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Agency Based Discussion => 123RF => Topic started by: heywoody on July 06, 2013, 09:12
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DLs do seem to be increasing and earnings for June exceeded any month in 2012 without anything new added since October. Guess I might as well start again
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My sales are scraping along at roughly the same level as last year +/- 10%.
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DLs do seem to be increasing and earnings for June exceeded any month in 2012 without anything new added since October. Guess I might as well start again
Not for me and I never stopped uploading >:(
Maybe they gave your images a bonus in their search to lure you into uploading again ;D
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this month was pretty sad there. Any increase in sales are not making up for the decrease in percentage.
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They're just about to pass DT as my no.1 agency. I have a small port and few sales but they come in steady.
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I'm level 5 their and for years they where steady until July 1st.....over night all this month my sales on 123 have decreased 80% In fact today I started -4.90.
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I'm level 5 their and for years they where steady until July 1st.....over night all this month my sales on 123 have decreased 80% In fact today I started -4.90.
It seems to happen to you on sites where you are very successful. Makes one wonder if the agencies hide your port in the search because you take too much royalties.
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123 never been a great earner for me, but this July is very surprising being already bme there....
I will never understand the level thing there...can anybody explain?
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Friday - 123RF became my no.1 agency surpass DT by 2 cent. I'm having a very good month there. Thanks to all the buyers.
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Congrats. What is a very good month if you dont mind me asking?
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I don't really like to give out numbers. But since the first of the year my sales have been steady. A small port of 117 (working on that). Usually sell more month after month.
Mostly subs but a sale is a sale.
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It seems like a see-saw situation. When one half reports BME's the other half reports bad sales. For me so far second bad month in a row. Seems like the agency is not moving much income wise, it is just the distribution which differs every month. :-\
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Sales aren't good for me. I hardly ever look there anymore. When they cut commissions, I lost all enthusiasm for them. Its a shame because they were my first microstock site and I used to quite like them but low sales volume and low commission is a killer.
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my sales shift every other month with a factor ten.
Thats not reliable/ trustworthy.
So Im in the process of slowly taking pictures down. Yesterday, 5-7 got erased. I have to time it so that I can easily delete the rest when I have my last payoput.
I lost all faith in them when they did their shift from 50% and down.
Had they not done that I would happily have supported them.
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down 20% comparing the first half of 2012/2013
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$186 May
$86 - June
$47 - so far in July
Swings and roundabouts - minimal effort to contribute so I let them get on with it.
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July will be my 5 consecutive BME at 123RF.
All other sites have slowed down here in mid-summer, 123RF keeps on rocking.
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it seems that some people are having success there, but I am not. In fact I am on track to be about where I was in 2008 with only 1/3 or less of my current port.
Certainly no where near the promised doubling of sales.
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" I don't really like to give out numbers. But since the first of the year my sales have been steady. A small port of 117 (working on that). Usually sell more month after month. Mostly subs but a sale is a sale. "
Do you ever wonder why you're getting negative points on your reply? Such a bold statement for 117 images on 123RF. I am close to almost 2,000 images and hold back my tongue since I feel I am still a major rookie compared to the majority of these folks especially a level 5 on 123RF.
Tip of the day- Spend more time in production and less time trying to analyze your portfolio- you will find it very rewarding... :-X
T
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pretty dismal -- about 70-80% of what it was before they slashed prices -- lower prices, fewer sales. getting down to the 'do not submit level'
symbiostock sales have beaten 123 sales for 2 months now
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I think with Fotolia slashing their pricing, and 123 doing better and better, they are going to overtake Fotolia for second place. Albeit peanuts, its still a result... and the result is, that overall I am going down in earnings.
So............ soon I am only contributing to 2 agencies, SS and 123. And of course symbiostock.
If only DT and IS didnt have these stupid rules about everything, I could make another 100$ a month combined. But at this point 100$ is not enough to cover the headaches these two agencies gave me.
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Hey I never said sales were good just that $ for a single month exceeded best pre-reduction month - still peanuts :o
Tom - who are you quoting (maybe I'm going blind)?
Ron - commercially, refusing to upload to IS & DT while uploading to FT and 123 is nuts, IS no longer has any criteria and, for DT, just don't do a load of similars.
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Tom - who are you quoting (maybe I'm going blind)?
The post just above my previous leopard head avatar. The Labrador and stick is on its way.. ;)
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IS no longer has any criteria ....
Funny but many of my images are still being rejected because of those not existent criteria. :o
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Tom - who are you quoting (maybe I'm going blind)?
If that is questioning the "doubling of sales" I don't remember who it was from 123RF said it when they introduced the RC system when they were trying to make it seem like a good thing for us to get paid less.
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If that is questioning the "doubling of sales" I don't remember who it was from 123RF said it when they introduced the RC system when they were trying to make it seem like a good thing for us to get paid less.
Think it was Alex, but I think he carefully omitted the period it might take to get there.
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Tom - who are you quoting (maybe I'm going blind)?
The post just above my previous leopard head avatar. The Labrador and stick is on its way.. ;)
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Curiously Dan says that 123 (117 images) has just surpassed DT (9 images mentioned in the DT thread) by 2c - says a lot about the relative earning potential of the 2 sites.
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Curiously Dan says that 123 (117 images) has just surpassed DT (9 images mentioned in the DT thread) by 2c - says a lot about the relative earning potential of the 2 sites.
Says more to me about Dan's relative income announcements though.
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Ron - commercially, refusing to upload to IS & DT while uploading to FT and 123 is nuts, IS no longer has any criteria and, for DT, just don't do a load of similars.
I didnt mention FT at all. Why not submit to 123 when its easy and my earnings are up?
I have around 250 face images that DT considers to be similars. I refuse to make collages from those images. IS has a painfully time consuming upload process plus I dont have IS releases and they wont accept the 250 face images.