It's funny how one man's trash is another man's gold. Some talk of great sales at DP, others at Bigstock and there's always someone who's having a different experience. I'd love to know what themes/concepts are in your portfolio! Do you know if the same buyer keeps coming to you?

Quote from: irene on April 29, 2010, 17:44

It's funny how one man's trash is another man's gold. Some talk of great sales at DP, others at Bigstock and there's always someone who's having a different experience. I'd love to know what themes/concepts are in your portfolio! Do you know if the same buyer keeps coming to you?

I cannot really tell what is so specific about my stuff that makes is get rejected from IS and thrives on SS. When I started with microstock I was mostly uploading nature and travel shots I accumulated on my hard drives in past years. Recently my travel times are limited so I have to learn how to shoot indoors. Maybe when I learn that I will start doing better at IS :-)

Me too, nature and travel ... but, I am new at SS and probably still going thru the "Honeymoon period." 
Lately, I am shooting objects and indoor setups. 

Mela... do you still upload on a regular basis?  How regular?

It's funny how one man's trash is another man's gold. Some talk of great sales at DP, others at Bigstock and there's always someone who's having a different experience.

Exactly. SS for me has pretty much fallen off a cliff. I've been with them since 2006, and this will be without a doubt my worst month there since I started uploading. I upload on a regular basis (every week), but that isn't helping. SS is dying for me and there doesn't seem like there is anything I can do about it.

However...BS and DT are on fire for me. I'm doing very well at both of those places lately - but some others are not.

Exactly. SS for me has pretty much fallen off a cliff. I've been with them since 2006, and this will be without a doubt my worst month there since I started uploading. I upload on a regular basis (every week), but that isn't helping. SS is dying for me and there doesn't seem like there is anything I can do about it.

However...BS and DT are on fire for me. I'm doing very well at both of those places lately - but some others are not.

I started in 2007 and first few months it was constant growth until I reached next canister then it start falling down. My guess it was mostly because at the same time we got recession. I kept uploading cause still it was 10x more than any other agency. Now I am 2-3 months away from another upgrade :-) DT was very very slow at the beginning but it was actually growing until this year. BS cheated on me first. I uploaded images without IPTC. When I realized how difficult it's is to edit them online I asked support to delete around 1000 images. Nobody warned me that it would be count as rejected images so since that time I cannot recover from my low acceptance rate and I stopped uploading there. I hope this expire some day :-)