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Off Topic / Opening gym, doing research need help!

« on: December 12, 2009, 14:09 »

Hi all

As some of you know on here im opening a new gym in London, England early next year and am doing a bit of research so if any of you have a couple of minutes that you could answer a few questions id be really really greatfu. ideally people who currently go to gyms or have done in the past would prefer to answer but anyone is welcome

Firstly could you write how long you have been using gyms for and how often per week you go

Questions

1. What to you are the most important factors in joining a gym?

2. What would make you cancel your membership and leave?

3. For you personally say you could choose 10 pieces of equipment for a personal gym what would you choose?

4. have you used a power plate? If so do you like it and why?

thanks all and have a merry christmas

Ant

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Print on Demand Forum / Photobox

« on: October 13, 2009, 16:43 »

Hey all

I recently joined photobox so that I could sell prints of my images through my website.

Anyone else on there and what do you make of the site?

cheers all

Ant

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General Stock Discussion / Heard of Demotix.com your thoughts??

« on: February 27, 2009, 04:40 »

One of my clients just told me about this site. Apparently his best friend runs it, I have never heard of it and wondered if any of you did or might even be a contributor to it and whether you have been successful on there

http://www.demotix.com

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General Stock Discussion / Anyone have a best day of the week?

« on: February 25, 2009, 11:16 »

Ive noticed over the months looking at all the sites I sell on that Tuesdays tend to be my best day by a mile. When I compare tuesday sales to others they dont even nearly compare.

Do any of you have a day that stands above the rest with sales?

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Alamy.com / Recently joined!! how successful??

« on: February 21, 2009, 08:53 »

Hey I recently joined alamy a couple of weeks ago and am slowly building up a portfolio on there. I was just wondering how successful you lot are on there. Im not asking to tell me any financials I just would like to know roughly how many images a month you sell?

Reason im asking is because firstly the price the images go for sure surely buyers would go to microstock agencies and before you say yes I know the size of the images are larger on alamy. I just generally want an idea of how sales are on the site

thanks

Ant

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General Stock Discussion / 99 I now share the frustration.

« on: February 16, 2009, 13:20 »

I remember someone on here a while ago was saying how they was frustrated because he/she was stuck on $99.99 waiting for that last DL.

I now share that frustration ive been stuck on 99 downloads now for nearly a week and am doing the usual f5 every 2 seconds waiting to see that 100th DL

I share your pain now people when this happens to you :p

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Shutterstock.com / My first ever EL woooooooooooooooooooooooo

« on: February 12, 2009, 09:51 »

I have just turned on my comp to find my first ever EL sale. This was one of my hopes for 2009 so I am soooooooooooo happy I finally got one woooooooooooooooooooooooo

its this image

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-22411804-aerial-panorama-gondola.html

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Shutterstock.com / Finally get referral and nothing shows up :(

« on: February 11, 2009, 13:35 »

I got an email from someone just now telling me that this morning he signed up to shutterstock via my link (which is a referral link)

Nothing shows on my page that the person is my referral.

Anyone know why, does the person have to get accepted first or something or do they update there system every 24hrs maybe so will see it then?

Is annoying lol

My rant over :p

Ant

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iStockPhoto.com / Running slow this week??

« on: February 04, 2009, 09:04 »

Just wanted to see if anyone else has noticed Istock running considerably slow this week?

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Newbie Discussion / Finally launched website, would love your opinion!!

« on: January 26, 2009, 10:51 »

Hey all. I finally managed to launch a website. Now it is from a free website so its nothing great but id love you all to take a look at let me know if you have any ways that I could improve it

thanks in advance

Ant

http://www.anthonymphotography.weebly.com

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Off Topic / Nikon 50mm f1.8 or f1.4 which to go for?

« on: January 26, 2009, 03:05 »

Here in the Uk it costs £80 (roughly) for the f1.8 yet it costs an extra £100 on top of that for the f1.4

Do you think its worth spending the extra £100 to get the f1.4 or do you think the f1.8 is worth getting to save the money?

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iStockPhoto.com / Lightbox referral link

« on: January 22, 2009, 11:56 »

Hey all need quick help

this is a link to one of my lightboxes

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=4242201

to add a referral link do i just do this to it if not can someone help please

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=4242201refnum=breathe112

p.s. I have read the referral section i just want to be certain as im unsure

thanks

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Newbie Discussion / 1 Year on stock is it worth expanding

« on: January 21, 2009, 18:25 »

Hey all just this second joined the site and looks interesting to get some questions answered. I have been on the top 4 stock sites for around a year now and wondering if its worth joining any others. Are any of you seeing large sales on the other sites or do you reccommend I just stick to istock, shutterstock, dreamstime and fotolia?

thanks in advice for your answers

Ant