My files are still visible at DPC after opting out but if you click to open up, nothing happens - or it reverts to the previously opened image.

It took  about 3 days for my port to be opted out

Smashing.

5% down on March 14 BME, largely due to a miserable Easter period. Somewhat chafing is the fact FT produced a BME. Still improving massively YOY though....and that's all the tax wallahs care about.

This time in Detective order:

SS - Sherlock Holmes
IS,FT - Inspector Morse
BS,DT - Columbo
123, DP - Inspector Clouseau
Others - Nancy Drew on Crack

I enjoyed my BME in March. I missed it in April by a miserable 3% - However, given the absence of EL's  combined with a truly rotten Easter weekend, the final haul was more than satisfactory.

Unsurprisingly, one of the few operations IS has managed to run smoothly with a capital schmoo. The mail arrives.....the money disappears.

But I am grudgingly grateful for the staggered clawback.

Continued growth for me or stable development if you like. I find it amusing to talk of a golden age in a ten year old business but there you go. No doubt some were earning more money back then but there are probably more earning even higher returns now.

As with any business, if you can adapt to changing demand and are able to step out of your comfort zone at the drop of a hat, you can still earn a pretty penny....the caveat being that even the most adroit and gifted don't make it without a sprinkling from the Luck Fairy - whose name is Gwendoline by the way.

ETA: Already written numerous times about emerging markets, new platforms and technologies etc that have me convinced this business will grow for years to come. We can expect casualties along the way of course but that is nothing new.

There are various ways and third party created tools people can find you with if you research it. Mostly via Hash Tags or keywords. So you might write a tweet and add a hash tag # to words e.g. #marketing or if you were tweeting about your novel use hash tags like #horror or #zombies.

Twitter also uses internal algorithms to make you known to other tweeters who use or search for similar #tags or keywords. 

On another note, I looked up my best selling image on a couple of websites where the article it was used to illustrate had been tweeted over 3k times and face booked over 5k times so that image would have been seen by a potentially very large audience, some of whom I'm sure would have thought it might make a very nice illustration for their own blog piece or whatever.

In short, social media does help your sales - although it might not necessarily be your own social media.

ETA - Yes, if you tweet, whoever is following will receive that tweet - but whether they read it or not is another thing. I would say 99% of my business income is still generated through face to face networking and word of mouth recommendations....I only have a theory that SM generates income for microstock and have no idea how to measure for success.

If I were being a very fussy reviewer it would be because of over exposure on her arm, both on the red jacket and her skin, also the vignette in the corners as mentioned previously.

A lot worse gets through, as we all know.

Bumper month so far and a possible BME, for which I might usually perform a cartwheel or two - however, given their recent ineptitude I'm always wondering if they've got their sums wrong again.

A+ for their work if the sales are pukka, a big fat F otherwise.

Personally, I'd write to the agencies and get their official guidelines for this before uploading.

One or two things:

1) Shooting sliced up kiwi fruit on white
2) Inviting my hot girlfriend along to see what it is I do
    (Hot girlfriend: "Also the dumbest thing I've ever done")
3) Trying to get Flash Harry the cat to pose in a toy car. Dogs will but cats are not so stupid.
4) Waiting for a goldfish to leap from one bowl of water to another
5) Doing a whisky product shot and thinking a couple of quick slurps before I started was a great idea

Michael - why don't you squeeze yourself into a cheerleaders uniform, grab some pom poms and practice those high kicks?

Now there's a gggggrrreat idea for a snap. Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah!