Today we'll
talk about Microstock time management. Learn how much time you should spend on
taking, editing, tagging and categorizing your media!
Time management is essential for Microstock. It's not that important when you start your Microstock career, but later, when you have to manage hundreds, thousands, millions of pictures, footage and whatever, it'll be a true time saver!
50% Taking photos
This is the most essential part. Since the name of the game is photography, one should take quite some time to take pictures!
15% Editing photos
Because you know about your gear and try to get exact the image you want when pressing the shutter, fortunately there are just minor corrections to be made.
30% Tagging and editing iptc datas
This almost is more important than editing your images! Since users (=potential buyers) search for words, not images themselves, they'll need as many describing tags as they can get. Give them the possibility to find your images! But don't du 'tag spam', just describe what is on your image, which feelings and ideas it transports and you'll be fine.
5% Choosing categories
Since you can 'only' choose a maximum of three categories on most sites, this can be done very fast. But: Would you search a picture with a happy, smiling family under the category architecture? There you go.
Bottom Line
Of course these tips are just clues, you need to find out how to spend your time on the mentioned points on your own, but take this as an advice and develop your own approach for a efficient time management!
Time management is essential for Microstock. It's not that important when you start your Microstock career, but later, when you have to manage hundreds, thousands, millions of pictures, footage and whatever, it'll be a true time saver!
50% Taking photos
This is the most essential part. Since the name of the game is photography, one should take quite some time to take pictures!
15% Editing photos
Because you know about your gear and try to get exact the image you want when pressing the shutter, fortunately there are just minor corrections to be made.
30% Tagging and editing iptc datas
This almost is more important than editing your images! Since users (=potential buyers) search for words, not images themselves, they'll need as many describing tags as they can get. Give them the possibility to find your images! But don't du 'tag spam', just describe what is on your image, which feelings and ideas it transports and you'll be fine.
5% Choosing categories
Since you can 'only' choose a maximum of three categories on most sites, this can be done very fast. But: Would you search a picture with a happy, smiling family under the category architecture? There you go.
Bottom Line
Of course these tips are just clues, you need to find out how to spend your time on the mentioned points on your own, but take this as an advice and develop your own approach for a efficient time management!
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