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I think that marketing a site with pricing that varies by image and with no obvious reason to the buyer is very confusing. You come along, see the images that match your keyword and click on the one you are first interested in. You see that it is $25, say. That could cause you to leave immediately, but lets say you go to your second choice and see it is $5.99. You now think – why is this one cheaper? Is my third choice cheaper still? How do I find out – do I have to click on each one or can I sort them by price and buy the cheapest one that “sort of” meets my needs?
I think you need the quick process of see the image you want, buy it as a reasonable price, get it immediately and bookmark the site because it was so easy and you got a high quality image at a price you were willing to pay.
Steve
I have my images on all sort of sites from the subscription microstock to Corbis and find that people pay widely different amounts for the same image. However, I’m sure that is because they are corporate buyers and have an account that they “must use”. What we are looking for initially is the opportunistic buyer who doesn’t have an account with a different agency, has found our site and is almost deciding between buying one “legally” and maybe just finding a free one they can use. The vector people could well be different and I have little feel for pricing of illustrations (and perhaps you have a different pricing structure), but for photos there are so many alternatives out there that you will not get people paying very much through a “pay as you go” site.
I’m happy with the suggested pricing – simplicity is important, affordable pricing that people don’t think twice about is important and I also think consistency is important. I understand the desire to price a certain image higher for scarcity value (I have some Equatorial Guinea images that are pretty scarce, but I should really remove those from Symzio, price them at some higher price and have the only competing agencies be the macro ones).
Steve
Thanks Henri
I noticed that this plugin has a strange effect on vertical format images – it just shows a same size image of the top of the photo rather than a movable zoom image. Strange!
http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/image/washington-monument-reflecting-from-lincoln-2/
Steve
Hi Liga
I wanted one of those as well, so I looked at the source of Henri’s page. He is using a plugin called wp-image-zoooom. There is a free version that I have implemented on my site – it was very easy – add the plugin, activate it, and the default settings worked straight away.
http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/image/beautiful-early-morning-jefferson-memorial/
There is a pro version with more features – not sure if Henri is using any of those. However his magnification is greater than mine – I’m not sure how to control that!
But for the basic zoom, this seems to work fine.
Steve
It would be really great if someone with some expertise in this area could write a “how to” guide to using Yoast on our sites
Steve
Back from a few days away – tweeted that I now have over 5000 images on Symzio
Steve
Added my Symzio profile to my account at About.me
Modified my signature on this site to show both my own Symbiostock site and also my images on Symzio. Had to use Google URL shortener to make it fit in the 100 character limit.
Steve
Tweeted an image I have been working with Luminosity Masking in Photoshop. Not yet on Symzio as I only have 1500 images crawled so far, but it will be…
When I looked at my site, I have my 5 licenses defined in the License section of the admin page. These include the price and short description of the license. Then when I look at one of my images and edit it, and click on Licenses part way down that page, I have those 5 license types showing up there. All of this is now happening by default – I don’t have to actually edit it to say that.
In settings, I have a checkbox against “Autofilter licenses during save” checked as well. I’m sure that would have been a default.
Sorry if this isn’t really helpful, but I don’t recall any issues in this area.
Steve
Wrote a blog post about Symzio now that I have a fair number of images in my profile:
http://www.backyardsilver.com/2015/12/symzio-a-new-way-to-sell-direct-to-buyers/
And sent out a tweet to my admittedly small number of followers!
Steve
Found the profile OK – first time round I didn’t realize that you need to enter your current password to save the amendments. Luckily the browser saved the text.
I tried to upload a public image. I was able to select one, clicked on agreement to the terms of the upload but when I finally click Submit, I get “sorry, looks like you forgot to agree to our terms”. I’ve tried several times but get this response each time
Steve
Thanks Robin – please check your email for a question about my site
OK – I see that, I can see that I can upload a profile image. But in the text, you mention this example:
<span style=”color: #272727; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28.8px; background-color: #fbfbfb;”>For example, if your company name is “Joe’s Photography” and in your bio you indicate that you “specialize in Orchid macros”, your profile page will be optimized with those phrases. </span>
Does that mean that I can put a bio onto my profile page in Symzio, or I am simply linking through to my Symzio profile from my own website and I create those sort of specializms on my own site?
Steve
