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viejasirena
Joined: 22 Aug 2011
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:52 pm
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Hello!!
I'm new in Shutterstock and I don't know if the only way for saling my photos is with my gallery or there is more things that I can do for improve my sales.
And, when a photo is sold, can I know who buy it or the use for my photo? (sorry for my English)
Thanks a lot!!! |
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hhltdave5
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 24083
Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:37 pm
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| viejasirena wrote: | Hello!!
I'm new in Shutterstock and I don't know if the only way for saling my photos is with my gallery or there is more things that I can do for improve my sales.
And, when a photo is sold, can I know who buy it or the use for my photo? (sorry for my English)
Thanks a lot!!! |
The best way to boost your sales is to upload images into your gallery that have good commercial value. Your gallery is almost all about portraits of one or two people. There are a couple where they are outside showing everyday life but basically you are limiting yourself to an area that has hundreds of thousands of images already.
You need to upload some different types of shots such as family life, business, landscapes, fitness, food, products and so on. The more diverse your gallery is the more chance you have of making more sales.
Now you can specialize in a certain type of image such as portraits but remember that unless you do them especially well or different they can get lost in all the other images that others are submitting.
The next thing you need to do is make sure that you keep uploading images on a regular basis. If you just submit a few and then wait the shots you submitted begin to fall further and further behind when a buyer searches for "newest" images. The less sales you get the further back those images fall in the newest and most popular searches.
Next make sure that your keywords are good. You can have the best image in the world but if your keywords are not good the buyers will not be able to find your images. I checked your keywords and I think you can add more good keywords that will help your sales.
Here is a web site where you can enter some basic keywords and the program will search the most popular images and give you a list of those keywords. You can then put those into your image.
http://www.arcurs.com/keywording/
As far as knowing who buys your images that is something that Shutterstock does not give out. Most stock sites do not give out this information.
You can Google your name or use the Google image finder or you can use the tin eye web site www.tineye.com
One other place you can check is to search some of the book selling sites such as Amazon with your name.
I hope this helps. |
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viejasirena
Joined: 22 Aug 2011
Posts: 2
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:44 am
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Thank you very much!!!
I'll try to do what you say. |
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rinder99
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
Posts: 39224
Location: Contact www.rinderart.com/Books and Workshops www.rindersmithphotography.com Youtube/rinder
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:36 pm
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You also need 1000's more. with 20 million here One page is a grain of sand on the beach and what Dave said about Variety is critical.VERY CRITICAL.Look at my port I have Bugs,Models,young,Old,Very old men women,Seniors and babies,Animals,Health issues,Lifestyle,Flowers,Original artwork,architecture,Landscape,sports,seascape,food and objects,emotional Portraiture,Black and white And More. Thats the trick.And you need to do them as well or better than the next Guy. |
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