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« on: October 03, 2009, 04:34 »
I don't want to mention the web site, but has anyone experienced image(s) accepted, they sell 1/2 dozen times over a 2-3 week period, then they are removed with the explaination that their original approval was "an accident"? (it is a big 6 site).
...not seen this before and awaiting explanation of what "accident" means...a stoned reviewer...keyboard was dirty... ?
Right, the same thing happened to me. The files were removed, then put back. Am not sure if my email to the site had anything to do with them reactivating the files. I did recieve that "accident" email concerning their removal a few days later. kind of crazy . . . .
577
« on: September 30, 2009, 09:08 »
Right Dave,
whats 5% of 25 cents when you only have a few hundred images online.
578
« on: September 30, 2009, 08:22 »
But
IS sells 480x321 px for 1 credit
DT sells 424x283px for 1 credit
StockXpert sells 400x300px for 1 credit
etc, etc. . . . . .
579
« on: September 30, 2009, 07:24 »
Now tell me, is the age of FREE IMAGES finally arrived?
From Crestock:
Introducing the Crestock WordPress Plugin
Hi Steven,
We're incredibly excited to let you know that we're only one week away from launching our biggest, most powerful marketing initiative to date, and this is a special invite for you to join and to receive an additional 5% commission on all credits purchases.
If you've been around at Crestock for a while, you know that we've been running some hugely popular Photoshop design contests every year around summer time. The idea has been to provide one of the most dominant demographics among potential buyers, the designers, a chance to get to know Crestock and to actually try the products.
These contests have been shaped as viral campaigns and have, without failure, spread like wildfire in the design community; through blogs and forums, through social media and have even been featured on the Apple and MTVs websites.
Throughout the years, these contests have generated incredible exposure, millions of visitors and tens of thousands of paying customers. However, though viral and social marketing is one of the things we're exceptionally good at (we've actually won awards for them), we've realized that all these successful campaigns, by nature of a contest, had one big flaw they all had an end date.
In our opinion, the Ultimate Campaign has the following treats:
No end date
Virtually unlimited scalability
Massive distribution to users
Massive exposure of individual portfolios
Massive direct and indirect sales
So what's in it for you?
The brilliance of the new WordPress plugin is that it will just keep rolling and getting more and more users as time goes by, and the whole point of the WordPress plugin is to promote each individual portfolio on a scale never seen before in the business of microstock.
I know some of you will scream bloody murder in a minute, but please stay with me on this one, because it's exceptionally important that you appreciate the enormous reach and impact of this campaign; After all, there's a reason why big names such as Yuri Arcurs, Ron Chapple (iofoto), Kirsty Pargeter, Lev Dolgachov and Andres Rodriguez (only to name a few) has already signed up for it.
This WordPress plugin will allow bloggers access to search for, and add, any Crestock image to their blog - free of charge.
There I said it. The "F" word. Free.
But we're not going to just give away your art for free. That would be a spectacularly bad business plan doomed to fail.
For Crestock as a corporation, selling your images is what's making us the money. Incidentally this also ties in with your bottom line, so to be brutally honest, we both have at least one common interest, and that is to make you as much money as possible.
But some times you have to give some in order to get a lot in return, so please stay with me for a bit longer, and it'll all become clear:
The Freemium Business Model
The freemium business model was articulated by venture capitalist Fred Wilson (co-founder of Union Square Ventures, with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, del.icio.us and FeedBurner) on 23 March 2006:
"Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc., then offer premium priced value added services or an enhanced version of your service to your customer base."
What we'll give away are images with a maximum resolution of 400px width perfect for blogs, but totally useless for anything else.
Here's how it works, and here's how you'll make money:
For starters, WordPress is the most popular blog platform on the planet, with over 3 million downloads of their latest release alone, and over 3.1 million active blogs on their own site.
Secondly, the Top 10 Plugins on WordPress has been downloaded a total of 4.42 million times that's an average of 740,000 times for each plugin in the Top 6.
When a blogger use your images, the WordPress plugin will insert a clearly watermarked image as well as a caption with links embedded pointing to the corresponding image page on Crestock.
This is extremely important.
At this point, the different search engines accounts for roughly 40% of the total traffic on Crestock. It's so high because we've been very focused on what's called Search Engine Optimization (or SEO), which is the process of improving web sites so that it ranks higher in search engines for targeted keywords.
Incoming links to a web site is one of the most important ranking criteria in any search algorithm, and simply put, you can think of a link as a vote for another website, with the link text as a description of the website you're linking to.
If you link to Crestock with the link text "Crestock stock photos" , you're telling the search engines you vote for this site, and the site is about stock photos. This will make us rank better for that phrase.
The WordPress plugin solves one of our biggest challenges SEO wise: building deep links with highly relevant link text to each of your images: The deep links to each of your images will give them a great boost in the search engine rankings, and it will naturally also drive traffic directly into the page with your image on it - Where people can buy it.
So let's summarize:
Massive distribution to millions of bloggers
Plugin will actively promote paid, high resolution versions of your images
Images will be clearly watermarked with your name and copyright sign -
The automatically embedded image caption will contain a link to the image page:
Links will rank your images higher in Google
Links will drive click-though visitors directly to your images
But Wait There's More!
(And it's not just rubbish being thrown at you)
Aside from the incredible boost in highly converting search engine traffic and referral traffic the links will provide you, we're also using the actual plugin interface to offer the bloggers to upgrade to a paid service. This is the Premium content.
Since we have control of the content we deliver in the plugin search interface, we'll use tracking software to monitor and calculate which offers and which approaches generates the highest possible revenue in order to exploit the potential that lies in the WordPress plugin to the fullest.
Finally, we're offering an additional 5% commission on every single credit sale you make when you join the WordPress project.
To put the awesome power of the WordPress plugin to work for you, simply activate below:
581
« on: September 14, 2009, 12:46 »
Well its fixed again, but it is a Mind F...........................................
582
« on: September 14, 2009, 11:54 »
Same CRAP here, it does make you wonder if its worth the trouble.
583
« on: August 12, 2009, 13:48 »
Just had a check. With 192 files I find 2 sales . . . .$1.75 and $3.50.
584
« on: August 02, 2009, 15:45 »
I have 182 files with about 10% with views . . . . . . no sales yet.
. with it, I'm going on vacation.
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585
« on: July 27, 2009, 15:29 »
Etien. Your advice is much appreciated. I am a beginner as far as digital is concerned 
When it comes to art we all remain beginners . . . .
586
« on: July 27, 2009, 15:18 »
Dear Photographers, I haven't submitted a damned thing to any stock sites yet but I'm getting there. My stumbling block is the image size requirements. All sites as far as I can see require JPEG with a minimum size of 4 or 6 MB and 72 dpi (although I think that's out of date) and strictly NO up sizing.
Now, I shoot RAW and image size is 3888 x 2592 and when I convert to JPEG generally end up with a 6MB file at 350 dpi output. My question is, have you any tips about file size or have I got it right as far as Microstock is concerned?
Would appreciate your sage advice.
Yes, that is fine. You have a 10mb camera so all is well. Just remember to save jpeg at Quality 12 settings. The file size in jpeg format depends on the image, on how much of the image consists of flat color, the more complex, the larger the file size. And if you are a beginner don't get pixel dimension size mixed up with file size. If you are not a beginner . . . . . sorry. don't forget to change 350 to 72 for submission.
587
« on: July 27, 2009, 03:18 »
All my image stats say zero views and zero sales. However, I've earned $'s over the last few month, so I don't think these stats are updated or live yet. I think they are still getting there house in order, we need to be patient. 
Where on Veer website do you any stats about views and sales?? I can only see it under my images, but nowhere can I see any summary...
On the Dashboard page, right under "Dashboard" it clearly say: Every hero has a secret lair, and any decent secret lair has a wall of screens showing you what's going on, at a glance. This is yours. Use the dashboard to track the status of your submissions. Later, you'll also find information about your sales and earnings.It will come, it will come . . . . . . .
588
« on: July 24, 2009, 07:22 »
The new set up at FP is tending in that direction, they now are at the beginning of building a Macro (Mid) collection, . . . . . also RM.
We will see.
589
« on: July 20, 2009, 01:44 »
Agree with what has been said so far. I did several last year and enjoyed the experience with sales. My Tip: Move the fractal image to the bottom or sides to create copy space, do some with black backgrounds and some white. Most people just create this psychedelic, multicolored "thing" and stick it in the middle of the image . . . that's a hard sell.
After doing a few you probably will get bored, I did . . . . .
590
« on: July 11, 2009, 08:50 »
When Veer feel an image has too many non-relevant keyword, it really stinks there isn't a way that we can just edit them out on the site end (unless I'm just not seeing it...) I have a bunch I'm going to have to delete, and then rekey and then reupload - and no, that won't be happening. I don't have time for that crap.
But you can edit the keywords on the site end. Go to your Dashboard. Under your Workspace (New) select the image (or several) and click on continue. There (on Prepare and Submit page), on the right, bring down Keywords and delete or add words. When done select the image and submit again . . . . it works well, but slow if you are like me and have to eliminate several words.
591
« on: July 11, 2009, 08:43 »
When Veer feel an image has too many non-relevant keyword, it really stinks there isn't a way that we can just edit them out on the site end (unless I'm just not seeing it...) I have a bunch I'm going to have to delete, and then rekey and then reupload - and no, that won't be happening. I don't have time for that crap.
But you can edit the keywords on the site end. Under your Workspace (New) select the image (or several) and click on continue. There (on Prepare and Submite page), on the right, bring down Keywords and delete or add words. When done select the image and submit again . . . . it works well, but slow if you are like me and have to eliminate several words.
592
« on: June 29, 2009, 15:16 »
I read an interview with the guy who developed "Clarity" for PS (camera raw), its intent is to increase mid tone contrast and he suggested a value of around 25 on most images . . . . I also use that sucker alot.
593
« on: June 27, 2009, 10:08 »
Dave
First I wish you good luck on your adventure. My question concerns the "Best Match" search on the site (I realize that only the beta version is up). I like to test sites by searching for the word "Grave" and on the site I got pocker chips and birds as results . . . some with german titles. How far along are you with your "search" development?
E
594
« on: June 24, 2009, 14:25 »
Just be careful, it seems that the metro is having aging problems (and a few deaths). I will be visiting family come august and doing some shots so I hope there is no more accidents.
Architectually the Washington Subway is quite interesting but the lighting is very subdued.
595
« on: June 23, 2009, 07:13 »
PM is a very confortable site with review times compariable to IS and DT . . . that's my two cents and I am sticking to it.
596
« on: June 22, 2009, 08:35 »
Thanks leaf . . . . .
597
« on: June 22, 2009, 08:28 »
Has anyone used the New Uploaded Images Queue & Submission Area
For me it worked great, even with suggestion area for categories.
598
« on: June 20, 2009, 16:02 »
Thanks for the laugh, guess I am lucky that I moved to Germany. I do hear from the family and friends back home and am disappointed that real progress will never happen in the good old US of A.
599
« on: June 19, 2009, 05:50 »
It seems that people have a pretty big difference in their first experience with the first application and subsequent uploads. I would like to believe that Cathy's rejection was just a glitch.
I am wondering what it the number of images to be approved out of the first 10 for the whole application to be approved? Some people assume that it is 10. I only had 4 approved and 6 still pending when I was pproved and could submit more. Anyone had a similar experience?
By now, I already have quite a few approved so they have been approving the ones submitted later as well.
My experience: 8 out of 10 accepted on the initial submit, then I was allowed to submit the next 100 which I did. That was yesterday, today I was allowed to submit another 10, I was under the assumption that I would have to wait another week to submit another 100 but who knows for sure.
600
« on: June 16, 2009, 12:47 »
Uploaded the 10 files 5 days ago . . . . . . and waiting, I am sure they are quite busy.
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