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How was your August? I reached my BME today at IS, SS is currently 18% down from July with a day to go (unless I get an EL it's going to be approximately 14% down when the month ends), BME at DT, FT is 20% down compared to July, 123RF could be leveled in the next 24h, it's currently 5% down. SS earnings are mainly down due to absurd 80%+ rejections (stuff got accepted everywhere at 90% approval rate, mostly at 100%) and OD earnings that were split in half compared to not only July, but also months from Apr-Jun.

Still have 1 day left.
Patience!

August 2010 was not so good. Don't know about this one yet as it hasn't finished.

I'm still pretty new to this game, so every month is my new BME. August has been very good to me, now I'm looking forward to September.

Overall BME, almost every site had a BME.  Even ISP did well. 

Up 16% from July.  Up 104% from Aug 2010. 

Feeling really good about ms these days, despite the negative developments all around.  I made some recent workflow improvements that are letting me create and upload more.  Monthly output in Aug was my highest yet.

Only negative I can come up with is DT.  DT is the only site that's been on a downward trend for me over the last several months.  Sick of the "too many similar images" rejections, so I've cut my uploads by about two thirds.  And I'm sick of the unpredictable patterns of subscription vs credit sales.  One day I'll have a ton of credit sales and the next day they'll be completely gone.  We're talking a difference of $65 to $15 from one day to the next.  Still can't figure that out.

Good month!
Ranked this month sales  and Small description on how sites performing after three month as an independent.

istock - better than last month similar to may
Shutterstock - BME performing better than expected.
123rf - BME performing far better than expected. last month and this month 3rd position.
Alamy - BME performing same as 123rf. last month 5th and this month 4th position.
Dreamstime - BME performing little less than expected.
My site - BME WOW i was not expecting it will jump to my 6th place in 2nd month. i hope it will go on this trend.
Big stock - BME performing as expected.
Fotolia - little down from BME but generally far less than expected.

Veer and Yaymicro performing as expected. Also started to send zoonar after deleting my portfolio from canstock.

All around totals for August were my BME by a long shot.  I hope September continues into an upward trend.  Could use some good after a bad June and July.

My top 4  SS, Alamy, Canstock and Dreamstime.  Out of those the first 3 are BME.

I go a little more in depth on my blog.  Though I don't do statistical data (that stuff makes my head hurt) still might get something out of it.

My micro production has been down due to my kids going to online school (that and my obsession with Stargate Atlantis on Netflix).  I'm working on a way to find a balance between the school stuff, house stuff and stock stuff.  I'm hoping my workflow for stock will increase from August in September.  Just need to find the time to do it all.

A BME for me overall too.  

Top five:

1.  Shutterstock (A fantastic BME at SS with 52% of total earnings here).  
2.  Dreamstime (BME at DT).  
3.  iStock (up from last month).
4.  123RF (down from last month)
5.  Fotolia (down from last month)

 

Great month.
BME - total earnings, Fotolia, 123rf and DT.
Worst month ever - PantherMedia.
Rest about average.

I was up 11% compared to Aug 2010. Quite a surprise as I haven't uploaded for several months.

SS, IS and BigStock were up, FT and DT were down.

Quite a bad month for us at IS.

Exclusives at IS at 30%
Down 5% from last month and 23% from 2 months ago.
Up 180% from 08/10

BME.

Earnings by Site best to worst.

IS - BME by a lot.
SS - BME barely.
Veer - Good solid month.
123rf - BME. Nice upward trend here.
DT - Solid, but lots of subs.
FT - Steady.
Canstock - Good solid month.
Deposit - BME, upward trend.
BigStock - OK

BMW