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General discussion / Re: How is Crestock doing for everybody?

« : Ноября 29, 2007, 02:11:45 pm »

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.

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General discussion / Re: How is Crestock doing for everybody?

« : Ноября 29, 2007, 02:07:35 pm »

Thanks for the comments guys,

Its nice to be getting some constructive feedback, its unbelievably helpful.

First off, Forgiss, I agree with everything you said. Its already been proven to us over time that the more established microstock photographers can supply to basis to our collection and can in themselves attract a lot of customers. These photographers upload to a lot of different sites and have a good knowledge of the industry, so we don't want to waste too much of their time with arbitrary rejections or long pending times. I see it as being in our best interests to get those images up as quickly as possible, and to really promote the good ones.

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. We've got a few ideas though nothing set in concrete yet. Other sites just seem to make it more and more difficult to achieve approvals and to get exposure on queue results, I'm not convinced this is a real solution. Certainly not a good one for photographers.

Best Regards,

Josh

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General discussion / Re: How is Crestock doing for everybody?

« : Ноября 28, 2007, 06:51:17 pm »

Hi to you all,

Thanks Lev for the invitation. And, to the moderators of this board, all the best guys, hope your forum becomes a great place for open discussion.

For those of you who haven't had contact with me before, I'm the Director for Photographer Relations and Inspections at Crestock. This is since April this year. I'm here to encourage all photographers to get involved with Crestock and really help maintain its steady growth.

The future at Crestock is looking better and better (Yeah we had some growing pains.) Sales have doubled in almost a month, and from the experience of last January we expect it to double again in the first month of 2008. Anyone (Forgiss, you're the only microstocker here that I'm aware of who doesn't regularly upload to Crestock, not to mention names ) who would like to get on board in the next month or 2 with a larger portfolio, let me know. I can get the inspection team onto it, giving it priority.

The inspection team is one of the things that have changed at Crestock. We now use a mixture of in-house inspectors and also Crestock contributors (all fantastic photographers) from all around the globe. We're about 20 inspectors now, most of whom inspect every day. The inspectors are taught to maintain a high standard of quality (this is important for any stock site wishing to develop a solid customer base), but not too much at the expense of good stock images.

Theres a range of new developments on their way at Crestock, all of these will hopefully become apparent in the near future.

Look forward to getting to know you all, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Josh