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« on: August 17, 2010, 12:04 »
Try to be unbiased.
Do not consider the price or if you like or dislike the agency but only the search result.
Do consider the quality of results and the time until you will find the relevant images.
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« on: August 06, 2010, 17:15 »
I don't think the sites should be more selective because the reviewers shouldn't be deciding what is a good microstock image. They often don't seem experienced enough, probably because it is a low paid monotonous task. It makes more sense to delete everything that hasn't sold after a year. I also wish they would get rid of the free collections.
Totally agree that they should delete which has not sold in a year. Just imagine how much nicer buyers experience would be. I do not get why microstock agencies do not do that.
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« on: August 05, 2010, 17:31 »
Yep, sales are way way down, DT sales are horrible 2 month after I had a BME with them. Fotolia is pretty good as always, really the exception. and iS a couple of hundred $$ less /month than in the beginning of the year  Shutterstock is still going somehow, have not seen such a big decrease in earnings compared to DT and IS, but it is still disappointing. Looks like not a good future with microstock.
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« on: July 08, 2010, 08:46 »
Good that Germany lost!! Otherwise it would have been much more challenging to sleep with all the honking!
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« on: July 03, 2010, 14:01 »
Looks good for Germany 
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« on: July 01, 2010, 16:10 »
The month was really bad especially at iStockphoto. I earned about half of what I did earn in December at IS. It is the first month ever where I earned less than the same month of the year before. Shutterstock is way down too. Only on Fotolia I had a reasonable good month.
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« on: June 04, 2010, 11:36 »
From a business perspektive: What purchase would make you more money?
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« on: April 28, 2010, 11:43 »
Surpasspro, I send you a PM
59
« on: April 22, 2010, 03:16 »
For that, I think FT is more "fair" about what images are being "found" by the search .
or at least, I am guessing this must explain why newest images sell fastest on FT, while DT seems to take
weeks.. months.. whatever.
any speculations from experts here why this may be so?
Always depends where your image shows in the search engine. I have one image which sold like 7 times at DT and which I uploaded 2 weeks ago or so. No sales on the other agencies. Then I have an image which you expect to be a real bestseller and is has just one sub download and others where you really wonder why don't they get downloaded. So basically a lot of luck is involved. However focus on quality helps to get sales once you have a lucky position in the search.
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« on: April 14, 2010, 01:51 »
Dreamstime:
Delete similar images with only few sales, delete images which have not sold in a while. That might help according to Achilles. I have deleted over 50% of my portfolio and so far the past days have been quite good. Don't know how it will play out long term. But no regrets about getting rid of the crappy images/no sellers/slow sellers. If there are good photos which should be good sellers but have not been downloaded, let them be rekeyworded by Dt's Keyword service. This will give them a new start.
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« on: April 11, 2010, 10:49 »
I suppose independent contributors can hope for more sales now that their images are so much cheaper!
No so sure about that. As with the vetta images I assume Exclusive + will push the non-exclusive files further down in search..
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« on: April 05, 2010, 15:12 »
It is quite an awesome lens. It is sharp wide open, even better than the 135 2.0 which I always stop down to 2.2, but the 200 I always use wide open. It is a specialty lens, because indeed it is not a zoom But it is one of my preferred lenses for outdoor portraits. I am a wedding photographer so I use it quite a bit for wedding portraits.
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« on: March 26, 2010, 11:08 »
DT this month should end up about 30% more than previous BME.
They are usually trailing well behind in 4th place but this month are in 2nd place at the moment ahead of SS and IS.
yeah this month they are heading for a new BME
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« on: March 12, 2010, 12:07 »
What I really like with this idea is that you possibly can see trends.
E.g. is Fotolia in average growing faster that istock?
Does the return/image increased after new prices are introduced and so on.
You will have a much bigger sample than with your own little portfolio.
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« on: March 12, 2010, 10:29 »
The primary benefit is benchmarking. We haven't activated this yet as we're battling with time, resources and programmers and just wanted to finally get the site out there. For this reason it's also pretty ugly, but we'll fix that too. Back to the benchmarking... the first iteration will show you your earnings, downloads, RPI, RPD and STR plotted against the averages of a large group of other microstockers. We hope this will make for some very insightful charts.
The additional benefit of the benchmarking will be a general charts page which shows the combined and anonymous data of that same group of microstockers. All together there will be over 40,000 files and you'll be able to see the charts for all metrics, updated as frequently as those microstockers update their data (which we all know is often multiple times per day!).
Awesome! Any idea when the benchmarking will be activated?
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« on: March 07, 2010, 23:02 »
Fotografer look at your weekly rank, has it risen, then you are one of the lucky to experience growth. Did it stay the same? Then overall earnings for most contributors increased.
I always earn less in January and February then in November and December. iStockphoto in this case has been more stable than FT. But overall FT had a tremendous growth rate compared to the other agencies.
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« on: February 19, 2010, 09:57 »
Yes the DT search engine is realy not that great. I feel the IS search engine is by far the best, except that you cannot exclude the exclusive content. If you could it would be awesome for the buyer. But the exclusives would not like that and I can understand them Behind IS there is a huge gap and I know that, because I am regulary searching for images also to license them. FT, DT and the others could do so much better if they would just have a better search engine. The problem with DT is, yes you can sort differently very fast, but you want relevancy and relevancy is nowhere good except at IS, because at IS relevancy is so closely tied in what buyers bought after they searched specific keywords.
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« on: February 08, 2010, 08:21 »
I signed up when I lived in the US but then I moved to Germany and I ask Fotolia to change my currency. And they did change it. Now I get Euro currency. That might have been before there was such a huge differents in what currency you signed up under.
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« on: February 05, 2010, 03:04 »
Congrats Penelope! How does it work with Alamy if youwant to go exclusive with IS. As far as I know you need to delete the photos 6 month ahead of time aswell right?
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« on: January 07, 2010, 01:58 »
.... If iStock were to fail or severely drop off, then I can always go back to spreading things around among the sites. ...
The only problem is that you would loose your Search Positions from your established files at the other agencies. I doubt I would do so well, if I would delete my portfolio and upload it again.
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« on: December 22, 2009, 07:38 »
My goal is an increase in earnings, despite uploading less than 50 images next year
73
« on: December 18, 2009, 04:44 »
Here is my 4 year graph. Unfortunately FT is doing well enough to keep me non exclusive at IS, and IS is not growing fast enough 
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« on: December 17, 2009, 09:54 »
Over 100000 dls how many are there 5? Everyone else is a non-performing contributor 
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« on: December 17, 2009, 09:35 »
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