It would be interesting to compare your months’ totals with the portfolio size and with monthly portfolio growth at each of the agencies.

If you look at Sheet 2 you can see my portfolio size at each agency each month. Just change the page at the bottom and you’ll see it.

Got it! Is it possible to rename sheets in Google Spreadsheets similarly to Excel? Just to avoid blind sheet 1, sheet 2 etc…

BTW I am surprised that your performance at Stockxpert is so low. I am earning several times more there with much smaller portfolio (about 800 pics).

For you, I can! Check it.

I’m not sure about SXP – is it one of those places where images take awhile to season in, like Dreamstime? My DT earnings doubled over the last 4 months with NO new uploads. Just seasoning.

Thanks for sharing Matt. The seasoning point is interesting. Also, I think you’re spot on about focusing on a select few agencies. It’s unfortunately the chicken and egg problem facing new agencies. It’s a pain in the ass to upload/submit files. If they don’t have files, they don’t have buyers, and if they don’t have buyers, they won’t get files. The classic empty database problem.

Good luck with the power week.

Rahul

Yeah there are a few sites where “seasoned” images do much better than new. Shutterstock is ALL about new images. Everyone knows that. What people don’t always get is that DT and FT work opposite. Basically when your image hits a certain # of downloads, it’s “Level” goes up. Higher level images are worth more so the first 1-5 hits for EVERY image sells very cheap and keeps your earnings low. The more Level 2-5 images you have instead of 1400 L1 images, the more you make everytime something sells.

Looks like SS is rocking for you. I have off and on followed your results, and it is interesting how we parallel on some sites and are wildly different on others. I expect you to totally eclipse me everywhere soon though, I just don’t have the same photo-work ethic. Thanks for posting up the info, it is good to see. I post my month to month vague results here:

http://www.electricant.net/grundyman/microstockresults.html

SXP has started to move for me after about a year, so maybe it does need to “season”. I often think of SS as the short term reward to keep the uploading motivation and the other sites provide the long term reward. Then there is IS, but that is another story. Anyway, keep up the good work and thanks for posting.

–=Tom