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Thomas002
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June 7, 2023
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  • June 7, 2023
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Hey there, fellow photographer extraordinaire!

 

So, I've been noticing something a tad bit peculiar lately. My stock photos, you know, the ones I poured my heart and soul into, are experiencing some serious sales blues. It's like they've taken a vow of exclusivity with my hard drive and refuse to mingle with the world out there.

 

Now, I can't help but wonder, is it because my photos are of, uh, questionable quality? Are they secretly plotting against me, sabotaging my dreams of fame and fortune? Or is it just a rite of passage for budding photographers to have their masterpieces go unnoticed while the world continues to crave cat videos?

I mean, come on! I've submitted a whopping 196 photos, and all I get in return are a measly 2-4 downloads per month. It's like my images are wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak or something!

 

So, my fellow creatives, I beseech your wisdom. If you have any suggestions, comments, or even a magical spell to boost my sales, I'm all ears. Seriously, I'm willing to try anything short of bribing the universe with chocolate or doing a rain dance on my laptop. Well, maybe the rain dance isn't completely off the table, but you get the idea.

 

In all seriousness though, your insights would be greatly appreciated. Let's turn this photography frown upside down and sprinkle some stardust on those downloads!

 

Check out my public page on Adobe Stock 

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One thought: maybe that's a normal level of sales. Maybe people who want to make any kind of noticeable income need thousands or tens of thousands of images. Have you considered how many hundreds of millions of stock images there are in Adobe Stock? They are your competition. Moving on from having great pictures, have you chosen subjects and treatments that seem to have less competition, or are hot topics of the moment? Putting it another way, do you put as much effort into marketing your pictures as you do into taking them? I like your work, but that wasn't the question... I also observe you have a lot of similar pictures, quite often a pair, and I'm surprised Adobe accepted the almost-duplicates. This doesn't add to your sales, and Adobe might consider it spam. It also means you can't really consider you have 196 pictures on offer...

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Jill_C
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Jill_CCommunity Expert
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June 7, 2023

Diversify and maintain a steady stream of new images to your Portfolio. Meanwhile, pursue your passion for  creative writing 😊

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
    Ricky336
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    Ricky336Community Expert
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    June 7, 2023

    Hello,

    Stock is about sales by volume. You get filthy rich by selling 10s of thousands of pictures that sell.😊

    I'm afraid your stock portfolio is not what most people want. If it were, you would have lots of downloads!

    Read about the Artists Hub:

    https://stock.adobe.com/pages/artisthub/

     

    Upload what sells!

    What you have doesn't sell it seems!

    Plus you need to have a very large portfolio!

      Abambo
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      AbamboCommunity Expert
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      June 7, 2023
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      Now, I can't help but wonder, is it because my photos are of, uh, questionable quality? Are they secretly plotting against me, sabotaging my dreams of fame and fortune?

       

      Check out my public page on Adobe Stock 


      By @Thomas002

      Sure! You are indeed from Denmark and they don't like Danish kings because of Shakespeare.

       

      A second explanation could be that you are competing against millions of assets, and the most important is to get visibility by tweeking titles and keywords and submitting thausands of assets. As soon as an asset gets sold once, chances are that it gets sold twice and more. My current bestselling assets were sitting for years in my portfolio, before they made decent sales. My then bestselling asset currently disapeared from the sales radar. 

       

      If you jumped into stock to get rich, build a database of 10,000 and more pictures. If 10% of those are generating sales, you will have a good portfolio. If you continue submitting regularily you will get more and more sales.

      ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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        June 7, 2023

        One thought: maybe that's a normal level of sales. Maybe people who want to make any kind of noticeable income need thousands or tens of thousands of images. Have you considered how many hundreds of millions of stock images there are in Adobe Stock? They are your competition. Moving on from having great pictures, have you chosen subjects and treatments that seem to have less competition, or are hot topics of the moment? Putting it another way, do you put as much effort into marketing your pictures as you do into taking them? I like your work, but that wasn't the question... I also observe you have a lot of similar pictures, quite often a pair, and I'm surprised Adobe accepted the almost-duplicates. This doesn't add to your sales, and Adobe might consider it spam. It also means you can't really consider you have 196 pictures on offer...

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