Word-Thanks so much for sharing your portfolios and telling me what has sold there.  I think I have a gameplan now. I really enjoyed looking at your travel photos especially.
I love lighthouses and I have a couple more on my bucket list after looking at your photos!

Light-I think I've decided on sending one or two best-of-the-bunch from every batch to just Alamy.  I'm going to try that for about a year and see how it works out.

CS-I've got to weed out some micros.  This uploading 10-20 every night to 8 different micros has got to stop.  It's starting to resemble a certain 4-letter word I said I was going to avoid at all costs when I retired. 

Thanks Light, CS, Word.  You guys are great!

Thanks, Light!
I had already figured out from some MSG posts about Alamy that "micro" is a 4-letter word over there. 
Uncommon travel photos might be my best bet.  You wouldn't believe some of the places we park our "house" and boondock.

So you have 1200 on the micros and Alamy.  Do you think that having those files on the micros hurts your Alamy sales of them at all?
Or is it generally two different groups of buyers maybe?  I'm thinking there is no way I'd pay $50 for a photo at Alamy when I could get the exact same thing on SS for $10.  But then again, I'm a tightwad.

Thanks so much for the help.  It's tough to see what sells there just from their website.

I just got accepted (2nd try...I think I resaved one to jpg one too may times on the 1st batch).

For those of you that sell photos on Alamy and microstock:
Do you upload the same photos to all of them?  Do you sell more on Alamy if you "reserve" a few of your best files for them?
Is the editorial stuff worth fooling with?  How about travel photography?
I must admit, I'm liking their pricing structure and commission.
I'd much rather sell a photo once a month for 30 dollars....um, I mean pounds, than sell it 50 times for 38 cents. I don't want something that would sell on the micros to sit there gathering dust on the Alamy shelf either.
Thanks for any insight! (Sue, are you there?)
Sorry for all the questions.  I see a "best of" search button, but not sure if that translates to "selling like hotcakes"?

Tick, have you read some of that stuff they post on the IS forum???  Our sales are going down like the Titanic (We Luv IS!). They screwed us over with that Getty deal (We luv IS anyway!).  Sean got the boot (Oh, they'd never do that to US....We Luv IS!)
Yup, pet rats.
Sorry, kinda off-topic.

If my sales are any indication of the general market, then it seems that SS has taken the buyers away from IS.  My sales at SS are up 300% in Feb 2013 vs Feb 2012.  In contrast, my sales are down 90% at IS from Feb 2012 to Feb 2013. And it continues to get worse, I have had ONE ten cent sale on IS in the past 5 weeks.
Both portfolios have doubled in size since last February. I am at the point right now of trying to figure out if it is still worth my time to upload anything new at IS.  I am over halfway to a payout and I need new FX lenses for my D800!

I sent them a message from the "delete your account" page.  My account was totally gone within 14 hours without even a thank-you-very-much for that free 50 cents they kept.   

That was my first sale since Feb 3, Vann.  At this rate, I'm really looking forward to my projected payout in June 2018.  Only $40 to go, WooHoo!

Anybody ever have one that low?  It shows on my stat page as a blue file purchase, not partner program.  The XS is $2.00 and my huge cut of that is 15%. It has 75 downloads, so I don't think it would be in any kind of "bargain bin".  Anybody know what this could be? Thanks for any insight!