wiskerke Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 started in 2004 1994 images on sale. 426 of which have been sold 929 sales in total highest: 8500.00 lowest: 0.83 deleted: a lot to be deleted: a lot more not uploaded: zillions wim edit: the lowest was ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 started in 2004 1994 images on sale. 426 of which have been sold 929 sales in total highest: 8500.00 lowest: 0.83 deleted: a lot to be deleted: a lot more not uploaded: zillions wim edit: the lowest was ;-) Wim, what criteria do you use when deciding whether or not an image should be deleted? BTW, I never delete anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Gee, wim, I've had an .83 cent sale, too. When can I expect the $8,500 sale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Gee, wim, I've had an .83 cent sale, too. When can I expect the $8,500 sale? How good are you at time travel? ;-) wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Wim, what criteria do you use when deciding whether or not an image should be deleted? BTW, I never delete anything. No zooms; no sales and the rest is gut feeling. Mostly in the form of: what was I thinking when I uploaded that? There are quite a bit of those still in my collection. And contrary to popular belief, they do not sell. (Maybe my belief too: I play the lottery as well.) There are some surprise sales: 250.00 I would never think of uploading something like that again. Usually however it's the opposite: I don't get it why some images don't sell. Or don't sell more often. Occasionally I'm proud of myself and the client: only 15.00, but serious mag used it exactly as intended. Maybe I should run a competition: vote out the worst of my images. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Wim, what criteria do you use when deciding whether or not an image should be deleted? BTW, I never delete anything. No zooms; no sales and the rest is gut feeling. Mostly in the form of: what was I thinking when I uploaded that? There are quite a bit of those still in my collection. And contrary to popular belief, they do not sell. (Maybe my belief too: I play the lottery as well.) There are some surprise sales: 250.00 I would never think of uploading something like that again. Usually however it's the opposite: I don't get it why some images don't sell. Or don't sell more often. Occasionally I'm proud of myself and the client: only 15.00, but serious mag used it exactly as intended. Maybe I should run a competition: vote out the worst of my images. wim No doubt everyone has "What was I thinking? images. I just leave them alone in the faint hope of surprise sales coming along. Have had a few. In some months any sale is a surprise. A rash of $0.83 sales was the main reason I bailed out of NU. Still waiting patiently for the $8.5K one that you mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHill Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Wim, what criteria do you use when deciding whether or not an image should be deleted? BTW, I never delete anything. No zooms; no sales and the rest is gut feeling. Mostly in the form of: what was I thinking when I uploaded that? There are quite a bit of those still in my collection. And contrary to popular belief, they do not sell. (Maybe my belief too: I play the lottery as well.) ... Wim - knowing you, you probably have a very good reason for this - but why not simply move those images to a separate pseudo rather than deleting them? My understanding is one pseduo doesn't affect any other, so there would seem to be no risk in this strategy ... hmm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 ". . . the rest is gut feeling." wim Gut feeling is another way of saying "intuition" or the use of the knowledge that sits in our subconscious. I consider this to be my most valuable asset. With regard to "what was I thinking (images)," I don't have that problem, even with the silliest of my none-selling images. I click the shutter release to capture for stock only if the subject suggests a caption. So the caption answers that question. Am I wrong a lot? If being wrong means not making a sale on a certain image, a certain subject, I am. But what about tomorrow? Will that picture sell tomorrow? Edo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylineboy Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 "does the subject suggests a caption" - thats very zen like - and a good mantra for all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jordan Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Total images on Sale 8901. Total number of sales to date 377 = 4.24% Average Gross $61.8 Ignoring multiple sales, number of images sold = 237 = 2.66% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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