Microstock Earnings October 2008
OUCH! Last month I thought I did okay while not getting much work done on adding photos. Well this month I’ve done more to get pictures uploaded, but did quite a bit worse.
I think the next thing I need to work on is actually doing a shoot specifically for stock. Right now I’m taking opportune shots but not doing the work to do a shoot that ‘tells a story’ or is specific ‘concept’. Today I think I got some good fall decoration shots, but it’s really too late in the year for them to be of much value this year. Should I wait until next summer to upload them?
I did hit one of my goals of getting 100 images in my ShutterStock portfolio. I was hoping to get it done on IStockphoto as well but they’ve been so slow at reviewing I haven’t made it. And it has seemed that most of my images have been getting rejected anyway by IS.
| Site | Portfolio Size | Downloads | Earnings | Comments |
| Fotolia | 154 | 1 | $1.65 | |
| IStockPhoto | 93 | 4 | $5.55 | |
| Crestock | 21 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| ShutterStock | 106 | 18 | $4.50 | |
| Stockxpert |
152 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| Dreamstime | 38 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| 123RF | 164 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| Totals | Avg.104 | 23 | $11.70 |
Here’s a couple other blogs I follow that report their earnings:
Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away
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