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« on: August 19, 2013, 01:16 »
Thanks guys. Sounds like an easy option. I tried upgrading my existing theme and it was a bit confusing which is waht wordpress is like. Might start afresh with a new install which is often easier.
Thanks for confirmation and Im glad images arent stored thru Wordpress. That would be just painful. Ill let you know how I go
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« on: August 18, 2013, 21:03 »
Hi, I have been shooting for perhaps 6 years now ( http://www.filedimage.com/) and only recently got into selling stock seriously. In March I started and am now signed up to 10 libraries and selling 40-70 images a week, which is maybe $30-$60 a week. I think thats OK and I need to keep pushing for it be worthwhile I have maintained my own blog type site, semi successfully and had images on Zenfolio which is great in all aspects, including for wedding clients, but gets zero sales thru Google etc. Terrible SEO and a known issue. SymbioStock interests me but straddling to this and uploading here also seems odd. I could keep Zenfolio purely for wedding and corporate etc. Move everything else into SymbioStock. I use Wordpress already so the switch should be quick. I see SymbioStock has nice galleries, great SEO and eay uplaod via FTP etc. Im hoping blog feature is good. One question I have is whether galleries can be locked for sale or not. Id like to use a blog generally for things I do but a few events I cant sell images from even though I want them up in a blog and online for viewing. Zenfolio has excellent galleries and im worried about losing functionality A little bit of persuasion and I think ill start playing:) Might allow me to properly separate Zenfolio to what it does best and also to organise my site in general. Chris
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« on: August 12, 2013, 07:12 »
Interesting.I thought the other day that perhaps it was due to me doing othe ruploads at the same time as stock uploader doing them which potentially interrupts it.
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« on: August 08, 2013, 20:55 »
I was just wondering if anyone else ever got the occasional distorted image on an FTP upload. Im using Filezilla and also Stockuploader with both having same results. Maybe 1 in 10 get lines across image. Time consuming having to manually upload those to each site. Totally random.
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« on: July 23, 2013, 20:26 »
tab62-Interesting what im finding pretty much. Most of my stuff is travel. * 
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« on: July 17, 2013, 23:57 »
Anyone else experiencing a rediculous amount of rejections. I started at about 50% and got up to 70% acceptance. Last 3 uploads have been 0% (10 images ) and 15% (for 20 images). What . is going on?! Accepted by other libraries.
Should I just wait and resubmit later on?
Chris
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« on: July 10, 2013, 20:56 »
Do you guys sometimes have a really bad stretch of approvals. Ive been getting my approvals up to 80% lately. Submitted maybe 30 images and got 10 approved with Shutterstock. Ouch. I admit some a re a bit borderline for various reasons. Some are plain right crazy fine stock images. Is this just down to one approver having a bad day. Might resubmit some later on.
On a better note im having my best week. Just a month ago I was getting 20 downloads a week. Thats now gone to $40 and im getting one big sale ($30 sale) a week seemingly.
Its amazing how sales make you want to try harder and bad approvals in one batch hurt so bad
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« on: July 09, 2013, 08:27 »
Ekrawrecker and Gillian. You have some great portfolios. Way more conceptual than me. Ekra, your sales stats are pretty good. Thats like 2 sales for every image. Im about 1 to 1.
Really interesting seeing how this odd industry is working out for others. Thanks for the info
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« on: July 02, 2013, 21:31 »
Ha nice one! yeah i find the reasons odd. I tend to just move on and not worry about it as your book suggests:) On SS I got a 'Modern Buildings / Architecture Modern architecture / buildings can be copyrighted like any other artwork.' So i took a photo of a public bridge that looks modern. So what. Tempted to just resubmit. Its not property managed either.
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« on: July 02, 2013, 19:38 »
Thanks everyone. Certainly will keep pushing. So much to learn with this industry. Got to be more conceptual and work out timing of images too. For example kids and Christmas images going up in September.
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« on: July 01, 2013, 02:46 »
Yeah I have 4 $30-40 photo sales that make up half. Most of course are the 0.25 Shutterstock sales. Oddly 3 of the 4 big sales came within one hour all on different sites. Whats the chances of that?!
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« on: June 30, 2013, 21:54 »
Ah brilliant an alternative. Once again you come thru with the goods. Thanks once again.
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« on: June 30, 2013, 21:02 »
Awesome presentation of your earnings. Im just maintaining this manually at present. When you are starting out last thing you want to do is dish out more cash. Dont mind later on but right now.
No Lightburner is a killer. I setup multiple FTP uploads with Filezilla (no upload limit as such) and find 1in 5 files mis transfers and has lines across it. Very frustrating. Easier manually uploading to 8 libraries. Must find another program or setting change.
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« on: June 30, 2013, 20:37 »
Its also worth mentioning that your book was the kick start I needed to take stock seriously. So many thanks fro writing.
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« on: June 30, 2013, 20:36 »
Ah awesome thanks. There goes today's productivity at work:)
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« on: June 30, 2013, 20:23 »
Ah I was wondering if things slow down or not. Guess its still worth uploading at same rate. Where do you post your progress reports?
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« on: June 30, 2013, 20:07 »
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I was on iStock around then but never took it super seriously. I think years of travelling and having images on my PC doing nothing sorted me out. Its certainly not an easy market but obviously pays off for some. Like all photography. I reckon corporate photography is the only way to make pretty easy money now.
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« on: June 30, 2013, 19:54 »
Hi, As a relative newbie I was interested on people's opinions on how I am going compared to 'the norm'. If that wasnt too much to ask! So as dot points: - Been with Shutterstock, iStock, CanStock, 123RF, Alamy, DepositPhotos, Dreamstime and Fotolia for 3 months. - I have between 180 and 240 images approved and online with all agencies. Shutterstock has lowest at 180 and Alamy the most. - I had about a 60% approval rating and I have raised this to around 80% on all agencies. Alamy approve everything. - I have 156 downloads with Shutterstock and by far the biggest with Fotolia next on 34. Only 11 on iStock -Revenue wise its about $120 on Shutterstock, $45 on iStock and about $300 on all agencies. None with Alamy. -I have 90% used images I had already and these are mostly travel images My ShutterStock gallery is here: http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?gallery_id=1500320I have a rough aim to get to 2000 images and try to earn at least enough to replace my 5D2 a with a 3 etc. Obviously this game is A LOT of work when it comes to prepping images. I am now moving into lots of skylines. Some I have shot recently and some odler. Removing logos and editing pretty time consuming. I havent gone into a total conceptual frame of mind yet mainly because im wanting to post what I already have. I have thousands more to go thru. Id estimate 1000 images possible worth of submission still. How have others gone in this time frame. I feel im about average to be honest. iStock is high revenue and low downloads. Thing going some images exclusive with them might help Cheers Chris
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« on: April 14, 2013, 06:55 »
Hey All,
Wow thanks for the responses and tips. Some great pointers. I certainly have applied for more and am submitting to 8 libraries currently. Really trying to keep consistently uploading. Even though I am using Lightburner im finding between the upload limits for some libraries and other failures thats its super hard keeping up with whats got to the library or not. I thnk I need to have a break, get images from pending for each library. Then go thru manually each library. Gets confusing!
Chris
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« on: April 10, 2013, 23:12 »
Hi All, Thought id introduce myself as I'm really enjoying this site. I work in Melbourne Australia freelance taking lots of travel/portrait/wedding/music imagery. I dabbled in stock a while back but didn't give it enough of an effort for it to do anything. Wish I had now. I basically got into it again after a big road trip across the US and trying to take more stock like photos. I bought a Kindle, downloaded some books and have thrown myself into it. Its also a way for me to sort thru the 10s of thousands of images that I have doing nothing on my PC. An idea of my portfolio can be seen here: http://depositphotos.com/portfolio-2209782.htmlI am achieving between 65-95% acceptance rate to 9 libraries. Fairly happy. Im still uploading borderline shots to test the boundaries of the reviewers. For example how much of a copyrighted landmark can be in a shot before its rejected. How small can people be without a model licence etc. Its fun stuff overall. A few sales have come thru but with only 100 uploaded or so I guess that should be the case. My next step is to move more into the stock photography concept type thing. Most of my shots are standard travel, urban type imagery. Id like to do the 'man resting on holiday' type image. Also explore the editorial imagery sector. I have A LOT of images that I think meet this grade. I just don't understand it yet Anyhow enuff from me. Have a good day! Chris
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« on: April 08, 2013, 05:13 »
ah thanks thats a bit better. Course you cant tell what is pending/rejected but for getting total submitted and approved its not too bad. Thanks
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« on: April 08, 2013, 03:12 »
HI,
I am just building a spreadfsheet to monitor acceptances/rejections and sales. I have been able to source in a table quite easily for most sites but Fotolia is hard to get that info from. Unless you start counting acceptanceance/rejection emails. Does anyone know where to find these stats, if its possible, on Fotolia?
Thanks
Chris
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« on: March 26, 2013, 17:52 »
While I have you here:) The link for StockMon doesnt work from your book. I am also unable to find it, or anything else to monitor sales across various sites. Im signed up to 8 agencies now which i think is a solid start. Can you recommend a program to monitor sales. Im normally pretty good at searching for these things im finding very little except for a Mac OSX widget and im on Windows.
ta
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« on: March 21, 2013, 00:02 »
Hey there,
I added a comment to Amazon from a very satisfied reader.
I have been busy applying and having mostly success. Got onto Dreamstime, Fotolia, iStock. I screwed up the Shutterstock one and put Sydney Opera House pics in. I would have got that one otherwise.
I have used your advice and set aside a month folder which im exporting JPGs too. I have Lightburner almost setup right. Just cant get Fotolia going and obviously need Deepmeta for iStock. Having a fairly high approval rating so far which is good.
Yeah I guess if you use flags its good because you can just filter for 'not flagged' and see images that havent been uploaded. if you upload to all sites then it works.
Thanks for the help
Chris
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« on: March 09, 2013, 07:25 »
Hi,
I just checked your site and it was your book I read! Awesome to chat to you on here. Because of your book, im on here and giving this a go. So thanks! Guess that's the best compliment you can get. I need to reread your Lightroom section but I suppose I envisaged treating the stock libraries separately. I did get the software for LightBurner site and am configuring that. I manged to get some images to Dreamstime, but couldnt to Fotolia. So in your Lightroom you have no record of ones that made it or didnt make it. I can see now that this isnt so important. If its been uploaded and declined thats where you leave it.
In terms of submission Ive had probably about 60% hit rate with Fotolia so far. Guess not bad for first effort.
Chris
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