As most of you know by now, LittleLion Studio started as a hobby and as such, without rules, guidelines, best-practices and methods. Almost 3 years and 2,000 images later, things tend to get a little confusing to say the least. Multiple sales channels with different technical requirements and audience profiles don’t really help matters either. What am I to do? Organize!
Documenting best-practices, creating meta-data schemas, verifying technical consistency across files, developing a database to manage all artwork data and their statuses on all sales channels, creating analytical spreadsheets to learn
about and properly direct the business… altogether this is no small feat and as I’m sure you know, extremely time consuming.
These are the tasks I have been spending most of my time on lately and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, thus forcing a slower pace in other fronts such as content creation and posts.
But procedural work is not all. With organization comes business intelligence and with it, strategic decisions leading to innovations… I wish I could tell you to hold your breath but good things take time and I don’t want you to asphyxiate. All I’ll say is that patience is a rewarding virtue. :-)
Nevertheless, visibility is essential in microstock so meanwhile…
Get them from ShutterStock.
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Did you know that working out your left brain with tasks such as the organizing, analyzing, implementing order… actually helps to enhance creative intuition and and imagination (a right brain function)? It’s true!
Hi Aimee! If that’s the case, i should play catch up and become a much better “artist” since i spent most of my life working with my left hemisphere… ;-)