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It's my impression, from reading the monthly stats threads, that a lot of the BME's are Bronzes or below (what is that canister called, Ghost?). And more and more, the WME's are Diamonds. If this is true (and I realize that it's all anecdotal), it confirms what I've been thinking about a statement Kelly made about how the payouts to contributors keep increasing. He seemed to use that statement to justify that the RC targets were fair and that everybody was happy. But what he fails to understand, apparently, is that a statistic like that is cold comfort to the individual contributor whose income keeps dropping. It's just like when he said that we'd make 50% of our sales in the last quarter of the year. Again, that may be true for the company overall, but it doesn't take a math whiz to understand that it's not necessarily true for the individual.You know what I'm saying? So do you think that the growth of the company is due to a lot of newbies, but at the expense of those of us near the top?
I agree, Ideally they would want lots of small contributors but with highly commercial material.
Quote from: lagereek on April 02, 2011, 01:02 I agree, Ideally they would want lots of small contributors but with highly commercial material.That's not sustainable, because those contributors would accumulate RCs fast and would be motivated to produce more, so they would rapidly become high-ranked in the commission scale, costing the same as existing high-rankers.
...Looks split between very good months and very bad months with a few in the middle. I'm guessing the ones that had the WMEs lost a lot from a % drop this year.
As if I care.... I deleted every image over there as a member.Still a member... but... Been working as an intern for a company 2 weeks ago.Had to design a flyer/poster for the company.Had to use (comp) images from istock..... did it... but my final result delivered with images from Shutterstock.And................... accepted. Firm is now working with Shutterstock.Patrick.
March was my first full month with IS and I am completely disappointed. I had heard such raving reviews during the past year and was really looking forward to joining the team. I had my BME only because it was my first full month but I would not consider it worthy of a top tier agency. Dreamstime and Shutterstock both gave me very respectable earnings last month; Fotolia and IS should be dropped from the top tier.Oh, the numbers; grand total of $13.94 for March for IS. Granted I have a limited port online at IS but I was still expecting better results.At this rate, I will make diamond a couple hundred years after my death. My great great great grand children will be so proud of me; this is if my children have kids.
Quote from: visceralimage on April 03, 2011, 06:09March was my first full month with IS and I am completely disappointed. I had heard such raving reviews during the past year and was really looking forward to joining the team. I had my BME only because it was my first full month but I would not consider it worthy of a top tier agency. Dreamstime and Shutterstock both gave me very respectable earnings last month; Fotolia and IS should be dropped from the top tier.Oh, the numbers; grand total of $13.94 for March for IS. Granted I have a limited port online at IS but I was still expecting better results.At this rate, I will make diamond a couple hundred years after my death. My great great great grand children will be so proud of me; this is if my children have kids.thats better than me,i remember my first sale of iS was at the time after 2 month when I was accepted by them
Quote from: ShadySue on April 01, 2011, 13:41Quote from: traveler1116 on April 01, 2011, 12:34Overall it looks like the golds and diamonds did ok with many of them having BMEs.That's not what I'm reading on that thread.Just a quick look for me shows that these diamonds had BME: nicolesy, Alina555, Studioxil (not sure BME but seems to imply it), LeggNet, ilbusca, RichVintage, diamond saying very good: anouchka, sjlocke (I guess up 10% from last march is good), Talaj, adamkaz, Zemdega, nullplus (not very good but up from last march), inhauscreativegolds saying bme or very good month: dan_prat, AYImages, whitemay, ManuelVelasco, wdstock, MichaelUtech, Gannet77, antb, holgs, traveler1116Looks split between very good months and very bad months with a few in the middle. I'm guessing the ones that had the WMEs lost a lot from a % drop this year.
Quote from: traveler1116 on April 01, 2011, 12:34Overall it looks like the golds and diamonds did ok with many of them having BMEs.That's not what I'm reading on that thread.
Overall it looks like the golds and diamonds did ok with many of them having BMEs.
Quote from: visceralimage on April 03, 2011, 06:09March was my first full month with IS and I am completely disappointed. I had heard such raving reviews during the past year and was really looking forward to joining the team. I had my BME only because it was my first full month but I would not consider it worthy of a top tier agency. Dreamstime and Shutterstock both gave me very respectable earnings last month; Fotolia and IS should be dropped from the top tier.Oh, the numbers; grand total of $13.94 for March for IS. Granted I have a limited port online at IS but I was still expecting better results.At this rate, I will make diamond a couple hundred years after my death. My great great great grand children will be so proud of me; this is if my children have kids.Come on! What where you expecting?
some excited calculations of projections on the back of an envelope proved to be waaayy over-optimistic.
March was my first full month with IS and I am completely disappointed. I had heard such raving reviews during the past year and was really looking forward to joining the team. Oh, the numbers; grand total of $13.94 for March for IS. Granted I have a limited port online at IS but I was still expecting better results.