Author Topic: How's Your Month Shaping Up? (Read 20294 times)

charlesknox · « **Reply #75 on:** November 20, 2008, 21:35 »

Odd thing i noticed. My sales pick up a lot more in the second half of the month.... weird

Graffoto · « **Reply #76 on:** November 20, 2008, 22:20 »

Quote from: charlesknox on November 20, 2008, 21:35

Odd thing i noticed. My sales pick up a lot more in the second half of the month.... weird

I have noticed the same thing....but I think there is a reason for it.
Someone once mentioned here that designers often submit a project for review early in the month, using comps.
Once it is approved. they go ahead and purchase the images needed to finish the project by the end of the month.

charlesknox · « **Reply #77 on:** November 20, 2008, 22:33 »

Hmm... makes total sense! I was seriously freaking out when i saw my stats this month but It's slowly waking up certainly not a BME but its alive lol

bittersweet · « **Reply #78 on:** November 20, 2008, 22:54 »

They have also been tweaking the heck out of the best match algorithm. Who knows where any of us will end up.

I hope things pick up for those who are down.

diego_cervo · « **Reply #79 on:** November 21, 2008, 02:03 »

no comment.....my heart stops beating when I look at stats....

perkmeup · « **Reply #80 on:** November 21, 2008, 03:51 »

Just to show you how bad IS is getting on downloads........yesterday, I made more on Big Stock than I did on IS

.....and I'm a diamond on IS...... If your not exclusive....your photos get lost in the great IS Abiss...

fotografer · « **Reply #81 on:** November 21, 2008, 04:40 »

So far this month I have made 3x more on FT than IS and 2X more on SS.
I expected to reach diamond this summer but sales have been so bad this year that it seems almost impossible to get there now.
I rarely get a refusal at any site as I'm picky about what I upload but IS always seem to find something in just about every batch to refuse.
I'm so dissapointed in IS as it was my first site and always used to be my favourite.

CofkoCof · « **Reply #82 on:** November 21, 2008, 04:56 »

Quote from: charlesknox on November 20, 2008, 21:35

Odd thing i noticed. My sales pick up a lot more in the second half of the month.... weird

Same here, had a BDE this week. I think best match is a bit better now, at least for the new files. They moved quite a few places up in my portfolio (vector still stuck at the back though).

Quote from: fotografer on November 21, 2008, 04:40

I rarely get a refusal at any site as I'm picky about what I upload but IS always seem to find something in just about every batch to refuse.
I'm so dissapointed in IS as it was my first site and always used to be my favourite.

I'm getting strange rejections also, especially "not suitable for stock" on my renders. It looks like some people can submit a simple 3d dollar sign, but I have to put some other details (like a person holding it) to get the image trough.