You've got some good images, but maybe try looking at your portfolio and shoot subjects that have generated the most sales - iterate on the ones that are most profitable.

Try to distance yourself from the competition by constantly raising the bar of your photography - look at advertising images for inspiration.

Ask yourself - how can I make this image stand out (in a good way) to a buyer?

Hope this helps!

IMHO getting how-to-succed-in-microstock advice from an iS exclusive is like requesting cruise ship recommendations from a passenger on the Titanic. 

:-) Im watching what happens like everyone else....

The site looks like the millions of other get rich quick scheme sites.  I think you should scrap it and make something that looks more professional that will make people think about paying you for professional advice.  But I do wonder why you have the need to do this at all?  Have earnings become that bad with istock?  Isn't it more fun to produce your own images than tell other people how to do it so that they can become your competitors and take away some of your earnings?

Perhaps you think that the get rich quick website will attract the kind of person that will part with their money but will soon realise its not easy to make good money and will give up?  That might make sense.

Thanks! Good to know this. I hear what you are saying, and believe it or not, was the opposite of what I intended! I wanted to it motivate people and get them interested but definitely make it sound like it's a make $million in 2 minutes with no effort.

Apologies on the spam - that was me pressing the wrong button by mistake. It wasn't even a formatted email!!

Thanks a lot for these comments, Im going to have a redesign/rethink....as someone said once...Ill be back!

Hi guys

Many thanks for the replies

@ruigsantos - thanks. I did consider whether to add in images, but deliberately just put a link to my portfolio rather than use images, so people would go and look. I hear you though, It may be stronger with images in there.

@goober - yes, no BS. If I didn't I would not feel like I had anything new to offer in an ebook/training

@luissantos84 - The simple answer is that if I can help other photographers that Im more than willing to share via training. Ive got the kind of mind that needs to do lots of things :-)

Im a full time contributor at istock http://www.istockphoto.com/peepo

Im thinking of putting together some tutorials on image compositing and retouching if people are interested.

Would anyone be interested in learning how to create images like this:

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21868791-baseball-player.php?st=fa525a8
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-22436021-paris-lovers.php?st=fa525a8
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-20222165-american-football-action.php?st=fa525a8

Why do I feel like I just downloaded a infomercial by don lepre

haha! I hope I don't end up the same :-)

Im open to suggestions/comments - please just let me know if you think the style is off-putting, and let me know if there is anything else you want to know about - Im more than happy to put together a video/podcast/ebook on topics that are of interest

Thanks for your comments guys and for taking the time to download and read the book. First off, Im a real microstocker and have been shooting full time for the last 3 years and yes ALL the claims that I have made are absolutely true. Im not trying to scam anyone or get their credit card details, although feel free to send me money :-)

The reason for the email address is in absolutely honesty, yes I am trying to build an email list, so that I can provide and offer more photography and microstock related content, much of it for FREE. ALL related to microstock and photography and also stuff that will be useful and helpful to others. If you don't want/need this, then feel free to put in a fake email, absolutely no problem at all.

But, why would I do that, what's in it for me? I remember when I started out and those times I emailed established photographers and I never got any help or advice from people that already made it. Also photographers tend to closely guard their "secrets" and not be that collaborative, so Id like to do a little bit to change that.

Please do let me know what you'd like to know more about and to those that did put a valid email address in, Id be more than happy to share anything to do with microstock, photoshop, techniques - just let me know what you would like!

@rckirk - Ill possibly produce some more stuff that is not free, but if you don't want this, please do not buy! Don't take what I say at face value, please test it yourself. Everything free will be totally self contained and you are very welcome to take it and use it to help you and your photography grow. I wish you all the best

Dont get too hung up on RPI - I never use it at all myself as I don't think it's useful to YOU, but just means people can compare their portfolios to others.

If I shoot 100 images, and upload them all, but only 10 start to make money, so $10, my RPI is $10/100 = $0.1

but what if I'd only decided to upload 10, and these made $2, then my RPI would be: $2/10 = $0.2 (2 x the RPI)

or, how about I then delete the 90 images that are not selling, then my RPI is $10/10 = $1

NOTE: In every case, you have not taken into account if you are making money or not from this shoot, so for that reason Id rather use ROI for the shoot.

If this shoot costs me $500 in model and prop fees, and I've made $10, then Im still $490 out of pocket. I would monitor these images, to see if (and how fast) I get a return from it. Then I know which shoots are most profitable..

Hope this helps...