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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: melastmohican on January 29, 2010, 15:41
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It was pretty good month so far. Overall, across the board it might be BME. It just shows how small I am, 2-3 sites do well and I got a record. I need 2 dollars on couple sites to have more records :-) I guess it's to early to celebrate cause it could be one time phenomena but it feels better than recently.
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Good luck on those last few dollars! Everyone loves a BME!!
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Not BME, but better than last January.
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i had bme's at is and ss, but everywhere else tanked, including StockXpert and ft. so, NO bme for me.
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Not BME by a long shot for me. In fact, unless I have a bunch of EL's over the weekend it looks to be my worst month since last January, and only very slightly better than that. :(
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Not BME by a long shot for me. In fact, unless I have a bunch of EL's over the weekend it looks to be my worst month since last January, and only very slightly better than that. :(
Exactly the same for me. Bizarrely I doubt that I'm even going to beat December.
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Bizarrely I doubt that I'm even going to beat December.
Yep, I am over $200 off my December totals too. :(
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I'm a few percent ahead of December thanks to some surprise ELs, with two (weekend) days left to go.
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$ = 10% down on December,
about the same as last years January total with 30% more photos.
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I have had a good month. Not the best ever but a lot of EL's boosted things. I am 30% up on December. and 20% up on Jan last year.
SX tanked, but Fotolia flew.
The surprise of the month is Deposit photos with three nice sales and a payout, and I only started uploading there about three weeks ago!
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Worse than December for a few percent... :(
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Crappy month for me. About half of Dec's earnings. :'(
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Worst month out of the last 24. $$ earnings are half of Dec '09.
Disclosure: I haven't uploaded anything for over six months.
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My last week was pretty good but January was weak for me. Still much better than January 2008 but 30% down compared to last month...
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For me, Jan is +$650 over Dec. Hoping Feb continues the trend...
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Bizarrely I doubt that I'm even going to beat December.
Yep, I am over $200 off my December totals too. :(
I'm way off my Dec. total on IS. Worst month since Dec. 2008. DT is close to BME. SS and FT also doing well.
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$ = 10% down on December,
about the same as last years January total with 30% more photos.
Hold the phone, late run now equal with December now.
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I'm also nearly 200$ down on December but up on last January which was my worst month last year. For some reason January is always worse than December and I have very little Christmas images.
Bizarrely I doubt that I'm even going to beat December.
Yep, I am over $200 off my December totals too. :(
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Roughly 600 images (240 on IS).
About 50% increase in royalty compared to Jan2009. About 30% less than my BME. Good overall. Good increase in IS cause i got back to uploading there.
Plan for the future:
- Remove old images from IS
- Increase image quality on IS
- More people shots
- Try to become exclusive on IS
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Not great, but better than December (with about $200 perhaps) at all agencies.
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BME for me even with super weak numbers at StockXpert, DT, and FT. Panther came through helping alot with good IS and SS sales. Still only have around 3-400 images on most sites so results are probably not indicative of overall market.
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BME - for 3 of last 4 months - for me, it shows the strength of diversity - usual hi performers like DT have dropped to 4th or 5th, while dormant FT has woken up, and ELs at tiny 123 helped.
my running average tracks with the recession - big dip at end of 2008, then flat for 6 months, since then steady rise
steve
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I still need ~$5 to make January my BME. I have been experiencing a plateau for last 4 months in my microstock earnings despite of regular submissions. I will plot some graphs for my blog tomorrow.
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WM in 1.5 years :( with IS as main contributor to drop
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WM in 1.5 years :( with IS as main contributor to drop
Same here, but not on IS. That is an artifact though since I payed more attention on IS the past 4 months. The global image base is growing fast by the entrance of many new and very good photographers, so just to keep up, your port needs to grow at the same pace or you'll get diluted. It's much easier to double a port of 200 than a port of 2000, statistically spoken, and that's why you will read "BMEs" all over from small but active contributors, while the large contributors seems to report a drawback or stagnancy. It's just statistics: buyers don't seem to grow as fast as contributors.
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BME for me with IS hitting it out of the park (3 ELs) with almost 500 images online there. 43% increase from Jan. 09. :)
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Hey guys and girls...
Don't give us your earnings in global, that mean us nothing...
Give us RPI in $ for this month, previous month and last January...
That is statistic!!! ;)
Mine:
This month, January'10: 0,48$
December'09: 0,50$
Last January'09: 0,37$
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On par with january of 08.
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that's why you will read "BMEs" all over from small but active contributors, while the large contributors seems to report a drawback or stagnancy. It's just statistics: buyers don't seem to grow as fast as contributors.
I'm still waiting to find out if this is true. I've been uploading for 15 months, expecting things to plateau for me, but they have not. When I began, I started tracking my daily RPI, hoping for it to hold steady for as long as possible so every new download adds real money to my take, rather than simply replacing images that no longer sell. I'm happy to say that today, my RPI is at its highest point ever. This means that almost every month has been a BME, but yes, I'm still relatively new at this. Hoping that if I can keep diversifying my port and find different styles to approach new subjects I can maintain this growth for some time. So far, the strategy has worked for me.
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Give us RPI in $ for this month, previous month and last January...
That is statistic!!! ;)
No thanks! ;)
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Give us RPI in $ for this month, previous month and last January...
Here's mine...
Jan 2010: $3.91
Dec 2009: $3.13
Jan 2009: $2.57
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Don't give us your earnings in global, that mean us nothing...
Give us RPI in $ for this month, previous month and last January...
That is statistic!!! ;)
To be honest, if you're not generating at least $1K per month, preferably far more, then your statistics are pretty meaningless anyway simply because the sample size is too small.
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Don't give us your earnings in global, that mean us nothing...
Give us RPI in $ for this month, previous month and last January...
That is statistic!!! ;)
To be honest, if you're not generating at least $1K per month, preferably far more, then your statistics are pretty meaningless anyway simply because the sample size is too small.
Yep...that's exactly why I don't do it....hopefully some day I will.
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WM in 1.5 years :( with IS as main contributor to drop
Looks like somebody in IS tracked this post and decided to spent some bucks at the very last moment to make my claim invalid :)
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To be honest, if you're not generating at least $1K per month, preferably far more, then your statistics are pretty meaningless anyway simply because the sample size is too small.
RPI comparisons are also useless if one doesn't know whether it's a photographer or an illustrator.