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Here I will be introducing aspects of the Symzio roll-out and welcome thoughts and suggestions from Symbiostock users. The end result will be an amalgamation of community input and internal Symbiostock development, and we are sure the end product(s) that tie Symbiostock users together to increase revenue will be well integrated, seamless, and prosperous for all.
I will be posting module and administrative aspects surrounding Symzio here – if you have an opinion on the matter, don’t hesitate to share it in a constructive manner. This is your chance to be an integral part of the development process of one of the most important aspects of the Symbiostock project, as networking all of your media together is what will take us all a large step towards artist independence.
Becoming a Symzio Contributor
Symzio will operate, at the administrative level, as a separate entity to Symbiostock. In order to include your images within Symzio, you will have to sign up and apply. This is the first level of quality control we will be implementing to ensure that all Symzio Contributors are legitimate, professional, and are indeed the copyright holders of the images they seek to distribute through it.
Once you are a Symzio Contributor, all of your image maintenance will be performed through your independent Symbiostock site, and Symzio will simply connect to retrieve updates from it. In addition, once you are approved as a Symzio Contributor, you will have access to all future components, including the agency-like search engine that we are developing. Therefore, all sign-up credentials and identification criteria will be applied from the start so that you need not re-apply in the future.
Here are some base requirements relating to becoming a Symzio Contributor:
1) You seek to sell images and/or vectors that you hold copyright ownership of.
2) The quality of your media is at a professional level.
3) You currently have an operational Symbiostock site.
We are not going to implement any strict adherence to a specific type of image as we want Symzio to be as eclectic as possible. If you have shadows, but it appears to be artistically driven, that is fine. If most of your image is out of focus, and this is purposeful, that is fine. Our main purpose is to ensure that you are demonstrating at least some care towards the technical quality of the media you hope to sell alongside your peers and that you are not misrepresenting any aspect of it to customers.
We will have additional terms and conditions associated to becoming a Symzio Contributor available once the signup process opens. There will be benefits imposed on the initial batch of contributors that sign up as a thank you for supporting the system during its early stages.
Finally, there is no cost involved in registering as a Symzio Contributor. All costs relating to it will be through the promotion and sales of images. In the end, our current aim is to provide all we can through Symzio while passing at least 80% of the gross revenue of each sale back to the contributor. This will only apply to payments processed directly through Symzio. If you get sales through one of Symzio’s networking options but the customer purchases directly from your site, you keep 100% of the revenue.
The first module: Symzio Widget
The first module I am going to be developing and releasing is the Symzio Widget. It will permit you to display images from the Symzio search engine within your Symbiostock site so that other artists can generate sales through your site, and so you can generate sales through theirs.
As the Symzio search engine will be released at a later date, currently the widget will provide direct links to your individual Symbiostock sites, directly to the image. The way it will work is simple. You will just embed the code either directly or as a widget to your WordPress site, and when a search is performed on your site, the widget will retrieve relevant results from across the network to display on your page.
This will enrich your visitor’s experience, support other contributors, and you will likewise receive visitors from all over the place from other contributors’ sites.
Today I get the code to start using your system but I can’t find the plugin to add it, where it’s? Thank you.
Hi Aitor – 2.0 for standalone will be released soon. We are first doing it on PLUS to ensure everything goes smoothly, then will release the standalone.
Ah ok! so, are you going to notify it by email when it’s ready? Thank you.
We will be sending out an email with it, but also it will show up as an update in your WordPress install.
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