MicrostockGroup

I thought I would start a thread about getting started in micro stock in case people had questions. There are a number of people here with a fair bit of experience that I am sure would be more than happy to share any help they can give.

So those new to micro stock...
Confusion?  Questions?

Well 5.1 mp isn't so bad.

I think you hit the big ones there.  I think shutterstock requires 10 images to start submitting.  Some of them don't have any minimum requirement.

I would sudjest for starters to submit to shutterstock.  I think that will be the quickest place to make some money.
After that Istock has a really good track record if you can get images in there, and dreamstime as well.

Lower down on the pole are bigstock and fotolia, but they are also very high contenders.

Canstock... well I would only submit there if you have nothing else to do and you have uploaded everything to the other places.

Then there is the others, such as scanstock, gimmestock, stockphotomedia, crestock, ... but I have only had 1 or 2 downloads on those sites and have around 100-500 images on them.... I will upload more if they ever start getting a few more downloads but until then, it is a waste of time.

Hope that helps.

And welcome here

good luck.

the best thing is to just stick to it and keep to your goals.  2 images a week, 20 images a week, whatever it is keep to it and the images will add up (and so will the $$) in the end.

my friend makes USD 100 per month with 200 images on dreamstime. i've uploaded 135 images and i make about 20 bucks per month

Can you be banned from any of these sites for a large amount of rejects?

As I read the agreements, you can put the same photos on more that one service. Does anyone know if that is true? NOT your guess, but a "legal" answer.

thanks

yep, geopappas says it right

You can put the images on as many sites as you want and long as you license them as Royalty Free (Which is the default license for basically every micro site, you usually don't get a choice)

The only exception would be
1. if you were exclusive with istock you would only be allowed to upload your images to istock (this pertains to EVERY royalty free image you want to sell)
2. if you license a certain image as exclusive with a certain site.  Many sites offer this, such as dreamstime, fotolia, canstock...  You generally get paid more for giving a certain site exclusive right to the image

yes, that's quite the thorough table you have, nice work.

interesting site photovan.... sounds like a good idea/adventure