Immediate goals
NiltoMil has always been based on goals so I figured I’d update you with some of my current N2M goals.
Edit and submit 80 more images for June.
Edit and submit 100 images in July.
Complete 8 more food shoots in June.
Complete 12 food shoots in July.
Catch up on small site submissions (DP, SF, etc.)
Submit 40 more iStock images in June.
Submit 100 iStock images in July.
Finish July with $1000+ in stock income.
Get at least 2 new advertisers for NiltoMil including a top banner advertiser to replace DepositPhotos.
We will revisit this post July 31st …
Taxes and weddings and biz plans, oh my!
So I know I’ve gone about two weeks since the last update.? I’m still here – it’s just that season.? We’ve been meeting with brides a lot, shooting some early season engagement sessions, finishing taxes for 2008 and yes, working on a business plan for a new software we are developing.? So let’s take that in order.
Brides and weddings and such are the main thrust of our business.? We own a studio of 4 photographers, each shooting 15-30 weddings a year.? I do all of the editing, most of the …
Powerweek v3 Results + Absense
Ok, I know Powerweek was over awhile ago and I haven’t written.? To be honest I needed time to think about my next steps.
Here’s what happened
I submitted 550 images in 4 days.? Easily enough to beat the 700 in 7 days mark.? The “fail” for Powerweek v3 was our image quality.? On day 4, we had a BUNCH of images reviewed across many sites.? And the results were absolutely terrible.? Not my editing, not my keywording – but I had 4000 trip images to sort through and many were unusable …
Powerweek, v3
What is a Powerweek?
Basically I’ve cleared my schedule for the next 7 days.? I will be doing *nothing* except microstock from Sunday March 8th through Saturday March 14th.? I will track the total number of images submitted to my top 10 agencies.
Why do it?
I think I can get 700 images up in one week and break 1000 for the month.? But it’s not been done.? As far as I know about, the record for NEW image uploads in one month to the top 10 agencies is 1035.? I would like …
Microstock: what bothers me
Most bloggers in microstock are very polite, respectful and friendly to everyone.?? I try to be the same but there are some times and some issues that push my buttons and I think it’s appropriate to respond to issues that come up.? I would like to say that I will talk to, help and work with any agency that wants to listen.? On the other hand, I don’t feel bad for the agencies that get upset by criticism and don’t change.
(Short version: I’m going to bust some chops.? Don’t like …
Rankings Charts
(chart taken from StockXpert top portfolios)
Figuring out where I rank on stock sites is a curiosity more than a necessity.? I don’t need to know – my goal is $1,000,000 regardless of whether Yuri or Lise has made $55,000,000 or what Lumaxart is doing.? However, it’s interesting to compare progress and see where we’re at and where we reach in what time periods.
Here are the tracking tools I’m aware of:
Istock Charts
Bigstock Gallery Size Listing
StockXpert Gallery Size Listing
(Araminta Studios has a great listing but it’s currently offline.)
As far as my own …
Looking ahead to 2009
? Tomas Marek, Dreamstime.com
While NiltoMil covers a wide variety of topics from SEO on Technorati to shooting with models, the main point of its existence is to document our progress from $0 to $1,000,000.? As such, the end of the year is a good time for 2008 wrap up and goal setting for next year.
As of December 31st, our total earnings will be just a shade over $6,500.? While a decent amount of money, we will not get to $1,000,000 with years like that.? Obviously there’s? a need to greatly …
Looking at 2008
? Tomas Marek, Dreamstime.com
It’s not quite the end of the year but it’s a great time to review my last year of microstock.
We were not microstocking in January or February. While we’d been part of this industry and have had images online since 2004, we uploaded very few new images in 2007 and the start of this year.
A conversation in late February prompted me to start researching more about microstock photography. I found out about the success of people like Yuri Arcurs, Andres Rodriquez, IOFoto and Vegas Visions …
I’m pending…
My remaining agencies are now full-up pending.
123RF – 100 pending
BigstockPhoto – 100 pending
Dreamstime – 108 pending
Fotolia – 5 pending (haha!)
Istock – ok 0 pending
Shutterstock – 100 pending
StockXpert – 84 pending
So now the only thing to do is wait.? Wait and keep editing, keywording and readying more files.? Just as a bonus, I’ve created the wild horse image in 900x600px as a free download for personal use only.? If you use a larger desktop and want a larger wallpaper version leave me a comment and …
Bottlenecking…again!
I’m on a bit of a Power Week v2 right now.? I’m trying to find out how many images I can get uploaded in a week – from editing, keywording, uploading & submitting.
Here’s the issue – you run into bottlenecks, tie-ups – places that slow you down.? It doesn’t matter where that place is, somewhere along the line you will hit it if you’re fast enough.? Does anyone remember Power Week v1?? My bottleneck was not having enough images to process.? I could literally edit images faster than Sarah & …
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