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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Selling Stock Direct => Topic started by: indivstock.com on January 26, 2013, 13:08
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Hi,
looks nice.
I'm trying again at getting it setup, like you I have found it very hard to modify templates and had to start changing php to get what I want.
I entered heart in you page, then grey heart and it worked ok with 2 keywords? I also tried with the search on the left adding one word then the other and that worked as well?
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The zoom appeared to be working OK - it seemed to have two levels of magnification and then back to full size. Didn't look to me as if it was zooming on a thumbnail but with illustrations or 3D renders perhaps I'm not seeing the pixelization?
Search didn't find a lot of things, but when I looked at individual images, it's the keywording not the search that was the cause. I saw a Christmas background (red) with trees when browsing. I searched for christmas tree and no results. But looking at the image it's because the keyword tree isn't on the image.
In the case of another failed search for easter egg (saw an image browsing and it wasn't found searching) it was because the english keywords were in the description and the other (german?) keywords were in the keyword slot. Not sure if you're appealing to one language market or the other but you'll need to sort out your keywords
Couple of other thoughts. You have XL sizes that are 1600 to 1800 pixels on the long edge. That's a medium at iStock, between M and L at 123rf, between S and M at Dreamstime and so on. I think you're going to confuse buyers familiar with the major sites to have such small sizes with big size names
I also think your prices are pretty high - to buy credits at ! euro each you have to buy 1350 of them (which I have a hard time believing a buyer would do at a one-artist site if I'm being frank) and then I get this small to medium image for 14.3 euros.If you're keeping 100% of the take, I think you might try to help the buyers decide to shop with you - you don't want dirt cheap, but you don't want iStock-level pricing either
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I think for a relatively unknown artists it is better not to use credits. People are unlikely to buy so many images from you that a credit package makes sense. If they need only one or two images from you, what would they do with the remaining credits? Personally I wouldn't want to leave my money lying around on some little known website.
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I think for a relatively unknown artists it is better not to use credits. People are unlikely to buy so many images from you that a credit package makes sense. If they need only one or two images from you, what would they do with the remaining credits? Personally I wouldn't want to leave my money lying around on some little known website.
In my experience, it is both. Most buyers come in and buy one image. I've tried different incentives to get them to buy a second or third, but, for the most part, they just buy the single image that they want/need. That said, you do get buyers that come in looking for multiple images and many times they want some sort of bulk discount. So, it probably isn't a bad idea to have that set up for them. I personally never liked credit systems though because I just want to spend for the images I need.
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