Who says the more the better...?
posted on 12th of july, 2008
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Proposal
This is a proposal to improve the quality of the service, hence the reputation of Dreamstime, the satisfaction of the community, the profit for all.
This originates from the observation that images are being added with exponential rate, i.e. 100.000 every two weeks or so. At this rate, we might get close to 5.000.000 by the end of the year and so on...
I absolutely recognize the need to supply more, new and better images all the time and motivate new members to join. However, this will also inevitably lead to the following
Problem
- For the buyers: it will be more difficult (time consuming) to search what is needed although the chances to find it is higher
- For the sellers: lower chances to be found, hence lower earnings.
- for dreamstime: more images means more earnings, no matter whose images those are, but not for long. Soon buyers will switch to competing, better searchable and focused providers. Sellers will do so too because they won't sell enough.
Solution
Keep only best accepted images! Discard second choice accepted images. How can one figure out which is best, which is worse? Answer: The statistics associated to that image, i.e. number of views/downloads in a given time. For example, if one image was never downloaded during a time of say two years which was on line, or viewed at least say 100 times, well probably that is not good enough for the stock market and can be discarded.
Ways of implementing the solution
Dreamstime could add a counter, i.e. expiry date, to each image showing the time elapsed since it is on-line. After a given time period, it will be automatically removed if it didn't satisfy the given requirements (e.g. minimum download/views). Further advantage: an unsure buyer might be motivated to buy before the expired date, otherwise he will miss the last chance.
Until this solution is not implemented by dreamstime, individual sellers might start deleting voluntarily from their own portfolio those images which they know they don't sell. By doing so they are also making more visible those images which have higher potential to sell and increasing their reputation by increasing the quality of their portfolio, in the end, paradoxically, resulting in more sales for themselves and for all.
Mario Curcio
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Tags: images problem quality sales solution
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Comments (2)
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I agree with you completely. At some point buyers will drown in the vastness of possibilities. I think deleting non-selling files after eg 2 years would be fair enough, they have had their chance.
A for deleting those images myself, I will certainly consider that. But it is a bit of a prisonners dilemma...
- posted by
Martinedegraaf
on January 30, 2009 |
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Interesting theory, I agree that an expiration date would be counter productive. In my experience I have found that if an image is not selling well, but is still getting a decent amount of views, I usually go back and check to see if there is a way I can improve the key wording or title. Many times it has helped.
- posted by
Irisangel
on July 13, 2008 |
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