Let’s see how well you know logos.? Who am I quitting?? Want to guess why?

Do yourself a quick favor and compare the Long Tail we’ve been discussing to the chart on the “Recent Results” page of my spreadsheet.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pZEgM338rPYAiUQorCHGoYQ&hl=en

Now if you understand that I suck at Istock and just move on from there, if this were a Long Tail situation, I would have a few sales at one of the bottom agencies.? I would have fewer but *some* sales at a couple and I’d have nearly no sales but a couple at a few agencies.? The fact that those bottom 6 agencies have earned $1.73 COMBINED in November and $2.46 in October and never more than $25 COMBINED – it’s a sad day but they are being removed from our upload queue.

Agencies we are sticking with:

Shutterstock
Istock
Dreamstime
Fotolia
BigstockPhoto
123RF
StockXpert
(possibly Alamy)

Agencies we have accounts with that we’ll no longer submit to until sales increase:

CanstockPhoto
Crestock
FotoMind
FeaturePics
ImageCatalog
YayMicro
SnapVillage
MostPhotos

One reason we bottlenecked during our PowerWeek was upload speed.? It took HOURS to upload the first 200 images to these 8 agencies.? None of those 200 images will likely sell!? What was I thinking?!? I’m all for trying out something new but most of these agencies have 100s of my photos available and few sales to justify my effort.? This also gives me more free time to upload to Istock and push at Fotolia.

This is NOT a long tail situation.? I’ll say this about the long tail – if your time is NOT maxed out, (maxed out = you do NOT have enough time to get every image uploaded to Shutterstock, Dreamstime, etc.) then you should not worry about who you submit to.? If you have extra time, always do the extra submits.? It doesn’t make sense.? You can’t take the time with you.? It is gone after you waste it.? If your choice is playing a game online to pass the time or uploading to Yay, upload! However, if you are maxed out on time, like we are on PowerWeek, don’t waste your time!? Save it for what is important.? We have a huge backlog of images and uploading them to 7 sites instead of 15 will cut our upload time by MORE than half.? When you’re uploading 20 images this doesn’t matter.? When you upload 200 it matters a GREAT deal.

Note:? we will NOT be closing our accounts on these sites mentioned.? That would be even dumber than uploading to them in the first place.? You never know what’s going to gain traction.? I still think YayMicro could be a big player in our industry but I’d like to see them kick it up a notch or ten.