Quote from: luissantos84 on October 25, 2013, 20:36
of course there are but I believe the most aren't willing to sell their hard work for 50$ and never "use" it again

Ok - here is a scenario for you. You and your friends have a big outdoor Autumn meal somewhere in the country - like a garden party. You take lots of pictures with your DSLR - everyone enjoying themselves and eating really great food. Normally you might put the pictures on flickr. Instead though you sell 20 of them for $1K. You don't have to do any processing. You just have to get the model releases signed. You were there anyhow so it did not really cost anything - and maybe you need the extra cash that month.

Quote from: Ron on October 25, 2013, 20:43
I'd sell my 1000 images for 50$ a piece in a heartbeat. Give me 5000$ and I will just shoot another 1000 images. Nothing lost.

Have you checked out the 'license our work' link Ron ?

Quote from: Ron on October 25, 2013, 20:43

Quote from: luissantos84 on October 25, 2013, 20:36
of course there are but I believe the most aren't willing to sell their hard work for 50$ and never "use" it again

I'd sell my 1000 images for 50$ a piece in a heartbeat. Give me 5000$ and I will just shoot another 1000 images. Nothing lost.

I would too but we are talking about Cavan collection type not pictures that you/I/other took and edit in a few minutes, I have emailed them and as I expect they weren't interested

Quote from: bhr on October 25, 2013, 20:43

Quote from: luissantos84 on October 25, 2013, 20:36
of course there are but I believe the most aren't willing to sell their hard work for 50$ and never "use" it again

Ok - here is a scenario for you. You and your friends have a big outdoor Autumn meal somewhere in the country - like a garden party. You take lots of pictures with your DSLR - everyone enjoying themselves and eating really great food. Normally you might put the pictures on flickr. Instead though you sell 20 of them for $1K. You don't have to do any processing. You just have to get the model releases signed. You were there anyhow so it did not really cost anything - and maybe you need the extra cash that month.

that is all very cute but you just don't pull 20 nice candid pictures in a few seconds, not to mention you need to deal with releases, food, expenses, etc

fun is fun, work is work, both is very hard unless you don't want to make a single buck

that is like living a dream life but in the end you aren't paying your bills with those kind of pictures, its way harder than you are putting here

Ron that is 5$ a piece to sell their rights, why would you do that when 99% of them will make way more at SS alone

Quote from: luissantos84 on October 25, 2013, 20:50
Ron that is 5$ a piece to sell their rights, why would you do that when 99% of them will make way more at SS alone

I said 50$ and made a calc error. I obviously meant 50,000$

Beginning of the week very slow, but growing every day.
Yesterday very good day. More than twice my "normal maximum".
Very strange day indeed, better than "normal sales" on iS FT and DT too...
(Too much nice to continue I think...)

BME for me with five days to go. I think it will probably be 20 percent more my previous BME in July and double what I earned last October.

I'm expecting a dip in November and December with all the holidays.

Since 2013 has been the best year ever and many months, best of that month every, you can expect that next year, I won't be having Best Anything ever. But if the DLs and returns remain the same as this year, I'll be just fine and happy.

I really don't see the growth that people might have had five years ago. And now that things are leveling off, just staying the same is pretty darn good.

Heck I may upload a new image next month? 

BME in downloads, by 2.

3rd BME, but the other two had big SODs and ELs. If I look at normal downloads, its BME, meaning, there is still organic growth in earnings.

I am positive in November I will break the 400 dollar barrier without ELs and big SODs. My goal is 15 dollar average per day.

My October is less than September on SS
The only thing is that in October I took a break of microstock. It means that even working for almost 2 years I can't get a break. Or my earnings would fall straight away.

P.S. But I should mentioned that's new content is not selling well.

Quote from: Ron on October 25, 2013, 20:43

Quote from: luissantos84 on October 25, 2013, 20:36
of course there are but I believe the most aren't willing to sell their hard work for 50$ and never "use" it again

I'd sell my 1000 images for 50$ a piece in a heartbeat. Give me 5000$ 50,000$ and I will just shoot another 1000 images. Nothing lost.


EDit calc error

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but aren't they cherry pickin' the best of the best? You people seem to have skipped that "minor detail" as debate went on They wouldn't buy even a fraction of your 1000 (most likely none), and demand you to stop selling most of the rest. Slightly different scenario, isn't it?

or maybe you skipped some reading

wrong thread, sorry. I will repost in the October sales thread.

Quote from: topol on November 01, 2013, 12:00

Quote from: Ron on October 25, 2013, 20:43

Quote from: luissantos84 on October 25, 2013, 20:36
of course there are but I believe the most aren't willing to sell their hard work for 50$ and never "use" it again

I'd sell my 1000 images for 50$ a piece in a heartbeat. Give me 5000$ 50,000$ and I will just shoot another 1000 images. Nothing lost.


EDit calc error

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but aren't they cherry pickin' the best of the best? You people seem to have skipped that "minor detail" as debate went on They wouldn't buy even a fraction of your 1000 (most likely none), and demand you to stop selling most of the rest. Slightly different scenario, isn't it?

Ever heard of hypothetically speaking ? Plus... I already said they rejected me. Are you the next MSG troll? Seems some shoes need to be filled after the place had quiet down a bit. 

Had a decent month but last day very slow.

BME for me with footage and pictures

Quote from: MicrostockExp on November 02, 2013, 08:33
BME for me with footage and pictures

Thats all they offer Congrats !

Quote from: Ron on November 02, 2013, 10:17

Quote from: MicrostockExp on November 02, 2013, 08:33
BME for me with footage and pictures

Thats all they offer Congrats !

Not really...illustrations man, illustrations.

Quote from: Mantis on November 02, 2013, 12:29

Quote from: Ron on November 02, 2013, 10:17

Quote from: MicrostockExp on November 02, 2013, 08:33
BME for me with footage and pictures

Thats all they offer Congrats !

Not really...illustrations man, illustrations.

Ah ok, I thought pictures would include both photos and illustrations.

How do you separate photo sales from illustration sales?

some illustrators have both versions online, vectors and jpgs

there is no way to separate unless they have another tab on the earnings

My sales are pretty much steady over last 3-4 months even though I keep uploading images several times a week. It seems like I miss those best selling images... May be I should stop uploading for some time and have a look what is gonna happen...

October started off slow - 2 days with 0 sales - but ended strong. Overall pretty decent month; better than September anyway.

What's up with GL though? It was always slow, but I haven't had a sale there in 2 months.

Quote from: fiftyfootelvis on November 02, 2013, 23:58
August started off slow - 2 days with 0 sales - but ended strong. Overall pretty decent month; better than July anyway.

What's up with GL though? It was always slow, but I haven't had a sale there in 2 months.

how about September and October?

(Ok!)

Thanks:) no I do not have any illustrations