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General Stock Discussion / New to microstock - my experiences and questions
« on: January 16, 2017, 05:37 »
Hello 
I just started to get into the microstock Business since the first of January and uploaded pretty much everything i found on my HD i consider useable
... started with videoblocks (very disappointing...), Pond5, Adobe stock and Shutterstock.
After I made 4 sales on pond5 I started uploading photos to shutterstock 5 days ago and I'm pretty happy about 23 sales (even though 0.25$ is ridiculous for an Image....considering the effort... I'm happy to have the Images already taken...I could never imagine "produce" an Image for a quarter per sale...)
Anyway, I have now about 100images and ~80videos, mostly travel related online and still about 200files left for submitting.
As of now I hope the sales do not drop to Zero after I have uploaded everything...or is this most likely to happen? Should I Keep the Images and only upload 2-3 a day or everything as fast as possible?
Next step would be submitting on Adobe Stock and then I hope to achieve my goal of 1-2$ per day No big ambitions but a nice little extra Money... especially when a vid is sold I'm really happy the mail always comes at 1:44 at night, so earning money while sleeping is a convenient feeling
A few questions which came up for me the last days:
Is sunday generally a bad day due to the lack of Business buyers?
Do you all use PayPal for payouts? Got a 103USD payout from pond5, with currency Exchange rate and fees, I only got 93euros... 5 euros "lost" maybe bank wire would be better?
I keyword everything manually and new for each of the 4 sites I upload to... Do you think uploading travel/nature Videos to Shutterstock is worth the effort? Or is it mainly a photo Website and I could save the time?
Do you promote your portfolio somehow?
I like the Business of a Little passive income which pays maybe my car insure...but...it is so unpredictable...how do you - the ones who make a living of it - handle this uncertainty?
thank you for all your help so far I've read a lot of threads the last weeks and this Forum is very helpful and friendly.
best regards!
I just started to get into the microstock Business since the first of January and uploaded pretty much everything i found on my HD i consider useable
... started with videoblocks (very disappointing...), Pond5, Adobe stock and Shutterstock. After I made 4 sales on pond5 I started uploading photos to shutterstock 5 days ago and I'm pretty happy about 23 sales (even though 0.25$ is ridiculous for an Image....considering the effort... I'm happy to have the Images already taken...I could never imagine "produce" an Image for a quarter per sale...)
Anyway, I have now about 100images and ~80videos, mostly travel related online and still about 200files left for submitting.
As of now I hope the sales do not drop to Zero after I have uploaded everything...or is this most likely to happen? Should I Keep the Images and only upload 2-3 a day or everything as fast as possible?
Next step would be submitting on Adobe Stock and then I hope to achieve my goal of 1-2$ per day
No big ambitions but a nice little extra Money... especially when a vid is sold I'm really happy the mail always comes at 1:44 at night, so earning money while sleeping is a convenient feeling A few questions which came up for me the last days:
Is sunday generally a bad day due to the lack of Business buyers?
Do you all use PayPal for payouts? Got a 103USD payout from pond5, with currency Exchange rate and fees, I only got 93euros... 5 euros "lost" maybe bank wire would be better?
I keyword everything manually and new for each of the 4 sites I upload to... Do you think uploading travel/nature Videos to Shutterstock is worth the effort? Or is it mainly a photo Website and I could save the time?
Do you promote your portfolio somehow?
I like the Business of a Little passive income which pays maybe my car insure...but...it is so unpredictable...how do you - the ones who make a living of it - handle this uncertainty?
thank you for all your help so far
I've read a lot of threads the last weeks and this Forum is very helpful and friendly.best regards!
