NO sales with 150 clips

Hi need some help, I've got about 150 clips on pond5, and 50 pending, for the last few months, I started but have no views and no sales, can someone critique my clips, and mabey give some pointers. Ive also got about 80% approval on SS with no sales, as only 3 atm on IS, with 3 month waiting time, and still 30 pending, 3 approved, 3 rejected, and 4 for re edits.

??? Any suggestions on why it's not selling, How long does it take?

Thank you all in advance

once I got 450 clips, I made 20 sales or so in one month. before that, with 200 or less clips, I only made 1 sale per month. for about 6 months I had only 1 sale per month with under 200 clips,

Nickolay, I have about 500 clips/photos and only sell about 3 a month. These are priced between $30-$60. I have noticed as my portfolio grows, the sales grow with it, even if it is slower than I'd like. I know there are some people with the same amount of clips that sell a ton, particularly those who are skilled in animation and after effects. people seem to make many more sales with that stuff. Your clips look great, but 150, or even 500 is not a lot of clips. Some of these guys have over 10,000, so keep uploading and you'll eventually build some steady sales.

Your clips look great, but keep varying the subject matter as well to appeal to as many potential buyers as possible. You have a ton of great food clips, but if a buyer isn't looking for food clips then your portfolio just got reduced to 120 or so choices. Same here, I have a ton of clips in and around the city of Boston. If you need a clip of Boston you can easily find it in my portfolio, but if you don't need a Boston clip then I might as well have a 250 clip portfolio because I think half are Boston videos. I too am trying to get a more varied portfolio.

Whatever you do, don't lower your prices, if anything they are on the low end of the pricing spectrum. That clip of the cows for example I would price at $50 at least. Good luck!

Great thanks for the advice I asked the curator to price them for me and he says to put them up for $35 to start. How do I know what there worth. I leave the price usually to be set by curator

Nickolay, consider adding to your tags, I took a look at your food clips and came up with the following.

catering,food,dining,meat,pork,chicken,beef,frying,tasty,taste,succulent,juicy,spicy, flavor, flavorsome,mouthwatering, appetizing,culinary,delicious,diet,edible,scrumptious,kosher, nutritious,good food,hungry

Niclolay, took a quick look at your titles and keywords. Please don't be offended, but you keywording needs lots of work. You need to go back and re-title and re-keyword all the clips you have submitted. Good keywords are the only way your clips can be found by the buyers. The search engine in Pond5 also uses the title of the clip and it's important to have a good one. Take some of the more popular keywords from the a keyword generator and use them in your title. For example, your title was "red lips", my title would be SENSUAL GIRL SMILING RED LIPS, etc. I also spent under five minutes with a free key-wording application and was able to generate 50 good keywords for your shot. (You'll need to remove the keywords that don't apply when you use the app and add more specific ones.) Here they are:

adult, attractive, beautiful, beauty, care, close, close-up, closeup, color, desire, expression, face, facial, fashion, female, femininity, full, girl, glamour, gloss, gorgeous, health, healthy, hot, lady, lip, lips, lipstick, luxury, makeup, model, mouth, nice, open, person, portrait, pretty, red, seductive, sensual, sensuality, sexy, shiny, skin, style, woman, young

For a more detailed explanation go to http://www.stockvideoseller.com/public_html/topics/1-how-to-keyword-your-stock.html. There is also a link to the free key-wording application in the How To post. Hope this is helpful. Good luck!

I started with one animated clip, selling for 25$. I sell maybe one unit per month. I just started uploading more clips and added over 30 more, so we'll see once the curator approves them. If you keep your clips on the low end, like 25$, you'll make more in the long run, by volume. If you price too high, the buyer will just go for a cheaper option with someone else selling the same thing for less. Don't fall in love with your work, it's stock. Price it to move and it will sell.

Many or most of the long term artists here at P5, those making a living just on P5 alone will disagree that low pricing will increase bottomline profit in the long run. Last year I dropped over 2,500 clips to $15 for over six months ... yup income dropped significantly and bottomline was hurt. Now all back up at $50 and above, the number of sales increased and profit significantly increased. Go look at the "artist Resources" there are dozens and hundreds of clips selling each week and month for $200 to $500. This isn't SS, DT, rf123 photo stock, there is value if the quality is good. If animations or CG the market has somewhat dictated lower prices, not so with footage.

It does take time to sell stock. Don't expect many sales with only a few hundred online. When you get a few thousand quality then it becomes more consistent. It takes months or years, a few months is not valid data. Cheap prices will not help pay for camera, internet, time, travel,computer, software. The world's best stock photo seller sells footage here now ... not at cheap micro stock pricing either.

It's easy to argue, look at artist resources or find a small group here at P5 that sells for $10-20 that makes several thousand a month ... not going to happen. Those making several thousand a month are pricing footage at $60-100 and up. Quality sells not price. SS footage is at $79, IS footage is over $175. The average HD footage here at P5 is over $60. Why not be better than average, there must be a reason.

Set your price at $50

Hey A2Creations, why only two clips here at P5 in last few years? With only two for sale you have done well selling one of them several times. It's all about quality and subject that a buyer needs. Good job.