How are sales in April? No good so far, due to Easter holidays?

Mine are down about 8% from March.  3% of that is because April's one day shorter, and another 3% is my average decline from March to April over the past eight years.  On the other hand, I'm up 73% on April, 2013 and up 8% year over year.

Quote from: 60D on April 25, 2014, 17:11
How are sales in April? No good so far, due to Easter holidays?

I'm down too this month.

I need 80 dollar for a BME, which is possible, if it doesnt go tits up like in the last week of last month.

it's not the market, it's SS
0.13 x let's say  1000 monthly downloads (the actual number are much much higher)  = $130 x (at least) 10,000 contributors, you do the math..
and since many new PROFESSIONAL contributors are joining SS every month they can now apply this formula.. honestly why wouldn't they?!
those new contributors can produce almost the same image quality, so why should SS loose 0.13 in every sale?!

fortunately the game doesn't end here,
it's just a matter of time and a margin call

Quote from: Ron on April 25, 2014, 19:01
I need 80 dollar for a BME, which is possible, if it doesnt go tits up like in the last week of last month.

And of course it went tits up. Very bad weekend. Which makes it almost impossible now.

April didn't start out very well, but the past week has been really good....I predict an increase of around 15%.

Still two and a half days to go but so far I have three new records for April at SS (despite the rubbish/unpredictable search thing thats going on)

BDE in terms of Revenue (broke that record on 18 April)
BDE in terms of Downloads (broke that record on 9 April)
BME in terms of Revenue (broke that record this morning) - previous highest revenue month was January 2014.

As of now, 75 Downloads short of BME in download terms for one month.

So am hoping to keeping up my average of 33 D/L per day (this month, incl. weekends) so should 'just' pip the previous DL record of 894 DL's in one month, that was last month, March 2014.

Even if that doesn't happen I'll be happy anyway

It's going very good for me ! Sales are going up !

Slow month for me.

Horribly slow for me as well. It is the Enhanced downloads that are missing for me - just one for the whole month whereas I got 8 in February. It must be that all my buyers of EDs have flocked to the Dollar Club at Fotolia to buy them there!

Steve

PS - on the good news side I just passed the $30K earnings level on Shutterstock over the weekend. Nothing happens, but it is nice to hit new thresholds

Quote from: steheap on April 28, 2014, 17:04
Horribly slow for me as well. It is the Enhanced downloads that are missing for me - just one for the whole month whereas I got 8 in February. It must be that all my buyers of EDs have flocked to the Dollar Club at Fotolia to buy them there!

Steve

PS - on the good news side I just passed the $30K earnings level on Shutterstock over the weekend. Nothing happens, but it is nice to hit new thresholds

Congrats.

Quote from: steheap on April 28, 2014, 17:04
It is the Enhanced downloads that are missing for me

+1

very slow month here as well. The enhanced downloads and extended licenses are missing. subs alone is very little money even if the volume is normal. also only one video download this month.

I can pretty well sum it up in two words ... it sucks!  Right now it looks like DT, IS and 123RF will outsell them this month.

very slow for me.

BME in $ by 18th of this month due to one big S.O.D and an E.L. Subtracting these from April would bring me out at about the same as last month (which was my previous BME) in $ and dl's.
So, April looking good.

Interesting.  Everyone seems to be having a BME or terrible month.  I'm not at either extreme.   Sales this month are better than the last few months, but still way off BME.

Similar results as Lisa for me (well, I am sure she has way better results) - but mine are better than the last few months but nowhere near a BME.

bme - less dl  - but few very very good sod sales

I am going to break even with previous BME or very close to it. Yesterday was a good day and made up for the weekend stinker. But the sales are extremely erratic lately that there is no way to call it these days.

I have to say though, sales were erratic across all agencies in April. Maybe its just that type of month for me.

BME in dl-s, only two big SOD,  earnings will not be BME, not enough sods.

Quote from: ethan on April 28, 2014, 13:26
Still two and a half days to go but so far I have three new records for April at SS (despite the rubbish/unpredictable search thing thats going on)

BDE in terms of Revenue (broke that record on 18 April)
BDE in terms of Downloads (broke that record on 9 April)
BME in terms of Revenue (broke that record this morning) - previous highest revenue month was January 2014.

As of now, 75 Downloads short of BME in download terms for one month.

So am hoping to keeping up my average of 33 D/L per day (this month, incl. weekends) so should 'just' pip the previous DL record of 894 DL's in one month, that was last month, March 2014.

Even if that doesn't happen I'll be happy anyway

Did it, in all four areas for April

New Best Day Ever in Revenue
New Best Day Ever in Downloads
New Best Month Ever in Downloads (just short of 1000)
New Best Month Ever in Revenue ($600)

Revenues up 392% from last April 2013 and up 16% from previous month, March 2014

I shall treat myself to a small beer a little later

BME thanks to one huge SOD but downloads are a bit down. When I dont upload new stuff, my DLs stagnate, when I upload, there is some growth. So its still "feed the beast" which works for me.

BME by $0.97