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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: Mactrunk on July 12, 2013, 11:24
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Number of downloads are amazing at SS this month! I'm 46% up compared to the first 12 days from last month. I was afraid that summer might be bad for sales. I did not upload 46% extra so buyers are buying more. Are others seeing the same? I hope it stays like this or is july normaly a good month at SS? It's my first year there.
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Did you go up from 1 to 2 sales, or from 100 to 146 sales?
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My sales are down but doubt its of any statistical significance
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Yes. Just you.
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:)
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Did you go up from 1 to 2 sales, or from 100 to 146 sales?
368 at this point. Last month my first 12 days gave me 246 sales. For me its a huge difference. I don't have a port of thousants of images just 435. So I hope it will stay like this. :D I am growing about 100 extra downloads average every month since I bought my home studio. This makes creating more images allot easyer but it's not only my new work. Older images seem to sell better all of the sudden.
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I'm pretty sure that some people there are having bad months, some are having good months and some are having average months. I am somewhere between the last 2
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Did you go up from 1 to 2 sales, or from 100 to 146 sales?
ha! good one.
I'm still on 0 at GL so I can't wait to announce I've made infinity % improvement.
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Did you go up from 1 to 2 sales, or from 100 to 146 sales?
368 at this point. Last month my first 12 days gave me 246 sales. For me its a huge difference. I don't have a port of thousants of images just 435. So I hope it will stay like this. :D I am growing about 100 extra downloads average every month since I bought my home studio. This makes creating more images allot easyer but it's not only my new work. Older images seem to sell better all of the sudden.
Seriously impressive and I am doing something wrong
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You seem to be doing phenomenally well with 368 sales from 450 image. I'm at 500 sales from 4000 images, so good luck to you!
Is it your portfolio with the stuffed bears in different posed positions? Nice idea.
Steve
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Shutterstock is like Old Faithful for me. Generally does the same every month, never fails to be consistent. Kind of wish they'd up the commission a bit, but its always been the same and unchanging which is nice.
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Had an INCREDIBLE start to the month at SS this month. In the first 12 days I've nearly made as much as I did last month! Not so much due to a huge spike in downloads, but to a good number of ED's and SOD's for good $$.
Already will be a BME, but if the same pace were to keep up for the rest of the month the records will be getting smashed, not just broken.
Agree with Leo, it's always a pretty consistent earner usually. And a HUGE +1 on the upping commissions, this would cement their place as a crowd favourite if they did.
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Okay month so far and I am selling photos of my house with snow on it - go figure, snow pics selling in early July?
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Okay month so far and I am selling photos of my house with snow on it - go figure, snow pics selling in early July?
I've been selling Xmas images every week. although mine are summer xmas images, and I suppose you could 'shop out the xmas bit and have a summer image as a bonus.
Plus, there's also the fact that it is winter on half the planet... ::)
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There must have been a search engine change then. My sales are noticeably slow at SS this month. I was assuming it was summer slump, but if others are having a good month then it's more likely a search change.
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There must have been a search engine change then. My sales are noticeably slow at SS this month. I was assuming it was summer slump, but if others are having a good month then it's more likely a search change.
I'd agree with that - after a strong month in June with lots of OD's this month has been slogging along at a much slower pace.
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The first 12 days of July should not have been typical. For one thing, so far July has had 10 weekdays and only two weekend days, which should help the sales total a lot. On the other hand, the first week included Independence Day in the US.
As for me, so far July at SS is a little down :P
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Im on 100 dls so far this month, from 300 images online. Seems same as last month, but more old stuff selling this month.
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Surely not me
But I am happy for you!
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Sales of 'new' stuff off a cliff for the last month......
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There must have been a search engine change then. My sales are noticeably slow at SS this month. I was assuming it was summer slump, but if others are having a good month then it's more likely a search change.
This is my experience.
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Did you go up from 1 to 2 sales, or from 100 to 146 sales?
368 at this point. Last month my first 12 days gave me 246 sales. For me its a huge difference. I don't have a port of thousants of images just 435. So I hope it will stay like this. :D I am growing about 100 extra downloads average every month since I bought my home studio. This makes creating more images allot easyer but it's not only my new work. Older images seem to sell better all of the sudden.
I am 10% up...
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Yup, I've seen some kind of growth compared to the last two months, but my sales still can't compare with March and April which were my best months ever sales wise. And I added a lot of pictures since then...
But I'm happy! I got my first EL last month and my first SOD this month ( 4 dollars ). Things are beginning to be the way I was imagining they were going to be.
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There must have been a search engine change then. My sales are noticeably slow at SS this month. I was assuming it was summer slump, but if others are having a good month then it's more likely a search change.
My best seller went from the first page "above the fold" on my laptop screen to page 2 (and sales have plummeted accordingly).
The last 3 weeks have been pretty sad on the "overall earnings" graph.
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Did you go up from 1 to 2 sales, or from 100 to 146 sales?
368 at this point. Last month my first 12 days gave me 246 sales. For me its a huge difference. I don't have a port of thousants of images just 435. So I hope it will stay like this. :D I am growing about 100 extra downloads average every month since I bought my home studio. This makes creating more images allot easyer but it's not only my new work. Older images seem to sell better all of the sudden.
I'd love to see your port
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I'd love to see your port
+1
Please share a link!
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not that hard to find, haven't you guys heard of Google?
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Not having a lot of luck searching for "Mactrunk" - doesn't pull up anything on ss either. Unless I just don't get something here.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mactrunk+istockphoto (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mactrunk+istockphoto)
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I admire such poor searching skills really ([url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-809503p1.html[/url] ([url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-809503p1.html[/url]))
LOL - that's pretty funny - had to chuckle. Thanks, though :-)
Edited to add (after looking at his port):
Wow - with so many images of stress, pain, abuse, bullying, sleeplessness, anxiety, etc.... it makes you wonder about today's world, huh? I mean, that those types of images would sell so well. (Please note, this is NOT intended as a comment on the images, but rather a comment on what buyers must be looking for these days)
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There must have been a search engine change then. My sales are noticeably slow at SS this month. I was assuming it was summer slump, but if others are having a good month then it's more likely a search change.
Same here!
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I admire such poor searching skills really
Shouldn't you leave it up to the person who owns the port to post a link to their content themselves?
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I admire such poor searching skills really
Shouldn't you leave it up to the person who owns the port to post a link to their content themselves?
Shouldn't you leave it up to the person whose port was outed to do the complaining questioning? :P
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I did want to stay anonamous. I'm suprised that an anonamous person is now sharing my port and would have apriciated it if you would have waited for my reply if I wanted to share. :( But I do understand you guys want to see it. I guess you are will be sharing your port to now?
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Absolutely - it is a fine example of exactly what NOT to do.
http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?gallery_id=3472 (http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?gallery_id=3472)
1870 images and a $5.00 day is a good day for me. Not that I haven't had much better days, but they are the exception rather than the rule.
Now, I understand that of that 1870 images, a great number of them are a niche market, so let's say, maybe 1200-1300 images and a $5.00 day is a good day for me. You are doing quite well, so I was curious to know what you do that does so well. Certainly nothing I can compete with - I, myself, am not a good model, nor do I have access to many that are. You have shots that show distinct concepts - good job!
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Thanks for the compliment but the reason I am doing well is why I wanted to stay a bit low profile. I do think you understand just a little? Some members send private messages to me and I shared my port and info. So it's not that I'm living in a stock cave but I am verry afraid of copycats. They could kill a bestseller if done right and having my earnings and now my port in the open at the same time is a bit scary to be honnest.
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I did want to stay anonamous. I'm suprised that an anonamous person is now sharing my port and would have apriciated it if you would have waited for my reply if I wanted to share. :( But I do understand you guys want to see it. I guess you are will be sharing your port to now?
you gotta be kidding, your nickname here is the same as agency (actually at the first page Steve said that as well)
I am not anonymous, google jeez
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I forgot about istock! :-X Never upload there since downloads are horribele there. There goes anonymous. Your right about that. They are the only one were I couldnt get my other name. I guess I havnt been that anonymous as I thought. Well oke then. Thats my port and it does pretty well I think. :)
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Thanks for the compliment but the reason I am doing well is why I wanted to stay a bit low profile.
you wanted to stay unnoticed by posting what a great month you are having? ???
ps. love your port.
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All of us who have the little icons below our messages are already sharing our ports with everybody here, and obviously if we're building SYS sites of our own, we're sharing them with others.
I think anonymity is much overrated, which is why I always use my actual name.
You really do have a nice port, Mr. Anonymous. I'm way too much of a niche shooter (North American wildlife) to ever have that kind of sales.
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Thanks for the complements. I guess you are all right. I know there was no bad intention and I think I might be worying to much of copying.
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My earnings are up 36 percent over the same period last month.
Last month was a BME in terms of total downloads for me.
I always do better in the summers. My December sales are horrible, though. Will drop 50 percent in December.
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Definitely when they monkey with the search engine all kinds of things happen. Last month or so, on a Monday, everyone on the forum was complaining about low sales while I had 27 sales in a hour! What a fluke. It was my best day ever. Ended up with over 30 sales that day but it only lasted that day.
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Same old terrible sales despite having a lot of images accepted this year. I get the downloads but at 33 cents here and there it's ridiculous. Even with the current state of IS it still earns me far more than SS but perhaps not for long the way things are going at IS.