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« Reply #50 on: February 12, 2007, 04:10 »
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I have never had a problem with payments from them.  They sell lots of photos compared to some sites that are still going, so I don't think they will have financial problems for a long time.  They are now owned by Jupiter Images and I don't think they would have been interested if they were having financial problems.

Is there anything more to this than a few people complaining about slow payments?

Just checked and my last batch of 9 were all accepted.  The reviewers are great ;D
« Last Edit: February 12, 2007, 06:18 by sharpshot »


« Reply #51 on: February 12, 2007, 08:20 »
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StockXpert is lagging behind for me, and my sales there are lower than last year, which is rather unique. On average, I'm increasing around 30% per month.

Last week, I had one of those weird reject situations. I had a series of 13 images, different but related objects, all isolated on white, shot at the same day in the same studio with the same lens (Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 at f/8.0) and camera (Fuji S3 at ISO 100). Not even the lighting was changed between the shots. One day, I submitted the first five, and all were accepted. The next day, I submitted the other eight, and all were rejected for all kinds of reasons  (subject too blurry, lack of detail etc.).

Not a single reject any other place (except Crestock who rejected a few, but that was to be expected), and they are selling well already, so I don't really care. Maybe they just don't want to have too many photos.

« Reply #52 on: February 12, 2007, 11:51 »
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epixx - my sales have been laggin in the last couple of months too.  Not sure why.

Also go a weird batch rejection.

« Reply #53 on: February 23, 2007, 04:11 »
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Hi,

stockXpert is a big dissapointment for me. I signed up at dreamstime, fotolia, bigstockphoto, stockXpert, lucky oliver and featurepics all at the same time and with the same portfolio (about 500 photos) - but of course different acceptance rates.

Out of these and in the current month, dreamstime makes 50% of the income from these agencies' sales, fotolia 16%, bigstockphoto 20%, stockXpert 3%, luckyoliver 3%, featurepics 8%.

So - at least for me (and also considering shutterstock and iStock) - stockXpert is on par with the "up and coming" agencies, but nowhere near the "big 6".

All the best,
Michael
« Last Edit: February 23, 2007, 04:15 by Daneel »

« Reply #54 on: February 23, 2007, 04:37 »
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123rf has kicked them out of my top 6 and I think BS is doing better too.

With the Getty/Corbis merger (if it goes ahead) I think their future is a bit uncertain.

« Reply #55 on: February 23, 2007, 06:56 »
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I have more photos at stockxpert than fotolia or bigstock but that is only because it takes a lot less time to submit them.

I don't bother much with categories and I don't have to order keywords or think up 7 words for titles.  My sales with stockxpert are ahead of bigstock and fotolia and it will take a long time to upload the rest of my files to those sites.

« Reply #56 on: February 24, 2007, 16:16 »
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Closed my StockXpert account yesterday.

I know I am new at this game, but in the three weeks I have been uploading pictures I have achieved 11 sales through DT and IS and a considerable number of views at each of those agencies.

Not a sausage from StockXpert, BigStock or Fotolia and I see little point in continuing with those agencies now that the evidence suggests I will have greater success elsewhere.

Yes, I know three weeks is not a long time, but I would rather spend more time taking pictures and concentrating on promoting those pictures through agencies that appear to have willing and ready clients.

« Reply #57 on: February 24, 2007, 16:38 »
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boy, you are really doing some spring cleaning.  What sites are you still on?

« Reply #58 on: February 24, 2007, 17:24 »
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Absolutely nothing for over 2 weeks now.  :-\

« Reply #59 on: February 24, 2007, 17:30 »
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According to StockXpert admin, there has been a 30% increase in sales over the last few weeks.

Have any of you seen an increase in sales lately?

« Reply #60 on: February 24, 2007, 17:37 »
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A significant decrease for me (probably more than -30%) :(

« Reply #61 on: February 24, 2007, 18:19 »
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According to StockXpert admin, there has been a 30% increase in sales over the last few weeks.

Have any of you seen an increase in sales lately?
This month is back up to normal levels.  Last month was terrible.

« Reply #62 on: February 24, 2007, 18:48 »
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especialy for the past two weeks there is a certain decrease in my sales on StockXpert.I assume it may be because of new default searching setting resulted in more exposure of populer images thus more sales for them and less for new images.

GWB

« Reply #63 on: February 25, 2007, 13:41 »
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Yes, I've seen an increase in sales at SX.  They are #4 in sales of the microstocks but appear to be gaining on my #3, Dreamstime.  My only trouble with SX is that last year, PayPal charged me a  $3.27 surcharge for a $102.50 payment.  I have a premium account with them and have never been charged a fee with any other microstock for $100+ pay-out.  I contacted SX and they said they didn't know what was going on.   I've gone around and around with PayPal on this.  Their latest email mentioned something about a "mass payment" rule and my payment from SX was outside of the rule.  They never stated how much money a mass payment is supposed to be.  I guess there is a cap on the overall payments you get per month, including the other microstocks?  Go over the limit and get a surcharge?

« Reply #64 on: February 25, 2007, 14:44 »
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Yes, I've seen a bit of an increase but not 30%.  Overall slower sales and very, very few accepted photos recently. 

« Reply #65 on: February 25, 2007, 17:01 »
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leaf, I am trying to approach stock photography from a business point of view.  I know I am new, but I want to get it right.

I can either spend my time uploading to all sorts of different agencies, or I can take a different approach and focus my effort in a different way.

All businesses need sales and marketing.  A business can invent the best product ever seen by mankind, but unless it has a sales and marketing strategy, no-one will ever hear about that product.

I have been uploading to IS for only three weeks, and I only have 25 snaps uploaded so far.  But instead of uploading elsewhere I have spent time looking for designers with lightboxes relevant to my pictures, making a gentle approach to them to see if my pictures might suit their needs.  In doing this in a gentle way, designers and photographers have visited my small portfolio and voted for a few images (I didn't ask them to - it's just something people do naturally).  As a result, I have only 25 images, but 40 five star ratings!

I also now have the start of a contact list added to my network.  I want to get that list up to 1,000 designers over the next two years.  Then, when I have important new work to upload, I already have a relationship and contact list I can bulk sitemail.  This is only the same method as used by millions of sales people worldwide - build your contacts and maintain a relationship.

I cannot do this everywhere, which is why, after only three weeks, I have already decided to limit my work to IS and DT.  I may add SS if time permits.

I know it is early days.  But on IS I already have five downloads which I think is encouraging for only three weeks and 25 images.  I look forward to the day when I've got 2,000 images and 1,000 designer network contacts.

Already, designers have asked 'can you do it this way, or that way etc'.  This is what sales, marketing and relationship building is all about.

Just my view.....


« Reply #66 on: February 25, 2007, 17:20 »
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Hatman you really need to get on Shutterstock.
I have been there for 3 days with only 50 submissions and have over 50 downloads already. If you think five downloads in 3 weeks is good try Shutterstock.  ;)

« Reply #67 on: February 25, 2007, 19:49 »
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Yes, acknowledged.

As I am a newbie, I failed to get accepted by SS on my first attempt.  Second attempt is allowed on 1st March so I'll give it a try.  Promising numbers you've achieved.

« Reply #68 on: February 25, 2007, 19:53 »
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Yes, acknowledged.

As I am a newbie, I failed to get accepted by SS on my first attempt.  Second attempt is allowed on 1st March so I'll give it a try.  Promising numbers you've achieved.

Ah yes, I was rejected the first time too. I rushed into it and submitted a bunch of crap photos.
But now since all my work are illustrations I don't have the noise problems and such.
Good luck on your second attempt!

« Reply #69 on: February 25, 2007, 20:04 »
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Yep, I rushed also.  Lesson learned......

« Reply #70 on: February 26, 2007, 00:32 »
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My last two batches are all rejected, doesn't sounds like they like to do business.
My same photos are accepted evereywhere, including SS, IS, FT, BigStock, DT, not all rejected by StockXpert, due to " we are not looking for those images" " noise or grain"


« Reply #71 on: February 26, 2007, 12:44 »
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I have 1,597 photos with them, so they are not that fussy :)

« Reply #72 on: February 26, 2007, 12:52 »
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I've only got 62 images approved on StockXpert so far, and have the highest rejection ratio of any site..  (My total port is only about 300 images)

Grand total of $6 sales so far..

Because they approve before keywording it's a fairly 'soft' option for uploading, so I'll continue to upload my back-catalog, so to speak, for the moment...  Just a few every now and then as I micro is a spare time thing for me, and I don't seem to have much of it! :-).

YMMV of course..

Photoguy

« Reply #73 on: February 26, 2007, 13:10 »
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I'm doing great, from the begining of Feb it has gone nuts on sales for me. ;D

« Reply #74 on: March 24, 2007, 04:21 »
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Hi Guys

Just closed my account after one week. With about 150 images there was only one sale in 7 days. Strange but true, this one sale that was accepted on the second day, was rejected today.

Never got this kind of work where an images was accepted, than sold and after rejected and taken out of database.

Also related to other sites like DT,IS,FL the potential of sale is to low for me, even if I think which time I have to spent for.

cu


 

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