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Written by Ron Rovtar, Managing Editor, the Stock Asylum
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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
 The Danita Delimont Stock Agency has become the second supplier of rights-managed imagery to join xcavator.net, a portal that helps image buyers find images using visual as well as verbal search factors.
Until now, Photovault was xcavator.net's only supplier of rights-managed stock photography. The portal's remaining suppliers, iStockphoto, Fotolia, Lucky Oliver and 123RF, all supply micropayment or midstock products.
Danita Delimont, owner of the company that bears her name, said she is impressed with xcavator.net's software. "The technology is very new," she said. We like to be on the cutting edge of new technology.
Delimont's company, which specializes in travel, nature and lifestyle imagery, also was among the first distributors to join Digital Railroad when that company launched its stock photography search engine called "Marketplace."
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Written by Ron Rovtar, Managing Editor, the Stock Asylum
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
Uh-oh!
That vague term "strategic alternatives" has reared its euphemistic head again.
This time, the phrase appeared at the bottom of a press release issued by a21, a company that owns the SuperStock stock photography brand. Exactly what the term means in this case was not defined.
But a21 Chief Executive John Ferguson said there really is a good reason for using the unspecific term.
"I can't really go into all the possible alternatives," he said. "It can be a number of things. We're preparing our business for the future."
Public companies have to be careful about how they release information, Ferguson noted.
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Written by Ron Rovtar, Managing Editor, the Stock Asylum
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
Who
are you?
Not
as a human being, but as a photographer, designer, or image
distributor. Who are you as a businessperson. What exactly do you do?
What do you bring to the table that someone might buy? What are you not
so good at? What would you rather not do?
It
is rather astonishing that few small business people ask –– and answer
–– these extremely important questions.
How,
after all, can a potential customer know who you are if you don't know
yourself? How does this customer know when to call you for an estimate?
So
here is a suggestion.
Sit
down right now and write a short sentence or two describing what you do
(or really want to do) for your customers.
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Written by Ron Rovtar, Managing Editor, the Stock Asylum
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
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Apple
Computer has released the first major update of its respected image
management and editing software. The company claims the new version
includes more than 100 new features.
Aperture
2 debuts with a $199 price tag. Owners of previous versions can upgrade
for $99, the company said.
According
to information released by Apple on this date, the new version
introduces new tools for highlight recovery, color vibrancy, local
contrast definition, retouching and RAW fine tuning.
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Written by Ron Rovtar, Managing Editor, the Stock Asylum
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
A letter in Paul Morris' daily mail was not the kind of missive any small business person looks forward to.
Printed on stationery of a well respected law firm, the letter informed Morris that his small stock photography company is using patented technology "for distributing over a computer network such as the internet, digital products such as digitized photographs that have been made avaialble by various providers such as photographers."
In other words, a company named Digital Patent, LLC, was claiming it had patented the basic computerized workflow of a modern stock photography distributor. The letter pointed Morris to a legitimate United States patent issued on Sept. 28, 2004 to Eiman M. Boesjes, of Eugene, OR.
Morris was urged to sign a license that would commit him to paying Digital Patent a "discounted royalty rate of 0.5 percent of gross revenue and a minimum of $500 a month." According to the letter, the offer was good for 60 days, after which the royalty rate would increase to 1.5 percent with a minimum monthly payment of $1,500.
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