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Microstock Services / Re: MICROSTOCKR PRO - desktop app tracking earnings across multiple agencies

« on: September 12, 2017, 01:08 »

The newly launched subscription prices are way too high for hobbyists. I'm out.

Newbie Discussion / Re: First month in

« on: May 24, 2017, 01:37 »

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on May 23, 2017, 18:06

Depending on what's in your portfolio, I'd suggest you give Alamy a little longer. They don't sell in high volume, but the sales value is typically higher and so it can be worthwhile.

I wouldn't trust DepositPhotos with my work. I left CanStock, 123rf and BigStock because of low sales and dropping royalty rates. I have a small subset of work at Pond5, but I don't upload there any more as sales for photos are at best occasional. I have a portfolio at Dreamstime but they're circling the drain and I no longer upload (as they don't reduce the royalty rate when sales tank, I'm willing to let the existing work hang out).

My last 5 sales at Alamy netted about $95 a month (those are from April & May) - that's a reasonable low-end site to have for me. The only issue you'll face is that sales take a massively long time to clear, so you need to be patient...

Thanks Jo Ann, this is just the kind of reply I needed.

I'll do as you said and give Alamy some more time then. I might leave my current portfolio up at the lower end sites for now and see if I net any sales but I might stop uploading new images.

Mind if I ask you why you wouldn't trust Depositphotos with your images?

Newbie Discussion / Re: First month in

« on: May 23, 2017, 15:36 »

Newbie Discussion / Re: First month in

« on: May 23, 2017, 15:31 »

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on May 23, 2017, 15:04

A month? After a week you should have been able to pay off your car. I'd quit.

Thanks for your concern but my car's already paid off.

I'm not complaining that I didn't make any money or anything, in fact I'm pretty happy with the sales I've made on the first 4 sites I mentioned.

My question was just intended to see what everyone else's experience is with the websites where I haven't seen any sales to decide whether or not it's worth investing the time and effort to upload to them or just stick to the sites I'm more successful with.

Newbie Discussion / First month in

« on: May 23, 2017, 14:13 »

Hi everyone!

So I recently decided to give this Microstock business a try and after 1 month I've had... mixed results.

With a portfolio of (give or take) 300 images I've had decent sales on Shutterstock, iStock, Adobe and even a few sales on Bigstock.

However I also uploaded the same images to: Alamy, Pond5, Depositphotos, 123RF, Dreamstime, Zoonar and Canstock and the grand total sales from these last 7 websites was: $ZERO

Is it even worth uploading to these sites where I haven't sold a single thing? Or am I doing something wrong?

Microstock Services / Re: MICROSTOCKR PRO - desktop app tracking earnings across multiple agencies

« on: May 11, 2017, 03:25 »

Excellent, thanks & keep up the great work!

Microstock Services / Re: MICROSTOCKR PRO - desktop app tracking earnings across multiple agencies

« on: May 10, 2017, 11:01 »

Hi, love the application!

Is there any plan to support Adobe Stock anytime soon please? I don't have a Fotolia account since I only signed up recently and they switched over everything to Adobe.

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