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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: Alfa156Melb on May 03, 2016, 17:00
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I just made $60 in commission on one image! I didn't know that was even possible in SS?
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CONbloodyhellGRATULAIONS!
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CONbloodyhellGRATULAIONS!
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Had a $96 d/l on 4/20. Gotta love it!
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Had a $96 d/l on 4/20. Gotta love it!
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Well lets hope there's more to come!!! it beats $0.25 per image :)
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Congratz! :)
Such sales used to be more common in the past. Just don't expect too much, not good for you health ;)
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Always amazed by those who don't know what it is they are signing up for - even when it is pleasant surprises that shock them.
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Congratz! :)
Such sales used to be more common in the past. Just don't expect too much, not good for you health ;)
I hear ya.. My expectations haven't changed... this is microstock :)
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Always amazed by those who don't know what it is they are signing up for - even when it is pleasant surprises that shock them.
Forgive me for expecting the majority of my image sales to be about 50 cents on SS.. I sell about 300 images a month at the moment and that's what they average.. So when one sells for $250ish dollars... and not $1 as the rest do, I think surprise is a natural reaction. Don't you?
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Always amazed by those who don't know what it is they are signing up for - even when it is pleasant surprises that shock them.
Forgive me for expecting the majority of my image sales to be about 50 cents on SS.. I sell about 300 images a month at the moment and that's what they average.. So when one sells for $250ish dollars... and not $1 as the rest do, I think surprise is a natural reaction. Don't you?
Sounds reasonable to me. Maybe there's a case of sour grapes.
Congrats on the great sale!! It's been a long time since I had one like that, but it sure is fun when it happens!
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Always amazed by those who don't know what it is they are signing up for - even when it is pleasant surprises that shock them.
Forgive me for expecting the majority of my image sales to be about 50 cents on SS.. I sell about 300 images a month at the moment and that's what they average.. So when one sells for $250ish dollars... and not $1 as the rest do, I think surprise is a natural reaction. Don't you?
Sounds reasonable to me. Maybe there's a case of sour grapes.
Congrats on the great sale!! It's been a long time since I had one like that, but it sure is fun when it happens!
Thanks mate! Much appreciated :) It's the first time for me so my excitement is probably on the noobish side ;D
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Appreciated for sharing something positive which is really rare here.
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I just made $60 in commission on one image! I didn't know that was even possible in SS?
No sour grapes - I've had bigger this month already -- But I know what I will get, be it .38 or $126 and everything in-between.
It's always a nice surprise to get larger sales but you admit you didn't know it was possible. I just find it incredulous that people submit without knowing all the details, especially how much you can make.
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I just made $60 in commission on one image! I didn't know that was even possible in SS?
No sour grapes - I've had bigger this month already -- But I know what I will get, be it .38 or $126 and everything in-between.
It's always a nice surprise to get larger sales but you admit you didn't know it was possible. I just find it incredulous that people submit without knowing all the details, especially how much you can make.
Look I hear you.. I understand that some people just don't get sarcasm. And to show that I have no sour grapes myself, I'll even offer to help heave that long stick from out of your arse. 8) ::)
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Over a $100 was normal for SOD sales for years. the sites especially SS loves newbies. They have no idea what it used to be.
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Over a $100 was normal for SOD sales for years.
I came in way too late, there's no doubt about that.... :(
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I got my first and last 100+ sale two years before. Now it's all about subs... No wonder SS reports huge profits year after another...
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Over a $100 was normal for SOD sales for years.
I came in way too late, there's no doubt about that.... :(
Thats ok. The more WHOOHOO stuff the more they Love it. Wow someone bought My Pictures Posts. Thats cool.
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Its got nothing to do with someone buying my pictures..I sell plenty on SS and another agencies.
It was that I was surprised that an image sold for more than $2 on Shutterstock!
Why are people taking this so negatively? This forum is so abrasive - I don't get it.
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I understand exactly what you are writing. Without atacking anyone personally. There are many nice people here but in general it is all about making destructive comments or see the whole industry black. Dont understand me wrong. I like critics but only if they are constructive. To many people that want to create a negative imagination about all the stock agencies. Complaining about competition. Complaining that their position in the search engine changed. For every little change the agency is here taken down in a level that new contributors are scared to even start. There is a chance for everybody in microstock and that is a fact. I spend much time on the Alamy forum because there the comments are like a education instead of black words.
Gongratulations for the sale mate.
:) Mirco
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Congrats. Try Alamy. They sometimes sell for over $1,000 and you get 50% of it. That makes me WHOOHOO.
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Congrats. Try Alamy. They sometimes sell for over $1,000 and you get 50% of it. That makes me WHOOHOO.
LOL!! 8)I'm with Alamy, I love those guys :) thanks to them I'm able to shoot the MotoGP and other major Motorsport events. And its true they do sometimes sell for that amount, but you'd expect that from a Macrostock agency.. High prices, low volume.
If one of my images sold for that on Alamy though, I'd truly been dancing around my studio yelling Woohoooo!!! ;D ;D It hasn't happened yet though :(
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I understand exactly what you are writing. Without atacking anyone personally. There are many nice people here but in general it is all about making destructive comments or see the whole industry black. Dont understand me wrong. I like critics but only if they are constructive. To many people that want to create a negative imagination about all the stock agencies. Complaining about competition. Complaining that their position in the search engine changed. For every little change the agency is here taken down in a level that new contributors are scared to even start. There is a chance for everybody in microstock and that is a fact. I spend much time on the Alamy forum because there the comments are like a education instead of black words.
Gongratulations for the sale mate.
:) Mirco
Thanks Mirco,
You're spot on about Alamy forums, the nicest bunch of online people ever. They are always willing to help, never afraid of competition and rather than winging about change, they run with it.
It's the opposite of this forum - although there also are some very nice people here too!
Cheers,
Dave.
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Its got nothing to do with someone buying my pictures..I sell plenty on SS and another agencies.
It was that I was surprised that an image sold for more than $2 on Shutterstock!
Why are people taking this so negatively? This forum is so abrasive - I don't get it.
Don't wory about it. Those are mostly old senile farts, their whole purpose of life is constant complaining.
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Funny reading that about the Alamy forum. Mention you did microstock there a few years ago and you would of got worse abuse than you usually see here. They still have a few obnoxious morons, one of them has been banned lots of times here but keeps coming back. I don't mind the banter here most of the time, any internet forum without a lot of moderation is going to have people that make negative comments but you soon see who they are and learn to ignore them. Sometimes they make a valid point.
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Funny reading that about the Alamy forum. Mention you did microstock there a few years ago and you would of got worse abuse than you usually see here. They still have a few obnoxious morons, one of them has been banned lots of times here but keeps coming back. I don't mind the banter here most of the time, any internet forum without a lot of moderation is going to have people that make negative comments but you soon see who they are and learn to ignore them. Sometimes they make a valid point.
Very true - but some forums are worse than others.. this one seems to be a cesspit of unhappy people with regrets. Or maybe it's just a photographer thing? You know like accountants - boring people accountants.. maybe photographers are just scorned whingers by birth? There's probably a study somewhere. I should google it.
On the other had there are also some very nice people here and that is why I visit regularly and even post sometimes like today.
I have no doubt the Alamy forum has had it's pricks - I just haven't noticed them yet ;D
Cheers
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I only read here and don't post because of the negativity and complaining of the 'oldtimers' as they call themselves and trying to discourage newbies. I used to be new here a few years ago (2012) and got some stupid reply's for simple questions or being positive. I now make about $6000+ per month and my 'earnings from new content for last 3 months' on SS is always on $300 to $400. I add a maximum of 50 images and vectors per month. Back when I posted here under another name most here told me it was to late. Some of them make less then I do now and still tell people it is to late. They know it best "since they have been there from the beginning."
Stay positive! I did and it works! :) I get big sales every month. They are not gone at all. I have about 6 to 10 every month going from $24 up to $120.
Nice to hear you had a big sale. More will come if you keep improving and get better. Good luck! :)
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210$ Clips pack
TNX, dear buyer!
:)
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I only read here and don't post because of the negativity and complaining of the 'oldtimers' as they call themselves and trying to discourage newbies. I used to be new here a few years ago (2012) and got some stupid reply's for simple questions or being positive. I now make about $6000+ per month and my 'earnings from new content for last 3 months' on SS is always on $300 to $400. I add a maximum of 50 images and vectors per month. Back when I posted here under another name most here told me it was to late. Some of them make less then I do now and still tell people it is to late. They know it best "since they have been there from the beginning."
Stay positive! I did and it works! :) I get big sales every month. They are not gone at all. I have about 6 to 10 every month going from $24 up to $120.
Nice to hear you had a big sale. More will come if you keep improving and get better. Good luck! :)
I think you're my new mentor!! 😎😄
Awesome post! Thank you :)
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Congrats, that's a great sale!
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Great sale, brings hope to all of us!
I think a lot of complainers used to do well when competition wasn't as stiff... these days you can make a lot of money - you just have to be better.
I have more experience in the audio side of things, where you could sell really, really crappy pieces for a lot of money 10-15 years ago. Today the competition is high and you need to be able to produce professional sounding tunes. There is still A LOT of money to be made though. Probably many times more.
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Great sale, brings hope to all of us!
I think a lot of complainers used to do well when competition wasn't as stiff... these days you can make a lot of money - you just have to be better.
I have more experience in the audio side of things, where you could sell really, really crappy pieces for a lot of money 10-15 years ago. Today the competition is high and you need to be able to produce professional sounding tunes. There is still A LOT of money to be made though. Probably many times more.
Exactly! 8)
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Congrats, that's a great sale!
Thanks Firewall!
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I only read here and don't post because of the negativity and complaining of the 'oldtimers' as they call themselves and trying to discourage newbies. I used to be new here a few years ago (2012) and got some stupid reply's for simple questions or being positive. I now make about $6000+ per month and my 'earnings from new content for last 3 months' on SS is always on $300 to $400. I add a maximum of 50 images and vectors per month. Back when I posted here under another name most here told me it was to late. Some of them make less then I do now and still tell people it is to late. They know it best "since they have been there from the beginning."
Stay positive! I did and it works! :) I get big sales every month. They are not gone at all. I have about 6 to 10 every month going from $24 up to $120.
Nice to hear you had a big sale. More will come if you keep improving and get better. Good luck! :)
good point!... i suppose it's normal (human nature) to judge the market from one's own situation.
like the real stock market, you get more whiners and cryers who lost their pants during the crash...
but those who survive are never the ones who come in to tell you how bad it is because they're out sailing.
microstock is not as good as when the oldtimers started, no doubt about that.
i came in like you say, at the end of the glory days.
but you are correct to say you can still make money in a sour grapes market because clients
still pay for photos. the thing is to remain objective and realise that nothing remains on top forever.
it's more like everything in business,... music, food, fashion,etc..
the one who moves ahead of the times and learn to change and adapt can still make money.
and then there are others who just like the energizer rabbit keep on ticking.. like eg. the great
lise gagnon and others who went past the millionth download.
you never see ms gagnon coming in here or any forum...
she's out sailing like the people who made money during the stock market crash...
or and no doubt busy making more photos to update and upgrade herself to stay up there above
the rest.
as i said, well done, it is nice to hear from a newbie to get the old f*rts thinking again .
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otoh, it is also quite true that there are less single earnings of 28, 80, 102 dollars these days.
i used to get them almost monthly, ... and it's been months i last saw even a 28 dollar single.
maybe they change the usage which reduces the need to buy those licence; i didn't look to see, as
i don't even look at licences.... i just look at my monthly payout to my pocket 8)
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Well said etudiante_rapide...
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I had a dream last night about getting a $28 SOD and got one this morning. Dreams do come true.
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I hope that happens to me.
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I had 32$ SOD today. My highest earning sale on SS. Previous was 22$, in March. I'm happy.
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you never see ms gagnon coming in here or any forum...
Presumably, you mean Lise Gagne, who is on forums, but not this one, recently.
She's not in the same position as the rest of us anyway as she is (or at least was, I'm not certain about now) on iStock's staff.
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ah the senior professional still patronizing new photographers, yet bragging every other day how he helped 40000 of them get accepted. the irony
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I had a 64$ SOD in the end of January - that was my last big one on SS :-\ I remember it felt good and I want more :)
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Its got nothing to do with someone buying my pictures..I sell plenty on SS and another agencies.
It was that I was surprised that an image sold for more than $2 on Shutterstock!
Why are people taking this so negatively? This forum is so abrasive - I don't get it.
As one of the cynics and complainers here, I still don't get why you are getting so much shade about merely sharing your enjoyment of an unexpectedly high sale. The very fact that the earnings trend is down for alot of us makes a bit of good fortune something to celebrate.
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Its got nothing to do with someone buying my pictures..I sell plenty on SS and another agencies.
It was that I was surprised that an image sold for more than $2 on Shutterstock!
Why are people taking this so negatively? This forum is so abrasive - I don't get it.
As one of the cynics and complainers here, I still don't get why you are getting so much shade about merely sharing your enjoyment of an unexpectedly high sale. The very fact that the earnings trend is down for alot of us makes a bit of good fortune something to celebrate.
That makes both of us Pixel...
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Late to the party but not late to congratulate. Congratulations! :D
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Late to the party but not late to congratulate. Congratulations! :D
8) Thanks!
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Had a $96 d/l on 4/20. Gotta love it!
4/20? I think we all know what that was a photo of.
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1256674p1.html (http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1256674p1.html)
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CONGRATULATIONS!!! I live in hope ;D
I love hearing these stories, keep them coming :)
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Congrats! Nice when those come in!
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Had a $96 d/l on 4/20. Gotta love it!
4/20? I think we all know what that was a photo of.
[url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1256674p1.html[/url] ([url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1256674p1.html[/url])
Actually wasn't what you would think, strange that I didn't notice the date. Here it is:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=1133535 (http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=1133535)
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Had a $96 d/l on 4/20. Gotta love it!
4/20? I think we all know what that was a photo of.
[url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1256674p1.html[/url] ([url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1256674p1.html[/url])
Actually wasn't what you would think, strange that I didn't notice the date. Here it is:
[url]http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=1133535[/url] ([url]http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=1133535[/url])
Beautiful shot, and one that is difficult to capture. Nice to see it paid off for you.
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Had a $96 d/l on 4/20. Gotta love it!
4/20? I think we all know what that was a photo of.
[url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1256674p1.html[/url] ([url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1256674p1.html[/url])
Actually wasn't what you would think, strange that I didn't notice the date. Here it is:
[url]http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=1133535[/url] ([url]http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=1133535[/url])
Beautiful shot, and one that is difficult to capture. Nice to see it paid off for you.
Oh my Doug! I just peeked at your port and I now see why you would say that! Great shots. You are now my bestest friend! 8)
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Congratulations Alfa!
I have been doing this for 10 years and never tire of the big sales and always take time to be grateful and joyous about them (and the little sales too)!
Sad there is negativity coming from some in this thread you created out of your joy.
They are energy drainers and it is no wonder their sales have slipped. People forget that our work is a part of ourselves.
Just because someone has been doing this for years DOES NOT give them the right to be dicks, but some people just cant help themselves.
Keep the joy and it will show in your images!
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Great image! Congrats!
Even though I have more images on trad sites than micros, I still smile when I get a $28 EL on SS, so IMHO you certainly should feel happy.
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$129 SOD a few days ago on a Image I was going to delete.
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Over a $100 was normal for SOD sales for years. the sites especially SS loves newbies. They have no idea what it used to be.
Our happiness lasts util you tell us. Pretty short :P
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$129 SOD a few days ago on a Image I was going to delete.
Well done Lauren! I stopped deleting any of my "poor" images that I thought would never sell uploaded back in 2005. You just never know...
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$129 SOD a few days ago on a Image I was going to delete.
Fantastic! I'll be celebrating when I get one of those ;)