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 busted through that barrier.

I know keeping $1000 per month is going to be a high barrier to climb over, especially for the next few months, but getting there once gives me hope that I can keep pushing stock higher and can keep selling images people want.  I need to make this a viable and reliable income source and at $550 it’s not. At $1500 I can rely on $1k of that.  The higher I get, the more I can afford to rely on stock and understand where my money is coming from.

I’m off to shoot! I need more images in my own queue. I’ve been consistently pushing iStock lately for all my iStock lovers, but honestly my images and their tastes don’t line up.  I’m not going to change my workflow for one site, even iStock.  I’ll eventually get 1000 images online there but … it’s a process.  I can tell you right now that pushing images to Alamy helped me more in 1 month than all the iStock I’ve ever done.

NiltoMil is BACK and so am I!  Regularly blogging, regular uploading – it’s like the good ole days!