Louis, with your earnings at the top and middle tiers, do you really need that extra dollar a month?

How many agencies are you with now, 30? My goal is to even trim down on the agencies supplied, keep the best performers and lose the others.

To me it seems that those who fare best in microstock are the ones who are more exclusive to one agency (even some on SS) or only provide a few agencies like top and/or middle tiers.
Yuri also spreads his work to all existing micro and macro agencies but he's way out of our league isn't he. Quality, Quantity and a crew to do most of his work, now that's worth it.

Wim

I agree but like I have said if I have time left and not producing new pictures I dont see a negative point, I might not be the best example but I have made 70$ at AYCS not saying it will continue once it haven�t maybe will take 1 year.. but again it was "more worth" than Crestock per example.. everybody has their work/uploadflow.. they pay 75% sometimes of 0 sales I know but I believe we should help them out..

There were plenty of sales during their hunt for contributors drive. The sales came in thick and fast, for pretty much everyone who posted on this forum announcing they started uploading there, what a coincidence. There's no better way for contributors to take notice of an agency than other contributors shouting 'SALES'. They also give high commissions, which is great, another enticer. But I can't see an agency being able to have serious growth giving that much. For long term growth they would need more and where would they get more, from those enticed maybe? Remember the order, charm/entice, get the images, cut commissions, change the rules, ignore your emails blah blah blah, ok not every agency, but certainly quite a few. And when/if the day comes those singing praises about good commissions now, will end up feeling betrayed, as usual. Those saying they had sales now will be saying where did all the sales go. I just think agencies should start as they mean to go on, we only get to find out who they are a few years down the road. I don't think there is any long term strategy with this one. Everything seems like it's just done for the here and now. But they can prove me wrong I suppose.

p.s. Luis I pretty much wrote this before you posted your comment, just clicked preview now and saw ur comment. So the part about the commissions was not because of ur comment. Just thought I'd mention it. :-)

I agree with everything you just posted but I really feel there is not much hassle to upload there, there are no clicks or other, just FTP and done, I take less than a day to send all my portfolio, again if you guys are working on new pics sure the upload can wait but when you have time I don�t see how it will hurt, have a sale this month there

Hey Louis, I'm still waiting on your blog update mate! get to it! on the double!
I wonder how you are faring these days, up , down or leveled?

Thanks for your input guys, and not posting those clich� answers like: "These agencies are fantastic (and now I hope my sales will go up)" or "your port must really suck big time duuude"

up my friend check what I post on the earnings topic here every month, I kind off quit posting there, too many friends spying on me eheh

I believe it is a great idea to abandon a 75% agency

very small income from both agencies but if you aren�t producing any pictures during that time its worth..

I received 16,80$ yesterday, as single image sale!  
What is it, usual is cca 5$?

never had one so high only the regular (5.32$) not far from the last level but I believe that is the sensitive use no?

nice first 3 posts photodreams but we know how to read

LOL...and this is why people get confused when others talk about $2.30 RPI in their portfolio (and why I never believe them) 

now I am the one confused

As an example, at Dreamstime, you have a $100 payout.  If I take my revenue per portfolio image average of .03644 cents then divide 100 by that amount, I compute that I need 3,644 images in my portfolio to make payout on an average month.

sorry but thats the same as RPI

Hello,

Thank you for your email.

Unfortunately there was an issue transferring the images from 4/9 and earlier
to our review queues, and did not make it to the actual review queue (even
though your account says it did).

The only solution is to remove these images from your "Status of Submitted
Photos" and resubmit them.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience.

GREAT!

Quote from: luissantos84 on April 19, 2012, 14:34

Quote from: lagereek on April 19, 2012, 14:26

Both cams are crappy, cheap new models of nothings.

what does that mean? only the 1D and D4 are worth?

Hi!  no what I meant was:  its a pretty poor update from Canon, I have used the MIII, for a day and frankly apart from better AF ( which I dont need), it gave me nothing, exept 1 MP, big deal?

As far as the D800?  yes, more MP, even so, its not going to give me much extras on top of my D3X.

The MP, race is over, once you are around 20MP, youre in on MF quality, so thats a hypothetical question, really.

I see, basically in my case I have a D90 which I believe it is enough for stock but on the other hand I keep thinking that I should aim to the 21MP at least and also the ISO performance at a full frame sensor, D3X/D4 are way more expensive than the D800, so I believe sooner or later will get one, have already the 24-70 which was purchased thinking of that too

The adjustment for the January bug is through.
I got $1.26. Whoopee! 

22 cents!