January 2009 Earnings
Posted by mattantonino | Posted in Earnings, N2M, Results | Posted on 01-02-2009
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January – blessed January!? How do I love thee?
It was absolutely fantastic to get back to uploading with any sense of regularity.? I only uploaded about 200 new images during our busy bridal show/booking month but 200 is more than enough to get me back on track!
As always, our spreadsheet of microstock earnings is here.
The January numbers were great!? In fact, this was our best month since I stopped uploading last July (other than the ridiculous ELs from SS in Nov (3 of them!)? The final total for all this excitement was 424.82
To put that in perspective for us, Shutterstock was actually down a few dollars.? We had SIX BMEs – Dreamstime, IStock, FeaturePics, Crestock, ImageCatalog and SnapVillage.? Also, StockXpert would have been a BME but we had an EL in Nov.? Our old BME was $19.10 though and so this month’s $30 would have destroyed that!
IStock – no clue.? No new images but it was almost TWICE my BME.? I’ve had almost that many images online for FOUR YEARS and never gone up over $10 really.? $17 was a huge leap.? There’s some speculation that it was a result of all their Best Match changes.? We’ll see if it continues (plus I’m going to be uploading to IStock this month like mad so we’ll see if that helps!)
FeaturePics had a … slightly insane month!? I actually repriced all of my images to $10 from $2 before.? I only had 2 sales but those 2 sales resulted in $15.75, or 61% of my all-time FeaturePics earnings.? It was TRIPLE my prior BME.? I’m going to be working on some ideas to push my FeaturePics gallery around the next 6 months so we’ll see if I can’t keep getting a few sales there each month at the new price.
Check out my Fotolia gallery size increase on the spreadsheet – from 465 last April to 646 as of Dec 31st to 1350 as of tonight!? I over doubled my Fotolia gallery in one month!? The power of the push, I guess.? I worked hard on Fotolia (while watching TV) so we’ll hope that pays off over this month and beyond.
Other interesting bits – I passed 2,000 images on FotoMind and MostPhotos and will pass it on a bunch of other sites this month.? Gotta keep pushing!? You’ll note there are *new* agencies on the list – more on that in a future post…
My BME total is $575.46 and I’ll state for the record now that I hope February can beat that.? I’m only $150 away so I think I can make that up without much problem.? I wouldn’t be surprised to go well over $600.? I have a big month ahead – some news coming soon on our next stock photo trip as well!
Other sites reporting earnings:
Any I’m missing?? This list is getting rather comprehensive!
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Hey, looks like you are doing well
Cool stuff, I’ve got some uploading done this month, a bunch of rejects at iStock that are being accepted elsewhere.
Had a nice EL sale at DT which bumped me up $25 on a file that had previously never sold there. I need a consistent effort on my part to keep uploading and keywording/ editing.
When I have time free I want to do some Fotolia maintenance too and give some of my older files some keyword priority as I never bothered sorting them when I first started uploading. I feel sure that it would improve matters… and don’t forget to use and refresh the ‘Favourites’ at 123rf!
Hope your Feb goes well.
Great results! I have similar results in DT (scaled down to the size of my portfolio).
I am a little surprised that you didn’t get more from SS with your portfolio and nearly 200 new pictures. I got $215 in January with ~800 pictures online and ~100 new pictures (no people shots).
my January earnings post:
http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/microstock-photography-earnings-january-2009/
Your numbers are looking great Matt!