An artist might be very happy with revenue from sales but there is one thing that can make an artists un-happy, start to feel anxious and become defensive, that is when an asset is rejected by an agency, the asset is often seen by the artist as needing protecting and the artist may become defensive and not take perspective.
The asset inspectors and websites often become the subject of ill feeling and the target of abuse, by reading comments in forums like “it’s the inspectors fault”, and “my rejection was overturned”, can lead to the artist using these comments to reinforce their arguments and not to look at their rejected asset more closely, so how are these un-happy feelings dealt with and how could they be dealt with in a more positive way.
There are many thousands of assets rejected daily and a very vey small percentage of these will be overturned, some may be reprocessed and accepted later, others will just never be acceptable to that website and not always on quality, as they are just not needed, there are three ways that these rejections and feeling are dealt with and one of these can possibly reduce the number of rejections by using problem solving skills.
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