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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
I agree with this 100%. As someone who shoots on the one hand and runs a program and pushes affiliate sales on the other, I am acutely aware that what the photographer in me wants to do and what the marketer in me requires are often at odds. When I spend literally fifty times what I need to on a particular shoot, I'm aware that I am entertaining my photographer side and that marketing could sell something a fiftieth the cost.
Because I am primarily on GFY to represent SpookyCash, and I don't post my CV every five minutes, but I do see both sides of this issue, it kind of irritates me to see some shooters on here acting like the photographer point of view is clearly the only remotely valid one and nobody else could get it.
For what it is worth, I really don't think surfers ever type something in, when they could just click, given that clicking is so much easier. |
I agree, what makes this even more *tragic* and a train wreck is that is all over a water mark, which I believe they want there because they want to pick up free traffic.
From looking at In the Crack's site, all of their images have a url on them. People say "watermark" you can have a watermark with a logo on it for your company name without having the url on it. The fact that they want their URL on the images as part of the watermark is proof to me that their main concern here is the belief that they will get free traffic from people seeing the images and typing in the url. It's that belief or motives that makes all of this such a clusterfuck and ultimately shooting themselves in the foot on this situation... the amount of sales/traffic In the crack would have gained by the OP having the url on the images is so small compared to the traffic/sales he was sending and would continue sending as an affiliate.
Besides, no one is going to type in the url when there is a link there for them to click.
Like I said earlier, this is 2011 not 1996. People really don't download images and post them on newsgroups, email them to friends etc... at least not .0001% of what they use to. Now if it was videos, it would be a different story. But to put your url on every single image you produce is more of a waste of time these days and to kick out an affiliate and potentially lose lots more over this is beyond retarded... from a business stand point that is.