If you have the stomach, I have the joke! Or the daily misadventures of the microstock world…
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Three months after making the "Peacock Vanity" seamless pattern available for personal projects for free on Vecteezy.com, I have accumulated over 27 thousand downloads. From this contingent, 5 people [...]
February 8, 2010 – 2:30 pm
The fifth installment of the "Baby Prints" collection brings a very important business implication for those who, like myself, sell Royalty Free licenses to the microstock market.
Unfortunately, once an image hits the microstock agencies, behind its sales hides an enormous number of irregular license uses. Honestly, I cannot put a number [...]
January 21, 2010 – 9:05 am
Microstock is a tough business for commercial illustrators, no doubt, but also a market in which one can strive and have as a bridge to more advanced projects. Let’s see the pros and cons of this venue:
Pros
It allows you to work from home at your own pace.
Low initial investment.
Possibility of lifetime earnings from [...]
By LittleLion
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Posted in All Business
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Also tagged copycat, home, illustration, income, instability, license, market, microstock, profit, rights managed, royalty free
