Author Topic: 1/3 of the month and it's looking good so far (Read 4816 times)

melastmohican · « **on:** July 10, 2008, 17:48 »

This is my third month so it has been always BME but this one can beat previous one by 50% :-)

litifeta · « **Reply #1 on:** July 10, 2008, 18:02 »

sales way way down here so far. all sites. But I have an image of mine as a give away on the front page of Shutterstock. Sure I am giving pics away.

fotografer · « **Reply #2 on:** July 11, 2008, 03:28 »

Quote from: litifeta on July 10, 2008, 18:02

sales way way down here so far. all sites.

Same here

Peter · « **Reply #3 on:** July 11, 2008, 03:34 »

surprisingly well for july. I guess august will be disaster. hhhhh

jsnover · « **Reply #4 on:** July 11, 2008, 11:31 »

SS has been doing OK - not great - but with 2 ELs so far this month, the $$ total is up nicely. The EL today was for a Christmas image, so some buyers are planning ahead...

abimages · « **Reply #5 on:** July 11, 2008, 11:35 »

SS been on a gradual slide past few months, despite some uploads. Pretty slow so far this month too.

vphoto · « **Reply #6 on:** July 11, 2008, 11:47 »

SS prefers that ones uploads at least once a week. My second month at SSwas $198, simply because I uploaded all the images I had then (around 700) and I was uploading almost every day. Recently i did not upload for almost 2 months and the result was $69 for June. For the past 7 days I uploaded 40 images and already earned $50 in July.

takestock · « **Reply #7 on:** July 11, 2008, 11:57 »

It's shaping up well this month.
With any luck should be better than June!

ichiro17 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 11, 2008, 12:05 »

May I suggest that when people post comments like "BME!" or "THIS MONTH IS AWESOME SO FAR" that they also include portfolio size and time submitting to the site and such - because sometimes the comments should be taken with a grain of salt. I just find such threads incredibly misleading and some clarification on portfolio size and length of time at micros works to give the other readers a better impression of whats going on.

For example, you just started uploading to microstock sites, and you've been doing it for three months. The first month you upload 50 photos and 25 get accepted. Next month 100 and 70 get acceptd, and third month 150 and 140 get accepted, you are looking at a portfolio thats 7-8 times larger than the first month. Of course you are going to get more downloads, and of course you are going to be doing better (if you aren't, you should really re-think what you are doing and how to do it better).

Does anyone else feel the same way?

jsnover · « **Reply #9 on:** July 11, 2008, 12:20 »

That's what those little dials are about - I think that it's only IS and DT that make the info readily available via API though. But yes, it just isn't useful data to hear about sales on very small or very new portfolios. Interesting to the person concerned but largely irrelevant to how the overall market is doing.

melastmohican · « **Reply #10 on:** July 11, 2008, 13:05 »

Clarification.

1. I upload mostly nature which is not best selling stuff on microstock.
2. I upload a lot, roughly 1000 photos per month
3. Average acceptance rate is around 50% across all websites. SS is around 30%
4. Last month I reached 1000 photos mark. Also I got 1000 DL in less than 3 months.
5. SS is the only site with consist return growing from month to month so far.

sharpshot · « **Reply #11 on:** July 11, 2008, 15:14 »

Sales have slowed down but so have my uploads lately. I seem to get more EL's when sales fall so the dip isn't too painful. Usually I get out and take loads of photos in the summer but the weather has been abysmal for the past few weeks. There are no signs of global warming in the UK at the moment. It used to be a lot hotter when the world was cooler

michealo · « **Reply #12 on:** July 11, 2008, 16:04 »

Quote from: melastmohican on July 11, 2008, 13:05

Clarification.

1. I upload mostly nature which is not best selling stuff on microstock.
2. I upload a lot, roughly 1000 photos per month
3. Average acceptance rate is around 50% across all websites. SS is around 30%
4. Last month I reached 1000 photos mark. Also I got 1000 DL in less than 3 months.
5. SS is the only site with consist return growing from month to month so far.

If you have uploaded the maximum at IS in 3 months(as above) of 180 and got an acceptance rate of 50%(also as above) then you should have a portfolio of 90 images - - but its actually 36?

melastmohican · « **Reply #13 on:** July 11, 2008, 16:56 »

First, it's average across a board I should say. IS takes 21% only and it takes weeks them to review 15 pictures. It's second week of this month and I already got 30 images in queue waiting. You have to add some sort of UI factor to the equation. IS, DT and FT are the worse in terms of handling bulk uploads. See statistics in Yuri Arcurs article: http://www.arcurs.com/microstock-agencies-an-overview-for-beginners. I am saying that I try to upload 1000 pictures to every agency but some of them make it more difficult. Currently the fastest are StockXpert, 123 and SS.

lisafx · « **Reply #14 on:** July 12, 2008, 09:22 »

I agree about taking the portfolio size and length of time in the micros into account. Otherwise the statistics are pretty much meaningless.

With over three years at this and an average portfolio size of 3500 images across all sites, I have noticed a definite slow down in July. I'm down, on average, about 15% or so across the board.

I admit that the last week I took off from tweaking and uploading (except istock where I meet my limit every week because of the backlog), but before that I have been uploading an average of 30-50 per week with acceptance rates in the 90% range.

travelstock · « **Reply #15 on:** July 12, 2008, 18:20 »

Yeah so far so good for July. All sites are ticking over fairly well, SS has been particularly strong, but I think that's more to do with regular uploading in the last few weeks more so than the time of year. I had my first 0 sales day on IS for the first time in a long time on the 5th of July, but the Saturday after a long weekend was always going to be slow.

Of more concern on IS is some of the keyword rejections - I don't have a problem with stopping spamming, but the way they are applying the new system is just annoying - seems more about punishing non-exclusives than anything.

lobby · « **Reply #16 on:** July 14, 2008, 14:17 »

It was looking goog for me

but not any more???

helix7 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 14, 2008, 23:13 »

Abysmal July for me so far. SS is off by nearly 50%, IS is also trailing, although not nearly as badly. This could actually be the first month ever where IS accounts for more than 50% of my microstock income.

MicrostockGroup Sponsors

Author Topic: 1/3 of the month and it's looking good so far (Read 4816 times)

melastmohican

litifeta

fotografer

Peter

jsnover

abimages

vphoto

takestock

ichiro17

jsnover

melastmohican

sharpshot

michealo

melastmohican

lisafx

travelstock

lobby

helix7

Related Topics

Sponsors

Microstock Poll Results

Sponsors