JoAnnSnover

@JoAnnSnover wrote:

Congrats on the sale!

I think the fees depend on your location. I pay 2.9% plus 30 cents per transaction, so I’d pay 59 cents on a $10 sale, not $1+. I seem to remember other site owners talking about higher fees – although I don’t think they were over 10%…

I had never checked the fees… On that 10$ sale they took 1.04$, a…[Read more]

@JoAnnSnover wrote:

I don’t know why I’d submit to a co-op unless I dropped my own site.

Nor me. The biggest plus for me about Symbiostock was the ability to go independent and move away from agencies. Like others I dont always understand what you are doing but unless central hubs did some form of advertising or self publication with the money…[Read more]

@JoAnnSnover wrote:

I don’t know why I’d submit to a co-op unless I dropped my own site.

+1

@Leo wrote:

Might be a good way to get lots of unanounced visitors if your lonely

Oh, how I hate unannounced visitors. I still doubt many would show up here though.

@JoAnnSnover wrote:

Dreamstime has this feature and I have to say I don’t use it. My camera doesn’t automatically record location and given the extra work involved to click on their…

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@JoAnnSnover wrote:

… If I use the menu at the top to pick a category and then select an image…

hi JoAnn, thank for looking, but try this:
use the menu at the top, pick a category, but than: donot select the image, just go over the tumbnail with the mouse, than there appears that +sign; if i use that, a screen pops up, with the large image and…[Read more]

@JoAnnSnover wrote:

Thanks everyone.

Did you realize we’re now over 280,000 images? And 185 sites? It’s nice to see the numbers keep moving up…

Slightly off topic, I was thinking about some way to cheaply say “thanks” to buyers and decided that I’d put together a small file with a thank you message and some isolated images that might be broadly…

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@JoAnnSnover wrote:

Thanks for the update.

Did I miss something earlier or misunderstand – is the new version unconnected to WordPress?

No, its connected. Its going to have its own database and add as close to 0 as possible on wp’s basic resource overhead. WordPress is necessary because people have such diverse expectations the only way to fill it…[Read more]

@JoAnnSnover wrote:

After a very long dry spell, I had a nice surprise – an extended license on a Large sale – so $70 ($67.67 after PayPal takes its cut). I haven’t had an EL before.

Jo Ann, that is outstanding! What an inspiration. Could you share a link to the image with us?

@JoAnnSnover wrote:

I see a lot of wish list items creeping in here – I didn’t add things that were not in the product that I’d like to see as Leo didn’t ask for that.

If you do want a wish list Leo, can I suggest that you have a third topic for that? And perhaps that everyone list their top 5 wishes (to force priorities and avoid laundry lists…

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@JoAnnSnover wrote:

Things I’d get rid of:

– The RSS feed on Categories
– The author description on the image pages (just the name with the necessary tags for making copyright ownership clear) – name linking to the About page is fine
– Limits on # of network partners (have as many as you want)
– The Symbiostock Community link on image pages
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@JoAnnSnover wrote:

Things I’d get rid of:

– The RSS feed on Categories
– The author description on the image pages (just the name with the necessary tags for making copyright ownership clear) – name linking to the About page is fine
– Limits on # of network partners (have as many as you want)
– The Symbiostock Community link on image pages
-…

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@JoAnnSnover wrote:

Things I’d get rid of:

– The RSS feed on Categories
– The author description on the image pages (just the name with the necessary tags for making copyright ownership clear) – name linking to the About page is fine
– Limits on # of network partners (have as many as you want)
– The Symbiostock Community link on image pages
-…

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@JoAnnSnover wrote:

So that made a huge difference. Right before I made the change

And 50 minutes later

I don’t know why the numbers for earlier 15 minute segments don’t match up, but the bottom line is that the graph is now quiet (and I did do some searches and accessed images on the site during that time).

I guess this has been going on…

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@JoAnnSnover wrote:

@KLSbear wrote:

For whatever it’s worth, I’m not seeing a throttling problem on my site. 3.91 seconds over the last 24 hours is all I show when I checked. Two incidents, each less than 2 seconds in duration.

If I recall from the slow search with network turned on, your site was one of the speedy ones. No idea if the two…

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@KimsCreativeHub wrote:

@JoAnnSnover wrote:

If the agencies were fair, honest, efficient, organized and had gobs of customers, there’d be no Symbiostock 🙂

I completely agree!

My Very Best 🙂
KimsCreativeHub.com

So true!

@Leo wrote:

Sometimes I wonder if I’m retarded for keeping my port up there, but honestly they haven’t started doing the…

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@JoAnnSnover wrote:

Fiverr sellers top 10 tips for stock image gigs

The links to iStock and Shutterstock’s guidance in number 9 are helpful – iStock’s is very thorough.

This was incredibly helpful. Thanks!
@cascoly wrote:

hi — if you’re interested in the coding side, check out…

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@JoAnnSnover wrote:

FWIW, the excerpt that you see in All images isn’t ever seen by a customer, so you can leave it alone if you don’t want to copy and paste

Thanks for that JoAnn, that was exactly what it was. Isn’t it used in the browser referencing?

@JoAnnSnover wrote:

If the agencies were fair, honest, efficient, organized and had gobs of customers, there’d be no Symbiostock 🙂

I completely agree!

My Very Best 🙂
KimsCreativeHub.com

@JoAnnSnover wrote:

That will be dependent on server settings – I have many 25 MB images that are well over 21 megapixels (panoramas and such). You need memory for ImageMagick. There are some threads here on this:

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Thanks JoAnn…for me imagemagick does not seem to be working … I am sure I change my…[Read more]

@JoAnnSnover wrote:

It’s taking forever to delete the 8,000 files in that directory (I switched to cPanel to see if it’d be faster than via Fetch/FTP)!

a quicker way to ‘delete’ is just rename it (I put an ‘x’ at the start of the folder name), then create a new folder with the name — helps, too if you later want to restore