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May 2010 Residual Internet Income

astoner — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:48:30 +0000

May was interesting. I actually did a good bit of writing but mostly for DemandStudios fixed price articles. But that isn’t really what I’m after, although the cash is nice. I had signed up for InfoBarrel before eHow shutdown their WCP so have started really writing there to try to build my residual income. When I get more details I may change the Adsense row in the table to more specifics, so far I haven’t actually earned anything from InfoBarrel, but I only had 2 articles up until a couple days ago.

The interesting part about May was the eHow earnings, they were at a monthly best. I have been adding some backlinks to the articles so don’t know if that was why or if the articles are aging in the search engines.

Site	Portfolio Size	Downloads	Earnings	Comments
Fotolia	177	2	$2.75
IStockPhoto	136	0	$0.00
ShutterStock	151	10	$4.13
Dreamstime	56	1	$0.35
123RF	239	0	$0.00
BigStockPhoto	46	0	$0.00
eHow Earnings	35	N/A	$8.94	gotta love those sweeps
DemandStudios Earnings	3	N/A	$0.00	$120 for fixed priced articles
Google Adsense	N/A	N/A	$6.38	This was a bit unusual, but hopefully it continues
Totals			$22.33

Allen

June 2009 Microstock Earnings

astoner — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:43:28 +0000

I made a little money in June, but it wasn’t much so I haven’t even bothered pulling them together. I am finally uploading some again so hopefully I’ll have some approved and get things rolling again.

Allen

Microstock Earnings May 2009

astoner — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:11:48 +0000

I suppose I’m taking a slight risk posting this before the actual end of the month, but I’m willing to take that chance. I’ll update the post if I actually get a Sunday download.

It’s now been two months since I’ve done any uploading of images. I’m actually really getting the itch to get back to uploading, just don’t have much time right now. The reason I want to get more pictures uploaded is because I’m really starting to see the financial effect a large, high quality microstock portfolio can have for me. Although I can’t really say my portfolio is large or high quality.

Site	Portfolio Size	Downloads	Earnings	Comments
Fotolia	172	2	$2.10
IStockPhoto	122	3	$3.42
Crestock	21	0	$0.00
ShutterStock	141	7	$1.75
Stockxpert	236	4	$5.90
Dreamstime	39	2	$0.95
123RF	239	0	$0.00
BigStockPhoto	46	0	$0.00
Totals	Avg. 125	18	$14.12

Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away

Allen

Microstock Earnings January 2009

astoner — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:11:58 +0000

January has been an interesting month. It started out with better downloads and a renewed commitment from me to keep more pictures uploaded consistently. I did pretty good for about a week! Actually I’m still trying to get into a routine of regularly shooting and uploading. My goal is to ten a week, but I’ve really only done that one week in January.

We just got back from a long weekend where I was doing a bunch of shooting. The down side is that it was at the beach and those shots are tough to get approved and selling. I doubt I came up with anything real original.

I did add another agency this past month, BigStockphoto, and I’ve actually had a couple downloads already.

Site	Portfolio Size	Downloads	Earnings	Comments
Fotolia	164	1	$0.99
IStockPhoto	100	0	$0.00
Crestock	21	0	$0.00
ShutterStock	131	18	$4.50
Stockxpert	177	3	$0.90
Dreamstime	39	0	$0.00
123RF	206	4	$2.08
BigStockPhoto	19	2	$1.50	New one in this month
Totals	Avg.107	28	$9.97

I’m glad to see I kept my average the same while adding a new site.

Here’s a couple other blogs I follow that report their earnings:

Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away

Allen

Microstock Earnings December 2008

astoner — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:28:46 +0000

December was really busy with Christmas and everything so not much happened. I hope people don’t find my numbers discouraging, especially since I don’t. I’ve not really been putting much time into this endeavor. I’m doing it more to learning something new and get better at photography.

Site	Portfolio Size	Downloads	Earnings	Comments
Fotolia	155	0	$0.00	Added one file, but no sales
IStockPhoto	98	0	$0.00
Crestock	21	0	$0.00
ShutterStock	111	11	$2.75
Stockxpert	152	2	$0.60
Dreamstime	39	0	$0.00
123RF	174	1	$0.36
Totals	Avg.107	23	$3.71

Here’s a couple other blogs I follow that report their earnings:

Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away

Allen

Microstock Earnings November 2008

astoner — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:16:39 +0000

Well it looks like around $10/month seems to be right about where I’m stuck on my microstock earnings. Last month I was disappointed with my earnings but this month I’m figuring that unless I step up my dedication and picture taking that’s about where I’m at. In November I got a total of 3 pictures added to Shutterstock and that’s all the new content I got added.

I didn’t even get any other posts made here, although I do have a couple more that I want to make.

Site	Portfolio Size	Downloads	Earnings	Comments
Fotolia	154	0	$0.00
IStockPhoto	96	0	$0.00
Crestock	21	0	$0.00
ShutterStock	109	27	$8.43
Stockxpert	152	2	$0.60
Dreamstime	38	0	$0.00
123RF	164	1	$1.20
Totals	Avg.104	23	$10.23

Here’s a couple other blogs I follow that report their earnings:

Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away

Allen

Microstock Earnings October 2008

astoner — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:17:50 +0000

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

Allen

Microstock Earnings September 2008

astoner — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:46:31 +0000

Didn’t do as poorly as what I had thought this month. Only loaded a couple images into ShutterStock and IStockphoto. My computer is currently getting rebuilt so that hasn’t been very helpful either. Hopefully I didn’t lose many pictures.

Site	Portfolio Size	Downloads	Earnings	Comments
Fotolia	148	5	$8.85	Sold another EL accounting for $6.60 of the total
IStockPhoto	86	5	$7.48
Crestock	21	0	$0.00	Still nothing, Didn’t even try to get my portfolio sized increased in Sept
ShutterStock	85	13	$3.25	Added the 10 new photos at the beginning of the month but nothing since
Stockxpert	107	4	$0.60
Dreamstime	34	1	$1.78
123RF	121	1	$1.29
Totals	Avg.86	29	$23.25

Here’s a couple other blogs I follow that report their earnings:

Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away
Captured Little Moments

Allen