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Congrats on the sale!
Hi!
A few of us contributed to a block of marketing copy about Symbiostock, which you’re free to use and modify as you wish:
http://vector999.com/symbiostock/
You can use my standard license language, which is pretty simple. Perhaps others can share extended license language.
Also, if you read through my blog, I’ve written some helpful tips about marketing your site (probably the last thing you’ll do, after putting your site together): http://vector999.com/blog
-Michele
Four offers so far on my blog…let me know if I’ve missed any!
That’s the great thing about Symbiostock…you only join in if you want to. 250,000 is a nice milestone, but you can choose to celebrate, not celebrate, promote or not promote.
I have the four promotions announced so far up on the FB page.
Great milestone for Symbiostock! I’ll be changing the number in the Facebook header this morning and will start putting up people’s promotions on the fb page and my blog. I’d like to encourage people to join us if they’d like, and we can start a nice twitter campaign retweeting each other’s promotions as a group effort. Should we start a special hash tag? #50centblogimages or something along those lines?
I agree with Christine. Plus, who’ll go through the steps to embed an image if it has both a watermark and some kind of plug for your site? The only tempting thing about the Getty deal is absence of watermark…even then, it’s not easy to use. I don’t think it’ll be as popular as Getty thinks it will.
Thanks, everyone!
No sales for me today, but sales at iStock and Shutterstock are going along as usual. I guess not everyone got the memo about the free images.
Congrats on the sales, guys!
I’ve already written a blog post. http://vector999.com/blog/ 🙂 Feel free to modify/use.
Tweet. Post on Facebook. Give it the spin it deserves: 1. The photo you embed lets Getty track you & everyone visiting your blog and mine for info for their own purposes. 2. The “free” image you embed will soon have an ad appearing in front of it, which people visiting your blog will have to watch. 3. When their holding company sells Getty (which seems inevitable), that image may simply disappear. 4. By paying a small amount at Shutterstock, Symbiostock, Fotolia, etc., you can use the image legally, with no tracking and no ads. And you support the photographers who take these shots for a living.
I see a big P.R. opportunity here for Getty’s competitors and Symbiostock.
That’s great! 😀
Congrats!
Would it have anything to do with me being on a Mac? Or using Safari?
@shazamimages wrote:
Try this link:
https://github.com/orangeman555/symbiostock-branding/archive/master.zip
Can’t download….
I’ve found it helps to have a presence outside your website, on Facebook and Twitter. I’ve had one client go to my site, follow my slideshow to my portfolio on the micros, then message me via my Facebook page to order an image he found on the micros that I hadn’t uploaded to vector999 yet. He saved money by buying from me directly, and I made more than I would have if he’d bought the image through the micros. But the surprising thing to me was that he got in touch via Facebook rather than through my site.
Possibly he’d liked my FB page and found my site through there? Anyway, it’s one more option for clients who want to get in touch.
