I have 300 photo in SS and can receive roughtly 45 USD per month.HOw about this performance? Good or not good? Really curious about this result.

It's good if you're happy with it.

I am not happy with this result.I want more dollar coming.....

I have 300 photo in SS and can receive roughtly 45 USD per month.HOw about this performance? Good or not good? Really curious about this result.

300 images online and $45/month i believe is not bad. Course you can get $200-300/month with the same number of  files online but they must be at a very high quality and and the concept must be unique.

I have to agree with Loop.

My photos are far from commercially viable, but I made about 100 dollar with 300 images online.  Also without seeing the photos its hard to tell.

If you have 300 isolations of a strawberry, you are doing well, if you have 300 conceptual photos you are doing bad.

I have to agree with Loop.

My photos are far from commercially viable, but I made about 100 dollar with 300 images online.  Also without seeing the photos its hard to tell.

If you have 300 isolations of a strawberry, you are doing well, if you have 300 conceptual photos you are doing bad.

thank you all for comments. I also thought it was no so good.
most of my photo in shutterstock are green/plant/food/building something which i can see on the road to office.I need spend more time how to catch creative thing for stock.
 

   I have 300 pictures on SS and this month so far 23.40$  . Looks like I'm blocked to 0.1$ per picture. So you do beter than me. For me IS always beats SS (8 months in stock). Probably I'm doing something very very bad at SS. If the difference between the two were what the pool says, I'd be very very happy. This month at IS I have almost 70$, with 350 pictures (yes, my acceptance rate is also better at IS). This is a BME so far at IS, but I'm worried that in the last week things slowed down very bad there.

I would check the keywording if I were you. See if your keywords are covering everything related to the image. Do they describe the image, the colors in the image, the shapes, the action, use of conceptual keywords, Synonyms. You can also post the question in the critique forum of SS and they will tell you what they think of your porftolio. You can get some good advise there.

Quote from: captain on October 25, 2012, 21:39

I have 300 photo in SS and can receive roughtly 45 USD per month.HOw about this performance? Good or not good? Really curious about this result.

If you divide out the money and images evenly between all the contributors at SS, the average contributor should have about 550 images and make about $85 a month (if I did my math right). So, you seem on track for that. That said, you have to assume that a majority of contributors at SS aren't very active (because there are some people that make a lot more than that).

My guess would be that there are only about 10K active contributors, so the average moves to about 2000 images and about $300 a month. Oddly enough, you are right on target for that too. Obviously, you can make more than that, but I'm not sure if you can expect it.

I do appreciate your effort but find the numbers quite discouraging. 
At least I'm not "average."   

Cthoman gives a good balanced answer based on some actual facts..

Here�s the thing, SS income depends a lot on the subs / od/ el / sod mix.  The latter 2 make a huge difference and with a small port probably only happen every few months.  Also, SS performance by others is totally invisible and, to hear some folks talk, it�s 20 times better than other top 4 sites even IS � I take that with a shovel full of salt (actually if you believe everything you see here I can put you in touch with a Nigerian acquaintance with an interesting business proposition).

The only site where you can see the actual portfolio performance of your peers is DT.  If you compare your performance to others there, taking into account the length of time you will have some idea.  You can then extrapolate based on your own DT vs SS performance.  Accurate?  Probably not but at least it�s based on some real numbers.

Think it is about average.
I just looked at my own stats from last month,

I had about 600 photos online and made $72

   Growing your port should bring in more sales. I look at what DT calls database exposure, as this is the number that counts. And if this number is growing and your sales aren't, something is wrong, and not with your pictures. I know many of you are convinced that the picture quality and concept is important for sales, but with my ugly noncommercial pictures I should sell more if my database exposure is growing. And it is at SS.
   Now, as I written in another topic, I was having an average of 30 sales a month:
april   74pics   19dlds
may   113       29
june   171       27
july    182       31
august210      30
until september, when something happened and with 266pics I made 59 sales.
Note that for all the months of 30 dlds my best day was 3 dlds, now I'm up to 60dlds and yes, my best day has upgraded to 6 sales, with lots of 4 and 5, a number that at some point I thought I will never get. Now you see, my port has grown slowly but steadly, my database exposure did the same, and I had doubled the sales in one moment.
You don't want to ask how many sales I have now. 318 pics and yes, 52 sales. I must make 2 today to keep the average. If I will not sell anything for the 2days of we, I know I will sell 6 monday, so the average will be 2.
   Yesterday evening I thought I lost this average, missing 3 sales. At 8 pm european time, I made 3 sales in 10 minutes, in three different zones, but not United States.  Sales in Europe and Africa, at an nonworking hour . After almost 48 hours without a sale. One picture sold two times in that 10 minutes, in Europe and Africa. Weird...
   The theory that ugly noncommercial images will not grow your sales simply doesn't stand for me. If I have an ugly noncommercial poor executed strawberry that sells 1 a month, it's selling out from 10000 ugly noncommercial poor executed strawberries, which sell too in an average of 1 a month. So it's not a customer who wants an ugly strawberry a month, and if i upload another he will simply pick one of them, ending me with one sale. To my logic, another ugly strawberry should bring in another sale, as long as the first ugly strawberry sells one a month.
   Please understand  I'm not complaining, as I do this for fun not for a living. I only find the numbers very very weird. In fact, I'm beginning to like tracking this wierd pattern, and I wonder when will be the next boost and how much will add.

according to 'Steve's Law' you should be making around $60 per month on 300 pics...

Here are my stats:
SS 2150 files  - around 700$ per month
IS  2117 files -  around 900$ per month
 Of course I'm not satisfied with $ but hope to get better in the future. Well it' very much depends on quality(first) than quantity,  keywords ....... of port. I don't have illusion that MS is easy and fast way to earn money. After 20 years dealing with photography I"m still learning the MS how to improve myself not to be a better photographer but how to be a good seller with sense what buyers want. It is pure business and nothing to do with art. Sad but true.
That's my point of view, maybe I'm wrong but that's it.
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I appreciate you for this it is nice.