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I cannot help but notice that my sales at SS have gone up in January well beyond of what I expected. Has anyone else noticed it too?

After 11 days so far I am up 47% (MTD) on December, 38% (MTD) for November and a whopping 56% (MTD) on October 2011.

I won't depress myself by saying how minus I am on iFlop month-to-date, but if SS continues like this I don't care and I can finally pull my stuff out of there!

I hope this post does not jinx my early success but I am really interested in anyone else has noticed a similar start.

Sales of my tiny SS portfolio are up too.   

All good here.  I was delighted that year launched better than I expected, and it's improved since then 

30% up on Dec (and this day is only half way through, so the percentage will go up) MTD. I have a ton of photos to upload, so I think sales and percentage will only go up. SS is absolutely rocking it!

IS is really getting kicked in the balls by SS, month after month, but this one is really exceptional, might be a beginning of a new era? I sure hope their success forces those greedy *insult removed* to start  up to us

ETA: wow, since when is ba-stard an insult?

Mine is also the opposite way down from even last January.  I'm hoping for those of us who aren't seeing an increase will see one next week once the New Year has gotten over it's hangover.  My sales have been dreadful.

For the first 10 days of January I am about 20% up on the same period in 2011. Unfortunately I am down by about the same amount at Istock.

Here is too "quiet" . But this happens on December.. first 15 days too bad ( had 2 days without sales!! ) and then get up ( almost BME ).

The worst this month was a entire batch refused with LCV...  Around 99% of this batch are same subjects that I've already online.. with sales.

42 files out of 17,000,000+ doesn't seem like a sample size large enough to draw any conclusions from at all.

Ya know Cory I was thinking the same thing.  I think I need to take more photographs

Maybe not but you can only report as you find. My port is actually 44 and has only been active since summer 2011 and has 438 individual D/L, not bad in only eight months. I'm not claiming to be Yuri Arcurs I simply stating as I find. You can choose to ignore this post and all the other positive comments here if you like but they do appear to be more positive than the posts at istock about their sales.

Isn't the same thing happening on IS? It looks like illustrations are down on demand.

I never really understand how it was possible so many illustrations were sold, what were they used for, I rarely see any illustrations in advertising, newspapers etc. And if I see it, it's usually commissioned work, done specifically for that buyer. I can understand icons etc sell, apart from that I could hardly imagine someone buying an illustration instead of a photo. Not wanting to flame the debate or anything, just expression my honest opinion and welcoming some enlightening answers

ETA: I added quotes to put it in perspective, since 3 ppl replied by the time I completed my post

Sales continue to be strong.