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How did your forecast turn out? We ask Steve Debenport!

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Shelma1:
What I find sad about the article is that he lost income, then ramped up production in order to regain his earnings...how long is that sustainable? There'll come a point when so many images are being produced that there's simply no way to keep up any more. (I think that point has been reached already.)

pics2:
I find his move anything but sad. He is making tens of thousands $ a month. It doesn't have to sustainable for ages, 5-10 years is enough for him to retire. Actually, I think he already can. He is not doing it for community's higher cause.

tätarätä:
Closed my istock account some months ago. Nowadays microstock earnings depends at the luck of some larger sales.
Meaning without some larger sales every month microstock is death.
It still may work some time for exclusive contributors. But istock, or exclusivity - no thanks.

Shelma1:

--- Quote from: pics2 on July 20, 2020, 11:07 ---I find his move anything but sad. He is making tens of thousands $ a month. It doesn't have to sustainable for ages, 5-10 years is enough for him to retire. Actually, I think he already can. He is not doing it for community's higher cause.

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How do you know? Tens of thousands a month sounds like a lot, but if you have staff salaries and high equipment, model/actor and location costs to pay, you’re not making all that much yourself. People who live in expensive areas like New York and make 20K per month are just managing to pay their sky high rents or mortgages and property taxes.

ShadySue:

--- Quote from: Shelma1 on July 21, 2020, 04:49 ---
--- Quote from: pics2 on July 20, 2020, 11:07 ---I find his move anything but sad. He is making tens of thousands $ a month. It doesn't have to sustainable for ages, 5-10 years is enough for him to retire. Actually, I think he already can. He is not doing it for community's higher cause.

--- End quote ---

How do you know? Tens of thousands a month sounds like a lot, but if you have staff salaries and high equipment, model/actor and location costs to pay, you’re not making all that much yourself. People who live in expensive areas like New York and make 20K per month are just managing to pay their sky high rents or mortgages and property taxes.

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Yes indeed: turnover is vanity, only profit is sanity. So everything depends on whether the 'tens of thousands $ a month' is gross or net.

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