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		<title>Successful Stock Photo Submissions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The four key ingredients of successfully getting your photo submission approved by the stock agencies QC controllers are: 1. Technically good photographs First, do not confuse this with having the most fancy camera you can buy, it&#8217;s NOT because you can simply get by with a cheap 6 Mega Pixel DSLR camera. Taking good photos [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/224/successful-stock-photo-submissions/</link>
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		<title>STEP #12: Wait for approval</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After you uploaded your images you usually have to wait a few days before you know if they are accepted or not. If you followed the advice in the previous steps you have a good chance to get them accepted in your first attempt but don’t give up if you failed the first time. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/220/step-12-wait-for-approval/</link>
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		<title>Start A Big Profit Microstock Photography Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I&#8217;m confused (I hope I&#8217;m OK but I decided to release my new special report &#8220;Start A Big Profit Microstock Photography Business &#8211; 12 Steps To Sell &#38; Resell Your Images&#8221; for free. 16 pages of pure content. No email address required, no jumping through hoops&#8230; &#8230; just download the report from this link. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/215/microstock-photography-business/</link>
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		<title>STEP #11: Submit your images to microstock agencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’re now ready to submit your first images! This is a big step and a very important milestone for you. I hope you realize the magnitude of what you learned in the previous steps and I will summarize the key points to make sure you remember them. Step 1-4: You identified a market with hungry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/212/submit-images-microstock-agencies/</link>
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		<title>STEP #10: How To Keyword Your Images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The greatest lesson I ever learned about microstock photography is that key-wording is extremely important. It’s not sexy or fun but this is where you eventually will crush your competition if you do it right. Most of your competition will luckily do it completely wrong so you can get an enormous advantage here. Listen carefully. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/206/keyword-images/</link>
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		<title>STEP #9: Remove images with potentially legal issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s potentially dangerous to ignore this step when you make your image submissions to microstock agencies because you might end up as a jailbird or end up in the poorhouse if you’re not careful. You need to have a basic understanding of the law before you make your first submission. It’s luckily not that complicated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/199/images-wlegal-issues/</link>
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		<title>STEP #8: Select images that are commercially useful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even if you’re images are technically perfect they might be rejected if they are useless for commercial reasons. Here’s a simple checklist with common commercial issues that could get your image submission rejected: Inappropriate images (pornography, glamour etc.) Images with no demand Images they already have too many of Bad composition Tight cropping and framing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/190/commercially-useful-images/</link>
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		<title>STEP #7: Select stock images with good technical quality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so now it&#8217;s time to select images with good technical quality. Here’s a simple checklist with common technical issues that could get your image submission rejected: Image noise Blurry or unsharp images Chromatic aberration Interpolation artifacts Color cast Dust Leaning horizon or leaning buildings Contrast issues Badly exposed Wrong file formats Wrong resolution Excessive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/184/stock-images-technical-quality/</link>
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		<title>STEP #6: Select one (1) agency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so next episode in this Microstock Photography Tutorial. You need to keep things simple so start with only one agency in the beginning to avoid being overwhelmed by different requirements and submission guidelines. You can and absolutely should scale to many more agencies after a while but more about that later. Based on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/179/microstock-photography-agency/</link>
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		<title>STEP #5: Shortlist Microstock Photography agencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now you need to find a microstock agency to sell your images so now it’s time for some fun and shortlist all microstock agencies you’re interested to work with. Take some notes about each agency you shortlist: Commission they pay per sale Requirements of camera equipment and images #Visitors per month Style and niches they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/175/microstock-photography-agencies/</link>
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