Powerweek v3 Results + Absense

Posted by mattantonino | Posted in Challenges, Results, education, workflow | Posted on 30-03-2009

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Ok, I know Powerweek was over awhile ago and I haven’t written.? To be honest I needed time to think about my next steps.

Here’s what happened

I submitted 550 images in 4 days.? Easily enough to beat the 700 in 7 days mark.? The “fail” for Powerweek v3 was our image quality.? On day 4, we had a BUNCH of images reviewed across many sites.? And the results were absolutely terrible.? Not my editing, not my keywording – but I had 4000 trip images to sort through and many were unusable at 100%.? I hadn’t noticed that while culling in Lightroom but upon closer inspection I knew it was going to be a hard week.

The second major issue we ran into was overdoing it.? Honestly it’s not a great idea to submit 1000 images in one week.? You lose the benefits of continued growth and spread as well as you “feed the beast” once instead of continually, which results in another loss for you.

1) My process ARE better.? I could easily edit and key MORE images than I should rationally submit in a week.? I like that.

2) I still need to get more new images up – we had several shoots since Powerweek which has kept me busy and one of our major goals is to improve our photography dramatically in the next 12 months.? I definitely think that will help all around.

3) Our trip images were not what we needed.? We had a great time, I’ve sorted through and picked another 1200 or so we can use but overall the images themselves were iffy at best and not very good stock.? Lesson learned.

What’s Next?

I think my next goal will not be a Powerweek but a Growth Month.? I would love to grow our gallery fast still.? I think a better way than 700 in a week and 150 for the rest of the month would be 50 new images uploaded 3 times per week.? 150 new images a week for a year is not enough but I can add some in whenever possible to add to that.? I still want 10k up by the end of this year although I’m not certain I will close N2M if I do not, given our new education.

I still need – I still hunger.? I have to work on my lessons and what is next for us.

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Comments (2)

Ed said on 02-04-2009

Interesting observations Matt. I suppose it’s an issue of Quality vs. Quantity (don’t get me wrong, I’m sure yours all all “quality shots!).

I’m not in your league as far as micro-stock is concerned, but it’s clear that my “shot for stock” images do much better than those I “just upload” to keep the numbers going. The strategy should be probably be around achieving a particular growth in sales rather than in total uploads. Regular and steady sellers should be the target, rather than those that achieve a few sales on Shutterstock and then a disappear into oblivion!
mattantonino said on 04-04-2009

We shot the trip for stock – we just weren’t very smart about WHAT we shot. One of the reasons I started using PicNiche, actually. My quality seems to be in “situational” shots. I think we’re going to focus on that in the coming months.