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kgb224


Joined: 21 Jun 2008
Posts: 467
Location: Pretoria,Gauteng
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:24 pm     Reply with quote

I wonder.
Fifteen straight days without selling one picture here at shutterstock.
Anyone else having the same experience then me.
Blessed day and week for everyone.
God Bless.
pcbueg71


Joined: 03 Nov 2007
Posts: 1348
Location: Half-way Between Heaven and Santa Fe
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:51 pm     Reply with quote

That is a shame.
kgb224


Joined: 21 Jun 2008
Posts: 467
Location: Pretoria,Gauteng
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:55 pm     Reply with quote

pcbueg71 wrote:
That is a shame.

It is indeed.
God Bless.
robhainer


Joined: 03 May 2010
Posts: 2896
Location: Dallas, GA, USA
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:05 pm     Reply with quote

No. I haven't had a zero-sale day in over a year-and-a-half.
rinder99


Joined: 12 Jul 2005
Posts: 39645
Location: Contact www.rinderart.com/Books and Workshops www.rindersmithphotography.com Youtube/rinder
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:26 pm     Reply with quote

That is a shame, Never happened to me in 7 years. If I might add. Your port is very Nice but Maybe just flowers and birds is limiting your potential search from buyers. Not telling ya what to do But Just saying... Variety I totally believe is what wards off fluctuations in sales.

Some concepts and people wouldn't hurt.Best of Luck.
kgb224


Joined: 21 Jun 2008
Posts: 467
Location: Pretoria,Gauteng
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:31 pm     Reply with quote

rinder99 wrote:
That is a shame, Never happened to me in 7 years. If I might add. Your port is very Nice but Maybe just flowers and birds is limiting your potential search from buyers. Not telling ya what to do But Just saying... Variety I totally believe is what wards off fluctuations in sales.

Some concepts and people wouldn't hurt.Best of Luck.

Thank you.
I definitely have to diversify.
God Bless.
kellyplz


Joined: 09 Mar 2009
Posts: 17617
Location: Manitoulin Island, Canada.
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:43 pm     Reply with quote

I find that very strange, how were your sales before this happened?

Something is very wrong with this picture...

One piece of advice I'll give you is that you need to add more to your image descriptions, you need to try to get the most important keywords in them.

Last edited by kellyplz on Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:48 pm; edited 1 time in total
Susan


Joined: 06 May 2005
Posts: 6382
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:38 pm     Reply with quote

I agree with Kelly... I would report this to support considering all the other bugs that have been occurring on this site.
hhltdave5


Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 24305
Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:23 pm     Reply with quote

That is strange. How many sales were you averaging a day or week before this started?
red06


Joined: 05 Feb 2007
Posts: 1307
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:42 pm     Reply with quote

I'm sorry to hear that.

It's a slow month on SS.

I'm having the worst SS month in 3 years.

Hang in there.
whughes98144


Joined: 26 Apr 2010
Posts: 500
Location: Seattle, WA
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:51 pm     Reply with quote

I finding this month slow *compared* to the last two months which were RIPPING. I had hoped that a recent spate of uploads was the reason, though I knew from the stats that it wasn't so. Had nearly 2x sales in the last two months and now, back to normal.

So, hang in there, diversity your port, keep uploading and hopefully things will turn around. Probably it's a Spring Break burnout among buyers or something.

Good luck!

Will
funniefarm


Joined: 02 Mar 2007
Posts: 534
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:23 pm     Reply with quote

Sorry to hear that, April has always been one of the slowest months for me, I have only been selling on Shutterstock since March of 2009 so I only have 2 years to compare to, but my sales have always been about 2/3rds of normal in April since I started.
kellyplz


Joined: 09 Mar 2009
Posts: 17617
Location: Manitoulin Island, Canada.
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:44 pm     Reply with quote

*People*...do you think 15 days IN A ROW with 0 dl's is normal with a port his size, and quite a nice port to boot... slow month or not, something is wrong here!
okiepony


Joined: 06 Apr 2010
Posts: 15580
Location: Finally There! :)
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:57 pm     Reply with quote

kellyplz wrote:
*People*...do you think 15 days IN A ROW with 0 dl's is normal with a port his size, and quite a nice port to boot... slow month or not, something is wrong here!



Absolutely not - one or two days might be "very bad luck", but 15 days? Not just no, but Hell No!

Something is very wrong, and how do *we* know the "something" isn't somehow affecting the rest of us, too??
ruxpriencdiam


Joined: 07 May 2009
Posts: 26816
Location: Third Stone from the Sun
Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:57 pm     Reply with quote

kellyplz wrote:
*People*...do you think 15 days IN A ROW with 0 dl's is normal with a port his size, and quite a nice port to boot... slow month or not, something is wrong here!
Really really really bad bug?
 
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