Just what we need. Another beta micro site w/macro prices. You newbies out there, take a look on the right side of your screen. See the Big 6 section? If you're not there you are nowhere. If you even think about new sites before they have any track record you've got way too much time on your hands. Just my opinion.

Please excuse me while I wash Lucky Oliver blood from my hands. Someday I will take my own advice.

An off planet group. All they've got to do is ask what we and buyers want not go hide out at a resort.

I haven't even tried. It could only reduce the market size if accepted. Most users can easily tone stuff in Photoshop.

I have a few home shots that got accepted easily. New construction, when the home is really, really generic both in style and location. And when the home is secondary to the main thrust of the shot. In my case it was "sold" sign in front of a house with the house in real soft focus behind. The sign was about 1/2 of the image area.

snapvillage.

About the only consistent driver of buyers to micro seems to me to be their advertising spending. All the big 6 on the right are consistent large scale advertising buyers. Maybe it's just me but I have never seen any of the others in any of the publications that I read except for Snapvillage who just started advertising last month.

There's a direct correlation in my opinion between traditional ad budgets and money in our pockets. Those are the sites that are reeling in the buyers, including new customers to micro, month after month. The other sites are scurrying around after the crumbs. 

I think we should demand of all the new wanna-be micro sites that they reveal some hard promotional ad dollars they are committing. We're investing our time so they should come clean with some hard reasons for us to hit that upload button.

I'd say LO has been a major disappointment. Along with Snapv.

On LO I average 1.5 views per month on each of my 209 images, with 4.8 downloads per month. However no dls for nearly a month.

Either their marketing really sucks or their buyers are not looking for my images that are selling elsewhere. I guess we just plod ahead and put our time in where it seems to be more profitable.

The newest site that is showing promise -- at least with the way they are getting things right site-wise -- is Yay Micro. I guess hope is what some of us have in abundance.

I believe they're out giving technical and marketing advice to Snap Village.

Hard to tell about views. Many end up in lightboxes and sales result much later.

Odd thing is with Snap Village, I had two sales recently. One with 3 views and one with 2 views! The only other sale I've had there was one with 93 views!!??  That may be because their marketing has just started.

2.5 years: 14,634

I ran all the suggested names through a new freeware application I found on the siteofthedamned.com site. Turns out that none of the names above made it through the Voodoo, Damned or Possessed filters.

The software also came up with some suggested names for new ventures but suddenly my computer seems to be doing funny

Oh, please! Last time I looked under my desk there were dust bunnies but no chains. If you feel so humiliated, get the want ads.

Won't hardly ever happen. Once in a great while you might get a site mail from an end user. Figure about 99% of the time you won't. Just be glad they bought. Fotolia used to have a button to find out what company or individual downloaded it but I can't find that link on their site anymore.