25 May, 2011 | Posted by: st





O.K. folks, please let us know how we are doing.

Answer a few(4) questions:

1.) What do you like most about PhotoStockNOTES?
2.) What do you like least?

3. What would you like to see MORE of?

4.) What would you like to see LESS of ?


Thanks for responding to these 4 questions.

Hurry them back to us via email, phone, or postal mail. No need to include your name.
We really appreciate your help!

-- Rohn

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31 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: photosource



Upcoming PhotoBuyer Survey Results

for photobuyers:

Right now we are in the middle of tabulating the results for our 2010
Photobuyer Survey Report. We sent out a questionnaire to a number of photo researchers, photobuyers, Editors and Publishers. We’ll assess and pull together their answers. To the report of the results we’ll also add interviews with a number of photobuyers.
We’ve produced this report to give you up-to-date information about what goes
on in the minds of photobuyers.

In the 2010 Photobuyer Survey Report we're looking at things like what a
photobuyer's pet peeves are concerning photographer websites, what kind of
promotional materials photobuyers prefer to get, what editorial stock photographers should do to stay on a buyers good side, how to best make your website attractive to
photobuyers and so on.
In other words, very pertinent and practical information for you who sell your photographs.
The results from the survey show the big picture and the interviews with individual photobuyers delve deeper for more detailed information.

As always, we welcome your input. If you have any questions you would like
us to ask the photobuyers when we interview them, please feel free to e-mail
them to me. You can e-mail your questions to me at mike[at]photosource[dot]com and I will
do my best to include as many of them as possible in the various interviews.
Watch this space, the website and your e-mail for announcements when the
2010 Photobuyer Survey Report is available!


Mikael Karlsson, www.arrestingimages.com - mike[at]arrestingimages[dot]com Phone: 402.806.0201


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10 Sep, 2008 | Posted by: photosource






A colleague, Jim Pickerell, is conducting a survey of self-employed stock photographers. I urge you to read the following and decide to answer Jim’s 8 questions. It will help all independent freelance stock photographers understand the current business climate for independent stock photographers.

Jim tells me “Individual responses will be held in strictest confidence. No attempt will be made to identify specific individuals….”


Here’s the full text of Jim’s request:

We are conducting an important survey of self-employed photographers in an
effort to learn more about the current business climate and the percentage
of their total income that comes from licensing rights to stock images. If
you earned any money from photography in 2007 we urge you to go to
http://www.jimpickerell.com/surveyshared.aspx and respond to the eight
simple questions. The deadline for responding is September 30, 2008.

Please tell your friends about the survey. The more responses we receive the
more valid the data. If you are an agent and do not actually produce images
please encourage your photographers to respond to the survey.

In these rapidly changing and challenging times many photographers are
finding it necessary to modify their business strategies. Some stock
photographers are turning to assignments. Others earn their primary income
from non-photographic sources with photography being only a secondary source
of income. At the other end of the spectrum amateurs with no expectations of
earning a living from photography are finding that it can be a source of
additional income as well as a satisfying hobby.

We expect to follow up with additional surveys on at least an annual basis.
In-depth analysis of the results will be made available at
www.selling-stock.com and through many online and print publications. The
data will be tabulated by Jim Pickerell who has been active in the industry
for more than 45 years as a photographer and who is also an editor of the
newsletter Selling Stock.

If anyone has questions or would
like to comment on this survey, Jim Pickerell can be contacted at
jim[at]scphotos[dot]com. For more background on Jim Pickerell go to:
http://www.jimpickerell.com/about.asp.


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27 Aug, 2008 | Posted by: photosource



And

the winner is . . .

Which of these proposed
ebook covers

captured the approval of our survey

respondents?


Can you guess?



Drum roll please . . .






Cover A


Cover B








Did you guess right?








The winner is:










Choice "B" is the winner !

The new ebook, “Rohn Engh’s How
To Market

Your Photos” will be available
on September 20th.






The final tally - -



Choice A: 27%

Choice B:
62%

Liked both:
7.5%

Liked neither:
2%

Undecided:
1.5%



Here’s a selection of responses from the more
than 150 persons who chose to add a comment
to their vote:

“Choice A becomes a needle in a haystack
(the large pile of "Marketing" Books)
while Choice B speaks to photographers
who are the only ones that may have
photos to market.”

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“Choice A represents marketing
more then Choice B. Choice B hits the
emotions, "heart strings", but the ebook
is about marketing photos, not hanging
photos on walls to admire. Choice A
does focus on the title of the book.”


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“Though Choice A gets your message
across I think Choice B is far better
because it is a more beautiful moody shot.
It's more memorable and not so sterile/
clinical as the first shot.”

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Choice b is aesthetically pleasing
but there are too many "nice" covers like
this out there.

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“Choice A: Like the concept but with a
few "tweaks" like BRIGHTEN the colour.
The image in the hand is too stagnant and
needs to be rotated off of the horizontal.
Perhaps both hands with some images fanned
as a magician would fan a deck of cards??”


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“Do you like Choice A as a possible cover
for our up-and-coming ebook?
Nee
Do you like Choice B as a possible cover
for our up-and-coming ebook?

Ja”

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“Choice A suggests the words 'market
your photos' whereas Choice B shows
pretty pictures.”

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"A" looks professional, "B" looks like
a place I'd like to be!!!”

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“Choice A is more "to the point"
as far as communicating what the content
of the ebook will be, but it is rather
ugly (my apologies to the artist who
worked so hard on it!).

Choice B, however, is much more aesthetically
pleasing, and would appeal to the visually
oriented people you are trying to reach.
It entices to one to "look inside... there
may be more visually interesting stuff a
few pages in!"

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“Both images in "B" are touching and
inviting. It would stand out to me on a
bookshelf as something interesting. "A"
is too "stock' (pun intended!)”


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Watch for announcements about this new ebook as we
move toward the September 20th publication date.

This ebook provides step-by-step know-how to harness
the new ways stock photographers are adapting to an
economy that is tightening its belt.

Stock photographers are a highly responsive and innovative
group aren’t they? We knew they would come up with
methods to counter a faltering economy.

You’ll learn all about it in this new ebook by Rohn Engh.

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