Help would be appreciated

Hello to the reader of this message, I'm a fairly new member to Pond5, (this is my first time using the Pond 5 community) and I have just uploaded 9 stock footage clips of my own. I have plans to eventually expand my stock footage library to 100 clips, and was wondering if you could help me out a bit by giving my some tips on getting recognition and eventual sales. Any constructive criticism will also help me out enormously as it will enable me to better understand this website and improve upon my work.

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Hi Charlaaye,

Check your personal messages you'll find them interesting.

Hi, Charlaaye... welcome to Pond5! I looked at your videos here on Pond5 and they are good, but not that unusual or unique. You can sell clips like that, but it will take time. My suggestion is to plan on uploading hundreds of videos, even thousands. You never know what someone is looking for and if you try to anticipate buyers' needs, you'll probably go wrong. I have dozens of videos of perfect butterflies -- and the very first video I sold was of a butterfly with a torn wing. So my advice is to keep uploading videos and think of Pond5 as a long-term retirement program: You do a lot of work now for a small but steady income later. I have more than 700 videos here, but I'm small potatoes... the big guys have several thousand.

If you want to get consistent sales, you need to hire models/actors and set them in corporate situations (conference rooms, office settings, hallways, flip-charts, green-screens for graphics insertion, etc.). That seems to be what gets consistently bought... and I have almost nothing like that in my portfolio.

Good luck!