A New Plan!

This blog site is my personal blog.  In addition to actual useful information, I also occasionally blog personal stuff.  Seeing it all mixed up here has confused even me…  So I’m making some changes.

This site will be about me.  What I’m up to, things I’m learning, examples of my work, and my personal opinion on [...]

How to be a successful Stock Footage Site

Being the outspoken person that I am, I run into a LOT of people who either run existing Stock Footage sites, or they are starting up new ones.  And I give them tons of (sometimes unsolicited) advice from my perspective.  And not just the perspective of an artist who is trying to earn a living [...]

What’s missing in Stock Footage?

It seems that just about every week there is a new stock footage site popping up.  Lots of people/companies think they can get into the game and make money…  Perhaps they can, but you need a niche and you need to spend a LOT of money on marketing.

If you have ever wondered why many agencies [...]

Being successful in Microstock Footage game

My good friend Jake Hellbach wrote an excellent article on the Shutterstock forum about some of the keys to his success in the stock footage business, which you should definitely read.  Besides being extremely talented, Jake is a pretty modest guy.  He really doesn’t like to use the word “successful”, although I think he has [...]