Showing posts with label microstock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label microstock. Show all posts

Thursday, 17 September 2009

Stockxpert - So is it working????

Uploaded quite a few shots to Stockxpert in the last week. Still awaiting review. Really slow and very little views on existing shots. Reading other blogs it seems this site could be on the way down? Don't know whether to continue with it.
Looked at Moodboard the other day - pretty cool stuff on there, but it looks mostly pro which puts it in a different category - but good for designers like me to check out.
More later....just thought I'd have a moan - I think I need to get on twitter.......

Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Giving it a go!

Well, here goes.
I'm just starting out with the microstock thing. Never took it seriously until now and only had a couple of shots with iStockphoto, but having seen that there is possibly some extra cash to be made, I figure it's worth putting in more effort.
Being in the position of being both contributor and buyer, it gives me a good insight as to what's worth doing. I've purchased stock for many years and being a professional Graphic Designer, I know that sometimes you don't need an expensive shot at several hundred dollars when it's going somewhere in a brochure really small - and generally the client isn't bothered either. So there it is Microstock fills the gap......but most of you knew this anyway. 
I've just uploaded onto a few sites and the results are promising, so in the next blog I'll let you know how I'm getting on. Would also be interested in the general view on some of the sites out there. Unfortunately my main work calls.....

Ant.