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Messages - Cesar
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« on: May 26, 2015, 15:36 »
decision is made, im stoping uploading to fotolia, until this crap is over.
102
« on: May 26, 2015, 15:27 »
i think we need legal action, only money will stop them
103
« on: May 26, 2015, 15:07 »
i think leaf could made exception today I wish I could say how I really feel but Leaf would ban me.
Smells like a class action lawsuit to me.
104
« on: May 23, 2015, 09:40 »
lol lol lol, he is smoking a lot of weed, ha ha, what people upload lol lol 35000 lol probably some sort of disease or too much weed    I noticed that too. Same object and then shot at 30mm, 35mm, 40mm, 45mm, then turned to 30 degrees left, 35 degrees left and so on, and then turned to all possible angles to the right and shot 20 times..... it's crazy, I think they should reject such stuff, no wonder, some people have 20k+ images.
For example: http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_landing=1&gallery_id=1256674&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest
This is just ridiculous, what they're accepting.
105
« on: May 21, 2015, 15:28 »
i think about 90% or more of search is from SS page search. subs are from google search?  i doubt it but it is not important, we spend too much with things are irrelevant, my mistake was to post in this topic
106
« on: May 21, 2015, 14:39 »
I doubt it my subs this week and last week are almost the same, +-3% ( monday to thursday ) , i think there is no point to calculate anything specific in stock, good stuff sell, even bad keyworded fotolia is worse, one day 40, next day 20 I noted correlation between volume of sales and how my images are referenced from google search results. I think this thing is between google and ss. In days when images have direct links to their pages, i have more sales, in days when click "view page" shows search result with the same keywords on ss site, but not the selected image page, i have much less sales. Click view image in such day will show just a thumb without any link to download. Generally percentage of images from ss on google searches is dropped and place is taken by dt, 123, dp. For me this explains raise of sales on all other sites.
107
« on: May 16, 2015, 14:56 »
3000 is 20x more then me, but that was in 2012, now it woult be about 10.000-15.000, here are costs im sure pressmaster is making 50.000$ per month, leaf also have 100% 5 digit earning. we are small fish, first 50 contributors take 50% all income and boss 28mil russians made a lot of money, look what they shoot and how much they make. there is no lazy successful contributor on SS, not single one, what sell on one agency and other not in nonsense
108
« on: May 16, 2015, 14:24 »
thanks. it is already difficult to find new, now im trying to improve some old sellers, mostly efect is lower. after one more year ill have to take six months brake. im tired already.
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« on: May 16, 2015, 14:08 »
i m angry now 1. first make every day 2-3 images and mix themes, you dont know how it is difficult. 2. every week you have to upload 15 images, no matter what, vacation or not, 3. every day thinking in car and and at home situations what to shoot 4. find places 5. do this 2 years non stop, then reply to this theme i will never post dls on this forum, ask leaf how much he is making, he is making a looot more then me. ask him how strong was march. does his shoot bricks or walls? no he dont. he thinks was business need! he is making not talking. Good files can earn money for many, many years .
That certainly has been my experience. Some of my current best-sellers have been on SS for several years.
Cobalt & Martha, that's my experience too - they sell for years. My best sellers, backgrounds and travel images of places that haven't changed, consistently sell for me. I don't have the traditional stock photo portfolio with people (I have nearly all my people photos as RM elsewhere) and don't have stuff shot on white, so I don't get the same returns those would, but the types of images I have uploaded keep selling. My only "dead" images are those that didn't sell right away, and even some of them have sold years after I uploaded them.
I think my record for images sold in one day on SS is 9 and if I sell 5-6 in a day that's a "good" day - but I have 292 images and most of them are my "seconds" so I can't expect more than that. I do have a handful of better travel images and some trendy vintage-processed images that could easily sell on traditional sites and they are among my top-sellers on SS. I am floored by Cesar's 50-140 image DLs a day with only 1500 -1900 images. Would love to see your portfolio Cesar but understand your reticence to share.
Microstock isn't my main photography focus so I don't upload regularly but when I do upload a bunch I rarely get a rejection and I see a modest spike in sales. I like being on shutterstock, however, because it gives me a good sense of what's popular thanks to the volume of sales and I've learned so much about stock from being there and from being part of this group. So, despite my traditional stock focus, I'm not a micro-basher, though I'm bound to complain when my modest sales tank-can't help it!
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« on: May 15, 2015, 15:24 »
SS is 2.5x more more than istock 5x more then fotolia 3x more fotolia 10x more dreamstime 12x more 123rf 12x more then bigsotck 20x more envato i stoped to deposit ( criminals ), i dont upload to alamy, pond5, i dont why, i dont have time, i really hate uploading i didnt try to stocksy, i dont have single image for acceptance, believe or not. keywords are not so important on SS, a lot of sales is by category i dont use any keyword tool, every image i keyword manually from my head, it takes more time, but i use much more words and every time diffrent, maybe i use google for keyword, financial images i keyword from articles for examples. to many images have the same keywords. ( that is another secret i posted) i hit the wall in march, march was so strong, april was down 400$. Buyers want concept, they dont look if corner is dark or not. im tired after shooting , because i shoot a lot of myself or 2 persons, difficult to focus manual myself with timer theme is most important Shutter also hiding some images from popular and offering them by search statistics to others buyers Cesar..
Very impressive...you must be on the top of the searches....
are you exclusively on Shutterstock or on other agencies as well??? would you mind telling us if your experience with other agencies in terms of downloads is good as well???
this week will be average cca. 125 (monday-friday)( yesterday , today is sucky )
i lied, a i have little less images , i shoot only business and technology, no other category
i have 3 images that sell 5/day ( 15 )
i have about 20-30 images about 2/day ( 50 ) every day
other is about 60-70 but mostly new ( from june 0214 )
maybe i have luck...
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« on: May 15, 2015, 13:57 »
this week will be average cca. 125 (monday-friday)( yesterday , today is sucky )
i lied, a i have little less images , i shoot only business and technology, no other category
i have 3 images that sell 5/day ( 15 )
i have about 20-30 images about 2/day ( 50 ) every day
other is about 60-70 but mostly new ( from june 0214 )
maybe i have luck...
112
« on: May 15, 2015, 13:23 »
thank you. i realy like your presence on this forum, it think forum is reacher. i miss some "old" like lisafx
I understand.
113
« on: May 15, 2015, 12:40 »
im very afraid to post my portfolio it is very easy to copy and there are some niche series i woold realy not see by other, like i said i am below average photografer, quality is my problem, so i try made images with " story"
a lot of thinking and time was spend for small ideas, i spend mostly time how to make scene at home, this is priceless, not for shooting and editing.
im contributor from mid 2012 and my first 300 images sux.
dead, i meant not selling any more
i earn a lot of money, more then my regular salary, please understand me.
but in $ i have earnings about the same last 20 weeks on SS
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« on: May 15, 2015, 06:28 »
your images have mostly zero action, that is not selling. you have kid and father, that is good one! i like it. you are not active contributor, you have maybe 80 last half year, common, on ss is stuff hot first 2 two months, you have to upload every day something new, you dont have 666, you have 50 images online, one year old image is dead. economy of SS is your weak point. that must be a super special port that has 140 downloads a DAY! Never heard of anyone getting even close to that number. Not even with much larger ports. Congratulations!
personally, i have great success with video on SS, but I find the returns from images in exclusive collections much higher, so I try those agencies first, especially if it is a more time intensive shoot and only ultrageneric content goes to the Micros.
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« on: May 15, 2015, 03:14 »
nothing special, i am below average photografer, only thing is important to figure out what to shoot, you must extremly focus on story on image. if u shoot technician on work, you realy must find scene or make scene, sometime i set up furniture at home two hours or more, but image is downloaded at least 100 times, SS is very good , almost 0% chance is, that your image will be lost in search, if it is good, maybe 10 images that are sell well on other agency and on ss dont buyers need authentic scenes. i dont make instagram,landscape,food last year i have 1300 images and 50 sales per day, this year i have 1900 and 140 per day, last year images with +100dl are still selling this year every day mostly
140 dls per day with only 1900 images? That must be a very special port, congrats. I envy you.
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« on: May 14, 2015, 16:41 »
Germany i think it has today holiday
117
« on: May 14, 2015, 16:08 »
last year i have 1300 images and 50 sales per day, this year i have 1900 and 140 per day, last year images with +100dl are still selling this year every day mostly
118
« on: May 12, 2015, 04:17 »
hm , difficult to say, in april i have about 10 sales per workday, in may is average around 8, you must know subs sales growing. we will see in june sum.
119
« on: May 10, 2015, 13:51 »
Range of sales changed on SS, i have extreme sales in tuesday,wednesday, thursday and lower other days. i dont like it.
Do you have the same?
120
« on: May 05, 2015, 10:02 »
n1 , you made me laugh. btw it was 89 yesterday, still very low i feel i need to write comment, wow yesterday was low 20 images, half normal. Today it should be 25 at least, only five sold, where are customers for my images?
Really? no sales? how big portfolio? do you make at least 300 images/year?
Or do you make very generic food or landscape?
121
« on: May 04, 2015, 03:34 »
i feel i need to write comment, wow yesterday was low 20 images, half normal. Today it should be 25 at least, only five sold, where are customers for my images?
122
« on: May 01, 2015, 17:13 »
80.000.000 $ 70.000 users, 28.000.000$ one person, that means 35% more income everybody, that is too big bonus!
123
« on: April 29, 2015, 09:14 »
huh, sad, do you make very generic food or landscape?
124
« on: April 29, 2015, 07:21 »
my sales are around 125, 10% more on tuesady or wednesday, friday,monday 10 % less, april will be lower 200$ then march, equal february, trend is little down, february have only 28days. no sales? how big portfolio? do you make at least 300 images/year? today is indeed low, 90 subs, 10 ODs, should be 15 OD and 110 subs. europe was low today....
That's normal fluctuation. It's perfectly normal to sometimes have 90 and other days 110. If it was 40 today then you would have reason to be concerned.
I had a zero download day yesterday on SS on a perfectly normal weekday - something that hasn't happened to me since I joined them in August 2006. I am concerned...
That is worrying.
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« on: April 28, 2015, 17:45 »
today is indeed low, 90 subs, 10 ODs, should be 15 OD and 110 subs. europe was low today....
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