I sell pretty well on DT so much so that they have often been my number one in earnings although not so much in the last year.  I find that it takes ages for an image to take off but once it does then it stays near the top of the searches.

You went from 100dls a month to 40 in half a month. Thats not destroying a years work imo, but a 20% drop, and it might pick up in the second half of may. With 300 images, a drop is much more in spikes as the effect of a few less sales is amplified. Just keep working away and your bottom line will go up.

He said that he expects to finish the month with 40 and only because the beginning of the month was good so it is a much bigger drop.

Do a test and try it both ways.  Upload them so that only you can see them.

I'm having a normal to good month at SS.

I often get things like that happen at different agencies but unless it is a huge amount of money they don't usually either notice or go to the bother of claiming a few dollars back.

. As they expressed frustration at the speed of the site I suggested they tried SS instead telling them not only how much faster and accurate the SS search was likely to be but also how IS paid me only 18% of sales.

I honestly don't get the sense of sending clients to one of the sites with the lowest rpd.   I would always send them to DT where my rpd is consistently 3 or 4 times more.

Quote from: fotografer on May 11, 2013, 01:58

I've shot many images inside people's homes and never been asked for a PR by any agency.

Do you spend a lot of time moving everything out of the way and putting in generic furnishings/electonics/carpets/curtains etc, or do you go out of your way to find interiors which have none of these things?
I mean, iS famously rejected an image where, if you zoomed in to 400%, with the eye of faith you could 'just' make out YKK on the zip of someone who wasn't themselves even filling the frame.
Obviously, you'd remove all logos etc, but just looking around my house, which is not 'designer' furnished, I'm still sure the furnishings, electronics etc would be easily recognisable to the manufacturer, much more so than blurry background people who need MRs in case they can 'recognise themselves in context'.
Even thinking of bookcases - you'd either have to change all the book spines or show empty bookcases and shelves. Looking at mine, I remember that all my wooden furniture was made by a mid-market company which nevertheless has a special corner device which they featured a lot in their advertising so maybe is registered.

I tend to use parts of the home that are generic, sofas, dining table etc.  I have photoshopped one of my photos into  pictures or photos in frames a couple of times.

It took me ages to work out how to upload the releases to photodune but now that I have worked it out I prefer the system to most sites way of doing it.   No having to go back in and attatch releases individually.  It can be a real pain when you have a group model session where they don't all appear in every photo and this system saves a lot of work in that type of session.

Best month for over a year.  BME -  SS, Dep, BS, 123rf.  Fotolia best month since April 2011,

I had a BME  due to a lot of ELs that I had one day this month.  If you take away the ELs it was an average to good month.   RPD is down.

For me the single most annoying thing is... Dreamstime.

Really, I really like that site.

A little note: I have got a -1 to one of my previous post.

I completely accept when somebody put a negative vote to my comments.
As we are different and we can have different or opposite points of view I think that is is normal, but I would be very more happy if these people will give the reasons why, and don't hide as cowards behind anonymity.

Thank you for understanding

(Now put all the minus that you want here )

I can't see anything wrong with that post. Maybe they meant to put a + and pressed the wrong button.