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« on: September 17, 2012, 22:32 »
You do know that most of the people reporting good sales there have ports of around 10K or even more?
In this days and age many of us have double of that figure.  But not good sales. Just enough sales. A lot of hard work with diminishing earnings.
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« on: September 17, 2012, 22:30 »
Among RM shooters few come as profitable as Jeff Greenberg in Alamy. He is probably one of the two top earners there. I've found an interesting quote here: Search Alamy for Jeff Greenberg. His portfolio has over 78,000 images and counting...mostly street photography. He's a frequent poster on their forums and openly shares his sales numbers (well over $100K per year in earnings from Alamy alone).
Looks like we may see more such productive RM shooters in microstock.
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« on: September 17, 2012, 11:10 »
RM is a green field with still untapped potentials for microstockers. Some microstock sites are making an inroad into it. It is less competitive than RF files which are reaching saturation.
How are you fairing in RM?
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« on: August 11, 2012, 20:28 »
If you want to win in microstock produce photos cheaply and in large volume (meaning you have to do it full time).
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« on: August 11, 2012, 20:23 »
Give it a day laddies, they should be ready in the morning.
Okay. I'll leave the stocking out for the night. 
81
« on: August 09, 2012, 06:17 »
Still the same problem today.
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« on: August 08, 2012, 00:49 »
Anyone has noticed that processing of uploaded is files taking forever in Photodune?
The clock just keeps on turning, turning............and turning.
83
« on: August 06, 2012, 07:31 »
The biggest secret in microstock is: "Don't expect anything."
This way you'll never be disappointed.
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« on: August 06, 2012, 04:01 »
If you have a large enough portfolio and a low-performing microstock site gets you $50 a month, then 4 such sites will get you $200 a month.
Choose the sites that require little effort to upload and publish.
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« on: August 02, 2012, 03:40 »
My secret is not to shoot RM for microstock.
86
« on: July 26, 2012, 21:44 »
I always use Web Form Uploader.
It's more reliable and less stress.
87
« on: July 17, 2012, 05:25 »
exactly, as if the wedding industry wasn't already in deep sh-it due to the hordes of newbie photographers with their Canon Rebel shooting for a pittance.
i could add the music/concerts/gigs photo business is even in a worse situation, a friend of mine is on the verge to give up and move on to .. weddings !
I like to congratulate your friend for his foresight, wisdom and the courage to change.
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« on: July 17, 2012, 03:25 »
, as far as i'm concerned newbies can just pi-ss off.
....You have a lot of hate in you. Smoke a joint.....
Hate is good. It drives us to work harder.
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« on: July 16, 2012, 07:57 »
Many microstock shooters are fine photographers but they are too lazy to work the market to diversify the market and expand their earnings.
A photographer friend moved out of microstock into wedding photography and improved his earnings from photography hundred times.
Microstock is like a bad joke to him.
90
« on: July 16, 2012, 03:30 »
Yuri is making sure that most of the microstock sites bite the dust in not too distance a future his peopleimages.com will be among the very few still standing.
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« on: July 07, 2012, 03:48 »
Some folks gripe on and on about everything microstock (and probably this poll). 
Others enjoy the whole thing with good results.
I've seen so many microstock shooters enjoy the whole thing even without good results. They are just passionate about photography and microstock.
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« on: July 07, 2012, 03:44 »
.... On average this contributor group had 22% fewer sales in the first half of 2012 than they had during the same period in 2011. Stock sales reflect the worldwide economic conditions? Never lose heart and the hope that the sun will shine brighter and longer one day.
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« on: June 23, 2012, 00:35 »
Processing of uploaded files doesn't seem to be working in CanStock for the past week.
All uploaded files are just sitting in Filezilla waiting for The Awakening.
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« on: June 08, 2012, 15:03 »
6 Years are an eternity in the life of microstock... it's almost the age of the entire industry.
If you shot for microstock 10 years ago you might be on the golden age of microstock. When a photo in tradition stock could fetch $300 few were interested in producing for microstock. Starting 6 years ago like I did it might be a little too late as it began to be very competitive. Starting now? Well you know the story.
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« on: June 08, 2012, 06:42 »
Wow must have dug down deep to find this 6 year old thread.
6 Years are a very short time in the life of microstock.
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« on: June 08, 2012, 06:39 »
Looks like it's working now.
All systems go!
Another million of photos will be uploaded to RF123 by the microstockers in the next hour.
97
« on: June 08, 2012, 02:51 »
RF123 is best among the best low performers.
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« on: June 08, 2012, 02:48 »
Processing of uploaded files is not working.
However uploading with filezilla is possible.
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« on: May 31, 2012, 07:12 »
Sales on the site have grown since I last posted in November, but the growth hasn't kept pace with the breakneck library expansion. This of course means there's been some sales dilution.
I have seen my sales going down somewhat after February while maintaining consistent uploads.
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« on: May 24, 2012, 21:28 »
Anyone experiencing the infuriating "Form Error" while publishing files after uploading in FT?
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