A bit out of topic - some statistics taken from DT...

Thanks for confirming my previous post 

Concerning portfolio size, I'm not sure it is a good indicator of anything useful: I've seen recently on StockXpert that in iofoto portfolio (12'000 photos), 65% haven't been downloaded at all and 25% once only... "only" 1200 pictures have been downloaded twice or more.

On the opposite side, on IS, sodafish has only 360 photos but more than 120'000 downloads!

I think that both are useful, but white seems definitively to be better sellers than black isolations.

This seems logical as most of the time, the support background is white (paper, web page).

However, if the isolation is perfect and unless there are some transparencies in the subject, it may be easy to change the background color for the designer.  Otherwise, it may be interesting to provide both versions.

When you look as "newbies" portfolio, most of the time the best advice to give them is "learn microstock business, improve your skills in photography".

Concerning your portfolio, my advice would be "continue this way". You just need a bigger portfolio, otherwise don't bother too much for earnings: expect to be surprised soon to see how rewarding microstock business is if you take it seriously 

A few months ago, StockXpert was on par with FOT and DRM, far away from ISP and SS.

Last month, StockXpert became clear #3 just after SS.

This month so far, StockXpert is... #1!

It seems that StockXpert does not perform well for everyone, but for me, it's quite impressive 

I think the best site is www.turbosquid.com... it's where I purchase my models usually

renderosity is mostly for poser models.

I see her spinning clockwise, but if I concentrate, I can switch to anti-clockwise... for a short while and then, suddenly, she turns clockwise again.

Well, as a cartesian, I thought I would better fit in the anti-clockwise category... but as a photographer?

Completely useless I guess, but interesting 

I got a few subscriptions sales and I was indeed a little bit worried to see XXL pictures sold for $0.30.

But it seems until now that my sales are not impacted and StockXpert is performing extremely well for me for the last few months. September was BME and october earnings should be 30% higher than september!

StockXpert is now clear #3 behind SS (#2) and IS (#1).

It is however to early indeed to have a clear vision of the effect of subscription on earnings at StockXpert.

My main concern with subscription is that the price for a photo is the same whatever its size.

Pay the same for a 1MP pixels picture on a web site or a 15MP?

I know that StockXpert decides to follow this business model as they think they wouldn't compete with other subscription sites otherwise. It may be true.

But as a photographer, I may also decide in this case to upload only the lowest acceptable resolution as StockXpert and SS while keeping the highest resolution for IS?

For now, I'm just wondering whether the subscritption model is fair for me, as a photographer. SS is OK because I get a lot more downloads here compared to any other site, DT is OK for now because most of my downloads still come from per photo purchase and 123RF is OK because... well, my earning are so low here that it wouldn't make any difference.

But StockXpert is becoming one of my 3 bigger earner with SS and IS which is true only because I earn more than $1 per download on average here, not because I get a lot of downloads.

So, should subscription download become the rule rather than the exception... I may see my earning sink at StockXpert, in which case I will have to decide what is the better choice for me.

StockXpert seems confident that subscription will attract new buyers. As epixx, I think that buyers who can afford to pay $999 a year are the one who can afford to pay a lot more fot the picture they need.

This make me think about one of my picture which has been recently used as a design element for a web ad banner. Firstly, I was proud to see it: it was for an MS Office:Mac advertising on one of the most famous Mac rumors site. But I was also thinking that Microsoft has paid probably $1 for this picture... is it fair? I guess it is just business.

Let's see what happen at StockXpert.

For me, sales at StockXpert are more than twice as high as FT and DT this month: this is a record month at StockXpert and this site is growing fast for me.

I also get my first EL license on this site... a $50 income for a single download: the highest EL price I get until now.

And if you consider the fact that you get $2.50 for XL downloads and $5 for XXL, StockXpert is definitively a site you have to join IMHO. My average commission at StockXpert is a little bit above $1 per download which is the highest amongst the many sites I've joined.

I like StockXpert quite a lot