ArtsCow.com is offering a great deal on 8″ x 8″ photo books with 30 pages. They’re only $11.99 with free shipping. Here’s the codes you’ll need to use to get this price:
| Z232VLM | Apr/29/2009 |
They do expire April 29, 2009 so pick your code and go give it shot. I’m ordering mine as soon as I get my pictures uploaded!
Allen
I had a 30% increase in microstock earnings from January to February! Mathematically that’s an accurate statement, the reality is that my numbers are still too small to make any assumption from that,I went from under $10 to just over $13. Wah Huh! Sorry, I’m in a bit of a sarcastic mood.
My experiment on rf123 doesn’t really seem to have worked. The ones I donated to get downloaded several times, but I was hoping for some action on some of the similar ones. And BigStockPhoto didn’t do anything in February, like I had hoped it would after it’s good start.
| Site | Portfolio Size | Downloads | Earnings | Comments |
| Fotolia | 172 | 4 | $2.58 | |
| IStockPhoto | 101 | 2 | $1.97 | |
| Crestock | 21 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| ShutterStock | 140 | 16 | $4.00 | |
| Stockxpert |
234 | 6 | $2.50 | |
| Dreamstime | 39 | 1 | $1.67 | |
| 123RF | 221 | 1 | $0.36 | |
| BigStockPhoto | 37 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| Totals | Avg.121 | 30 | $13.08 |
When it comes right down to it, I had fun doing it and what ever money I make is a nice extra. Although that doesn’t mean I don’t plan to keep working at it and setting some goals although my 10/week is already shot.
Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away
Allen
That’s right, 1655 free digital prints!
I thought 200 free prints from Artscow was a lot previously, but I was going to update my free prints list and found that they are NOW offering 1200 free prints. That’s 600 free 4×6 prints and 600 free 5×7 prints. The one catch is you can only use 50 of each a month and have to pay shipping. That is 50 free digital prints a month for the next year. You’ll have to start taking more pictures.
With the Artscow offer I’m not sure why you’d use any of the other but I did verify that they still available. After my last post about this I did purchase quite a few prints and other products from Artscow and was very happy with the final products.
Allen
Just out of curiosity I tried donating an image last month on 123rf. I don’t know if that’s what helped me get the downloads that I did in January or not, but it was the best month I had there. So this month I’m donating several more with some thought involved in which ones I’m doing. Here are a couple of the images I’m donating.
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My thought process was that these are single images similar to several other in my portfolio, so the hope is that the buyers will like these images and want some other images that are similar. I also updated my ‘faved’ images which can also help with downloads.
I’m also trying to get more deliberate and consistent with my shooting and uploading. I’m also wondering a little if I shouldn’t do some purging of some of my original images. When I look back at them now I can’t believe they were even accepted.
Allen
