I spy with my little eye
I spy with my little eye… How letting a little mess into your photos = sales Successful stock images are clean, conservative and simple…right? Well, ...
The Weekend Test – A different kind of character assessment
Dedicated to my father. When I was young, my father would tell me this story: He said that if he really had to judge a person’s character, an ...
Keywording tool Fixed!
The keywording tool on this website is now fixed. A few problems arrived that made it harder for us to extract keywords from the popular sites. While we ...
Crazy week for www.arcurs.com
Update. (old post). You will find this post much more interesting. Recipe for cutting your blog’s traffic in half in a week: Step One: Malware ...
Branding… A cliché?
If you’ve been reading my blog you’ve heard me talk about branding before. Branding yourself is extremely important. Today I attribute10-15% of my ...
Eight Secrets from the World’s Top Selling Photographer – Reprint
You don’t have to be a pro to take photos like a pro – we here at Crestock.com convinced the world’s top selling stock photographer, Yuri Arcurs, ...
How long does it take to submit images once they’ve been uploaded at the different microstock agencies
Just recently I did an independent survey to find out how much time it takes to submit images already uploaded to all the major microstock agencies: The ...
Keeping it real. Research vs Guesstimation.
Guesstimation will get you 40-50 percent of the way if you are good! Doing research on what sells and shooting likewise is one of the reasons for my ...
Do you have what it takes to become the World’s next top Stock Photographer?
The world’s highest selling Stock Photographer, Yuri Arcurs, is hosting his fifth Elite Academy Program with the purpose of producing the most ...
Finally: First videoblog
Here is a teaser for my new videoblog. This is me. 🙂
The Yuri Arcurs Photography Boot Camp 2012 has ended!
Things are settling down at the Cape Town branch now that the Yuri Arcurs Boot Camp 2012 has wrapped up. For the first two weeks of January, we hosted over ...
10% discount off the Yuri Arcurs SteadyPod!
So many people participated in the contest on my facebook page last week, and it was truly amazing to see how so much effort was put into locating that ...
Sales Over a Week
This graph is based on my income alone and may not be completely accurate. It describes how much income a non-exclusive stock photographer gets each day on ...
What’s in our camera bag? – Interns
Keeping it small lightweight and capable. This gear bag is what Yuri Arcurs considers to be the best and minimal amount of gear you need to produce 95% of ...
German Model Eva-Marie Tells her Story on Working with Yuri Arcurs
I saw Yuri’s photos for the first time surfing around aimlessly on a couple of stock-sites. I soon started searching directly for more of his photos. ...
