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Woohoo... first real SymbioStock sale.

Started by daveh900, April 22, 2013, 01:18

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daveh900

Just had sale #2! 

Almost time to quit the day job.  ;)


Leo Blanchette

Wow! Now you do realize having your mother buy one to stick on the fridge does not count right?

J/K. Good job.

If your feeling generous can you let us know how the image is performing in search? Or how your site in general has done? Also your images are very iconic/useful so I don't think the theme is 100% of the success either.

daveh900

Quote from: Leo on May 01, 2013, 22:27
Wow! Now you do realize having your mother buy one to stick on the fridge does not count right?

J/K. Good job.

If your feeling generous can you let us know how the image is performing in search? Or how your site in general has done? Also your images are very iconic/useful so I don't think the theme is 100% of the success either.

The image sold earlier today is actually one of my best selling sets of "stamps" on other sites. It has been indexed by Google for a couple years. For my SY site, I reconfigured the layout and colors enough that Google sees it as a different image. It currently sits right beside the previous version at Shutterstock when doing a Google image search.

Overall traffic from Google is getting better all the time. Seems most of my images are now indexed.

jareso

That is great news to hear!
I wish you daveh900 (and everyone else of course) much more of sales like this!
My personal portfolio website & social accounts:
www.jareso.com | Facebook | Twitter | Google+

Jeffrey

Wow, encouraging.

Let more financial blessings come!

Travelling-light

Another one for the encouragement department - just had our first sale.

http://www.picturemojo.co.nz/image/auckland-skyline-new-zealand-twilight-dramatic-sky/ went for a whole US$2.50!

Probably a Google image search, and the results there are very encouraging, ranking is a lot better than it was with our Photoshelter site.

Looks like Leo hit on the right approach with the network backlinks - great work!

Leo Blanchette

Finally, a spammy backlink directory web-ring reciprocal connection approach that is white-hat and welcome! :D


Leo Blanchette

This morning I woke up to this sale being in my in-box:

http://www.clipartillustrations.com/image/factory-farm-cow-rbgh-fueled-2/

Large - $20.

My first thought was "This one??" I never sell this one.


daveh900

Had two sales (3 files) today within 3 minutes of each other. I have the Paypal app on my phone with instant notifications, it's nice to see the cash roll in!  ;D

It's been a great month, I have surpassed by best month ever at Dreamstime with my SY revenue.

THP Creative

Quote from: daveh900 on May 29, 2013, 02:30
Had two sales (3 files) today within 3 minutes of each other. I have the Paypal app on my phone with instant notifications, it's nice to see the cash roll in!  ;D

It's been a great month, I have surpassed by best month ever at Dreamstime with my SY revenue.

Very well done! Congrats!
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plrang

Congrats! And my site runs still without the PP enabled... but soooon

Jeffrey

Well done guys, still waiting for my first sale.

Ron

Good stuff Leo, Dave and Travelling Light. That does give a man hope.

Leo Blanchette

I won't post any more sales after this (unless maybe I get a big one) but here's another (odd) sale - http://www.clipartillustrations.com/image/orange-http-www-globe/


Christos Georghiou

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Hi guys, I thought I would jump in and say a big thank you to Leo for getting this off the ground!

For those of you that don't know I did some beta testing for Leo on a super early version of what has turned into Symbiostock, my first sale was way back in March 2012. My site atstockillustartion.com is still running on that much cruder version of the software, last month it still made me more than Bigstockphoto, Yaymicro, Graphiclefovers, Vectorstock or any of the other small sites. That was with no promotion at all and without the new networking features, just uploading like on any of the agency sites.

I have just hired Leo to get me up to date with latest version and can't wait to see the results!

Christos

License my stock illustrations direct: http://www.atstockillustration.com

THP Creative

Thanks for sharing Christos! Great to hear how well it's working for you.

Some good news of my own - had my first sale on my site yesterday, $11 medium image. Woo!!
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pling

thanks for sharing seeing the good news is giving me hope :)
Symbiostock site: http://plingstock.com

cathyslife

I am so glad to hear people are starting to get sales. I hope people will continue to report them here...gives a good indication of the progress.
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pling

..this is real! I'm so excited can't wait to share it here, my first sale 2 images at price $2.50




Thank you Leo, thank you Symbiostock member   :)
Symbiostock site: http://plingstock.com

THP Creative

Congrats pling! Great feeling isn't it!? :)
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pling

Quote from: Microstock Man on June 13, 2013, 06:50
Congrats pling! Great feeling isn't it!? :)

Yes the feeling is like dream come true! very excited  :D
Symbiostock site: http://plingstock.com

Leo Blanchette

#47
Thats awesome. Good work btw! I love seeing people getting sales off of this thing!


Ron

I noticed its illustrations that get bought... now all we need is the first photograph sale !  :D

Congrats Pilens !!

THP Creative

Quote from: Ron on June 13, 2013, 11:00
I noticed its illustrations that get bought... now all we need is the first photograph sale !  :D

Congrats Pilens !!

Already done. Sold my first photo last weekend :)
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