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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: fintastique on March 31, 2008, 07:31
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A bit early but I won't be able to start this thread at the appropriate time
SS 42.7%
DT 16.2%
FT 13.0%
StockXpert 7.7%
iS 7.2%
BS 5.8%
123 5.8%
FP 1.5%
Not a bad month but less than February, I am sure Easter is partly to blame
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I hope it is allright that I added a pole to your thread fintastique.
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FT 29%
SS 24%
IS 13%
DT 12%
StockXpert 10%
BigStock 6%
123rf 3%
Other: 4%
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Still pretty new but here are my figures
SS 86,54% BME (first full month)
FT 8,76% BME
123RF 3,67% BME
IS 0,68% (got accepted this month)
DT 0,35%
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Third month for SS and DT, first for IS.
SS: 82%
DT: 16%
IS: 2%
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$50000+ - 0 (0%)
Andres, you didn't vote yet?? ;)
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SS 35%
IS 31
DT 11
SX 9
FT 10
BS 2
123 3
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$50000+ - 0 (0%)
Andres, you didn't vote yet?? ;)
*sob*
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FT 47% BME
SS 36% BME
DT 11% BME
StockXpert 5% BME
IS 1% BME (second month still didnt reech payment yet :()
March was slightly better than February, by 10%
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Revenue for March 239% of February Earnings boosted by midstock sales
MP 47.0% BME (1st sale there)
DT 19.6% BME
123rf 12.0% BME
FP 7.6% BME (1st sale there)
FT 7.1% BME
BigStock 4.0% down
StockXpert 2.1% down
No Sales Ever:
Albumo 0.0% stopped uploading
Crestock 0.0% stopped uploading
Uploading to New Sites:
ZM
YAY
BME for overall number of Sales
BME for amount of Revenue*
5th Consecutive BME since I started uploading to do stock in October of 2007
*This still would have been a BME for me for revenue if I did not have the midstock sales at MP and FP this month.
Mark
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SS 39%
StockXpert 30%
IS 13%
DT 9%
FT 5%
BS 3%
123RF 1%
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SS 36% down
IS 26% BME
DT 12% down
FT 11% down
BigStock 6% BME
123Rf 5% BME
SV 3% BME
StockXpert 2% down
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Overall better than Feb, but worse than January.
FT 29.3% (down from Feb)
IS 32.4% (up from Feb)
SS 25.4% (down from Feb)
LO 0.00%
DT 12.9% (up and my BME there, but still building my portfolio)
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Shutterstock 33% (down from Feb)
iStock 27% (down from Feb)
Fotolia 12% (up from Feb)
Dreamstime 8% (up from Feb)
123 RF 15% (up from Feb + BME)
Stock Expert 4% (up from Feb)
Monthly Growth -16%
BME -47%
Overall pretty poor income wise due to both SS and IS pulling total figures down, though did manage to grow 123rf and Fotolia sales.
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Hi,
BME with 15% growth overall, but the growth wasn't in the top two
IS 40%
SS 23.5%
DT 14.5% - BME - 150% on last month previous BME)
StockXpert 5.2% BME
FT 5.2% BME ($0.76 between FT and StockXpert)
123RF 4.7% BME (by a whole $0.30 !!)
BigStock 4% BME - (125% on previous BME)
LO 1% BME for sales (had el before so not for $, but almost daily sales 400% on last month)
FP 1% few cents off BME within $1 of LO
ALB 1% (sales .5%, paid upload .5% sales more than CRE or CAN but in context about what I get from istock in about 6 hours :)
CAN 0.5%
CRE 0.3% Dead month less than 25% of BME
SCAN 0.2% Has less than 25% of port, within $1 of CRE
Phil
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ISP = 36% up
FOT = 19% up
SS = 17% even with last month
DT = 12% up
StockXpert = 9% up
BigStock = 5% down
123 = 3% even with last month
Crestock & Canstock both at 0%, but canstock actually made me about HALF the pathetic dollar amount (also 0%) they pulled in last month.
Very disappointed to see Crestock moving in the wrong direction though. Last month they were 1% and this month total earnings there went down even further.
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ISP = 31% even
SS = 22% up
FOT = 15% down
DT = 14% up
StockXpert = 7% even
BigStock = 6% up
123 = 5% down
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IS 45% - a little down on last month, but that was so far up I can't grumble.
SS 27% - BME
DT 14%
BigStock 7%
StockXpert 7%
Overall BME, just.
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IS = 10%
SS = 31% up 250%
DT = 51%
123RF = 0%
CanStockPhoto = 2%
FOTOLIA = 6%
BIG STOCK = 0%
FeaturePics = 0%
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SS = 36%
IS = 25%
DT = 17% BME
BigStock = 9%
123 = 5%
FT = 3%
SV = 3%
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Two between 16k and 50k? :o
Regards,
Adelaide
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I will forever amaze me that some do so well on StockXpert and FT!!!
Every month I am more amazed that Istock does so well considering how few I have there. Almost pulling ahead of SS this month!
SS - 30%
IS - 29%
DT - 16%
BS - 9%
FT - 9%
123 - 5%
StockXpert - 2%
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Two between 16k and 50k?
Well I remember Andres posting that he made about $15k in one month over a year and a half ago, so considering moderate portfolio growth he could easily be in the $20k+ range. Maybe even 30. Who knows. Figure Yuri is up there, sj, Lise, a few others. Several candidates for the 16-50 range.
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8th consecutive BME since I started in August 2007. IS is the only site showing strong and consistent growth. I'm earning about $3 per portfolio image accross all sites with IS earning $2 of the $3 alone. I'd say that about does it for me. All of the extra effort of uploading to 10 other sites doesn't make sense to make a few extra dollars per month.
IS 69% (up, 8th consecutive BME)
SS 11% (up a couple dollars)
123RF 6% (up almost double, BME)
FT 6% (way down)
DT 4% (down a bit)
BigStock 2% (down half)
StockXpert 1% (up double)
SV 1% (up from nothing)
LO 1% (up from nothing)
AB 0% (7 months, no sales)
FP 0% (5 months, no sales)
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Crestock & Canstock both at 0%, but canstock actually made me about HALF the pathetic dollar amount (also 0%) they pulled in last month.
Gee, I'm sure sales will explode once they bring in their big mystery partner. ::)
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SS - 65% BME
DT - 23% BME
IS - 5%
FT - 3%
StockXpert, CS, CanStockPhoto, BigStock, 123RF, LO, FM, FP - 4% (BME on CS, StockXpert, FM, LO)
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Overall earnings were up 12% for another BME. I'm a shade over $50 away from the race to $300/mo.
Shutterstock 36.6% (up)
iStock 23.6% (up)
Dreamstime 18.8% (up + BME)
Fotolia 9.3% (even)
123RF 4.3% (down)
BigStockPhoto 3.7% (down)
Stockxpert 3.0% (down)
unLucky Oliver 0.7% (up + LOL)
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Up/down is compared to March 2007
SS 38% down 6%
DT 18% down 1%
IS 15% down 17%
FT 10% up 70%
StockXpert 6% up 80%
BS 5% up 25%
123 4% up 61%
Cre 2% down 6%
SPM 1% up 212%
Scan 1% down 50%
Total sales in March up 13% from 2007, which isn't bad considered easter (which was in April last year) and the fact that March was my second best month in 2007.
Total sales ytd 31 March up 40%
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Overall down 22.8% mostly because I didn't upload anything new all month. But some sites faired better than others.
1. SS: 32%
2. DT: 20% - BME
3. IS: 14%
4. FT: 13%
5. StockXpert: 10% - HUGE drop
6. BigStock: 6% - BME by .50c
7. OTHER: 2% (Crestock, Canstockphoto, Featurepics, & Snapvillage)
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Hell. just noticed 2 people earning more than $16,000 a month!
I had to laugh when I just asked ISP for my $100 payout and there is a warning they will not payout more than $10,000 in one hit ...
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yeah, there are definitely some people doing pretty well in microstock.
Funny there isn't more people in the middle though. Lots of hobbyists in the low $$ then a handful around 1000-$4000 but not many between $4000-$16000
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BME (+ 10% to previous BME, January 2008)
istock = 43,9% (BME)
shutterstock = 15,9%
panthermedia = 10,4% (BME)
dreamstime = 7,8%
digitalstock = 7,4% (german)
shotshop = 5,4% (german)
stockxpert = 4,6%
bigstock = 2,3%
123rf = 2,1%
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FT = 54%
BigStock = 12%
123 = 11%
IS = 10%
DT = 8%
StockXpert = 6%
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Shutterstock 30%
Fotolia 20%
Dreamstime 19%
Istock 10%
StockXpert 8%
Bigstock 5%
123 RF 3%
Canstock + Luckyoliver + Crestock + Scanstockphoto 4%
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Istock 34,4% up
SS 22,3% up
FT 12,7% up
DT 11,1 % BME
Panthermedia 8,4% down
StockXpert 7,8% down (opted in again after a long period of decline while being opted out :-[)
123Rf 1,2% up
Digitalstock 1,2% first month BME
Bigstock 0,4% down
Crestock 0,1% up
Luckyoliver 0,07% down
Snapvillage 0% down
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IS 42% BME
SS 19% (slightly up from last month)
FT 18% (slightly down from last month)
DT 08% (slightly down from last month)
StockXpert 08% (slightly down from last month)
BS 03% (slightly up from last month)
123RF 02% (average)
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Not a BME. It was on track, but agree Easter lost momentum. Only missed by a few $$.
But BME at BigStock, IS, and DT.
The first 6 hours of April are a little slow :-)
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IS - 47.5%
SS - 24.5%
FT - 10.4% (only so high because got one $50 ext. license sale, otherwise FT sucks for me)
BS - 7.8%
SPX - 6.0%
DT - 3.8% (very low this month, but overall my #3 site)
Not really anything new, I think I will end up going exclusive at IS when I hit gold (expecting late 2009).
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Nice March hope better for April
IS = 9.1 % down
SS =28.5 % up
123= 2.5% up
DT = 5.6% down
StockXpert =5.7 % up
FT = 5.7 % up
SNAP = 1.6 % up
BIG = 2 % up
OTHERS = 38.8 % up up up
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My numbers for this month.
1. SS 37% down
2. FT 26 % up BME
3. 123RF 11% up and I was a bit surprised ;) BME
4. IS 9 % way down
5. DT 7% way down
6. StockXpert 6 % up BME
One sale to report at ZY, and more numbers on my blog:
http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-earnings.html
Cheers
L
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IS + SS = 77.0%
FT + DT = 18.7%
BigStock + 123RF = 4.7%
LO + FP = 0
A more detailed earnings report in Pixels Away blog:
http://www.pixelsaway.com/C911796005/E20080331124255/index.html:
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Great blogs pixel and ldambies. Great idea!
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wrong thread...
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For the first 2 weeks in march I was really excited that i was going to shatter my bme. Over the course of the month I grew the size of my (small) portfolio by 8%, and saw a 22% increase in earnings compared to last month. Mainly from SS which appears to be far more influenced by regular uploads.
In the end I fell short of my best ever month (April 2007) by less than $1.
IS 29%
SS 28%
DT 19%
FT 11%
BS 8%
123RF 4%
the remaining 1% was shared between LO & StockXpert
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My March and 2008 numbers, with 2007 for comparison:
| Site | 2007 | 2008 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| IS | 26% | 29% | 22% | 37% | 26% | | | | | | | | | |
| DT | 16% | 21% | 30% | 16% | 18% | | | | | | | | | |
| StockXpert | 20% | 18% | 19% | 12% | 22% | | | | | | | | | |
| FT | 13% | 11% | 8% | 11% | 16% | | | | | | | | | |
| BigStock | 8% | 6% | 8% | 5% | 5% | | | | | | | | | |
| 123 | 4% | 5% | 5% | 8% | 3% | | | | | | | | | |
| FP | 3% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 4% | | | | | | | | | |
| CanStockPhoto | 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | | | | | | | | | |
| LO | 2% | 2% | 3% | 1% | 2% | | | | | | | | | |
| Scan | 1% | 1% | 0% | <1% | 1% | | | | | | | | | |
| CS | <1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | | | | | | | | | |
| Zymm | <1% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 2% | | | | | | | | | |
| rest | 4% | 1% | 3% | 1% | <1% | | | | | | | | | |
Overall 15% below February, which was my BME, but 2nd best in the past 6 months.
A big drop in IS (-40%), but then Feb was my BME with a very exceptional result - March was anyway my 2nd best in the past 6 months. DT was stable, StockXpert increased a lot (also 2nd best in the past 6 months), FT also increased (2nd best month ever - amazing given that I had no EL), BigStock was slightly down.
123RF is back to its average, after a very good BME in Feb, 2nd BME in FP again (behind only a month with an EL). One sale in Zymm making me about the same as seven in LO. Few sales in CanStockPhoto, no sales in CS for the 3rd month in a row. One sale in Scan and one in Albumo - that's it.
Regards,
Adelaide
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Third BME in a row. I blew away last month by $400, and all I did was upload about 40 or 50 new images.
Gotta love microstock...
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Here's mine:
IS 31%
DT 19%
SS 15%
SX 15%
FT 12%
BS 8%
It was an unusually good month for Dreamstime. I was surprised that both StockXpert and ShutterStock were tied this month.
Linda B
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SS 31% BME 1 EL (up 4% over previous BME in May)
IS 17% 1 referral bonus (down 44% from previous BME in March '07)
FT 15% BME 2 EL (up 34% from previous BME in October)
DT 10% (down 19% from previous BME in February)
StockXpert 9% (down 17% from previous BME in October)
BigStock 5% BME (up 9% from previous BME in March '07)
123RF 4% (down 31% from previous BME in November)
LO 2% (down 67% from previous BME in July...ouch)
Overall BME up 8% from previous BME in June.
Percentages calculated by earnings per work day instead of overall income for the month.
It was sure nice to have an overall BME again! Woohoo! It's been tough battling back from the substantial hit I took when IS changed their best match algorithm in March '07 and relatively stagnant sales across the board.
The upward trend I started experiencing in late Feb. at SS continued, but the Easter holiday slowed things down for the rest of the month. Ended March with a bang and had my highest sales weekend ever.
IS still hasn't shown any signs of recovering, but at least my sales are now fairly stable and predictable.
FT moved into 3rd place for the first time ever and was just a few dollars short of beating IS. Two ELs pushed it past DT, but even without them it would have been my BME as is.
DT dropped in part because I had an EL last month, but if I'd had one this month it would have only been a few dollars short of a BME.
StockXpert showed some improvement with credit vs. sub sales. This month will be interesting, because I opted out of sub sales on April 1 for a test. And, what's great to note is that on April 1 I smashed my highest sales day record at StockXpert by a 96% increase. The extra sales today should cover any losses from sub sales for the month.
BigStock is plugging right along. Steady and predictable as always. This BME month was helped by my first $3 commissions.
123RF went down in large part, because my one and only referral expired. :-( He's a vector artist and has excellent sales, so I took a pretty big hit by losing him.
LO was in the toilet, but still somehow managed to reach 2% of my overall sales (normally it's between 3-5%).
I'm also with Crestock and Canstock, but have quit uploading to both and will be pulling my portfolio once payout is reached. No sales at the midstocks or macros.
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SS: 47% - BME
IS: 37% - BME
DT: 9% - $1 off BME
FT: 4.6% - BME
BS: 1.8% - just won't take off.
Overall a BME by a long margin, although still just shy of the majic 1K mark... Maybe next month!
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Mellimage and Ldambies -
Are we still racing to $300? :) I'm going to be close in April. My projection is I will fall just short of it. Sales have been a bit disappointing, but earnings are way up due to EL's. Will let you know next week how it plays out.
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Yes sure it will be fun ;) This second half of April is slow for me too and don't know if I ll make $ 300 this month, I am at $ 211 as we speak. What about u ?
L
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Yes sure it will be fun ;) This second half of April is slow for me too and don't know if I ll make $ 300 this month, I am at $ 211 as we speak. What about u ?
L
Good job, it sounds like you are doing well considering how many people are reporting a downturn in April.
I'm sitting at $251 this morning. Unless I get a 4th EL this coming week, it isn't likely I will make $300. It's pretty fun to be pushing this close though! :)
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My immediate goal is to get into the over $100 a month - April looks like 50 so a bit to go, just got into SS midmonth so that will help going forward.
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Yes a EL will help certainly, finger crossed :) at 251 u should make the $300 I think by few $$$
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I am still in that race, but I am nowhere near accomplishing it. Despite my (modest) efforts of portfoliobuilding, the sales have not kept up, especially SS is slow this month, and FT. At this point I have barely made half of 300$. So only a miracle will bring me to the 300.