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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

Got first & second payouts for microstock!

astoner — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:18:45 +0000

It took a lot longer than I care to admit but I finally got my first payouts from Fotolia & Shutterstock. Both were at their minimums, but it is still an accomplishment. Earnings are still way down as I’m not contributing very aggressively. I have submitted a couple batches to Shutterstock just to have most if not all rejected. Need to put more focus into it than I have lately.

Not adding much to microstock right now

astoner — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:26:52 +0000

As you can see from my lack of posts on my earnings lately, I’ve not been focused on microstock right now. Still getting a couple downloads, actually approaching the first payout on a site or two. Still want to get back to doing some shooting and uploading, just haven’t had the time lately.

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 April 2009

astoner — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:04:30 +0000

Did not get many pictures uploaded this month. My earnings were actually better this month with some activity finally picking up at IStockPhoto. I’m actually starting to get close to a pay out on a couple of the sites. It’s only taken me about two years.

Site	Portfolio Size	Downloads	Earnings	Comments
Fotolia	172	3	$0.90
IStockPhoto	122	6	$7.15
Crestock	21	0	$0.00
ShutterStock	141	9	$2.25
Stockxpert	236	1	$0.30
Dreamstime	39	0	$0.00
123RF	239	0	$0.00
BigStockPhoto	46	0	$0.00
Totals	Avg. 125	19	$10.60

Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away

Allen

Microstock Earnings March 2009

astoner — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:10:44 +0000

Up last month, down drastically this month, although my numbers aren’t big enough to draw any sort of conclustion from. Sorry it’s a couple days late.

Site	Portfolio Size	Downloads	Earnings	Comments
Fotolia	172	2	$1.50
IStockPhoto	108	0	$0.00
Crestock	21	0	$0.00
ShutterStock	141	10	$2.50
Stockxpert	234	4	$1.20
Dreamstime	39	1	$0.35
123RF	239	1	$0.36
BigStockPhoto	46	0	$0.00
Totals	Avg. 125	18	$5.91

Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away

Allen

Microstock Earnings February 2009

astoner — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:57:40 +0000

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

Microstock site 123rf.com

astoner — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:47:52 +0000

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.

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

Best Selling Stock Photographer Yuri Arcurs

astoner — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:49:27 +0000

One of the things I like about the microstock world is the openness and helpfulness of everyone. Now I just saw this, a video post from Yuri Arcurs about how he shoots. It appears that this is the first of what is going to be a series of posts. If you don’t know who Yuri is, you will, if you’re at all involved in microstock photography.

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