MicrostockGroup

January is very different for me than latest months.

DT is leading my earnings, with daily sales.  IS comes in second with a performance similar to last months.  StockXpert sadly dropped to a third place and well behind, with very few sales.  BigStock is close to it, and proportionally having a good month.  FT is low, as it's been lately, and FP actually got the 5th place from it.

I am particularly surprised with DT x StockXpert.

Regards,
Adelaide

I set the goal of $100 this month, but thanks SS this goal has already been meet. These are the earnings from each site (with my 4 months with microstocks)

SS $73.25   IS $14.69   DT $9.5      FT 10.56   13RF 2.88   BS $5

on StockXpert they still evaluate my images (350 of them, it has been a week already)
 
vhpoto

Maybe it´s a bit early. Overall rather slow start. But one surprise: based on $$/day istock shot up, so far twice as much as in December (which was bad) and even 12% higher as in November (was BME), resulting in 49% of overall revenue in January.

So far I like the price change at istock.

Significantly under december so far mainly due to SS and DT, SS went down quite a lot like -50 %.
On a positive note, I will have a BME at IS,LO and StockXpert
Really strange month with a different pattern so far, will see how the second half come
L

a.k.a. how many images do you have on all the sites if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks

All time record for me at IS today and barely at StockXpert too No sales record at DT again

Having a good month on SS, On target for my best month ever. Have been trying to shoot more stock orientated images which seems to be helping (few isolations).  Next month hoping to get the 30c Raise, will be just over a year since i joined.

Hoping other sites pickup though.

-Rossco

Only  800 images out there online.      =tom

GBC,

What are BTP, and Fotomind sites ?

Mark

Not sure yet. I have been frustrated so far that my new uploads do not seem to be increasing my overall sales at Shutterstock much at all like I expected and hoped, IS was doing great until a couple of days ago and today would have been horrible if not for an extended license sale. Hope they didn't change the search engine there again last weekend. StockXpert a little slow but hoping it will pick up, DT seems to be picking up the last few days, the rest about the same I guess, I will know more at the end of the month but I am crossing my fingers and hoping my 50 new uploads this month, and the 100 or so I will have ready by next month(all vector illustrations) will raise my sales everywhere enough to make it worth the effort. Looking forward to getting my D300 on order and then I won't have to upsize so much for Alamy

SS still down for me and I noticed that new uploads do not systematically sell like before

This is becoming interesting. half of January has passed. SS is now 14% ahead of last year, while total profit is 79% ahead. Per 15 January 2007, SS represented 48% of my profits. The same date 2008, that has been reduced to 31%.

My portfolio has increased around 50% during 2007, so SS is clearly under-performing, while the bulk of the others are doing better than could be expected.

One of the most important contributing factors is the price hike at IS. Apparently, sales have not gone down there in spite of that. To me, that clearly shows that prices have been too low, and that there's much more to earn for photographers and agencies alike.

Yesterday, I also had my first 10$ sale a SV, generating a healthy 3$. They obviously have a long way to go, but now I hardly price any new uploads there at less than 10$. I encourage everybody else to do the same.

Mark,
 BTP is Bigstockpnoto FOTOMIND IS TO YOUR RIGHT  ON THE LIST OF SITES