Building a Searchable Website

By Jim Pickerell | 1801 Words | Posted 7/20/2002 | Comments
Thinking about developing your own website where customers can search for your images? This story gives information about four cost effective solutions to the problem that are working successfully for photographers. Many photographers are finding that having their own site is an important key to maximizing sales of their images.

Natural Selection Offers Category Tree Search

By Jim Pickerell | 645 Words | Posted 7/11/2002 | Comments
Natural Selection has launched a new web site with a Category Tree search feature. David Brown says it makes searching for images faster and far more accurate than keyword systems. The URL for the site is http://www.nssp.com.

Getty Accounting Problems

By Jim Pickerell | 1645 Words | Posted 7/11/2002 | Comments
Is the stock industry giving customers what they want? In the near future the only images available for licensing will be those that can be searched and delivered online. The online images will never be more than a minute fraction of the total images available in stock files today and many customers still want to use many of these other images.

Random Thoughts 49

By Jim Pickerell | 915 Words | Posted 7/6/2002 | Comments
This contains short items on: Advertising Recovery?, Getty Expectations, PACA International Conference Scheduled, What's In A Name: RP or RM, SuperStock Website Redesign and The StockRep Closes.

Customer Service

By Jim Pickerell | 2257 Words | Posted 7/1/2002 | Comments
Is the stock industry giving customers what they want? In the near future the only images available for licensing will be those that can be searched and delivered online. The online images will never be more than a minute fraction of the total images available in stock files today and many customers still want to use many of these other images.

July 2002 Selling Stock

By Jim Pickerell | 4170 Words | Posted 7/1/2002 | Comments
In this issue there are stories on: Customer Service, Veer Directory, PanStock To Represent Mon-Tresor, Burak Joins TimePix, CEPIC International Congress, PACA Reorganization, Workbookstock.com Print Catalog, Masterfile To Represent Zefa in U.S., Sheldon Marshall Resigns From ImageState, Pictor Bankruptcy, Corbis Reorganization and more.

Veer Directory

By Jim Pickerell | 1489 Words | Posted 6/21/2002 | Comments
The team behind EyeWire is pioneering a frequent, direct-mail directory that will help Rights-Managed image suppliers sell their images. The Veer Directory of Rights-Managed Stock Imagery is designed to assist buyers in their search for images and to drive traffic to seller's web sites. Only those with searchable web sites will be accepted as advertisers.

Zefa and Masterfile Form Strategic Alliance

By Jim Pickerell | 1042 Words | Posted 6/14/2002 | Comments
visual media international the parent company of ''zefa'' Dusseldorf, has entered into a strategic alliance with Masterfile Corporation in Toronto that has major implications for the industry.

PACA Reorganization

By Jim Pickerell | 561 Words | Posted 6/13/2002 | Comments
PACA has been forced to reorganize and dramatically cut costs in the face of severe financial losses in 2001. The Seventh International Conference will be held in South Beach, Miami, Florida this year.

Marshall Resigns

By Jim Pickerell | 412 Words | Posted 6/12/2002 | Comments
Sheldon Marshall has resigned from ImageState after the board decided to focus on organic growth rather than growth through acquisition. Chris Adamson is serving as acting Chief Executive Office until a new CEO can be hired.

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