Featurepics pays the highest commission for your image sales plus they are the most helpful ones when it comes to the nitty-gritty details of promoting your own images. And did I mention that you can set your own price and the type of license you want to sell? Check it out today! SY

Not everybody might have saved the different possibilities to contact LO/ Bryan before the site went down. And as the information on the only page left at luckyoliver.com is a bit sparse, to say the least, here some more possibilities to contact Bryan/ LO now:

Some background information first:

Lucky Oliver is/ was © 2008 LuckyOliver & MegaGlobal Image Syndicate, Inc. and Bryan Zmijewski has still another internet based company called “zurb” which is located at the same physical address where LO was.

Address:

ZURB, inc.
55 N. 3rd Street, Suite 100-A
Campbell, California 95008
USA

Telephone numbers (they are either from the old LO web site, from one of the zurb sites, or from both) if somebody here has any experience which one works, please post a comment!:

650.533.0469
1-888-606-7341
408.341.0602
650.533.0469
408.341.0600

Emails:

support@luckyoliver.com
z@luckyoliver.com (Bryan’s old email address at LO)
z@zurb.com

Bryan’s Web sites (where you can find further contact possibilities):

http://www.zurb.net
http://www.zurb.com
http://www.zurb.net/zurbphotos/ redirected from http://www.zurbphotos.com

I hope this information helps people to contact Bryan even when luckyoliver.com disappears completely and the given email support@luckyoliver.com will not work anymore, SY

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Disclaimer: All this information is/ was freely available on the internet, I am NOT giving away any confidential information I have knowledge of due to my time I worked for LO. SY

free dofollow backlinks+adsense income = Qassia

This could be the easy formula to describe this new concept of a crowd sourcing content concept. In a nutshell: You sign up, add your sites that you want to get backlinks for to your account (for free!) and start participating at the site by writing short articles (called intels) and screening other people articles. The more Qassia$ you accumulate through this, the better placed are the backlinks you get back to your chosen site(s). An additional bonus is that you can participate in their google adsense revenue program and start to see the first clicks almost instantly. As this money is going directly to your google account there is no minimum pay-out at Qassia to wait for, it just adds up with the rest of your adsense income. For whom is Qassia? I would say for everybody that looks for new, creative ways to promote their web sites, loves to write short, informative pieces and doesn’t mind to earn the extra $.

My search funds is a great program to make the odd buck whilst searching normally the internet. Setting it up takes <5min and then you have to use only their toolbar to do your normal internet searches. One tip: To make each search count at least 1min has to pass between two searches. They pay via paypal, min is $20 and, also if it is only a few cents you get per search, every little helps. I’ll post again when I reached my first pay-out (just started some days ago!) SY

Photographic Freedom - the first international microstock forum just re-gained its PR3 back We had to remove some time ago the sitemap and google didn’t like that ;-( Lesson learned: Protect your site map with your life!

We also converted to be a Adsense and YPN Revenue Sharing Forum, means that members can now benefit from the ads running on the forum. More news to come soon, SY

So Lucky Oliver is closing down, another microstock site bites the dust ;-(

In case you are one of many, many people that are dreaming to open up their one microstock sites, do us all a favour and don’t commit the following mistakes:

Accept every image submitted just to get images, buyers are not attracted by crap.

Fight key word spamming/ bad key wording from the beginning, buyers want to find their dream image fast and not wade through tons of images that have nothing at all to do with their search.

Make your site slick and fast loading, time is money, especially on the internet.

Keep your site on line at all cost, a site that is down one time, is one time too often down, the buyer will never come back.

Keeping your artists happy is fine, but they are the happiest if they have sales. So make the buyer’s happiness your utmost priority and everything else follows.

Market your site, this is why we the contributors give you a share in our commissions, not for image hosting without results=sales. For this we can use flickr and the like.

Have a nice day, and in case you want still to start your own microstock site / project don’t hesitate to contact me I am available for consultancy, alpha and beta-testing for new microstock venues Have a nice day, SY

Oh, and btw bnpsworldwide closed also earlier this month, who is next?

Just spend several Million $$$$$ on a mansion? Have a look at this blog post Most Expensive Luxury Interiors for inspiration! Fancy a toilet covered with crystals or open fire place made from glass? Here you find it! Gorgeous photos also by the way So now I have to see where I put my platinum credit card… SY

Crestock came up with a good and funny April’s Fool Joke and what is doing Corbis? Threading with legal action! Down with Billy! Support the Norwegian Dwarf! SY

Read all here:

http://photographicfreedom.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1469.0

Getty Images, and therefore Istock got sold to Hellman&Friedman (funny name combination hell-man & peace-man (fried(e)=peace in German) for the lump sum of $2.4bn. But what has actually happened, what changes are to expect for us contributors to Istock? What has happened is that all the big guys at Gettys apparently have kept their jobs, including Bitter, the original founder/ CEO of Istock. What has changed is the way things are financed, not the way things are managed, so again, snafu….

Here some links for further reading:

The Hell-man&Peace-Man web site with the newest press release.

The Reuters news, as always dry and short and straight to the point.

Thomas Hawk doesn’t hesitate to state his opinion.

And our forum discussion is here. SY

Hubs are similar to Squidoo lenses but the interface is far easier to manage and I personally find it easier to write on Hub pages then on Squidoo, but this is certainly a personal preference. I haven’t written a lot of hubs until now but it is on my long list of things to do My latest write-up was an answer to a request and you can read it here (What to do with a food aggressive dog). Hub requests are questions posted by hubbers and answered by hubbers, a great source of inspiration if you have the famous writers-block and great fun to do because they warranty some additional traffic. Some hubbers are really great, like Lissie, that has already published 52 hubs! I really admire people that have a goal and go for it! One of my favourite hubs by her is “Light Notebooks-Review of the 5 lightest laptops” when I am up for the next laptop upgrade, I will certainly go to her hub for more information!