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Title: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: melastmohican on March 18, 2010, 14:26
I think it's going to be very average. SS will be average and all other of my top agencies are going to be below average.

Note. YAY posted earning from last year's third party sales so huge number from them is misleading.
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: MicrostockExp on March 18, 2010, 14:38
Should be a BME for me thanks to Depositphotos promotion program. Last one was last September. no EL yet though:(
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Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: PowerDroid on March 18, 2010, 14:45
BME, beating last month's BME by about 10%. 

Slow but steady growth on the Big 4, while the others are treading water (but who really cares... they're becoming less and less important to me every day). 

(I'm not on DepositPhotos, so I have no upload bonus skewing my numbers... I still see that as a lot of work for just $100.)
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: MicrostockExp on March 18, 2010, 14:56
yep indeed, it takes a while to put these 500 pics on line....
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: fotografer on March 18, 2010, 14:59
Fotolia beating all records
DT is also having a great month and is beating both SS and IS at the moment which will be a first ever.
IS about normal and SS better than the last few months
All in all a BME :)
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: NitorPhoto on March 18, 2010, 16:13
Very strong month. I hope it will be BME. It must be because this is the strongest months of the year according to my statistics. My current BME is one year old. :)
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: luissantos84 on March 18, 2010, 16:26
a new BME, every agency is already at their best month! (talking just about the bigs)
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on March 18, 2010, 16:29
one of my best months, slightly up from previous months on all the big 4 (maybe partly due to StockXpert closure?)
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: sharply_done on March 18, 2010, 16:37
Looking back at my records since Jan 07 shows that March has always been a good month:

Month   # BMEs
Jan1/4 (Jan 07 was a BME, but it was my first month doing stock, so I didn't count it)
Feb4/4
Mar4/4 (assuming this month will be a BME)
Apr2/3
May1/3
Jun0/3
Jul0/3
Aug2/3
Sep1/3
Oct2/3
Nov0/3
Dec0/3
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: Artemis on March 18, 2010, 16:56
Heading for BME on istock, dramatic on Shutterstock (but, due to renovations i haven't uploaded since november, really starting to pay the price there), normal (means low) on Dreamstime and still happy i ditched Fotolia and it's shenanigans.
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: joingated on March 18, 2010, 17:25
Well I've only been doing this a year but every month has been a BME so far... When do things flatten out?!
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: loop on March 18, 2010, 19:00
Great at IS, where I'm exclusive.
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: mantonino on March 18, 2010, 19:17
Shapin up ok ...
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: Phil on March 19, 2010, 03:59
IS is down, so far about 15-20% with the last 2 weeks being the worst I've had in a few years (excl Christmas). I've gone through and 'optimised' keywords in deepmeta and I am now very concerned that this had a negative impact. DT has also been down. FT normal, lots of work on SS has almost made for IS and DT. Macro is absolutely dead this month, but March was last year too. Ebbs and Flows as they say...
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: sharply_done on March 19, 2010, 10:58
Quote from: Phil on March 19, 2010, 03:59
... I've gone through and 'optimised' keywords in deepmeta and I am now very concerned that this had a negative impact. ...

I think you are correct in your suspicions: best match placement takes a hit after you edit keywords. I think you might be okay by adding/removing one or two keywords, but anything beyond that pushes your images downwards by a page or two.
Title: Re: How is this month shaping for you?
Post by: Phil on March 19, 2010, 15:30
thanks, I'd been hoping to improve things :)

also realised it was St Patricks day, so that may have affected things