How is the best way to report Istock PP income on the income poll?

Do I wait for 3 or 4 weeks until the results come in?

Do I report the PP sales as the next month ( PP for jan reported in Feb?)

Even though my sales are small ( for now) I want to keep consistent.

Glenn

I have been reading a lot of the forums and started thinking about how to improve our lives as Micro Stock Submitters.

The only answer I could come up with is a Co-op, type agency.

This is how I see it working.

Submitters have to be a member of the Co-op.  To be a member you need to buy at least one share ( $50? a share)

Commission would be set by the members ( 40%? ) and dividends paid based on shares.  Dividends would NOT be a proirity, with most of the funds being re-invested into marketing, technology, marketing, search optiimization and marketing.

There would be no "reviewers" but paid photo editors.
All images will be accepted, but rated and "placed" by the editors
Image submission will be charged per image submitted ( .01? .10?) to pay for the editors
Your will work with the same editor for all submissions unless you ask for a change, so you can converse with them.

For this to work buyers are needed, so the systems have to set up to make it easy for them, which may mean strict controlled vocabulary, and

Anyone interested in pursuing this?

Glenn

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admin edit: edited the title to be more descriptive. 

Does anyone have a boilerplate end user license available?

Thought of approaching a lawyer about this, but trying to find an english speaking one who understands IP in this part of the world would be very difficult.

At least they are truthful about their inspection process...

Alternatively, you could provide us links to your portfolio at other stock sites. The larger your portfolio at other sites, the higher your rating will be on our site. A high rating at our site grants certain privileges, including: the option to participate in the Promotion Program; quicker approval of your files; greater respect from our inspectors; individualized help uploading files at our site; higher search result positions, and many others.

As a newbie I know with this company I will be at a disadvantage over seasoned Pros....

I have been at this for about 5 weeks, have about 100 + images on the submit anything sites, about 25 on iStock and have made about $2 in sales.   A real newbie.

I am not a newbie when it comes to photography, having made a living from it ( on and off) for 10+ years.

Here are some thoughts ( if anyone cares.)



I see complaints on this forum about the sites not being interested in treating their contributors properly.  Thinking about this a bit, my answer is, Why should they? 

They get new contributors and images every minute.  I am sure some bean counter has pointed out that they make more money if the large experienced contributors don't get any payouts.  The newbies usually don't have a large enough or deep enough collection to get a payout for months or years, by which point they have moved on to something else and don't really care....what a great way to make a profit, the material you sell you get for free.

What I think has to happen is some way to make experienced contributors more valuable to the sites than newbies.

What do you think?  Am I talking out of my A$$ or am I close to being right.

Glenn

I am a newbie to Stock and I was wondering if vets had some hint on how to improve sales.

The ones I can obviously think of:
1) produce salable images
2) apply proper keywording

What else helps?
Promoting on other website? ( I saw a post of someone who posts on flcker and links to their iStock portfolio)

I don't have enough images produced or accepted yet to make an impact, but I want to plan.

Glenn