I registered with shutterstock a couple of days ago,and it says they are approving membership or something,nothing since,is this normal or have things gone awry ?

dude it's been about a week for me....waiting......patiently....

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:P Well that's alright then,not for you like,i thought i might have dissapeared into the interweb ether :roll:

It can take from 7-10 days, sometimes as long as 14 days if there's a lot. New admissions take longer in general than the regular sumbissions, so once you get in you should notice a difference.

Right now they are in the process of hiring additional 3 reviewers for the regular queues, they've had a change in the TOS for both purchasers and submitters and they've just instituted a new program for footage (video) submissions, as well preparing a program where people who have downloaded images on their monthly subscription can purchase a backup cd of those same images. If any of your images on the backup cd (if the person bought one of your pics) you get paid an extra 5 cents an image. There's a lot going on right now.

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You may have misunderstood me guys,i haven't even uploaded any pics yet,it said they would let me know when my membership was approved, or something along those lines :?

Have you not even submitted your 10 tester shots?


If not I would upload some as soon as possible. Dont worry though im sure they will sort it out!


Doug

this is my point doug ! i couldn't upload any, it told me to wait for a confirmation email or something ,i can't remember now .I think i must have dropped a clanger somewhere, i'll try again.Newbies :roll:

On the other end of the scale featurepics have just approved all 10 about 3 hrs after submitting them

You will find it very worth your while to submit to SS. Who is your referred photographer :twisted: (heehee) My code is :

Do anyone know anything of Featurepics? How is the sales?

I am using Feature Pics, but no sales yet. They are only two months old You need time to get the traffic volume. Many (in fact most) new photo type sites take from 4 months to 1 year to see any great increase unless they are being very proactively advertised.

In a hurry? Use shutterstock or one of the other bigger places. But hang on to some better stuff and place it in some of these newer sites. Do you remember the story of the turle and the hare?

The business model is somewhat different but I like it and hope to see it fly. I think that because it is different, it may have a better chance than just another stock site. I have put a banner link to them on my main page and will do all I can to promote them.

This is a "purchase" page on my personal website but the box with the photos is on FeaturePics. A purchaser can by them from my site, but the sale goes through FP. Saves me a ton of aggravation SS has a similar thing, but not as cool as this one.

http://ca.geocities.com/rontoyman@ro...sgt/m1m1_1.htm

The staff their is open to suggestions - very open and extremely helpful.
There's a bit of a disucssion in the stock links forum about them. "Elena" is one of the admin at Feature Pics.

This group seems to look at the submitters more as partners than as underlings, and I like that.

pssst....she has told me they ar working on an ftp function.

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Ok i sussed it,i was ..oh well nevermind ops: .

Couldn't tell you about feature pics yet really ice,apart from the fact they are fast