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Title: Bizarre sales stats?
Post by: christopherj on October 23, 2018, 14:00

So I started in July/August and I have made a few sales here and there.  But please tell me if this seems really odd:

94 sales with 550ish photos on shutterstock.
50 sales with 550ish photos on istock
0 sales with 150 photos on adobe.


Now granted, Adobe rejects photos at a much higher rate for me, but I have yet to make 1 sale in a few months... does that seem odd?  Or do adobe buyers perhaps have a more sophisticated taste in photos than other stock website buyers?


Any thoughts?


thanks!


Chris


https://www.shutterstock.com/g/christopher+babcock?language=en (https://www.shutterstock.com/g/christopher+babcock?language=en)

https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/ca/portfolio# (https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/ca/portfolio#)

Title: Re: Bizarre sales stats?
Post by: Pauws99 on October 23, 2018, 14:10

Adobe lower than you might expect but with such a small sample hard to judge if its really that "odd". I wouldn't say adobe buyers are much different in "sophistication"  but my best/good sellers on all three sites are quite different.

Title: Re: Bizarre sales stats?
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on October 23, 2018, 14:23

https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/207882786/christopher

There's your portfolio link (you posted to the contributor side which no one but you can see)

I think you haven't ordered your keywords with the first 7 (or 5, I forget which) being the most important. That's going to mean lower positioning in searches for your most sales-worthy keywords. If you search here you can see Mat Hayward confirm that this does matter for searches (i.e. it's not a contributor-concocted conspiracy theory)

The subject matter of your images isn't going to be high selling, especially in the fall busy season, so that and the small size of your portfolio at Adobe is probably also a factor.

Some of the search positioning is luck of the draw - if things get seen and sold when they're relatively new, they get better search position thereafter, which in turn helps sales. Possibly you were luckier on the other sites when the initial uploads occurred?

Or none of the above :)

As a general keywording guide, I'd not rely on words in the title being searchable - they are on Adobe Stock, but not all sites search them, so you loose out.

Title: Re: Bizarre sales stats?
Post by: derek on October 24, 2018, 02:28

Bizarre???  check this out!  SS of course!

Sat.     18.32
Sun.    18.99
Mon.    29.40
Tues.   29.34

let me guess today?...29.34??  hahaha!

Title: Re: Bizarre sales stats?
Post by: qunamax on October 24, 2018, 07:40

It doesn't seem odd to me, it was the same for me in the beginning until I included more photos that could be actually incorporated into designs, not just used on their own. And it took some time before the sales started and even now few years later they are not steady except for a few bestsellers.

Title: Re: Bizarre sales stats?
Post by: DiscreetDuck on October 24, 2018, 07:59

All I would have to say would deal about Bizarre acceptations...

Title: Re: Bizarre sales stats?
Post by: christopherj on October 24, 2018, 09:13

Thanks for all the thoughtful replies!