Photo Submission Secrets

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In nearly all cases are micro stock agencies only selling photos with a royalty free license which means you need to be careful when you submit images to micro stock agencies.

I made this short video on the importance of proper model releases when you sell royalty free images through micro stock agencies so you stay out of trouble and don’t end up as a jailbird.

Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer or legal professional and you should always seek professional help in legal matters.

Warning: This tactic is super sneaky so use it with care. It will show you how to get your image submissions approved even if you used a 2.1MP camera made back in 2001 or even worse. The stock agencies QC department will have no clue what camera you used ;-)

Like I said, use this tactic with care.

You can download the software I used from this homepage.

Or you can download it directly from this link in case they don’t support it any longer on their official homepage.

As promised earlier, here’s a video that shows the sneaky little tactic you can use to spy on your competition to make sure you select profitable markets with high demand and limited supply for your stock photography.

Please show your competition at least some mercy. There’s no need to clubber them to death even if you can after watching this video ;-)

If you haven’t watched the video “Market Stock Photography a.k.a “Operation Moneysuck” I suggest you watch that first (good stuff).

Summary:
- Go to iStockPhoto.com (the tactic works on other methods as well
- Deselect all categories except Photos
- Sort by downloads
- Activate downloads in advanced search menu
- Downloads = demand
- Search results = supply
- Key ratio = Demand / Supply
- Higher number means a better market in general
- The result is just an indication (but a good one), it’s not an absolute truth

Do you want to spy on your competitors and the stock agencies to know EXACTLY what images are selling like hotcakes and what images are “dogs”?

Thought so, here’s a video on how to do it (don’t tell anyone about it :-)