Tag Archives: microstock

Microstock Expo 2013 – Don’t miss it!

[Translate] Just announced today the dates, speakers and programme for Microstock Expo 2013 in Berlin. I attended and spoke at Microstock Expo in 2011 (and will be doing both again this year) and it was freaking awesome. I’m really looking forward to it again this year. I hope to see you and many other picWorkflow [...]
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Top 2000 Image-Buyer’s Searches vs Keyword Popularity

[Translate] I’ve been playing around with some of my data the last few days (having a bit of an overhaul to get picWorkflow running faster) and before I archive off some of my data-tables I thought this one might be of interest to you The list shows the top 2000(ish) short-form searches (no more than [...]
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Photokore: A Fresh Market for Microstockers

[Translate] Welcome our latest featured agency with free distribution on picWorkflow! Traditionally The West has always been the major market for stock photography sales. Despite that success industry-wide growth has been limited in the west for several years. Many stock photo agencies seek new markets outside their home territory, setting up a localization strategy, targeting [...]
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Taking Part in Deactivation Day? picWorkflow can help.

[Translate] This week I’ve been getting a lot of requests for help from people deactivating their images/portfolios on iStock as part of Deactivation Day as a result of iStock’s crazy Google-drive partnership ripoff. I only have a tiny portfolio on iStock (52 images) because their submission process is such an inefficient time-sink anyway but will [...]
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How To Sell Photos: A Complete Guide

[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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Stock Performer Giveaway!

[Translate] With picWorkflow I’ve spent a LOT of time trying to come up with a viable, and reliable stats/analytics service for microstock and I’ve come to a conclusion… it’s damned near impossible to do well. Keeping up with changes in the agency pages, and collecting/collating all your image data into a usable form which offers [...]
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GeoStockPhoto: The Marketplace for Geotagged Photos

[Translate] Introducing a new and interesting agency to the stock photo community today: GeoStockPhoto. Geotagging isn’t all that new (flickr have been doing it for a decade), but using geo-tags (latitude and longitude embedded in each file) to help image-buyers find and purchase images certainly is. It’s something I hear from designers quite often that [...]
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Faster Submissions with the Microstock Submission Assistant

[Translate] Releasing the first version of the picWorkflow Microstock Submission Assistant to make submitting images to your microstock agencies faster. Give it a go, and tell me what is the priority to be added next to make this tool totally awesome Install now for Firefox. Edit 11-Feb-2013… Now also available for Chrome. Tweet
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picWorkflow Video Tutorial Guide

[Translate] A guide to using picWorkflow to manage your stock photos and illustrations, including importing, managing metadata, purchasing photo retouching and exporting images to microstock agencies. Tweet
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Photo retouching service now available on picWorkflow

[Translate] Perfect pictures every time, we don’t stop until you’re 100% happy! How long does it take you to process an image from camera to ready-for-stock? 10 minutes? 20 minutes? Half an hour? More? Stop wasting your time, get our team to do it for you. At just $0.90 an image we don’t stop until [...]
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