Licensing on my own sites
When I license my own images directly I am looking for 3 things: 1. A fair commission rate. 2. A decent price. 3. No categories. Easy upload. Fair reviews.
BME in 12 days, onto $1k
Just a quick note, mainly for my own historical records. I passed my best month ever on Friday. That’s a best MONTH in only 12 days with 16 left this month. I am already at $844.10 which is nearly $55 over my previous BME. With Shutterstock and Dreamstime doing very well this month and Bigstock, 123 and Istock picking up just a little and even sites like GraphicLeftovers and 3dStudio just destroying all expectations, I’m going to FLY past $1000 this month. It will be (obviously) the first time I’ve …
February, Alamy and DIY lighting
Alamy has just busted out for me. Overnight I had $360 worth of sales. That’s more in one day than 13 agencies have done for me all time! Alamy will finally owe me a payout…
Fun food catchup
Today is just a day when I want to remember where I am at this point in my food photography career. I think I’ve worked hard on food and even though I know some of you loyal readers doubted me, I’m making it work.
Time’s a wastin’
Some time ago I wrote a post called “No Mas” and listed agencies I was quitting uploads to unless sales increased. Now I have new decisions to make.
Goodbye 2010!
Submissions History
2008: 1801 submissions
2009: 1505 submissions
2010: 970 submissions
2011: GOAL: 2000 submissions
So clearly 2010 was my worst year of actually doing stock work in the three years I’ve been serious about it. Yes, there were TONS of reasons for that but ultimately, I didn’t really work on stock this year. In 2008 I shot almost 35 weddings and still managed to do double the submissions!
Yes, this year sucked for me personally. I basically lost everything and started completely from scratch. When I left my business, my family and my life in …
I want to be a reviewer. Hire me!
Yes, this is an odd post by me but I do, indeed, want to be a reviewer for one of the micros. Tons of reasons, none of which includes this blog. I am looking for a decent reviewing job with plenty of images to review and decent money to be made. Nothing I see on the reviewer side will ever hit this blog. I’m not looking for a story – I’m looking for a job.
If your company is hiring reviewers, hire me! I have over 5 yrs in micro, a …
The problem with being me.
So I have a problem and I know it. I’m addicted to organization. How is this a problem? It means I can’t free flow and do the “right” thing – I have to do the organized thing. The way this relates to stock … (click read more!)
New look & course correction
For those of you who still read on the site (and it’s a lot of you, surprisingly!) I’ve redone the look of Niltomil. I am making many more changes but wanted to get the site back online as soon as possible. The Agencies page has been updated and fixed. I will also be fixing the Income Results page as well as back-posting several old monthly earnings post including October 2010. I’ll have a full list of those posts once they’re all done.
The focus of NiltoMil is returning to earnings, tricks, …
Catching up…
Right now I am very behind on my stock work. I have been running around like crazy since before I left for my trip, then I had a 10 day trip to Florida to shoot a wedding. I just got back and have been flat out busy since. Once again, editing and keywording has gone by the wayside. I *really* need some consistency to gain traction.
In good news, I sold my first image on Alamy and profited $36.22 I’m pretty sure I have 6 months worth of some agencies that …
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