Just for thoughts. Everyone seems mad about  Istock changing rules of the future images sales, not making enough money on images, sells slowing down, the man ( stock sites getting to much money and so on.. You are all right, but here is a way I thought about the business this morning. I have been doing stock for about eight years. I have generated about $70,000 dollars in this time. OK this is not a living but the ROI is really not that bad if you look at it this way. I averaged about 2000 images over those years. Clearly at first less images and now much larger than 2000 images. If you do the  math I have made about  about 35.00 dollars per image over this eight years time. I would say that I get at least three images per photo session. Each photo session  with uploading averages about one hour of time. So making about 105.00 dollars per hour is really not bad as a part time gig. I should get more ROI as the years go on.. Yes my sells have slowed downed also over the last year  even as I increase my portfolio size. So I say to you  close down your Istock accounts . You all  seem to know only  how to complain about this business.    Please close down your accounts as I will continue to make about 105 buck an hour.

For me, I earned more on SS than FT only the first two months, when I started with this. After that, FT was my #1 earner, even with less sales.  Although, June and July are very poor for me on FT...

I also  looked at one of your images in Shutterstock

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-447246100/stock-photo-business-financial-success-and-making-money-concept-stacks-of-us-dollar-banknotes-with-pencil.html?src=sABNOceuFv5eGM_T0clZSg-1-0

 america, american, bank, banking, banknotes, bill, business, cash, closeup, currency, debt, dollar, estate, fifty, finance, five, home, house, hundred, investment, isolated, money, notes, one, paper, saving, stack, states, ten, twenty, united, us, usa, wealth, white

Key words on Alamy need to include singular and plurals i.e. banknote banknotes
note notes

And if you are spamming your images with irrelevant keywords (home house - not in the image) then you are going to reduce your click through rate (CTR)

Having well produced images with good keywords improves your click rate in Alamy does a lot to help sales.

Your title is "Business, financial success and making money concept, stacks of 20 US dollar banknotes with pencil stationery"

Really? business? financial success? making money?

I just don't see any concept at all just a bunch of unrelated items thrown on a white background

You need to work on your titles and concepts as Alamy customers are not microstock customers.

I wasn't paying attention...did someone post their earnings at SS? If so, it's against their TOS. Maybe that's the reason?

Quote from: marthamarks on February 05, 2016, 10:53

Quote from: stockyme on February 05, 2016, 10:47

I've sold 128 files in 2 months time and I've a port of 450 images only. I think I need at least 3k images to get 200 or 300$ every month... What do you think?

I think you're trying to make Alfa feel bad about the accomplishment he's currently very proud of.

And it worked 

Best of luck Alfa we are both doing well









 

I have 270ish files up with SS.. more with others and on SS at least 50 sales.. Stocky me has about double the files with slighty more than double the sales.. so we're both doing OK

I would be surprized if anyone knows for sure. I've been there for 10.7 Years.