I was wandering what would happen if microstocks would start trading in Euros instead of dollars, since nobody can see the end of the US dollar falling? Actually, this is what lots of companies involved in international business are starting to do.

Do you guys think it may change something from the buyer side? I believe that buyers would still stick to microstocks as prices for RF would be the cheapest. In the meanwhile both contributors and agencies would get a considerable boost in revenues.

Best regards,
Diego

thanks for the advise
Diego

Quote from: diego_cervo on December 12, 2007, 18:30

I think that agencies should do like Apple with itunes, i.e. implementing a number of stores according to the country where buyers live. This means that european customers will buy in the european store (in euros), Americans in the US store (in dollars), and so on. Same price but different currencies....
what you think?

Regards,
Diego

Fotolia is doing that allready

In Germany: http://de.fotolia.com/
and in England: http://en.fotolia.com/

They charge customers in Euro's  or in pounds and we get paid in Dollars 

Don't like that at all.

you right. However, when a buyer spends 1� for a small web res licence, I still get 0,37$ instead of 0,37 � or 0,54$!!!!
Therefore buyers spend more, agencies earn more, photographers earn less!! 
Regards,
Diego

Leaf is right.

Exclusive relationships don't pay as much as having multiple channels to promote your work. Have a look at this article titled "Learning From the Masters" on http://www.microstockdiaries.com/
According to Jack Hollingsworth (one of the most famous stock photographer), a tiny percentage of buyers cares about exclusivity. This means that contributing to just 1 agency will not affect your sales.

Best wishes,
diego

Hi all,
just wanted to post this article on Moodboard, which managed to sell an RF image for 1000$!!
read more on http://www.stockphototalk.com/the_stock_photo_industry_/2007/11/moodboard.html

Diego

I believe it's a good thing as well. We all may benefit from it as SS may attract new buyers.

hey guys,
for those of you working with panthermedia, it seems that the german agency has signed an agreement with agefotostock to market its images through the new easyfotostock (i.e. a subsidiary of agefotostock)
Read here: http://www.stockphototalk.com/the_stock_photo_industry_/2007/10/panthermedia_ag.html

regards,
diego

i tried both lightroom and aperture, then I bought lightroom. It's simpler and (more important) faster.
diego

hey jean, i think you should add watermarks to the images in your galleries
diego

I agree with you karimala. Even if I'm not so concerned about subscription, I still think 25cents commission is too low, unless StockXpert is planning to raise it depending on photographers sales or some other criteria like SS does.

no comment!!
I never saw something like that before

actually my grandpa was a colorist in the early '900.

...i don't know...maybe subscription will not affect our revenues from per-photo sales. After all, a very few of my sales on DT come from subscriptions.

diego