Alexandre Rotenberg Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Guess they don't want us searching for greener pastures My latest two accepted as book covers. Kindly share your successes outside SS. 13 Link to post Share on other sites
Thijs de Graaf Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Then they keep an eye on us. Big Brother is watching you. Keep wondering what happened to the admins. Good that you started a new topic. Beautiful photos Alexandre. I understand why they are considered suitable. Link to post Share on other sites
Travers Lewis Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Be careful. I appear to have received some sort of IP ban for discussing my video sales from another agency. I can no longer log on to the forums from that device as it just comes up "account locked, try again in 14 minutes". I can log onto SS fine from that device, it's just the forums. Link to post Share on other sites
Thijs de Graaf Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 11 minutes ago, Travers Lewis said: Be careful. I appear to have received some sort of IP ban for discussing my video sales from another agency. I can no longer log on to the forums from that device as it just comes up "account locked, try again in 14 minutes". I can log onto SS fine from that device, it's just the forums. I don't think it is written anywhere that you are not allowed to discuss work in other Stocksites on the forum. That happens very often. Then that should be reported to us. Would cause a lot of grumbling. Link to post Share on other sites
Luisa Puccini Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Ok, let me help to feed this new thread. 😄 Latest accepted on A 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Ackab Photography Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Alexandre Rotenberg said: Guess they don't want us searching for greener pastures My latest two accepted as book covers. Kindly share your successes outside SS. The one with the dogs is totally awesome. Link to post Share on other sites
Ackab Photography Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Luisa Puccini said: Latest accepted on A Amazing job Luisa, love the elephant in particular. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Whiteaster Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Alexandre Rotenberg said: Guess they don't want us searching for greener pastures My latest two accepted as book covers. Kindly share your successes outside SS. Thanks for sharing your accepted images, great shots. You can post anything you want, it is not SS doing the fall cleaning. Studio 2 is having another burnout (to put it mildly) and as usual, she deleted all threads she started. You should be used to it already it is not for the first time. Monthly sales, covid thread, opportunities thread and many others are gone. Please don't stop sharing your experience with us but always open your own thread for them, so others can't delete it. This thread could be a good replacement if you "shorten" the title a bit. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Whiteaster Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 20 minutes ago, Luisa Puccini said: Ok, let me help to feed this new thread. 😄 Latest accepted on A Congrats Luisa for your new images. Wish you many sales. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
oleschwander Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 45 minutes ago, Luisa Puccini said: Latest accepted on A Awesome images Luisa ...! The thread that will not die. 😆 1 Link to post Share on other sites
oleschwander Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 SS has always been - and is - indeed very large and tolerant regarding (even very harsh) critisism and posts about other agensies. That’s why this forum is the best and most lively in the business. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Charles Lewis Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Not sure why anyone would be surprised that a Shutterstock forum isn't tolerant of marketing on behalf of its competitors. Link to post Share on other sites
Darla Hallmark Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 It is generally considered rude to talk about other stock sites on a particular site's forum. Especially about how they're better. That said, here's what I most recently sold on Adobe. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
HodagMedia Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 19 hours ago, Whiteaster said: Thanks for sharing your accepted images, great shots. You can post anything you want, it is not SS doing the fall cleaning. Studio 2 is having another burnout (to put it mildly) and as usual, she deleted all threads she started. You should be used to it already it is not for the first time. Monthly sales, covid thread, opportunities thread and many others are gone. Please don't stop sharing your experience with us but always open your own thread for them, so others can't delete it. This thread could be a good replacement if you "shorten" the title a bit. I think you have the answer. SS has been more than tolerant of comments and discussions, some of them over the top critical and unfair to SS. Individual House Cleaning is the cause. Look what I got when I just came to the site? " Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead Firefox detected an issue and did not continue to forums.submit.shutterstock.com. The website is either misconfigured or your computer clock is set to the wrong time." 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Ackab Photography Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 57 minutes ago, HodagMedia said: Look what I got when I just came to the site? " Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead Firefox detected an issue and did not continue to forums.submit.shutterstock.com. The website is either misconfigured or your computer clock is set to the wrong time." Had the same, looks like the https certificate expired today. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
KeremGogus Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Ackab Photography said: Had the same, looks like the https certificate expired today. Same happened to me while going on to the forum 😮 Link to post Share on other sites
Matylda Laurence Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 just happened to me Link to post Share on other sites
Milleflore Images Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 On 11/18/2020 at 4:01 AM, Alexandre Rotenberg said: Guess they don't want us searching for greener pastures My latest two accepted as book covers. Kindly share your successes outside SS. Thanks Alex. They are great photos of yours too! Very nice. My surprise venture outside of SS/microstock has been Fine Art America/Pixels.com. Lots of consistent regular sales there. Had over 20 sales there in the past month, including one large order for $160 (thats my commission/profit margin, not the order total), and another sale commission for $93.75. I've been trying Etsy but only a couple of sales there. Still new so I'll keep going with it. Within microstock, AS has been going really, really well for me. My best sale there so far this month is a stop motion clip sale for $101.85 commission. And P5 is not bad either. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Darla Hallmark Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 The Firefox warning is because they let their certificate expire. That can happen to any site, and has nothing to do with any of us. I see they have renewed it now. Link to post Share on other sites
MJD Graphics Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 I stopped uploading to SS after June I started concentrating on selling my paintings on a Dutch art site that also collaborates with a Dutch TV program about home styling. This month I had my first sales, one for 13,22 euro and one for 19,11 euro, way better than the cents SS gives us and a great feeling that someone wants to buy the image to hang on their wall. 6 Link to post Share on other sites
Milleflore Images Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 25 minutes ago, MJD Graphics said: I stopped uploading to SS after June I started concentrating on selling my paintings on a Dutch art site that also collaborates with a Dutch TV program about home styling. https://www.werkaandemuur.nl/nl/beeldmaker/Maurice-Dawson/43482 (sorry that it's in Dutch) and this month I had my first sales, one for 13,22 euro and one for 19,11 euro, way better than the cents SS gives us and a great feeling that someone wants to buy the image to hang on their wall. That's great, Maurice. I just checked and 19 euros is about $30 AUD. Well done! Link to post Share on other sites
MJD Graphics Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 50 minutes ago, Milleflore Images said: That's great, Maurice. I just checked and 19 euros is about $30 AUD. Well done! Thanks Annie, I'm just having so much fun just doing paintings. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
stevemart Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 5 hours ago, MJD Graphics said: I stopped uploading to SS after June I started concentrating on selling my paintings on a Dutch art site that also collaborates with a Dutch TV program about home styling. https://www.werkaandemuur.nl/nl/beeldmaker/Maurice-Dawson/43482 (sorry that it's in Dutch) and this month I had my first sales, one for 13,22 euro and one for 19,11 euro, way better than the cents SS gives us and a great feeling that someone wants to buy the image to hang on their wall. Thanks Maurice. Might have a go at that. A tad less competition than FAA!! Local is ook leuk! Link to post Share on other sites
MJD Graphics Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 On 11/20/2020 at 3:12 AM, stevemart said: Thanks Maurice. Might have a go at that. A tad less competition than FAA!! Local is ook leuk! Ja inderdaad lokaal heb je veel minder concurrentie en deze site werkt samen met het TV programma VTWonen, ze hebben een showroom in Haarlem en ze hebben 'zuster' sites in Duitsland en Frankrijk. Ik zie ook dat sommige Nederlandse beeldmakers verkopen ook in Oostenrijk en Zwitserland. Je kan je eigen provisie instellen, standaard is 20%, ik heb hem op 25%. Sommige beeldmakers hebben het zelfs op 100% maar die zijn blijkbaar zo bekend dat ze zich dat kunnen permitteren. Advise van WADM is op 15 tot 25% te gaan zitten en als je beelden beginnen te verkopen beetje bij beetje te verhogen. Ik was zelf wel verbaasd dat ik de eerste verkoop had in Duitsland en ongeveer een week later weer in Duitsland van ongeveer hetzelfde beeld dus wat hier ook speelt is dat mensen hun gekochte beelden delen met vrienden en familie dus krijg je ook het 'mond op mond effect'. Ik zou het zeker doen alleen op WADM verkoop ik alleen mijn schilderijen en geen foto's. Link to post Share on other sites
stevemart Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Thanks again Maurice. That's great information, well researched. Beautiful work too. Veel succes. Now to try and find some work of mine that stands a chance! Wroet, wroet! Link to post Share on other sites
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