My new business doing SEO for wedding photographers has really taken off which left me with limited time to do stock this summer.  Given the typical summer slowdown, I’m ok with that.  Here are my new image upload numbers for 2011:

January – 80 images

February – 20 images

March – 0 images

April – 0 images

May – 0 images

June – 0 images

July – 0 images

Now, to be fair, I did “finish” some agencies.  I am completely caught up on Alamy, DepositPhotos, StockFresh, and several other small sites.  My time went mainly to finishing Alamy as that’s where my income has been building fastest.  But let’s not kid anyone – I’ve done *no* stock work other than blogging since early February.

So where does that leave July, 2011?  My microstock earnings were actually good this month.

Total earnings: $962.55

Right – that’s my 2nd best month ever for those keeping track at home.  I have zero momentum (which I know is huge) and I have virtually 0 new images.  That result makes me think I should be doing this job sometimes.  In 2011 I’ve made $5683.01 submitting just 100 new photos.  This is already my 2nd best year of the 5 I have results for.  By October it will be my best year ever, regardless of how things go for the next 2 months.  2011 is my best stock year ever despite 100 new uploads.  This is GOOD.

Who did what?  Well, Shutterstock was solid at $245.48.  That’s in the right range lately.  If I uploaded new images I know I could push them over $300 without much effort.  February (after my 80 January uploads) actually did go over $300.  Upload to SS, make money.  Simple, really.   Dreamstime was down – almost my worst month of the year.  Fotolia was solid as always.  123RF wasn’t perfect but the last few months have been so sky-high there that I may have set expectations too high.

Alamy sold very well – $356.60.  Not my best month at Alamy but very strong.  I’ve already seen an August Alamy download as well … did I mention I love Alamy?   I’ve only had images on Alamy since October and they’ve passed BSP, IS, SXP, CSP and all the small sites in earnings.  Interesting stat – in 8 months, Alamy has made me more money than 11 sites I submit to … combined … all time.  Can you say “waste of time?”  I knew you could.

Bigstock was just short of a BME.  Not bad for no new images.  Thinkstock/SXP had my worst month in 2011 at $21-ish.  iStock was down from April/May but up from June … I’ve started resubmitting there (work is done, just need to push) so hopefully I can start seeing increases there again.  Canstock had a fantastic month – almost BME.  DepositPhotos had another (for them) solid month.  Mostphotos tailed off again, one month after netting a near-BME.

Wow, long post!  Guess the earnings report was interesting this month.  Is now a good time to mention that I’m moving to Australia?  Talk to you all soon!