Dreamstime
    Sales    1 / 393
iStockPhoto
    Sales    11 / 451

Quote from: iofoto on November 27, 2009, 22:31

Dreamstime
    Sales    1 / 393
iStockPhoto
    Sales    11 / 451

So your the person that's been stealing all my sales at dreamstime

That's what I was going to say.  I was wondering who was number 1.  I guess we know who we have to beat now!

mine:

Dreamstime
    Sales    115 / 393
    Uploads    57 / 393
iStockPhoto
    Sales    151 / 451
    Uploads    70 / 451

I was actually quite amazed by the statistics. We don't have the largest collections, and we have taken a break from uploading over the past year. My guess is that a strategy of a diverse collection has helped maintain our sales. This is not an original idea... 25 years ago, the sales manager of a stock agency provided invaluable advice. Clients then would make a research request (the old school version of a keyword search) and researchers would send out slides. If you didn't have an image in that delivery, there was no way you could make a sale. My goal as a generalist photographer was to populate as many "keywords" as possible with good images. (Please note this is quite different from populating images with as many keywords as possible!) The diversity helps maintain the long term income potential of a collection.

I have ABCXYZ images online on macros ;-)

On microstockgroup I have 6 ignores from members so far ;-)

Quote from: fotografer on November 28, 2009, 00:55

Quote from: iofoto on November 27, 2009, 22:31

Dreamstime
    Sales    1 / 393
iStockPhoto
    Sales    11 / 451

So your the person that's been stealing all my sales at dreamstime

That's what I was going to say.  I was wondering who was number 1.  I guess we know who we have to beat now!

Interesting, how come I have no data entered and I can still see my ranking? The boxes are empty? (not anymore, I added the accounts so I could play if you add more agencies) But how did I get a rank, with no info? Default database or error or is this real? I'll give it a day to adjust to filling in the boxes.

Add more sites, add more sites. This beats the surveys all to heck. No lying!  

Just posting a number doesn't make sense to me. Mine keeps changing. With that, here's Jan. 1st 2010

iStockPhoto
    Sales    408 / 475
    Uploads    348 / 475

Revised Jan. after Leaf "fixed" it: (hey look, every number is exactly 12 less, except uploads?) 

iStockPhoto
    Sales    396 / 463
    Uploads    332 / 463

Sales on IS that places me just into the middle 2/3rds of all contributors. What's that? Yes, 33% of all IS contributors are lower than me. Just can't wait for my first payout, (won't be long now) so I can see where that stands. Uploads? The number above with just over 100 accepted files, puts me in the top third. In other words, 67% of all the members accounted for on istockcharts, have LESS files than I do. 25% here have under 100 files on IS.

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Dreamstime
    Sales    369 / 417  (369 is under $20, what are the next 48 people at?)
    Uploads    388 / 417 (don't know if this is for 62 files or the 10 that are left)

It does raise some questions in my mind, as far as, how can anyone be doing worse than me on DT?  

I have in effect removed my DT portfolio, 10 images left. Which makes me wonder how people can be lower than I am? This is the result of low sales, never cashing in, for two years! 24 RF licenses in two years, most of them for 2008 uploads of the same style... "images like this don't sell well" rejected in 2009, I gave up. (call that a personal issue if you want, but I quit.)

But back to the point, if it is the 62 total files (disabled plus active) then 29 people have less. If it's the ten files, that's crazy! Sales? How can anyone do worse than $20 for two years?

istock;
Sales     317 / 456
Uploads    180 / 456

does that mean that I'm good at uploading files but bad at selling them    [  ]

istock;
Sales     317 / 456
Uploads    180 / 456

does that mean that I'm good at uploading files but bad at selling them    [  ]

perhaps that was a rhetorical question but.... since you asked

Either it means you are new and haven't had time to get the downloads, or you need to work less on quantity and more on quality.  Looking at your portfolio, you seem to have nice clean images and some of your recent shots are very nice.  Not sure where the sales are though... perhaps it is keywords, or shooting less popular subjects or trying to sell within very competitive keywords.

...My goal as a generalist photographer was to populate as many "keywords" as possible with good images. (Please note this is quite different from populating images with as many keywords as possible!) ...

Not to derail this thread, but this is probably the most insightful photography-related thing I've read today.    Thank you very much for sharing that.

Yep, that's me...somewhere in the middle of the pack.

Dreamstime
    Sales    212 / 401
    Uploads    150 / 401

iStockPhoto
    Sales    227 / 460
    Uploads    136 / 460

Dreamstime
    Sales    82 / 404
    Uploads    106 / 404
iStockPhoto
    Sales    118 / 464
    Uploads    89 / 464

I'm not the worst in the ...world but far from good.

    Dreamstime
    Sales            305 / 415
    Uploads    190 / 415
    iStockPhoto
    Sales            368 / 474
    Uploads    267 / 474  

MicrostockGroup Ranking
Dreamstime
    Sales    234 / 421
    Uploads    51 / 421
iStockPhoto
    Sales    389 / 477
    Uploads    286 / 477

It looks like few people do worse on IS than I, unbelievable :-)