How do you choose your content provider?
 

subj...
Just curious. No advertisement here as you can see :)
What catches your eye or mind about them?
New girls, design of site etc...

I just scan through newsgroups and use all the public domain content I can get !!

I ask around and see if they are dickheads or not. If they are cool, I'll buy. It also helps if they are willing to do special shoots. Price has very little to do with the buying decision as long as it isn't too crazy. I don't buy cheap shit that's been used a million times either.

Cool way lol
Is it 800*600 jpegs and 320*240 10 second avi's? lol :)

not

Sounds like you are hell smart! :)
What if no custom shoots are being done by the provider and if he is mostly a reseller?

I have no problem with resellers as long as I can get some people I know to vouch for them.

... yes, and lot´s of zmaster stuff !!

Is it enough for food this way? :)

they need to have original sets and go with the right price

Not one of you have yet said

"IF THEY HAVE THE RIGHT CONTENT THAT FITS THE IMAGE, NICHE AND STYLE OF WHAT MY SITES ARE ABOUT."

*advise*
When you are going for the surfer with his dick in one hand and his CC in the other. He does not care if the content provider is,

Cool
A dickhead
Your enemy
Your lover
Has a nice site
An easy to use site
Has cheap prices
FTP

He's jeking off looking at the content and imagining he was there, this is all he cares about. You want to make money. Provide him what he NEEDS. Not what you need.

You're so right Paul - at the end of the day, its the surfer that should be willing to pay the 29$ for a membership, not the webmaster..

Preben you and I killed this thread talking about quality.

Hey, wait a sec! Webmaster should also pay. But this is not about memberships. Content is the point.

Killed? Why? This is what is clearly understood. What else? Nothing?

Yep, finding the kind of quality content that matches the niche/theme of your site is the most important thing when you're looking for a content provider.

But what keeps me coming back to a certain provider's site is:

- ease of purchase and delivery. Do they have a tight CC processing and ftp system? or do you have to email back and forth a couple times before they get the order right and then wait 2 weeks for delivery.

- frequency of updates. No point in going back very often if there's nothing new to see.

- samples display. Definitely need to see a few large samples as well as a contact sheet of the whole set.

:2 cents:

i download it from kazaa :winkwink:

whehe :thumbsup

Just kidding around

I go through the unsolicited spam from webmaster email harvesting, by 10 sets of each and then chargeback.

I'll have everything you mentioned on my new site :)

:eek7 Why?!

P.S.: Oh, sorry - unsolicited - I got it :)
Those who do it are dicks...

This is a good thread for both the content providers and buyers. HighRez made a very important point. You need content providers you can depend on for your sites to grow. Display of content is crucial since buyers need to see that the content is a good match for their site.

This might be a "duh!" but I didnt see anyone mention Model Releases and IDs. You gotta make sure the guy your buying from is legit and that they are carrying MR/IDs for every model.

That goes without saying for me. That's why no one mentioned :)
However you can't see MR's and ID's before you purchase in most cases. Do you mean that?

ummh... think it was a joke ;)

Sure :)
But the idea is cool.
...and expensive...

not so much a joke as a woody inducing fantasy. :)

actually.. i think that will go in my spam autoresponder.

I think constantly putting up new sets is very important. It shows you are still working, still making money, going to stay in business and give the client the opportunity to buy fresh sets all the time.

In 18 months we have built two sites with 885 sets on them. Thats 49 sets a month, pretty impressive. :thumbsup

Two sites?

Yes with different quality, diferent licenses and diferent prices. Just made sense.

You're good customer. I'm sure you'll like the site when it comes online:)

nice :thumbsup

I'd have to say the option to get "unlimited site/domain license" for the larger companies is a HUGE factor that goes into all our content purchases.. it becomes too big of a hassle for the larger companies to deal with smaller content companies hassling them for using their images on say 6 domains, or whatever..

Another thing I HATE is the content providers that let sponsor programs give their content away for FREE to webmasters.. that just KILLS the value of the content.

If they allow free hosted galleries to use it.. that is not a problem.. but when they GIVE it away to their webmasters, then it makes it pretty much overused right away..

thats my :2 cents:

1. Unlimited sites license - yes. I also believe this is stupid to limit as I know this business.
2. What's the difference between "allow free hosted galleries to use it" and "GIVE it away to their webmasters"?