Author Topic: SS Announces Commission Increase for May 2008 (Read 54885 times)

lisafx · « **Reply #75 on:** April 30, 2008, 11:32 »

Can't argue with you about the frustration of IS upload limits for non-exclusives. I have complained about those both on istock's forums and these forums too.

As my productivity has improved, my backlog of images that are making me money on other sites but haven't been uploaded yet to istock continues to grow. It is, as you point out, their choice to have these regressive upload limits, but I feel they may be shooting themselves in the foot. Particularly with higher cannister members who have proven sales track records.

However my original point was that the upload limits should not be a disincentive to going exclusive because they no longer apply in that instance.

Pixart · « **Reply #76 on:** April 30, 2008, 11:42 »

Lisa, so how do you guys with good work habits submit to IS? Do you submit by your gut / in order / or do you watch how it does on other sites and push it to the top of the que?

Do customers know that if you have a fabulous collection at IS that you will have a bigger - more - fabulous collection at DT?

lisafx · « **Reply #77 on:** April 30, 2008, 11:53 »

Thanks for the compliment

I'm not one of the real big players, and until the past few months I limited myself to the 35/week istock limit across all sites, so although I have a couple hundred more (and growing) images on other sites, my istock portfolio is still pretty similar to the others. I just got tired of letting istock's restrictive limits define my workflow.

At the moment I am still trying to upload to istock pretty much in order. I should probably only upload a couple from each series, but you never know which ones will be the big sellers from site to site. And when I have a week that I don't have time to tweak anything new, I still upload to istock in an effort to catch up.

But then, I am just processing 50 or so images a week. Very small potatoes. I don't know how the big shots manage to process hundreds a week. But seems like some of the top diamond non-exclusives have many thousands more on other sites than on istock. Would be interested to know their selection process. Probably a lot more sophisticated than mine

cascoly · « **Reply #78 on:** April 30, 2008, 15:11 »

i track my submissions on a spreadsheet with a column for each MS, so it's easy to add a new site. i rate each acceptance at existing sites, weighted by my subjective code - i rate an acceptance at IS or SS as much better than one at feature or albumo which take anything.

i can then easily find images that i should upload to IS. current portfolio at IS is 630 while its about 950 at SS

my sales/image dropped by 50% at IS about a year ago - pretty dramatic drop over 2 months, then steady since -- probably due to a change in search engine results since all other sites remained pretty constant.

steve

ichiro17 · « **Reply #79 on:** April 30, 2008, 15:47 »

when's this announcement coming? i wanna know what i'm getting paid

leaf · « **Reply #80 on:** April 30, 2008, 15:50 »

each time someone posts in this thread i think that they are announcing what the increase will be!!!

They DID say though that they would announce it within the first 2 weeks of may, and that the increase would be effective immediately. Lets hope that means may 1st,

they sure are building this up though... er well... WE are sure building this up. But announcing it 2 months in advance doesn't help the situation... Over on the shutterstock board things are starting to get giddy. After all this waiting people are either going to explode with cheers and praises for the great raise, or go down with boo's and hisses

stokfoto · « **Reply #81 on:** May 01, 2008, 08:53 »

no news on the increase yet?

digiology · « **Reply #82 on:** May 01, 2008, 09:54 »

this thread hooks me everytime - and still no news!

sharpshot · « **Reply #83 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:06 »

Didn't they let us know on May 1st last year? Just checked and I was getting $0.30 on 1st May 2007. Why can't they do that this year?

Pixart · « **Reply #84 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:07 »

I am leaving for a little town in another provice this morning (he-he I'm going for my neices grad and my sister arranged 2 days of portrait sessions for me!). When I'm back next week and see this post for the next time there better be news, golly darn it!!! (edit - I had to put a cute word in there because I WAS CENSORED

)

P.S. Leaf, I'll say hi to Saskatchewan for you.

leaf · « **Reply #85 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:23 »

ahhh saskatchewan.. please do!

Yeah they made the announcement on apr 21 or so last year with it going into effect 1 may.

Snufkin · « **Reply #86 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:29 »

My bet is it's gonna be a 5 cent increase. I will be pleasantly surprised if it is anything more.

maunger · « **Reply #87 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:35 »

why don't we all agree that a new thread be opened when they really do announce something ?

i'm putting this thread on ignore LOL.

leaf · « **Reply #88 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:38 »

sure ignore it..... and you'll miss the big news

vikavalter · « **Reply #89 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:53 »

oh gosh, stop bumping this thread already, pweese

cphoto · « **Reply #90 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:56 »

Quote from: Tom on May 01, 2008, 10:29

My bet is it's gonna be a 5 cent increase. I will be pleasantly surprised if it is anything more.

Anything less than 40 cents/image would be a joke/insult to us.

After all they raised the price more than 40% 2 years in a row, so we should at least get 40%.

vonkara · « **Reply #91 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:59 »

Big news for everyone!!! My cat just have babies. I give them in two months to anybody interested

nicemonkey · « **Reply #92 on:** May 01, 2008, 11:13 »

at last the news that everyone has been wait for...did you all see how much we got

sharply_done · « **Reply #93 on:** May 01, 2008, 11:29 »

Quote from: cphoto on May 01, 2008, 10:56

Anything less than 40 cents/image would be a joke/insult to us.
...

I think you should prepare to be insulted. Sure, it would be nice to get a 33+% raise, and I'm all for it, but that would be too good to be true. And if it's too good to be true, it just isn't true.

They have a history of increasing commissions by 5c, and I think they'll continue that trend. The difference this year might be some sort of bonus based on monthly sales volume (e.g. 1000 DLs=+5%, 2000DLs=+10%, 4000DLs=+15%, 8000DLs=+20%).

A bonus system would place the onus in the hands of the contributor: you'll have to upload in-demand imagery if you want a better commission.

nativelight · « **Reply #94 on:** May 01, 2008, 11:31 »

I still haven't achieved the $500 for the 30 cent raise so I'm not expecting anything. I'm guessing we'll have to reach another milestone like $750 or $1000 before we get whatever the new raise will be.

Argus · « **Reply #95 on:** May 01, 2008, 11:38 »

I don't think it's going to be a simple 5 cent raise to 0.35. That would only be.. umm.. something like 17% increase. If they really want to keep attracting the best submitters, a bigger increase should be on the way. Well, that's what i'm hoping for anyway

vonkara · « **Reply #96 on:** May 01, 2008, 12:40 »

And how about a totally different earning system? The time it take only for the announcement is giving a good reason to say that it's probably not a simple canister earning improvement (I think)

basti · « **Reply #97 on:** May 02, 2008, 04:04 »

As said above, Im not yet above $500 so I dont expect anything. And if they do increase payments more then 5c I will be very surprised.

Dreamframer · « **Reply #98 on:** May 02, 2008, 07:30 »

Why don't we just wait and see. I'm optimistic. I am doing quite well there, so, anything above it will be excellent!

leaf · « **Reply #99 on:** May 06, 2008, 05:15 »

looks like we may be waiting til the 14th

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Author Topic: SS Announces Commission Increase for May 2008 (Read 54885 times)

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Pixart

leaf

Snufkin

maunger

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vikavalter

cphoto

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Argus

vonkara

basti

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