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How To Sell Photos: A Complete Guide

By bobbigmac | Published: January 16, 2013
[Translate] There’s recently been a lot more people using picWorkflow, many of whom may have missed out on some of my earlier posts about the stock-photo/microstock industry, so I figured it’s time for a review post listing some of the most useful previous posts covering various techniques, tips and advice on both getting started in [...]
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Upload Speeds for 47 Microstock Agencies

By bobbigmac | Published: April 26, 2012
[Translate] I’ve been putting together a dataset to estimate wait times in the picWorkflow upload queues, and pulled out some data about the rates of agency’s FTP server receiving speeds. As expected, the agencies who accept footage have much faster connections than those who don’t, though a shameful showing from the networks of some of [...]
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Microstock 2011 – an Infographic in Review

By bobbigmac | Published: December 28, 2011
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Spring Cleaning my Microstock Portfolio

By bobbigmac | Published: December 6, 2011
[Translate] It’s been almost 2 years since I last uploaded new images for stock, and in that time there have been a few agencies emerge where I see real opportunities for new sales and a better reach. Though I’d love to get back to shooting/illustrating more, I know it’s just not feasible at the moment [...]
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Questions about Stock Photo Keywording and Captioning

By bobbigmac | Published: October 28, 2011
[Translate] I received a couple of questions today from a potential picWorkflow photo keywording customer, and I figured since I’ve been seeing similar questions coming in from search engines, that I’d post the question and my response here for anyone else who may be interested in the keywording or photo captioning service to see too. [...]
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Improve Your Microstock Earnings: Attend a Conference

By bobbigmac | Published: September 14, 2011
[Translate] It’s a very exciting season for me, and for Microstock this autumn. I’m speaking at both STOCKinRUSSIA and MicrostockExpo, so I figured I’d let you know a little about each conference, and what I’ll be presenting about at both: STOCKinRUSSIA – Moscow – (30 Sept-01 Oct, 2011) STOCKinRUSSIA has an excellent programme of photographers [...]
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Do microstock agencies violate photographer’s DMCA copyright?

By bobbigmac | Published: September 6, 2011
[Translate] I started writing this blog post after following up on Dreamstime’s excellent new DMCA-violation reporting tool they added to their system. I went and read the DMCA and followed up by reading various interpretations of the clauses within it, and subsequently drafted this post and sent out to every microstock agency I have a [...]
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TOP 10 Tips for New Microstock Photographers

By bobbigmac | Published: March 1, 2011
[Translate] If you’re new to stock photography in general, or even if you’re a seasoned traditional-stock veteran and looking to move into selling your images through microstock photography agencies, there are a few simple tips your really should keep in mind as you start. There are many who will tell you you’re already too late [...]
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TOP 1000 Stock Photo Buyer’s Searches – THE List

By bobbigmac | Published: February 23, 2011
[Translate] I’m finally getting a decent dataset together to answer the burning question: What are stock photo buyers searching for? Here are THE top 1000 searches made by stock photography buyers over the last 6 months to 2 years. This data, and whatever else I can gleam from the various datasets I have (around half [...]
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Improvements, changes and good things on picWorkflow

By bobbigmac | Published: February 22, 2011
[Translate] Rather than focus on the recent big changes and additions to picWorkflow microstock photographer’s tools such as the image keywording service (which is becoming very popular), it’s api-based interface, the microstock export lightroom plugin, or the portfolio promotion tools… just a quick post today to highlight some of the recent smaller improvements to make [...]
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