Hey people, i got some nice backgrounds, i tought about putting some text over them

1. is places like shutter accept concept pictures for example " Happy Birthday " and a picture of a cacke?

2. what about fonts copyrights? can i use sepsific fonts for my pictures? is there some without copy rights?

what do u think?

It seems that everybody is in the same put hole, but everybody talk about it in graphs and percents

We all know the micro stock industry is getting harder

1. Too many sites
2. Low costs
3. Even lower revenues
4. Increase of contributors and images on daily bases

If you could summer your income for 2013/2014

What is your monthly income in average per your portfolio?

Does not matter how many sites you are in just want to know how all of us finish the month

really i don't get all those sites, maybe if they were in the top 5 i would say 2 weeks is reasonable but 3 weeks pending files? crazy

hey guys so heres my review for my own stock carrear

up to now i was registering to 12 sites spent full days (i tought it will be few min) applying to contributor, days untill pictures was approved and .. now i got about 200 pictures online 90% commercial

i got great pictures of hotels areas but most of them was rejected due to symbols and propertie release to bad they are great images and my agent sales them as commercial dont know how and making me good money (not easy to be your own agent)

Dreamstime - my first, 12 sales 95% Editorial

Alamy - 1 sale 50$

Istock - well there system is the hardest due to one upload one by one thanks for StockSubmiter i got a quick upload to them (to bad i found it so late) 4.5$ but getting positive

Veer - well first 10 images was approved after 1 week the other 50 took about 1 month + and for some reason i think there back to business all the other 70 was approved within a week, 1 shiny dollar, don't think i will spend more time to upload there but let see if the numbers will get better who knows

Photoarbia - left them, they are new but really they don't approve so many photos' and for 5 regional pictures i won't keep track on them - deleted my account there

CanStock - approves very fast, very easy they rock, but dose not sell for me total 0 in 3 months

Deposit Photo - well 5 sales 1.5$ lets see

BigStockphoto - well they rejected me about 8 times, finnaly i got it, uploaded 200 files, 80% was rejected, with stupid excuses, bad quality, poor lighting and many other stupid reason for perfect images on studio, delete my account (they did it within 40 min i guess it mutual)

123RF - 7 sales 5$ all in 1 month, first month nothing, thing month nothing allso, hmmm
i hate there earning in a diffrent page and need to enter CHPCHTA all the time

YAY and Pixta - uploading veryfast, very easy, no even 1 sell with 250 pics in 3 months - what do u think delete them and get it over with it? they take to much memorey on my browser lol

Pond 5 - well there system i guess didnt had an user interface upgrade from 2000, didnt sell nothing untill few days ago, but i got few days ago 1 sell, 3$ profit so i guess i will give them time, i hope they will approve the other pictures stuck there for a while

ShutterStock - well they rejected me 7 times allso, but i did my best got in and made 3 sales in the first day


so my lesson the marrier is not happyer, i think its better to spend time on 4-6 good agencys and not 12, and get stuck submiting limitations and diffrent methods in diffrent sites

what is your 2 cent for me?
should i droped YAY and Pixta? altough i spend maybe 5-7 hours uploading them the pictures, maybe it's better that my pictures could not be found in all websites or maybe i shouldnt keep track on them daily and just make a reminder to check them every 2-3 months

any other ideas?

thanks for your time, i hope my info will contribute to others (sorry for my bad english 2am)

what's your impression from those sites?


about 200 files online there 2 months 0 sales

dose someone know's how can you watch witch pictures was sold? they only show wich date and sum it was sold but i dont know wich picture

hey guys i got 18 pictures pending more then a month now, just joined 2 months ago, first 10 was approved with in 10 days, now it's been more the a month waiting to approve the 18 others

what do u think? should i keep uploading or just let it go?

hey all i am new as a contributor at my own, i just wonder if most of microstock allow non exclusive why not submitim to them all, and why people are talking about droping agency if they allready have there work there?

if it's not exclusive why don't u put your work in as many as you can to generate more profits anyway people dose not work with all of them at once so diffrent clients diffrent potential of sales

thanks
josh