Clarification.

1. I upload mostly nature which is not best selling stuff on microstock.
2. I upload a lot, roughly 1000 photos per month
3. Average acceptance rate is around 50% across all websites. SS is around 30%
4. Last month I reached 1000 photos mark. Also I got 1000 DL in less than 3 months.
5. SS is the only site with consist return growing from month to month so far.

I run out of ideas. Help, I am loosing my reputation here...

I am not sure I got this bonus email right. They are going to give away images for 20 cents and all proceeds will go to photographers???

"Thus far in 2008, we've seen 123RF sales increasing steadily however, things can be improved even further and we'd like to thank each and everyone one of you for being there, contributing and sharing the (at times) bumpy ride with us.

For the month of July 08, we want to inject a significant mid year bonus into 123RF's Contributor community. We want to try something new with our Advertising and Promotion budget - we intend to carve out allocate a significant part of our monthly A&P and put that sum into 123RF as several hundred thousand BONUS credits.

We shall open and aggressively explore new markets and new methods of marketing 123RF's product beginning July 2008. Our Account Managers will be tasked to approach highly targetted customers and give away FREE welcome trial packs to these customers. We hope that this will give them first hand experience, that 123RF is a great source for stunning and compelling imagery and they can rely on our Contributor's content for all their creative projects as well.

We hope that this marketing exercise will increase the conversion rate of trial customers to purchasing customers and we also reward our contributors at the same time! Where by, creating a win-win-win outcome for all parties - you as the contributor gets the bonus, our potential customers gets to have a working test drive of 123RF and also ourselves as we create value in what we offer to would be customers and strategic partners.

With that said, various welcome packs will be given out at the rate of $0.20 per download credit, please remember that our clients who are using the trial pack did not pay a single cent for these packs but rather it's a result of our A&P budget allocation. Therefore, we hope to have your support and understanding if you see downloads netting you $0.20 per credit download in July 08 and subsequent months that follow.

We thank you for your continuous support and if this is proven to be a workable marketing technique, we may have more 123RF Contributor Bonus Months in the future. We wish good sales to everyone in our contributor community.

Congratulations on the bonus, you all deserve it!"

I think everything would pay later and I almost finished going thru my old photos. That's why it looks like spend lots of time trying to upload thousands of photos in month :-) And when I search for myself on Google it's still not enough entries to generate any demand :-)

I actually did not have time to make photos recently which is good in situation when my wife is expecting a baby. I need to stay close to hospital ;-)

As little as possible, mostly directly in LR. These are mostly my travel and nature photos so I do horizon leveling if needed, sometimes fill light and of course most time consuming dust removal. If shot RAW I might change white balance.

I think it's still to little data collected to make any estimates but so far it's growing very slowly on most sites. Once again most of downloads came from SS. It's almost 90% now. There is no much downloads from others.

SS      87.34%
StockXpert      5.20%
123RF   4.83%
DT      2.11%
IS      0.53%
FP      0.00%

Overall is almost 40% higher than in previous month. Most improvement comes from StockXpert.

I think I got en enough data to show which site are hardest to put photos in (number of photos accepted in a month):
FP      1464
123RF   1120
StockXpert      624
SS      528
DT      283
BS      58
IS      18

I also upload to CS, BS and FT but it seems like these site would shortly fall out from my upload script. FT got very bad UI for handling large number of photos plus only 5 DL in 3 months. CS got one of the best user experiences but no single DL in 3 months. BS got ridiculously slow reviews, upload limits and 1 DL in 3 months.

I am almost there I need 10 more :-)

If yes, is there any universal MR form so I do not have to keep MR for each agency?

After 7 attempts :-)

I probably stop uploading there cause they probably want only shots of business people shaking hands and isolated object like somebody suggested :-)

I'd rather put effort on uploading to SS when I am close to 1000 downloads in 3 months. Also I hope to be accepted at Alamy.

I did not upload 500 at once. I was adding for couple days batches of around 100 photos then suddenly everything was reviewed in one hour. I am not sure how queue is working but I keep adding daily so I was wondering why everything was treated like one big batch?

What if he could convert fans to referred photographers?

After 3 months of doing it my income is less than 1% of what my day job gives and I spend way too much time going thru my old photos so it's not even paying for my work :-) Once I am done with my old photos it should be more acceptable.