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the problem with putting off an issue like this until later is .. your repeat buyers gained in the meantime expect more. In marketing you want to set specific expectations .. with the intention to exceed those expectations. This creates happy customers and amazing word-of-mouth growth for the business model.
When you give an unlimited storage service for free like this you are only left with 2 options .. discontinuing the service completely or discontinue it as a free service. Either way your established customer base will see this as a downgrade in your service and this typically generates bad word-of mouth across public forums and so on.
I know that DT & BSP both have 24 hr limits before links re-direct back to the purchase screen .. not sure about IS or SS but it would be crazy to lift this limit. Small independent designers might save all their purchases for future uses in the beginning simply because they’re not making much money and they don’t care if the image gets misused later down the road by their client according to the actual license agreement.
However, design agencies do not tend to work this way. They have a company account with a monthly budget. When the team works on a project they download whats needed for the client and then delete them from their local systems .. although it’s backed up in the clients folder (but its not worth digging through old client folders every time you need an image). I know the owner of a local design company .. very very small business yet they made 4 million last year. It’s way easier for them to just repurchase images as needed, not have to deal with maintaining an in-house archive and they don’t have to worry about any future problems or misuse.
Allowing them to download repeatedly from their account just makes things way too easy .. you’re basically giving every single buyer an unlimited cloud storage solution for stock photos. Eventually buyer registrations will plateau and your sales will start dropping dramatically … sales should never drop in any business as the business grows.
Also think about future growth .. what happens when you mass market your stock site and have to move up to a dedicated server .. your $8 a month godaddy account with unlimited bandwidth just turned into a $1200 a month bill for only 2 TB of bandwidth. Having a huge pool of designers re-dowloading for free will force you into bankruptcy in a matter of months. That’s why I would rate this as one of the top priorities from a business standpoint.
As far as customer service is concerned I would up mine from the standard 24 hr limit to 72 hours. That way if a designer starts a project on Friday and goofs up .. they can still re-download the image Monday when they get back to the office. Most designers would be more than happy about a 72 hr service as a convenience.
Thanks JoAnn 😀 .. I never thought to look in Yoast for a breadcrumb setting in that location .. I can’t say I’ve ever seen yoast react to a theme and give that option .. pretty cool.
I’m changing my breadcrumb to Stock Photos for optimization but that alone probably won’t do much good .. to make it work is going to require some code changes to that /image/ page .. I haven’t even looked to see which .php it is yet .. but the way it generates ALT tags needs changed and then going to need to find a creative way to get some textual content on there
no problem .. I’m always us for a challenge anyway 🙂
whoot .. found it. 😀
For anyone interested it was in — symbiostock/inc/front_page_generator.php
