Quote from: Evaristo tenscadisto on November 17, 2020, 22:09

Going to that places and expect to earn 1000/month nowadays its hard.

Best advice: 1) enjoy vacations with your wife.
                    2) During trip shoot moments with both of you.
                    3) edit an film of your trip and give to her as gift.

those are priceless! ;-) 
   

Now that is the very best answer that you, dear CoffeeShopCEO, will ever get to your question.

And I say that as a 74-year-old woman with a husband of 53 years who is not doing well these days. Among our most treasured possessions are the photo albums of our decades of travel together. You will never regret having such things as you grow older.

Indeed, thank you folks! 🙏

Ok, but first, answer.... How to earn $10,000/month from templates...?

@Mxr, most of our money comes from our own websites. We have our own online stores with the option to purchase an individual template, or join as a monthly/yearly subscriber.

Then we upload to Adobe Stock, CreativeMarket, Envato etc. CreativeMarket and GraphicRiver are not what they once were, and Covid hit them particularly hard, but Adobe Stock is a good marketplace to sell on right now.

We're also experimenting right now by extracting illustrations from our works and uploading individually to places like ShutterStock, but so far we've made less than $10 lol

But if you're going to sell templates, you should definitely consider your own website as well. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask

Hi all, before you all laugh at me for the title of this thread - Please understand it is a candid question and I am searching for some experience-backed answers.

I currently earn around $10,000/month selling stock templates for Photoshop & Illustrator (on my own sites, CreativeMarket, GraphicRiver, Adobe Stock etc). I have been selling templates now for more than 10 years, so I'm no newbie to the world of "stock" itself. However, I have zero experience with image and video.

It's my wife & I's 30th birthdays next year and we are planning a year of travel to celebrate. It got me thinking that it might be worthwhile to pickup a camera and take some stock footage throughout our travels. We'll be covering a wide variety of countries and terrains (from the Nepalese Himalaya down through India and over to Africa), so I figured it'd be an ideal opportunity to build out a varied portfolio of footage.

Typically, when I consider uploading a new type of content, I like to set myself a monthly income goal, and to make it worthwhile carrying a camera with me, I think $1,000/month is a good starting point.
 
So, to get to the meat of my question: How many uploaded items do you think will be required to earn $1,000/month from stock video?

Also, some sub questions:

• What type of videos sell best in your experience?
• Is a new Go Pro good enough to shoot stock-worthy video, or should I take a DSLR? (I would like to avoid the bulky DSLR if possible)
• How long should stock footage be?
• Where are the best marketplaces to sell stock video?

Thank you in advanced, I appreciate any insights you experienced pros can give me!

Ah, I was just trying to figure out why I can't post