Author Topic: MicrostockGroup Rank - What's yours (Read 31979 times)

Stu49 · « **Reply #75 on:** January 25, 2010, 10:39 »

Quote from: leaf on January 25, 2010, 07:42

There is now a "Rank" heading on the top of the site - where you can see how you compare to everyone else. It will also show the change from week to week (starting next week)

I start searching from the bottom, and work my way up !

Lee Torrens · « **Reply #76 on:** January 25, 2010, 23:39 »

Tyler, the rank pages are very cool. Thankyou!

One little bug - on the iStock page the usernames are linked to Dreamstime searches.

leaf · « **Reply #77 on:** January 26, 2010, 01:45 »

Quote from: Lee Torrens on January 25, 2010, 23:39

Tyler, the rank pages are very cool. Thankyou!

One little bug - on the iStock page the usernames are linked to Dreamstime searches.

yeah - perhaps they should be linked to a profile page instead, but they search for the users images, which is what they were meant to do, although perhaps that is confusing?!

leaf · « **Reply #78 on:** January 26, 2010, 01:46 »

Quote from: Stu on January 25, 2010, 10:39

Quote from: leaf on January 25, 2010, 07:42
There is now a "Rank" heading on the top of the site - where you can see how you compare to everyone else. It will also show the change from week to week (starting next week)

I start searching from the bottom, and work my way up !

well I just learned I have a totally rotten overall DPI (downloads per image) That is obviously something I can improve!

Randy McKown · « **Reply #79 on:** January 26, 2010, 02:16 »

Quote from: leaf on January 26, 2010, 01:46

Quote from: Stu on January 25, 2010, 10:39
Quote from: leaf on January 25, 2010, 07:42
There is now a "Rank" heading on the top of the site - where you can see how you compare to everyone else. It will also show the change from week to week (starting next week)

I start searching from the bottom, and work my way up !

well I just learned I have a totally rotten overall DPI (downloads per image) That is obviously something I can improve!

Ok here's what you need to do to solve the problem. Go to dreamstime and just head right into your management area and click the online files button. Now click on the title to sort files by downloads. The next thing you should do is select all the images with no sales .... now delete them all. LOL your DPI will skyrocket

I think that's a pretty solid plan. I tell ya what since you and me are tied for DPI at DT you go ahead and try it first and then let me know if it works out.

leaf · « **Reply #80 on:** January 26, 2010, 02:33 »

Quote from: Randy McKown on January 26, 2010, 02:16

Quote from: leaf on January 26, 2010, 01:46
Quote from: Stu on January 25, 2010, 10:39
Quote from: leaf on January 25, 2010, 07:42
There is now a "Rank" heading on the top of the site - where you can see how you compare to everyone else. It will also show the change from week to week (starting next week)

I start searching from the bottom, and work my way up !

well I just learned I have a totally rotten overall DPI (downloads per image) That is obviously something I can improve!

Ok here's what you need to do to solve the problem. Go to dreamstime and just head right into your management area and click the online files button. Now click on the title to sort files by downloads. The next thing you should do is select all the images with no sales .... now delete them all. LOL your DPI will skyrocket

I think that's a pretty solid plan. I tell ya what since you and me are tied for DPI at DT you go ahead and try it first and then let me know if it works out.

well I am sure it would work

I wondered though, sometimes, if that wouldn't be such a dumb plan. If I upload 50 landscape from a trip for example - landscapes generally don't sell that great, but sometimes they do. If I have 50 to choose from then the buyers may make 200 purchases of my landscape but they will be spread over 50 images giving only 4 sales per image. If I had only 5 landscape then I would get 40 sales per landscape and that would push the images into a higher level on DT. I am exaggerating a bit, but I wonder if the idea of 'less is more' is the best strategy.

The one thing that keeps stopping me is always being surprised when an image starts to sell really well that I never thought would sell that great.

Randy McKown · « **Reply #81 on:** January 26, 2010, 03:24 »

Quote from: leaf on January 26, 2010, 02:33

well I am sure it would work I wondered though, sometimes, if that wouldn't be such a dumb plan. If I upload 50 landscape from a trip for example - landscapes generally don't sell that great, but sometimes they do. If I have 50 to choose from then the buyers may make 200 purchases of my landscape but they will be spread over 50 images giving only 4 sales per image. If I had only 5 landscape then I would get 40 sales per landscape and that would push the images into a higher level on DT. I am exaggerating a bit, but I wonder if the idea of 'less is more' is the best strategy.

The one thing that keeps stopping me is always being surprised when an image starts to sell really well that I never thought would sell that great.

I think it would actually work but only for some people. Like on DT I know that even though my DPI is only 2.5 about 80% of my sales are all XL, Max & this week I'm seeing TIFF sales (btw, are those new or something because I've never seen them before) anyway my point is my sub sales are around 10-12% and small-med is maybe 5% and large 5% of the total sales. So if I removed all the 0 sales then chances are I would lose a lot of higher-credit sales so there's a greater risk involved ... I know I've heard others talking about getting crazy sub sales like over 60% .. if that was the case then I would definitely think removing a lot of the 0 sales would be a good idea because they now have a better fighting chance of eventually getting closer to making a dollar per download.

I don't know .. I'm not brave enough to take the risk on something like that. After all it only takes the right person to throw a shot with 0 sales in their public collection one day and then you suddenly get a couple 50 credit EL's from it out of nowhere ... that and going through and deleting files seems like a lot of work. I have to force myself to upload as it is LOL

leaf · « **Reply #82 on:** January 26, 2010, 03:45 »

yeah, the TIFF sales are new. They started with the recent price increase.

I know what you mean though - I don't dare delete things either. I don't mind the database cleaning DT is doing though. It is a good and fair way to clean out the old files that are not selling.

Stu49 · « **Reply #83 on:** January 26, 2010, 05:12 »

It would be good if USER could also be sorted alphabetically !? If I want to see how well U are doing I have to search (from the top of course

Also the Rank dropdown doesn't seem to size very well, when I increase font size !?

vonkara · « **Reply #84 on:** January 26, 2010, 11:53 »

Why am I last again at Istock, it seem like my username stats do not stay more than 12 hours..

leaf · « **Reply #85 on:** January 26, 2010, 13:16 »

Quote from: Vonkara on January 26, 2010, 11:53

Why am I last again at Istock, it seem like my username stats do not stay more than 12 hours..

because I was fiddling with the system again and broke things. It is fixed now - your stats should be displayed correctly and should be updated correctly too.

leaf · « **Reply #86 on:** January 26, 2010, 13:16 »

Quote from: Stu on January 26, 2010, 05:12

It would be good if USER could also be sorted alphabetically !? If I want to see how well U are doing I have to search (from the top of course

Also the Rank dropdown doesn't seem to size very well, when I increase font size !?

can you send me a screen shot or something? how is it looking bad?

vonkara · « **Reply #87 on:** January 26, 2010, 13:43 »

Quote from: leaf on January 26, 2010, 13:16

Quote from: Vonkara on January 26, 2010, 11:53
Why am I last again at Istock, it seem like my username stats do not stay more than 12 hours..

because I was fiddling with the system again and broke things. It is fixed now - your stats should be displayed correctly and should be updated correctly too.

Yea thanks!

Stu49 · « **Reply #88 on:** January 26, 2010, 14:28 »

Quote from: leaf on January 26, 2010, 13:16

Quote from: Stu on January 26, 2010, 05:12
It would be good if USER could also be sorted alphabetically !? If I want to see how well U are doing I have to search (from the top of course

Also the Rank dropdown doesn't seem to size very well, when I increase font size !?

can you send me a screen shot or something? how is it looking bad?

Don't have any way of doing selective screenshot at the mo, but if u Zoom in using FF the agency names enlarge but NOT the enclosing dropdown box. Hope that helps

Lee Torrens · « **Reply #89 on:** January 26, 2010, 21:50 »

Quote from: leaf on January 26, 2010, 01:45

Quote from: Lee Torrens on January 25, 2010, 23:39
Tyler, the rank pages are very cool. Thankyou!

One little bug - on the iStock page the usernames are linked to Dreamstime searches.

yeah - perhaps they should be linked to a profile page instead, but they search for the users images, which is what they were meant to do, although perhaps that is confusing?!

Sorry, I could have made that more clear. It's not the search vs profile page I was pointing out. It's that on the iStock rank page they link to searches at Dreamstime, not iStock like one would expect. i.e. Why search for SJLocke images at Dreamstime.

leaf · « **Reply #90 on:** January 27, 2010, 01:43 »

Quote from: Lee Torrens on January 26, 2010, 21:50

Quote from: leaf on January 26, 2010, 01:45
Quote from: Lee Torrens on January 25, 2010, 23:39
Tyler, the rank pages are very cool. Thankyou!

One little bug - on the iStock page the usernames are linked to Dreamstime searches.

yeah - perhaps they should be linked to a profile page instead, but they search for the users images, which is what they were meant to do, although perhaps that is confusing?!

Sorry, I could have made that more clear. It's not the search vs profile page I was pointing out. It's that on the iStock rank page they link to searches at Dreamstime, not iStock like one would expect. i.e. Why search for SJLocke images at Dreamstime.

ahhh haaha.. yes, that is a problem. will get right to it!

and now that I read it again you DID say iStock - i just missed it last time.

edit: It is fixed now

Stu49 · « **Reply #91 on:** January 28, 2010, 05:40 »

Just looked at the ranking for iStock and found one guy who has 637 images online but no downloads, according to the rankings, but if u click his name and go to IS it says he he has >6700 downloads !?

How can this be

Surely this makes a farce of the rankings !?

p.s. got my first sale at IS yesterday and still no guage under my avatar !?

leaf · « **Reply #92 on:** January 28, 2010, 06:33 »

Quote from: Stu on January 28, 2010, 05:40

Just looked at the ranking for iStock and found one guy who has 637 images online but no downloads, according to the rankings, but if u click his name and go to IS it says he he has >6700 downloads !?

How can this be Surely this makes a farce of the rankings !?

p.s. got my first sale at IS yesterday and still no guage under my avatar !?

Thanks for finding the error. The ranking updater was getting stuck on someone who didn't have a username. I have fixed it so it should be updating properly in the future.

The updates are only run once per day to keep the load light on iStock and Dreamstime, so you might not see immediate results if you get a sale. i see you have a gauge now though.

Stu49 · « **Reply #93 on:** January 28, 2010, 07:07 »

Quote from: leaf on January 28, 2010, 06:33

i see you have a gauge now though.

NO !! not here anyway !? Only the DT one

leaf · « **Reply #94 on:** January 28, 2010, 07:21 »

Quote from: Stu on January 28, 2010, 07:07

Quote from: leaf on January 28, 2010, 06:33
i see you have a gauge now though.

NO !! not here anyway !? Only the DT one

ah yes, you are right. It should be there in a few hours when the stats are updated again. If not I will check it out again.

Stu49 · « **Reply #95 on:** January 28, 2010, 08:25 »

Quote from: leaf on January 28, 2010, 07:21

Quote from: Stu on January 28, 2010, 07:07
Quote from: leaf on January 28, 2010, 06:33
i see you have a gauge now though.

NO !! not here anyway !? Only the DT one

ah yes, you are right. It should be there in a few hours when the stats are updated again. If not I will check it out again.

I look forward to that !

Just noticed there's nothing showing on your IS ranking for <10 d/ls !! is that the start point !?

Stu49 · « **Reply #96 on:** January 29, 2010, 07:52 »

Quote from: leaf on January 28, 2010, 07:21

Quote from: Stu on January 28, 2010, 07:07
Quote from: leaf on January 28, 2010, 06:33
i see you have a gauge now though.

NO !! not here anyway !? Only the DT one

ah yes, you are right. It should be there in a few hours when the stats are updated again. If not I will check it out again.

1 day later !! and still nothing

cascoly · « **Reply #97 on:** January 31, 2010, 12:35 »

?? all the istock sales numbers are rounded [down?] to hundreds - eg i have 698 sales, but it displays as 600. the portfolio numbers are exact

bug or feature?

Stu49 · « **Reply #98 on:** January 31, 2010, 13:58 »

Quote from: leaf on January 28, 2010, 07:21

Quote from: Stu on January 28, 2010, 07:07
Quote from: leaf on January 28, 2010, 06:33
i see you have a gauge now though.

NO !! not here anyway !? Only the DT one

ah yes, you are right. It should be there in a few hours when the stats are updated again. If not I will check it out again.

Several days later, 2 sales ! and still no guage !!

leaf · « **Reply #99 on:** February 01, 2010, 06:52 »

your gauge is now live. I found a couple more bugs. thanks for the patience.

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