Posts Tagged ‘Photography’
Written by astoner on 02 March 2009
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.
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
Tags: earnings, make money online, microstock, online, Photography
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Written by astoner on 10 February 2009
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
Tags: free, free digital prints, Photography, prints
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Written by astoner on 06 February 2009
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
Tags: 123rf, microstock, Photography
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Written by astoner on 02 February 2009
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.
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
Tags: earnings, microstock earnings, Photography
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