Question about setting a price
KatLomas
2 Dec 2012 01:23
Hello,
Does anyone have ideas for setting prices for my submissions? This is the first site I have used where I am given a choice. I have no idea what to enter in the box. When I left it at $1, a message said this price was too low.
Does anyone have ideas for setting prices for my submissions? This is the first site I have used where I am given a choice. I have no idea what to enter in the box. When I left it at $1, a message said this price was too low.
dapoopta
2 Dec 2012 01:57
$50 for hd. start there.
RekindlePhoto
2 Dec 2012 02:09
There are hundreds of threads about this already. Like Scott said, start at at least $50 and see what happens. Give it a long test. Don't expect any or many sales for a while and until you have several hundred or thousand quality products. Stock is a long term business and not a sell fast and make lots of money. Patience is the most difficult part of this business.
MichaelWard
2 Dec 2012 05:11
I think he means for illustrations. Not much experience with these, but I did a quick check and it seems like the going rate is $5 for largest size and $1 for smallest. This seems to be a consistant price across the board. If you plug $5 in then it should automatically set the prices for you for the smaller sizes.
wgzn
2 Dec 2012 14:48
easiest answers first: from what ive seen. pond5 is currently more of a footage and sfx site than photo / illustration. and the prices reflect that.
im a new user as well. and have done a mountain of research over this last week.
here is my advice. do a keyword search for something like what you have posted.
sort the results by price and by number of sales. see which items get the most sales. you will detect a pattern pretty quickly. there will be a lot of +$100 items with no sales. few images at around $100 that have 1 or maybe 2 sales at the most (and probably over the course of over a year, if not several years). then go to the next less expensive items. as long as the quality is of reasonable par, the less expensive items will tend to have a greater number of sales, over a shorter period of time - OFTEN FAR eclipsing the selling price of that one higher priced item.
so. ask yourself. do you want to sell 1 $100 item or 10 $20 items?
the reality isnt that dramatic or that cut and dried. but you get the idea.
the sweet-spot for footage tends to be between $30-$80. but sadly most non-motion content looks to be between $5-$20
im a new user as well. and have done a mountain of research over this last week.
here is my advice. do a keyword search for something like what you have posted.
sort the results by price and by number of sales. see which items get the most sales. you will detect a pattern pretty quickly. there will be a lot of +$100 items with no sales. few images at around $100 that have 1 or maybe 2 sales at the most (and probably over the course of over a year, if not several years). then go to the next less expensive items. as long as the quality is of reasonable par, the less expensive items will tend to have a greater number of sales, over a shorter period of time - OFTEN FAR eclipsing the selling price of that one higher priced item.
so. ask yourself. do you want to sell 1 $100 item or 10 $20 items?
the reality isnt that dramatic or that cut and dried. but you get the idea.
the sweet-spot for footage tends to be between $30-$80. but sadly most non-motion content looks to be between $5-$20