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josh_crestock:
In regards to the error message:
There are isolated cases of this happening and I believe its due to hardware upgrades that are happening over the next week or so. A few people say that they've tried a second time and then it has worked. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience and that I can't give you a better solution than that.
Forgiss:
--- Цитата: josh_crestock от Ноября 29, 2007, 02:07:35 pm ---Accepting only 'exceptional images', whilst, to me, is obviously unsustainable for a stock site starting off, it is typical of that we need to be offering a slightly different service to the rest of the industry. Since i've started, we've had relatively high approval rates, which I think we can afford to do while we continue to build our libraries up. Sales are increasing constantly and if we continue this way we might achieve sales comparative to a site like Dreamstime. To do better than this, though, somewhere along the line, we'll have to do something differently.
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I agree with you wholeheartedly. and on a micro level (inside a "micro" industry) I try and do just that in my own portfolio to create sustainability, so even though my "business" type images are more than 25% of my gallery, it compromises less than 4% of my earnings. And my focus is on other image types where gaps exist
I do, however, maintain, that unless you are a "niche market" site, you will have to supply both the rudimentary images as well as the "exceptional" because that is the demand. Sure, my stapeler images is nothing special, but... the client that is paying the money needs one today, and if they miss it on one stock site, they will search on another, so if they allready have one transaction on another site, why not simply see if the rest isn't also available there...
The new buyers are fickle, brand loyalty is something that is fast disolving. Buyers that is e-commerce savy will not think twice to switch between sites to get what they need today (and that is also why I will never go exclusive either)
As I mentioned before, I defended Crestock's rejections and (as I still am) feel that a site has the right to accept and reject images according to their business strategy, but what I would like is for the business to respect me as well and at least give me a guideline according to submit. I do this for a living, and don't have time or resources to waste on the whim of a reviewer who reviews without definite guidelines. (case in point: tourist related images of London rejected when Crestock had only 5 images with a "london" keyword, of which one was a photograph of a map)
At Crestock (a year or so ago) Technical quality flew out the window and acceptance/rejection was on the "gut feel" of the reviewer. And the only reason I left was because nobody could give me those guidelines. If they are in place today, I will gladly move all my images up.
Syates:
As somebody that submits, again, regularly to Crestock, I must say, reviews are far more consistent these days and Josh is always approachable if you feel a reviewer made a mistake. Sales wise it is also picking up as I said before, SY
Forgiss:
Yep. I do not wish to hash old problems, so I will try and submit again, and see where it goes.
Will wait until next week though and see if the upload problems can be sorted
sshaw75:
Hmm hadn't heard of this site before, signed up an account tonight, now the pain of uploading lol. Hopefully it'll pan out as well as some of the others.
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