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« on: October 10, 2011, 07:51 »
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My projection for this month is -40%...
That is result for this first third of this October...

Is it bad just for me or..?
« Last Edit: October 10, 2011, 07:54 by borg »


lagereek

« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2011, 08:45 »
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Only IS, is badly down, really terrible. All the others. SS, is way up, followed by DT and FT, even some in the middle-tier, are up.

« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2011, 09:02 »
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IS and FT are down for me. On target for BME at SS and DT should be well up on 2010 too.

Slovenian

« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2011, 09:04 »
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123RF is doing great all of the rest is at least 25% down. Not encouraging at all, especially after a good summer and a great September

RT


« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2011, 09:09 »
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Average for me considering the circumstances. By the way I always considered March as the best month of the year.

« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2011, 09:32 »
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October is usually one of my best months but this year I am down on nearly all sites.

« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2011, 11:34 »
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Seriously, I'm disappointed in my IS sales for this time of year.

« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2011, 11:41 »
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Geez, Sean.
At least I know I am in good company... but if YOUR sales are off so much, what can the rest of us expect?

« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2011, 11:47 »
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There was a shake of the best match at the start of the month from what I can see. For the time being I'm on the better side of the current mix (but that will no doubt change any moment) and I'm finally seeing some results from uploading a lot in the last few months.

WarrenPrice

« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2011, 11:58 »
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This is good bad news.  My lack of sales was about to send me into panic mode.  Even what seems to be good sales at DT is mostly subscription.  Looking like my new camera for Christmas is in doubt.   :P

Slovenian

« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2011, 11:59 »
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Seriously, I'm disappointed in my IS sales for this time of year.


From what I can tell there's no consistency at IS. Graphs are getting more and ridiculous from month to month. Today's sales are decent though


« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2011, 12:53 »
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October is usually one of my best months but this year I am down on nearly all sites.
Same here. I was surprised; I expected October to start strong.

« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2011, 13:00 »
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Bad :-(

« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2011, 13:18 »
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When I get up (west coast US) Europe's business day is just about over and the East coast business day is just starting. In the past, I'd see a reasonable collection of sales at IS and lately, it's been much smaller or non-existent. This morning was non-existent. Right now I have one sale at IS - even for a Monday, I can't remember a weekday that bad (even given Canada's on holiday).

By contrast, when I looked at SS's monthly payments log for the last few months, more than half my monthly sales are from non-US sources. I know that there are other parts of the world buying (i.e. it's not just Europe and the US) but I thought from some past analyses the US, Canada and Western Europe formed a huge chunk of microstock business. At any rate, SS seems to be doing better with non-US sales than I realized - good for them.

« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2011, 13:28 »
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By contrast, when I looked at SS's monthly payments log for the last few months, more than half my monthly sales are from non-US sources. I know that there are other parts of the world buying (i.e. it's not just Europe and the US) but I thought from some past analyses the US, Canada and Western Europe formed a huge chunk of microstock business. At any rate, SS seems to be doing better with non-US sales than I realized - good for them.

Generally speaking less than 20% of my earnings at SS are from US sources. It depends on your port and subject matter I guess. Most of my sales appear to be from Europe with the rest scattered throughout the world.

Xalanx

« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2011, 13:50 »
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Seriously, I'm disappointed in my IS sales for this time of year.


From what I can tell there's no consistency at IS. Graphs are getting more and ridiculous from month to month. Today's sales are decent though




is this a real graph or are you giving the finger to IS?  ;D

« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2011, 14:00 »
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... At any rate, SS seems to be doing better with non-US sales than I realized - good for them.

Generally speaking less than 20% of my earnings at SS are from US sources. It depends on your port and subject matter I guess. Most of my sales appear to be from Europe with the rest scattered throughout the world.

For September my US sales were 43% of the total, but I probably have a larger US bias in subject matter given where I live :)


ShadySue

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« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2011, 14:25 »
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After a good-for-me June-Sept (though with some slow spells interspersed), my October has been truly dire. Only 2 dls today so far (20.24 BST). best match seems to have returned my former best sellers to where they were before the recent constant yoyoing, but it's not helping sales.
« Last Edit: October 10, 2011, 16:14 by ShadySue »

« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2011, 14:35 »
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Had an amazing run in the last few weeks of Sept and even the first several days of October, thanks in large part to the crazy run of ELs at SS.  (To anyone else who was experiencing these, did they also dry up for you a few days ago?  To me, it suggests there was some kind of campaign that ran from roughly Sept 22 - Oct 7.)

But for the past several days, I'm falling closer to August levels.   

Slovenian

« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2011, 15:30 »
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Seriously, I'm disappointed in my IS sales for this time of year.


From what I can tell there's no consistency at IS. Graphs are getting more and ridiculous from month to month. Today's sales are decent though




is this a real graph or are you giving the finger to IS?  ;D


The truth comes out eventualy :) (you can explain that to urself however u want/like :)

« Reply #20 on: October 10, 2011, 17:05 »
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Had an amazing run in the last few weeks of Sept and even the first several days of October, thanks in large part to the crazy run of ELs at SS.  (To anyone else who was experiencing these, did they also dry up for you a few days ago?  To me, it suggests there was some kind of campaign that ran from roughly Sept 22 - Oct 7.)
Yup. The EL blizzard stopped for me on Oct 5, after getting two ELs on Oct 4.

I did get one today though. Sure hope the ELs are starting up again. I'm amazed that no one has yet figured out exactly what caused this to happen to some of us. Maybe if we knew the cause, we could make it happen again?

lisafx

« Reply #21 on: October 10, 2011, 18:14 »
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Yeah, shockingly poor sales for October after an unusually good August and decent September.  Perhaps its because I rely heavily on Istock sales. 

My sales are tanked on IS, FT, and slightly below average at DT.  Only place that's hopping for me is SS. 

« Reply #22 on: October 10, 2011, 19:39 »
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I saw a big bump at IS last month but it's slowed down again.  SS is on the slow side of normal for me.  Activity at FT is a bit more than usual but it's all subs and as a lowly white level contributor that gets me a whopping $0.18 each - oh, I did have one XS credit sale - an underwhelming $0.14 on that one.  Fast becoming the "why do I bother" site for uploads - at this rate I'll hit the next level and still won't have my first cash-out.  DT, on the otherhand, has been a pleasant suprise this month - several larger-sized credit sales.  All the others are on the slow side of average. 

lagereek

« Reply #23 on: October 11, 2011, 00:35 »
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Well the fact that IS,  is down for just about everybody, exclusives alike is obvious. Take a long good look at the site and search. In three searches I have been monitoring 20 images which are on the very first pages. result =  total of 6 dls and thats in four days AND on first pages ( not my images), they were moved way down in preferance to these neewbie images.

IMO, at this moment the site and search looks so incredibly amateurish (content)  that any serious buyer/client, will simply move on to other sites and its pretty obvious which ones.

Further more, if this is supposed to be the happening of the year migration to TS ?  God help us!  what a shamble.

« Reply #24 on: October 11, 2011, 01:03 »
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Same here, very disappointing. Even considering that we already had 4 weekend days.


 

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