exclusive who started out much later than the top few at IS did - we knew that before. He learnt "a great deal" from Yuri - we could all see that before. Daniel Laflor decided to accept the exclusivity deal, Yuri didn't - we knew that before. The only thing that was new to me are the numbers that are quoted, especially those that are used to compare him with other topselling contributors, and I don't consider the numbers of the top contributors to be any of my business, even though there seem to be people who watch the top few more closely than I find tasteful. But then again, taste might not be a category in the top level of success in any business.
The first sentence of the article suggests that it is aimed towards macrostock photographers in the process of deciding "whether to retire from the stock photo business or get into microstock". All of us round here are already active in microstock, so what's the fuss about? It's about (a) a suspected case of rule-bending which is pure speculation and thus doesn't really belong here and (b) the old discussion of educating others to become one's own (and other's), then better equipt, competitors.
All of the top contributors have their destinctive, recognizable style; Looking at Daniel Laflor's port, I wonder about one "lesson" that Yuri has alway emphasised: Build up a brand for yourself. I for myself can't see his. That's a much more interesting point to me than whether they share sets and models...
66
« on: January 02, 2011, 08:30 »
I guess my eurocentric view of things makes me not feel too underpaid. I'm paid in Euros, and Fotolia being strongest in Europe, especially in German speaking countries, the 31 percent I receive for a sale might actually be 31 cents of a Euro that a European costumer paid. Taking into account Fotolia's "flexibility" in credits and currency matters, you're right, of course.
67
« on: January 02, 2011, 07:52 »
Fotolia's pricing is all over the place and payment levels vary according to what site you happened to join on (those who joined UK or EU sites get a lot more than those who didn't. I think Fotolias lowest payment is about 14% (which would be the same as iStock's under the new arrangement)
The lowest rate is 25 % (non-exclusive files by base contributors).
68
« on: December 31, 2010, 04:50 »
As the istock commission cuts are happening 1st January 2011 and we have all had a few months to think about it, I thought it would be interesting to see what people are doing now. I have stopped uploading and started removing some of my portfolio. I will leave gradually and hope there are new owners soon that have a better long term strategy.
It ain't a cut for everyone...
And a personal note: I think the new system is fair for all parties.
Fair for all parties? Yeppers. 
69
« on: December 31, 2010, 04:47 »
I started removing all my images today, only another 100 to go. Can't bear to see a single sale with 16 percent commission.
70
« on: December 28, 2010, 23:20 »
I'm not that optimistic either. With all the stuff we have taken from istock, hearing the word "new" and "surprise" from any agency gives me the creeps!
72
« on: December 20, 2010, 23:03 »
Does anyone else think the Lobo pie flirt is getting old?
Oh my days! If I was them, I'd have bored myself out of my own head a long time ago. That kind of constant pseudo-teasing boot-licking is so annoying!
73
« on: December 18, 2010, 10:10 »
OMG! Only just saw this thread. Sorry to hear this, FD!
Why terminating his account should have anything to do with any opinions FD has voiced over here on topics that have nothing to do with what he is being accused of, is beyond me. I hope he'll be able to sort it all out.
What about independants that are inspectors, say at Fotolia? Aren't they allowed to submit to SS? And is that stated somewhere in the SS contract?
74
« on: October 22, 2010, 13:50 »
There is (or at least there used to be) a category among the most successful images, "highest rated" which of course means a bit of promotion. But you'd have to make rating one of your priorities for an image to get there. An image appearing there is the only advantage I can imagine someone to expect by wild ratings like that. I'm sure it doesn't help sales. It says a lot that the people with absurd amounts of ratings relative to portfolio size are mostly newbies, they must assume that it pushes them up the ladder faster. Most of them have an absurd number of "friends" aswell in relation to the amount of time they have been contributors.
I don't give ratings as a favour.
75
« on: October 21, 2010, 17:24 »
Nett, so viele deutschen Lautsprecher zu sehen zusammen erfasst
Google Translator? 
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