mine is overall 43,300 and 7 day 7,500 with 27 sold files, 817 files available; only on FT for 1.5 months.  Guess you could say I am pretty near the bottom, it is a long long way from 43300 to Lisa or Elena; can you two throw me a lifeline, I feel like I am drowning.

If DT really wants to take a progressive step, go back and review some of the older files; some of them are pure trash.  Granted  most have sales but that does not indicate quality.  Do a search for bald eagles; you will see older bald eagle in flight shots with underside of wings black (dark shadows), poor focus, poor lighting, etc.  Same thing for pets, some really trashy pet shots, never should be in a professional portfolio of selling images.  I am in favor of good fair standards of acceptance now and using these same standards to eliminate older files that would never get accepted now if submitted.  Why keep 12 million images in your database if 5 million of them are junk; purge this junk

Sometimes, the policies at DT are just crap; how much time does it really take to review a group of 100 images that are all similars; just hit the reject key for 99 of the images and allow the rest of the contributors submit a decent number of images each week.

I do not like their policy of similars but do not punish me because someone else will not follow the guidelines.  At least they allow us to upload and keep in the upload area until submission, that is what I do.

Now that you changed the title, I am no longer interested

Who coined the phrase "Men are pigs"

Tom;

I would shoot (pun intended) for 50 images a week, 200/month average.  I don't feel 15/week is pushing yourself enough.  My goal is 200/month; but part of my goal is also to only upload quality images that might sell.

So shoot two days a week, one day to process the images and the last four for education.  Your best education will be during processing the images because you will see your mistakes and know what to study during your education sessions.

BTW, do not ignore the advice of Paulie Walnuts, he was spot on with his predictions about my success and possible income.  It is going to be a long road.

I am at roughly 1000 images online with monthly RPI of roughly 0.30/image but I am pretty new at this business also (one year in).

Thanks Lisa, a big fat zero of my images on PP

For better or worse, I enrolled in the partner program at IS back in Feb. 2011; how do we find out if we have had any sales through the partner program?

Thanks Shadysue;

I have readjusted my expectations; thanks for the real data.  Most of what I had heard about IS was from other microstockers on DT; not a reliable source, I guess.  I did not find out about MSG until FEb of this year.

I started with BigStock in Feb, sales were dead for the first month but have started to pickup; won't be buying any starbucks coffee yet but I am encouraged.  Then again, I had such low expectations that anything is encouraging.

I agree with Lisa, we need to support the middle and lower tier sites because the future of some of the top tier sites looks very uncertain.

As a former DT exclusive, I'll add my 2 cents (which is about all I made from IS last month).  DT encourages exclusives in many ways and also encourages growth of microstock photographers.  They make it easy for newbies to enter the field and I believe this new pricing is to encourage the newbies by giving them a few more sales but not adding much to the bank account-most newbies are more impressed by seeing the DL then the money most will never collect (many never make it to the minimum payout before quitting).  On the other hand, DT recognizes that their "bread and butter" is the established pros and serious amateurs; this new pricing structure is a reward for the established folks as most of them have more than one download per image.

Add me to the camp that is pleased with the general way DT handles their contributors; they are the only one of the big four that I feel really values their contributors.  I know most of the DT staff on a first name basis; have exchanged many emails concerning the site with them and posted a few blogs to help the community.  On the other hand, I dropped my exclusive in March of this year because I was not making sufficient money from DT;  since dropping exclusive, my monthly income has multiplied by 4-5 times but my work load also multiplied by about 10 times (because many of the sites have yet to payoff for all the work).  Even though I dropped exclusive at DT; my sales at DT  are still within 70% of my former exclusive sales (number images sold and revenue average per download).

Five super models came into my room and ripped my clothes off, kissing me and telling me I was the best.  Couple minutes later I fell out of bed and woke up.  When are you going to wake up; this is a good fantasy totally up-supported by any facts.

I'm going back to bed, maybe the models will return!

I am sure some newbie will dredge it up soon enough