I am in same boat. I started very small, but by March '11, I had about 45 images, and sold 20 of them. Then came April disaster. Since first week of April, 70+ of my illustrations are accepted, but on many of them, which I think are quite good, I ha [Read more...] posted in sales arent increasing as i upload more shots

I am in same boat. I started very small, but by March '11, I had about 45 images, and sold 20 of them. Then came April disaster. Since first week of April, 70+ of my illustrations are accepted, but on many of them, which I think are quite good, I have ZERO views let alone sales. From April 1st till date, I have only 1 sale. This is not what I was expecting. I still believe that the April issues are not resolved, and overall smaller portfolios are just getting hammered. I also have noticed that there are quite a few dependencies on reviews. I have been rejected for word vector , when I planned to upload vector after the fact. This is expected. But I have tons of example, (not naming photographers here), where in their portfolio many images are with word vector (both description, and keyword), but there is no vector file available. Appears that DT have been playing double standards on many cases. Just disappointed overall. posted in sales arent increasing as i upload more shots

How Dreamstime is running business? 1st, appear that a major change goes untested in Production, that cripples sales for most newer or smaller portfolio since 4/2 to ZERO2nd, the uploaded images get corrupted and doesn't show up for DAYS. Its commun [Read more...] posted in Sales update lag

How Dreamstime is running business? 1st, appear that a major change goes untested in Production, that cripples sales for most newer or smaller portfolio since 4/2 to ZERO2nd, the uploaded images get corrupted and doesn't show up for DAYS. Its communicated that its fixed, still, I believe it is happening again. Images uploaded 3 days before are still not showing up3rd, Images that are approved / rejected takes HOURS to either come online or under refused images section4th, sales lags are not in hours, but in daysAre you sure you have enough technical men power to deal with all these issues? Are you following any Software Development Life Cycle models? Are you doing enough regression tests on any major change? posted in Sales update lag

Reading arguments here and looking at the portfolio / sales size, I am quite newbie / fresh to stock photography. But, I can tell for certain, March was way better for me, I have had good number of sells just in March. Late March / early April, when the [Read more...] posted in Search results issues for relevancy

Reading arguments here and looking at the portfolio / sales size, I am quite newbie / fresh to stock photography. But, I can tell for certain, March was way better for me, I have had good number of sells just in March. Late March / early April, when the something changes / problem started, and when I uploaded many good illustrations , I don't see any views and as a result sells. I can tell, something has changed in last week / first week of April, that result in very low visibility for me. Now is that due to exclusivity or anything else, not sure, but its not good for me. posted in Search results issues for relevancy