No procontrol and shopping. How to start?

Hello everyone, wanted to ask, when someone began the first sale? I uploaded 16 videos and their approved, for the month they are active, but on viewing 0 and 0 purchases (3 video 4K - 30$ and 13 fullhd 10-12$), it's a shame that for a whole month no one bought at least one video, there's no incentive to continue and to waste time. Help Board

Clearly with 16 videos and no sales there is no incentive to continue......

Some tips.

1. If you don't sell something, look at your subject and change it to ideas that do sell. (You have some timelapse clouds. stop it)
2. Shoot and upload many more videos before you decide it's time to give up.
3. If you give up, go back to tip one.

your files are way too cheap.

Raise your prices by 7 or 8 times, shoot another 1000 clips and then analyze your sales. With millions of clips online you need to have way more uploaded to have any chance of people finding your stuff. And seriously, raise your prices (4K-199, HD-80 is what I use). The stock footage world is a numbers game. If you have the time to shoot and upload in large numbers then you can expect to make some money.

the fact of the matter is that the time I do not have much, from making the most of his time shooting svobonoe materials. I just thought that the lower price, the more people will look at the video, because the price quite deshovaya. If I understand you correctly, I need to put a price on the hd - 80, 4k -200. But I can upload a maximum of 30-45 videos per month if given completely. Did I understand you correctly?

hd ~ $50-80, 4k ~100-200 (those are my price ranges, but you other people have different ranges).

Low prices may appear to be lower quality footage. When you get many hundred or a thousand clips then you should start making sales. There are Artists here with ten thousand clips who only get a half dozen sales a week.

im from the audio site, but my guess is that you should quit your day job if you want to increase your portfolio fast (but this would not necessarily increase sales fast). if youre ok with a slow increase (and sales coming little by little) then you have to be patient.

this thinking that you are disappointed with having few sales (although you dont have a lot of files online) is common i think with every single person that goes on this type of libraries. at first eveybody gets disappointed more or less (if they didnt already have a ton of files when they signed up) and its the way you deal with this disappointment that enables you to make more sales. making good money here is not for everyone, and im not exactly there either (although i do earn way more then when i started - but am constantly uploading), but what i do know is that you have to constantly provide material and not undermine the market with low prices.

there's only one thing that you can control and that could possibly help you make more sales, and that is to not give up, and to keep working at it.

i started with a lot of expectations 2 years ago and i was really disappointed by the initial results. i think it's a constant struggle, it's not easy and for most of us, the money earned does not in any way compare with a paid salary at a regular job. if you already do this as a regular job, then i dont see why you're in a hurry - you already get paid at work, but if you do this as a hobby and would like to convert to a regular stream of incomes, then you have to have patience and continue to upload stuff and improve on prices as much as you can or as it is possible/acceptable for you.

that said, work and patience is not guarantee to make you succeed, however its more likely that by not having those (patience and working) you will fail.

and i did mean it with the quit job. quitting your job will give you a lot more time to work on this, then if you hold a regular job (if it is not related to what you're doing here). but this is entirely your choice, based on how well you're already doing financially, on how well you're already doing the job you want to do, on how much you really want to to this stock royalty free uploading thing, and on how much other people around you (family and such) depend on your salary (if you have one) and thus youre maybe not allowed the luxury of pursuing a hobby...cuz i feel it is a luxury. i for one dont have a wife and kids so i can stay with my parents, this is a luxury, many can not do this.

and maybe you will fail, but that doesnt mean you can't or wown't start doing this again in the future.

if you want to be able to make real money out of this in the future (near or not), i suggest to keep going (not necessarily stop being disappointed, but even if you are disappointed, dont let that disappointment, despair and depression stop you from going forward) and upload regularly (not a lot of clips all at once and then nothing) and put some decent prices (slightly above average i would say...) and stick with the prices you choose (settle with a price and dont constantly change it - unless you're experimenting to find the best price, but you cant really do that because you have too little clips to draw a conclusion) and put your clips on other sites too (not just here).

there are people on these rf sites that work 8-10-12 hours a day, so like it was a regular job for them. i think that if you treat this activity like a job, then it will pay like a job too. but if you treat it like a hobby, then probably it will only pay like a hobby - which is not at all or very little.

and again, most or a lot anyway of us went through this (and maybe still go through it) moments of disappointment and thinking that its not worth it.

there are a lot of factors involved in you being succeesful here, but keep in mind you have a role too: you have to work for this, in order for this to work for you.

its more likely you will succeed if you keep working.

so stay depressed if you want (and you have valid reasons) but keep working, be depressed only when your work day is over or during breaks. you can afford being disappointed and dwelling in depression and its your choice and what i did too, but you cant really afford not to work...

(p.s.: i think a lot of us started putting low prices in the beginning, because having a small portfolio and no sales is depressing, and lowering price makes you think (and sometimes it works) that having some sales at all is better then none, so you feel justified in lowering the prices. i think keeping prices high or decent is rather a luxury that you can afford only when you already have a decent amount of items in your portfolio. so it will come - the decent pricing - at some point. the thing is that when you have 1000 clips its easy holding the price high, you can afford going only for more wealthy clients, but when you only have 10 clips, you cant afford not having any sales,since this would be depressing - this of course if you depend on the money made here cuz if you already have a salary then you dont mind pricing high from the get go.)

@Patuwe
No need to be mean. We all start somewhere.

@kuzmenkovdmitrii
As livingroomclassics said, it all depends on what you hope to do with stock. If you want to make a living off of it then it is certainly possible (not easy but possible). Growing a portfolio takes a long time. I don't know that I would recommend quitting your day job just yet. It took me 3 years before I was able to do that. My whole point is that it depends on how much time are want and are able to put into it. If you don't have much time to work in stock then I would not waste my time. If you plan to put a sufficient amount of time in and really want to grow your portfolio then there is nothing stopping you from being successful at it. But really, raise your prices. If you are hoping to make decent money at this you need to price a lot higher. If everyone lowers their prices to those levels then we will all be out of a job.