{"id":1836,"date":"2010-05-04T18:43:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T18:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/stock-image-sales-tips\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:34:08","slug":"stock-image-sales-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/stock-image-sales-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Keep Your Image Sales High"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 871px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/733d0-bigstockphoto_golden_growth_551015.jpg\" alt=\" bigstockphoto_Golden_Growth_551015 \" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">bigstockphoto_Golden_Growth_551015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\nA lot of Bigstock contributors, smartly, keep an eye on their monthly earnings and look for sales trends. But sometimes there&#8217;s an exceptionally good or disappointing month and it&#8217;s hard to figure out why. Based on our experience, here are some ways to keep your images selling consistently well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For obvious reasons, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/account\/uploads\/add\/\">upload<\/a> as many quality images as possible. Your sales are likely to be more consistent if you have more images on Bigstock.<\/li>\n<li>Diversify. You&#8217;ll make sales when buyers are specifically looking for the topics you cover. The more variety of topics in your portfolio, the greater your chances of having a good month.<\/li>\n<li>Pay careful attention to your metadata. Include lots of high-quality, descriptive keywords. Labeling your images accurately will help the right image buyers find your images. Successful contributors often add as many as 30 or more relevant keywords to their images.<\/li>\n<li>Join us in marketing your images online. If you have a web site or a social media presence, use it to show off your portfolio and direct people to Bigstock. You can even build a lightbox of your images and share it using Twitter, Facebook or some other social media platform. (Related post: <a href=\"http:\/\/static.squarespace.com\/static\/5176fdb5e4b083b631f31303\/51783e16e4b0c91d3145d24f\/51783fb8e4b0c91d314603bb\/1366835128858\/?format=original\">Putting Bigstock Lightboxes To Work For You<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Pay attention to the calendar, cultural trends and current events. Sales drop on holidays when offices are closed, but you might enjoy a burst of sales at certain times of the year if you upload seasonally appropriate or topical images.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bigstock has also recently made improvements to help your sales:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our search engine is more accurate than it was before, with less &#8220;clumping&#8221; of similar images and higher-quality, more diverse results. There are also many different ways to browse images.<\/li>\n<li>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/static.squarespace.com\/static\/5176fdb5e4b083b631f31303\/51783e16e4b0c91d3145d24f\/51783fb8e4b0c91d314603be\/1366835128960\/?format=original\">new design<\/a> improves the look and feel of the site to make the site easier for buyers to use.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re actively marketing the collection to buyers through trade shows, online advertising, newsletters, blogs, social media, print ads and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lastly, keep reading this blog for more tips on how to keep increasing the success of your Bigstock portfolio. We&#8217;re on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bigstock\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/bigstockphoto\">Facebook<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of Bigstock contributors, smartly, keep an eye on their monthly earnings and look for sales trends. But sometimes there&#8217;s an exceptionally good or disappointing month and it&#8217;s hard to figure out why. Based on our experience, here are some ways to keep your images selling consistently well. For obvious reasons, upload as many&hellip;<\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\" https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/stock-image-sales-tips\/ \">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[331,311,201,179,115],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors-corner","tag-keywords","tag-microstock","tag-sales","tag-tips","tag-photography","col-sm-6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcS8aA-tC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8350,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/8350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}