May 2009 Earnings
Posted by mattantonino | Posted in Earnings, Results | Posted on 01-06-2009
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Total Earnings: $408.01
I knew this month was going to be bad about 1/3 of the way through when I was on my way to possibly a Worst Month Ever.? I didn’t quite get that far down as May finished just over $400 for my 4th worst month since I started tracking in detail.? I’m fairly certain it couldn’t get much worse so I’m looking for a REALLY huge bounceback month in June!
Onto the details.
One BME to report – StockXpert – at $44.50 was my BME.? I didn’t have a $30 Photos.com sale this time, like I did in November, so I’m pleased with that BME.
Canstock was also notable this month – fourth consecutive month over $10 and 3rd of 4 to have over $25.? Considering that in 4 months I have now more than doubled my previous 4 year earnings, I’m very pleased with Canstock.
Shutterstock had a worst month for the last 12.? My momentum was completely gone by the beginning of the month and sales were tanked.? Then we seemed to have some database/sales problem as EVERYONE’s early May tanked.? I’m very sure my new momentum uploading will rebound Shutterstock in a BIG way.? I wouldn’t be surprised for a very large jump here next month.
Dreamstime was also off – about $20-$25 off my average month.? Not good news as I have no idea what caused the drop.? Normally I have at least some explanation but not for this.? Just a seasonal dip perhaps as last May was very low.? I need to continue adding new images to DT as well though.
IStock – well I don’t know why I was at $17 and now I don’t know why I’m back to $4.? Either way if I don’t have more than 100 images online, my months are bound to vary from superb to suck.
Fotolia – after three good months on Fotolia, this month was so bad I had to double check my results and I’m STILL not sure it’s right.? Terrible month here.
123RF was near a BME but not quite.? Bigstock was SmallStock once again with terrible earnings.? Nothing at all on MostPhotos, Crestock, ImageCatalog, CutCaster, Vivo or YayMicro.? Don’t honestly know why I bother with most of those.
As they are throughout the month and at the end of every month, detailed results are available here.
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I am sure next month will be better, i will wait a bit before telling my earnings, they are ridiculous compare to yours..
cheers and a great week and month
so much fun to read your blog! thx for sharing!!
Hi, If you want, you can also add link to my earnings report: http://sellinggraphics.com/26/microstock-earnings-report-may-2009
May was BME for me (I’m selling on microstock for three years)…
Bring back the charts!!!
i love your blog!!! i just enjoy so much analysing each of your sales and agencies…lol
cheers and thanx for linking me to your website!!!!
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Lee,
All of the charts are there – just in one organized place.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pZEgM338rPYAiUQorCHGoYQ&hl=en
Under all-time earnings chart is a big one of my overall earnings. Under Recent Results is my May Earnings Chart and my 3-month-earnings chart. As you know, I don’t keep track of RPI as its useless.
I could put them in the post but I figure most of my figures are useless without ALL of the data – and keeping it in the spreadsheet makes sense to me as it puts it in perspective.
$100, $120, $27 – doesn’t make sense without the context, I think? You just want a prettier post, don’t you?
I’m not worried about how pretty the post is, I’m just lazy and want it all handed to me.
Good point about context though. Food for thought indeed.
What’s your reasoning behind SS bouncing back in June? Their search engine “upgrade” has just been plain wonky! “Newest” ends showing the same stuff day after day, “most popular” is somehow not the most popular, and sometimes our photos just plain don’t show up! I don’t see why they fixed what wasn’t broke. The way it used to work was that you ULed a crapload and made a crapload. Sadly those days seem to be gone.
Lee – good point about having it handed to you.
I’ll see what I can do.
G – I think they will bounce back because I had a terrible month, below expectations. That means they should resume expectations, good or bad. That’s one bounce. I am uploading consistently and gaining momentum – that’s two bounces. And I expect at least 1-2 EL which I didn’t get in May. That’s 3 bounces. I expect a HUGE SS bounce.
I am sure June will be up for you
You should really increase IS portfolio it can pay on the long run…
Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting
you missed Ximagination – the guy who one of the first started reporting microstock earnings:
http://www.dphotojournal.com/sell-photos-online/
Hi Matt
I Just checked my stockxpert account and a wierd message was waiting for me dated 15th june. Which i have emailed them about. But i was wondering if you knew what was going on. They were saying that because Getty has taken over them they are no longer contributing the photos.com and JLimages (or something like that from memory) and advise that i consider uploading my images to IS in future!!! What have i missed?
Steven.
Yep – that’s the way it is now. SXP is being “phased out.” Sucks, honestly. They’ve been on the rise for me.
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