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Can you still make passive income in microstock in 2012? Statistics say you can still make money in microstock photography.

 Monthly Results         3 comments

I haven’t been uploading but my microstock earnings were actually good for July. Total earnings were … $962.55, with Shutterstock and Alamy pushing me forward as always…

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Steve is a photographer I met through his blog a couple months ago while reading about Photocase. I read his microstock book, Getting Started in Stock, and thought he’d be a great first photographer feature.

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These are some of the tips I’ve picked up along the way that help me earn more microstock money now than ever before. Note: not all these tips will apply to everyone. Some are basic. Like always, take what works and discard the rest.

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NiltoMil has always been based on goals so I figured I’d update you with some of my current N2M goals.

Edit and submit 80 more images for June.
Edit and submit 100 images in July.
Complete 8 more food shoots in June.
Complete 12 food shoots in July.
Catch up on small site submissions (DP, SF, etc.)
Submit 40 more iStock images in June.
Submit 100 iStock images in July.
Finish July with $1000+ in stock income.
Get at least 2 new advertisers for NiltoMil including a top banner advertiser to replace DepositPhotos.

We will revisit this post July 31st …

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Some time ago I wrote a post called “No Mas” and listed agencies I was quitting uploads to unless sales increased. Now I have new decisions to make.

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Submissions History
2008: 1801 submissions
2009: 1505 submissions
2010: 970 submissions
2011: GOAL: 2000 submissions

So clearly 2010 was my worst year of actually doing stock work in the three years I’ve been serious about it.  Yes, there were TONS of reasons for that but ultimately, I didn’t really work on stock this year.  In 2008 I shot almost 35 weddings and still managed to do double the submissions!
Yes, this year sucked for me personally.  I basically lost everything and started completely from scratch.  When I left my business, my family and my life in …

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So I have a problem and I know it. I’m addicted to organization. How is this a problem? It means I can’t free flow and do the “right” thing – I have to do the organized thing. The way this relates to stock … (click read more!)

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For those of you who still read on the site (and it’s a lot of you, surprisingly!) I’ve redone the look of Niltomil.  I am making many more changes but wanted to get the site back online as soon as possible.  The Agencies page has been updated and fixed. I will also be fixing the Income Results page as well as back-posting several old monthly earnings post including October 2010.  I’ll have a full list of those posts once they’re all done.
The focus of NiltoMil is returning to earnings, tricks, …

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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 …