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« on: March 02, 2010, 13:48 »
Hi,
We amended our legal agreements so they are in line with the other stock sites that sell merchandise licenses. We've added the following line to our merchandise license legal agreement to make it more clear to our buyers:
You may not resell the Image on Print on Demand sites such as Zazzle or Cafe Press.
I hope that clears up the problem.
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« on: February 25, 2010, 15:40 »
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« on: February 24, 2010, 12:53 »
I don't know the exact stats, but I feel like the vectors with generic text in them sell better, mostly because people can see how they are supposed to use the image
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« on: February 23, 2010, 14:00 »
you get a lot of views like 3d studio but not many sales.
As of right now, vectors sell better than photos on our site, and certain styles of vectors sell better than others...for example, complex vectors usually outsell simple ones. I would assume on 3d studio that 3d objects would sell better than vectors or photos as well...
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« on: February 22, 2010, 11:55 »
I hope everyone that has joined recently can start seeing sales soon too! Another update: We've had a huge surge of sellers join in the past month...We've actually approved over 24,000 images in February alone! A lot of sales come from search engines and it will take a few weeks for your images to be indexed, so in a few weeks your sales should be more consistent. Also, the more our site is linked to, the more google will send traffic our way, so if you'd like to help your sales and our website at the same time, link to your portfolio or our homepage and you can include your referral link as well. For example, http://graphicleftovers.com/designer/stu49/ref=stu49/
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« on: February 22, 2010, 11:07 »
Yes, there are many artists who do well, and since we started with mostly vectors, they sell the best on the site.
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« on: February 21, 2010, 13:33 »
Hi Mark,
Right now, we aren't showing your individual referred users anywhere on the site. I will try to add it soon for you.
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« on: February 18, 2010, 17:48 »
I hope you do see them Mark 
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« on: February 18, 2010, 17:37 »
We love to keep you guys happy by offering the best selling (and buying) experience around. The only thing the competition has over us is size. Hopefully GL will keep growing fast because that means more money for all of us @ThomasAmby - If you don't have a blog, we would be more than happy for our contributors to write articles for our site!
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« on: February 18, 2010, 16:06 »
We've had a huge surge of illustrators and photographers uploading to GL in the past few weeks, which is awesome...but also could be one reason why some are seeing slower sales. The best thing to help boost the number of buyers on our site would be linking to GL from your own websites. Blog posts that link to your portfolio would definitely help out tremendously, especially in the eyes of search engines. We have a great referral program where you earn from sending buyers and sellers to the site, here are the details: http://graphicleftovers.com/referral_program/
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« on: February 17, 2010, 14:17 »
Hi VB,
I understand your concern. We police the site as much as possible to make sure artists aren't stealing or copying and uploading others' images. The same images you pointed out are approved and being sold on other stock sites such as dreamstime and shutterstock, so I don't know if our approval process is the thing in question.
Your concern does bring up another question of whether to ask vector illustrators for proof of original photos (if they appear to be traced) to determine if they had in fact traced their own photo or someone else's. I think this would be extremely cumbersome for us during the approval process as well as for our artists uploading, and there is a fine line between what could be considered their own and someone else's work. Another question: if you take a photo of an athlete at an event while someone standing right next to you is taking the same exact picture at the same time, it would be difficult to prove which photo had been traced! Right now, there wouldn't be an easy solution for all of these problems. We would gladly appreciate input on the topic if you have advice.
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« on: January 13, 2010, 13:06 »
I found out the problem is actually from the flash uploader. Error #2038 is a "generic" flash error that doesn't provide very many details with it. It seems like artists who are having trouble either have outdated versions of flash or are using a version of windows that has problems with flash uploaders. If anyone else has problems uploading using our flash uploader, don't hesitate to ask us for an FTP account!
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« on: January 13, 2010, 00:31 »
My apologies Klauts. I thought I had replied to you but apparently I hadn't. I am trying to find out what error #2308 means. Does it happen every time you upload? Could you possibly send a screen shot to me at daniel [at] graphicleftovers.com? It would help me find the bug more quickly.
Mile: I haven't seen images disappear yet with our new uploader. If it happens again, could you email us and let us know which files did not show up for you? Or you can just send us a list of the files that disappeared for you. It would help us out a lot.
I'm really sorry about the problems you are experiencing with our uploader. With the launch of our new site, we added a new uploader and we are still working out a few minor glitches, so if you find any problems, please let us know so we can fix them. Thanks!
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« on: December 16, 2009, 16:46 »
Although more artists have been signing up since our new site launch, overall traffic to the site is lower than normal so we suspect the holidays have something to do with it! Our new site is better optimized for SEO and is at least 70% faster, provides more emphasis on our amazing artists and their portfolios, and it's more user friendly which would normally lead to more traffic/sales. So hopefully your sales will start to come back after the holiday "recession." I don't believe your lower sales are a result of new artists adding their portfolios.
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« on: July 30, 2009, 14:25 »
Thanks for the compliments, cidepix. I hope you enjoy the site! Our next big additions to the site are going to be an FTP uploader to accommodate artists who have hundreds or thousands of graphics to upload, and fixing the legal agreements
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« on: July 29, 2009, 17:19 »
@ cidepix Your comments about the legal agreements are appreciated. These are good things for us to hear since we are newer and we are going to fix the problem as soon as possible. As far as the referral program goes, I would have to disagree with you about only helping the site and not yourself. We all know that istock and vectorstock have been around for a long time now, but the approval process, submission process and customer service are lacking. They aren't very focused on making contributors happy; they are focused on making as much money as possible. This is evident by the low commission rates they pay as well as the strict submission process and gradually rising rates for buyers. We added a referral program to help contributors make more money than they already can just selling artwork, and that consequently increases traffic to our site. We have been around for about a year and a half now, so we have a lot more traffic than just one person can bring in using referral links, and I will also say that the compete numbers are grossly understated. Again, we are no istock or vectorstock. They have been around for years while we just celebrated our year anniversary with a new site launch in March. We want to focus on showcasing great artwork and letting contributors stand out on a different site, being a "big fish in a small pond." Istock gets more than 50,000 submissions a week I'm sure, so how are contributors benefitting from submitting graphics there when they will get lost in the shuffle in a few weeks or a month? Thanks for the constructive criticism, it helps us build a better website. And, by the way, marish's referral link: http://graphicleftovers.com/selling/ref=marish/
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