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Use Stock Photography to Enhance your Blog Posts | Stirlyn

By stirlyn 235 days ago from http://stirlyn.co.uk

Photos and images can spice up your posts, illustrate and draw attention to main concepts and can sell advertising so as a blogger, you should think about using them more. In this post, we discuss how Bloggers can take advantage of the current feeding frenzy amongst stock photography companies trying to compete with photo sharing sites such a

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Microstock Secrets: Review: iStockphoto

By Microstock-Secrets 100 days ago from http://www.microstock-secrets.com

iStockphoto is one of the most important Microstock (selling your photos/media online) sites today. Here's a snippet of the article:

Today we'll be reviewing iStockphoto, another one of the big players in the Microstock business. Find out why millions of people love this site and why it could help you to even monetize your

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Microstock Secrets: TinEye helps you find stolen images for free, great idea

By Microstock-Secrets 100 days ago from http://www.microstock-secrets.com

Even if Microstock has become the ultimate opportunity to buy high quality images for just a few bucks, still people steal and use images on the web and print they didn't pay for. TinEye now helps you to find your stolen images.

The idea behind TinEye is not new, but ever since a service like this has been really expensive

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Microstock Secrets: What is Microstock and how can I make money with it?

By Microstock-Secrets 100 days ago from http://www.microstock-secrets.com

If you want to know how you can make an exra income by selling your photos, footage, sounds, vector graphics and renderings online, here a first article to start!

Snippet:

So you're asking yourself what this Microstock stuff is all about? In this post I'll explain what it is and why it could be just right for you to ear

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Microstock Secrets: Shutterstock raises payments

By Microstock-Secrets 100 days ago from http://www.microstock-secrets.com

Shutterstock has made a step forward and raised the payouts per download. It's not such a big deal until you sell thousands of pictures, but a good move generally.

The payments are now as following:

Total sales under 500$: 0.25$ per download
Total sales between 500-3000$: 0.33$ per download
Total sales between 3000-100

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Microstock Secrets: Getting started with Microstock Photography I/IV

By Microstock-Secrets 100 days ago from http://www.microstock-secrets.com

n the first part of the series I'll tell you about some of the Microstock basics. We'll start off by explaining a way to get a basic workflow.

Own a camera
To start off, the first thing you'll need is a camera. It doesn't necessarily needs to be a high end digital camera, even an old 35mm film camera will be fine!

Ba

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Microstock Secrets: Getting started with Microstock Photography II/IV

By Microstock-Secrets 100 days ago from http://www.microstock-secrets.com

In the second part of the series I'll explain why a good software is essential for your organization if you don't want to get lost in a flood of images.

Get an image managing software suited for you
First of all: Since I'm using a MacBook, most of my recommendations will be about Mac software, but I'll try to mention so

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Microstock Secrets: Why a refused image can be more valuable than 10 accepted ones

By Microstock-Secrets 100 days ago from http://www.microstock-secrets.com

So an image of yours just got refused, again. In this post you'll find out why this can be a good thing and why it can help you getting more % of your images accepted in the future!

It happens every day: These unthankful Microstock sites keep refusing your images! How dare they? First of all I can tell you that it's nothin

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Microstock Secrets: iStockphoto launches iStockaudio, selling sounds now

By Microstock-Secrets 100 days ago from http://www.microstock-secrets.com

iStockphoto, well known for delivering high quality Microstock images, vectors and flash files today launched a new service: iStockaudio.

By taking the next step iStockphoto is now delivering everything from still pictures, over vector graphics, flash files, footage and audio files. Again iStockphoto is one of the 'innovato

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Microstock Secrets: Why does PayPal rule for International Microstock Photography?

By Microstock-Secrets 100 days ago from http://www.microstock-secrets.com

After Ebay bought PayPal, the electronic payment systems importance grew a lot. Today I'll tell you why it is just right for you if you want to get paid, especially if you live in a non-US country.

Let's start by summarizing what PayPal is: It does the same as a normal bank transfer, it delivers money from a to b. The poin

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