Yes!  Things are definitely picking up here at N2M!  It feels great to be doing this job and working hard to make the income I’ve always wanted from it!

July and August were a time of transition.  If you remember, I made $790 and BME in March.  Since then, I’ve  moved out of my house, moved to Maine, restarted my wedding & portrait business AND tried to do stock full time.  Something had to give and as always it was stock.  It plummeted to the point where I made 600 then 500 and last month a very low $461.91.

This month is the exact opposite.  I skipped 500 and 600 on the way back up, though.  I plan to be WELL over $700 again this month, maybe even $800 and if luck and fate smile on me, I will reach $1k next month.  Momentum is building and I can feel my life shifting!

Shutterstock is already way over last month ($50+), 123RF is already ahead of last month, Dreamstime is WAY ahead of last month… It’s going to be a heck of a finish to August!

BRING IT ON September!

Very late, I know.? I went to Maine for two weeks near the end of July and was basically non-existent on the ‘net for that time!? Sorry.

July 2009 results

As always the fastest and easiest way to see stats is on the spreadsheet using the above link.? However, I’ll detail a bit of my month in here as well.

July total was $543.49 which was almost up $100 from June ($88!).? I’ll take that result.? However, only DT was a BME.? Shutterstock accounted for a lot of the leap with a gain of $42 over June.? Dreamstime’s $52 gain was the rest.? IS, FT, 123, BSP, SXP were all where I expected them to be.? MostPhotos gained one sale and Canstock continued to do very well for me despite having been so quiet for so long netting another $34.60.

3 month average is down slightly because of the terrible May I had.?? 6 month average is up $20 but 12 month is right about where it’s been for the whole time I’ve tracked it.? Kind of disappointing.? My results near the point where the goal looks near impossible now.? $6k a year will never get me there.? I need to crank up the earnings or abandon hope.? The two do not make sense together as is.? In the past 14 months, 12 have earned between $400 and 580.? That’s fairly consistent but not high enough by a lot.

Total Earning: $555.49

So April was both a good month and a bad month, depending on your point of view.?? The good news is that my earnings rose $5 even with a sizable drop from SS, IS, and FT.? Last month those three combined for $340 while this month just $289.? However, Dreamstime recovered up $13 and Canstock and Bigstock had a BME.

My gallery size stayed very near the same numbers as March as SS went up 27, DT 26 and SXP 72.? So that is mainly the bad news.

The good news is that April marks the first time *ever* I have had three $500 months in a row and both my 3 and 6 month averages are the highest they have ever been.? I haven’t beaten my overall BME yet in 2009 but it is reachable for May.? My 3 month average is up $35 from last month, my 6 month is up $25 and my 12 month is up $26.? While not amazing numbers they are all UP.

Two Best Month Ever’s – the previously mentioned Bigstock and the upcoming Canstockphoto.? Prior to Feb. 1, 2009 I had *total* made rougly $60.70 over FOUR years.? In the last 3 months, I have earned $93.70!? Yes, Canstock is back.? In fact, my 3 month average at Canstock is $22.43 which is my 5th best agency of 18.

As they are throughout the month and at the end of every month, detailed results are available here.

Others reporting microstock income:

Microstock Diaries

jrtb

CJ Photography

Driftless Ramblings

PDTNC

MelastMohican

Pixels Away

Bankizdjec

Microstock Experiment

MyStockPhoto

Did I miss any?? Comment below and I’ll add you for next month!

Don’t be surprised if the overall layout of NiltoMil changes soon – I’ve seen some really great looking sites and I think I know how I want to make this easier for me to post more content.? That would seem to be the goal so I will look into it.

* NOTE: I had to change Canstock stats after this post was release.? At 11:55pm last night I had a Canstock Medium FotoSearch sale for $26.40 which drastically changed some info and resulted in this being my 2nd best month ever.

Yes!? My goal was to hit $500 for only the third month ever (first since my BME last July) and I did it!

Full earnings spreadsheet is here.

With February’s income totaled, I have reached $508.89

BME: IStock, Fotolia, CanStock (DT $1.10 off)

Shutterstock went up $45 this month, a decent start but not where I want to be.? I expect Shutterstock to be well into the $300s for March.? I am starting to gain traction there again so I hope to regain my momentum.

Dreamstime nearly hit a? BME but failed by $1.10 to reach it.? It was my third month in four with basically $103.

IStock is the same old, same old.? Still 89 images but a new BME of $17.81 so whatever change they made to Best Match has helped me lately.? My last two months are my best two months in 4 years.

Fotolia did the expected and more than doubled this month due to my doubling of portfolio size.? Last month I went from 646 images online to 1350 and now at 1599 so a huge leap from Fotolia was expected and received.? Fotolia became just my third agency to start crossing the $50 barrier.

123RF and Bigstock did about usual.? No surprises.? I would like to see some growth though.? These two were earning $22-30 for me in June and same now but I’ve added nearly 800 new images!

StockXpert continues to improve.? my second $30+ in a row with only my EL month beating it (2nd BME).? I like the reviews there, I’m climing up their user charts and everything is starting to go well for me there.

The only other real surprise this month was Canstock.? I have been dumping my portfolio on Canstock because of the new Fotosearch acquistion of CSP and so far so great!? My previous *FOUR YEAR* earnings were $61 on around 125 images and lately on 470 images.? I finished uploading my portfolio so I now have just over 2000 images there and this month made $26.55 which is HALF of my all-time earnings there!? It won’t make me rich but it’s a start for Canstock.? When Canstock finishes 5th on your list, you know something is weird!

Yaymicro, FotoMind, MostPhotos and most of my small and new sites (Image Catalog, CutCaster, Vivozoom) all were at $0 for the month.? When I do Powerweek I will NOT be uploading to those sites.

Microstock Diaries

jrtb

CJ Photography

Microstock Junction

Driftless Ramblings

PDTNC

MelastMohican

Pixels Away

Bankizdjec

Microstock Experiment

So here are those delayed results – July was a BME! Crazily, Dreamstime was amazingly good. 123RF also had a BME. Not bad for as little work as I did. August is worse for my schedule. I can?t WAIT until October.

Total – $575.46

So I didn?t beat Lee this month?dang!

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Simple and to the point this month, like my month of work.

Overall gallery increased from 5777 to 9052 but that was mostly the result of adding YayMicro and 1100 images as well as pending May images finally being reviewed.

Overall income increased to a record $524.84 and 5 agencies had a Best Month Ever despite me doing basically no work.? Not a bad month, but I hope to dramatically improve it in July.? That was disappointing.

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