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Site Related / Re: What does it mean?
« on: February 17, 2008, 18:01 »
Go figure you come out with this just as I transfered everything out of my paypal account. Will just have to wait until another payout.

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Site Related / Re: What does it mean?« on: February 17, 2008, 18:01 »
Go figure you come out with this just as I transfered everything out of my paypal account. Will just have to wait until another payout.
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Off Topic / Re: gumgum.com« on: February 17, 2008, 10:51 »Still in its infancy, but kindof interesting. I guess its for mainly editorial photos (although they do have shots of flowers and brides). It's a viral type of photo licensing. Where do you see 4 years old? It says their private policy and all the things on the blog were posted just a week ago. 403
Adobe Stock / Re: Slow slow sales @ Fotolia« on: February 15, 2008, 16:19 »I am done with FT. 600 pictures no sales. When my 6 month are up at DT I am going IS exclusive. The worst outfit of all the micros. I have a hard time believing that... Sales are picking up quite a bit for me lately. I get about 2-3 sales per day with 310 files. 404
LuckyOliver.com / Re: LuckyOliver's New Payout Structure« on: February 12, 2008, 14:35 »
Took awhile, but I'm glad I waited it out instead of buying other people's images with the earnings I had made. Sales have picked up for me a little this month too.
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Portfolio Size of Microstockgroup users on IStock« on: February 11, 2008, 14:54 »406
iStockPhoto.com / Re: only 20% on Istock?« on: February 10, 2008, 14:32 »I have 40 files at Istockphoto. I make $45+ a month there. At that rate, 1,000 photos would be $1125 a month.You must be getting a lot of extended licenses. I see 102 downloads in in the 12 months. I started uploading to IS 4 months ago and average around $1.50/download. Most of my sales come from my illustrations which tend to be downloaded at larger sizes. Not to mention the recent price increase, which has been getting me lots of $2-4 L and XL downloads. I have not gotten a single extended license from IS though. 407
iStockPhoto.com / Re: only 20% on Istock?« on: February 10, 2008, 11:30 »With 1000 good Photos i make more than 1000.- $ every month at macrostocks like Alamy. And i get 65% there... Here is something wrong.... I have 40 files at Istockphoto. I make $45+ a month there. At that rate, 1,000 photos would be $1125 a month. ![]() 408
StockXpert.com / Re: How are peeps doing at StockXpert?« on: February 10, 2008, 02:07 »
The last time I uploaded, which was only a couple days ago, it took less than 24 hours for them to get reviewed. (and approved)
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General Stock Discussion / Re: iofoto: year 1 report« on: February 09, 2008, 11:52 »
Great post. If you have any other graphics that show the trends at specific sites that would also be very interesting.
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StockXpert.com / Re: How are peeps doing at StockXpert?« on: February 08, 2008, 19:37 »
It came in 3rd for me last month, down from 2nd. Sales are slowing it seems. Dreamstime on the other hand is really picking up. So is Fotolia and Istock.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: January 2008 Earnings Poll« on: February 04, 2008, 16:58 »
Earnings up 17% over last month. Still in the $250-$500 bracket though.
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Computer Hardware / Re: What monitor type you're using« on: February 03, 2008, 20:21 »
Dell 15' widescreen laptop. It works.
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Crestock.com / Re: Any downloads?« on: February 03, 2008, 15:30 »
I made $14 in January with 167 files.
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Featurepics.com / Re: Anyone selling at Featurepics?« on: February 02, 2008, 23:28 »
$12 (8.40) sale today. Nice start to the new month.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Which site offers the best referral program?« on: February 01, 2008, 15:30 »
Shutterstock without a doubt. $145 from only 2 referrals.
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General - Top Sites / Re: January 2008 earnings breakdown« on: February 01, 2008, 06:52 »
SS - 38% (up)
IS - 14% (up) DT - 14% BME (up) StockXpert - 12% (down) FT - 9% (up) CS - 7% BME (way up, like 300%) BigStock - 5% BME (up) Not Included due to poor sales: LuckyOliver, Featurepics, Canstockphoto, & Snapvillage. 417
Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia tightening up standards a bit?« on: January 31, 2008, 18:40 »
I was about 90-95% acceptance rate on FT until today, all 15 rejected for Type of Photograph. Nearly all were approved on SS/IS/StockXpert/DT. Don't have much motivation to upload there since the income is low and uploading is a bit of a pain. Maybe the price increase will help motivate me.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Pricing...« on: January 31, 2008, 18:05 »Given that SS has raised the commission to contributors by 5 cents the last few years, it will probably be the same again. They do seem to be losing some customers to DT and StockXpert, so they will have to come up with something to keep the buyers and contributors happy. I wish they would have pay per download on their main site. Just having subscriptions doesn't seem like the best way to make the most money from our images. I agree that they should have some sort of pay-per download on their main site. Crestock pulls it off nicely with a simple $5 small $10 medium $15 large. Sure, it's not very common to get one of those downloads, but they are a nice boost, even at the 20% commission that Crestock gives. I suggested this on SS forums but was shot down by pretty much everyone. ![]() 420
General Stock Discussion / Re: Do you postprocess all photos or not?« on: January 27, 2008, 18:57 »
I post-process everything. It makes a world of difference in most cases.
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Crestock.com / Re: Any downloads?« on: January 27, 2008, 12:00 »
24 downloads so far this month. $9.75. Average of about .40c per download.
Thats with 167 files. Huge increase over November and December. Looks like their marketing is paying off. ![]() 422
General Stock Discussion / Re: Most likely to go under« on: January 27, 2008, 10:59 »
CanStockPhoto/LO/Alumo/ maybe even SnapVillage all seem like a fish out of water at the moment. (for me at least). Crestock on the other hand is out performing Bigstockphoto for me this month. I don't see them dying anytime soon.
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Dreamstime.com / Re: Level 2 images only need 10 downloads« on: January 17, 2008, 00:51 »
Old news. But like others here, my earnings have really gone up a lot at DT this month. Could possibly take 2nd away from StockXpert, which hasn't been doing so good.
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Dreamstime.com / Re: What keyword was used to download an image at DT« on: January 09, 2008, 16:22 »
Very interesting and useful feature from Dreamstime. I hope other agencies follow their footsteps.
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Site Related / Re: StockXpert nightmare« on: January 06, 2008, 14:23 »
I have had no real problems with StockXpert reviews. Hell they even accepted some of my sunset pictures. I thought for sure those were going to get the "thanks, but we're not looking for such images at this time" rejection. I suppose you could always just resubmit ones that you think have been rejected in error.
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