What do you think will be tha place of yaymicro in your earners championship?

Upload process is the best hopefully their marketing team is as good as programmers

Their upload process is amazingly simple and efficient. They also have a very streamlined and fast interface which should benefit slower connections.  I am looking forward to their opening their doors soon ...

-Mark

Upload process is beautiful. A positive pleasure to use.

But the bottom line will be sales.

We'll see ...

I don't expect any magnificent numbers of sales the in the beginning. I was reading that they start with their marketing projects in September, because of the low in the industry in the summer. This probably will give them also time to eliminate any bugs in the system on the buyer site until they start marketing.

I expect it to take a while before we see significant sales, but I really wish them luck with the launch. The professional way they have conducted themselves so far has been a delight.

Snapvillage take note of how it should have been done!

I think that is a result of their owners coming from one of the large European "Macro" sites.  I too believe they have done everything in a very professional way by not rolling out the site as "beta"prior to opening its doors.

Mark

My one worry is the same as Trebuchet's - their very easy-going acceptance policy.

Of course, all my submitted images have been accepted without question. Not a single rejection - which is exactly as it should be. 

But, seriously, some of the images they have are a wee bit iffy. I'd be happier if they were somewhat more selective.

(Weird, isn't it? We complain when we get rejected,  but we get worried if we're not.)

They did reject one of mine (out of about 300). It was a creative blur shot. I wouldn't have submitted if I myself did not think the image had merit. They just didn't want it is all.

You're right about the reject rate being too low, but in my limited browing there did not see too much of the "crap" factor. The majority of what I looked at was pretty good to useful, and of course a lot of nice higher end looking images as well.

The low crap value is probably because the invitations went out to active contributors and not too many "outsiders" knew about the site. Once the site is out there for the newbies is when the junk will start to flow in. I think the reject rate will go up appropriately as we go along.

I wish the site well, although I have mixed opinions about their desire not to use "traditional" marketing. I hope it won't be anything like LO's misguided attempts. The biggest fear I have is that this Government of  Norway backed site will have the heavy hand of bureaucracy involved, rather than true entrepreneurship. So far they have done everything else right. My favorite type of soap opera.
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Hey, I've seen MUCH worse than that example under "business". There are 12,949 under that heading, and lots I looked at were excellent.

They simply have to build some volume initially. To open shop with 1000 good images is not going to draw as much fanfare as 50,000 moderate - good photos. And as I've always contended, tis not OUR place to judge whether a shot is "good" or "useful", that judgement lies soley in the hands of the buyers and their $$$.

)) The businessman "on its way to a boardroom meeting" is hilarous!

)) The businessman "on its way to a boardroom meeting" is hilarous!

It's more than hilarious ... it's bizarre.

And it makes me ever so slightly nervous about Yay. How could they accept something like that with the weird pose, cable trailing, etc. etc.?

And it comes up on the first page, second row.

Like I said, makes me a bit nervous.

First sale here, for 5� royalty (large).
Funny, I just wanted to see how looked the statistic side, and saw that first sale made today. Anyone else ?
There is no mail alert.
5� a day on Yaymicro is ok and a good start for me 

Today is the big day!  Hope to see some downloads soon   If I get one today on the first day of opening, I'll do a little dance. 

I managed to get 1132 images up and approved so far - was hustling to get them on before today, and barely made it by the skin of my teeth.