Comments on: You and the Failure of PhotoShelter http://blogs.photopreneur.com/you-and-the-failure-of-photoshelter Marketing Your Photography Business Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:31:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Keith Tuomi http://blogs.photopreneur.com/you-and-the-failure-of-photoshelter/comment-page-1#comment-1924 Keith Tuomi Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:09:02 +0000 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/?p=702#comment-1924 ** Also a shameless plug ** http://www.zymmetrical.com We are taking into account all that goes on in the industry during our beta and adjust and move accordingly. Subscriptions will never be a solution however. ** Also a shameless plug **

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We are taking into account all that goes on in the industry during our beta and adjust and move accordingly. Subscriptions will never be a solution however.

]]> By: Tom http://blogs.photopreneur.com/you-and-the-failure-of-photoshelter/comment-page-1#comment-1895 Tom Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:18:41 +0000 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/?p=702#comment-1895 ** Shameless plug below ** Great article.. I think the niche stock photography sites are a great idea. I am currently pursuing this type of venture with: http://www.socalstock.com Its a stock photography site which focuses on Southern California only. We have so many great beaches here, and lots of site seeing. So I figured this would be a great niche to try and tap into. Photographers can also join and submit photos.. we pay 80% to the photographer. ** Shameless plug below **

Great article.. I think the niche stock photography sites are a great idea. I am currently pursuing this type of venture with:

http://www.socalstock.com

Its a stock photography site which focuses on Southern California only. We have so many great beaches here, and lots of site seeing. So I figured this would be a great niche to try and tap into. Photographers can also join and submit photos.. we pay 80% to the photographer.

]]> By: MarcW http://blogs.photopreneur.com/you-and-the-failure-of-photoshelter/comment-page-1#comment-1892 MarcW Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:06:33 +0000 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/?p=702#comment-1892 I have worked in multiple industries (toys, video games, amusement, photography) in which the refrain, "We want something different, we want out of our aisle in the store, we want edgy, we want outside of the box" might just as well have been tattooed on the foreheads of the buyers and reps. It was a lie then, and it's a lie now. We'd show them a new toy, or a game treatment, or a prototype, or whatever, and the buyers would love it and it would test great and marketing would kill it because they didn't know how to sell it. Over and over and over and over and over and over. PhotoShelter had lots of whys, and I won't say this is the only or the biggest one, but it's quite real, it's part of human nature, and it will never change. You still have to try, because it's that one time in a million that you get a SuperSoaker or a Trivial Pursuit or a Katamari Damasay or a Terry Richardson. But them's not good odds. M I have worked in multiple industries (toys, video games, amusement, photography) in which the refrain, "We want something different, we want out of our aisle in the store, we want edgy, we want outside of the box" might just as well have been tattooed on the foreheads of the buyers and reps.

It was a lie then, and it's a lie now.

We'd show them a new toy, or a game treatment, or a prototype, or whatever, and the buyers would love it and it would test great and marketing would kill it because they didn't know how to sell it.

Over and over and over and over and over and over.

PhotoShelter had lots of whys, and I won't say this is the only or the biggest one, but it's quite real, it's part of human nature, and it will never change. You still have to try, because it's that one time in a million that you get a SuperSoaker or a Trivial Pursuit or a Katamari Damasay or a Terry Richardson. But them's not good odds.

M

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