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? Tomas Marek, Dreamstime.com

While NiltoMil covers a wide variety of topics from SEO on Technorati to shooting with models, the main point of its existence is to document our progress from $0 to $1,000,000.? As such, the end of the year is a good time for 2008 wrap up and goal setting for next year.
As of December 31st, our total earnings will be just a shade over $6,500.? While a decent amount of money, we will not get to $1,000,000 with years like that.? Obviously there’s? a need to greatly …

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? Tomas Marek, Dreamstime.com

It’s not quite the end of the year but it’s a great time to review my last year of microstock.
We were not microstocking in January or February. While we’d been part of this industry and have had images online since 2004, we uploaded very few new images in 2007 and the start of this year.
A conversation in late February prompted me to start researching more about microstock photography. I found out about the success of people like Yuri Arcurs, Andres Rodriquez, IOFoto and Vegas Visions …

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Leaf had an interesting question in the Microstock Group Forum – What are your lifetime microstock goals?
Like many photographers, my goal would be to travel all over the world. I would love to have the resources to drop everything, fly to Europe and shoot for a month. I would like to see Africa, revisit the Great Wall of China, freeze my butt off in Alaska. Life is not a journey, it?s an experience. For me, traveling would be that ultimate experience.
My top places to visit, not in any particular order:
1 …

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Shutterstock
1015
398.59

IstockPhoto
89
4.2

Dreamstime
1006
45.57

Fotolia
610
18.43

Bigstockphoto
1065
25

123RF
1133
22.65

StockXpert
791
9.6

FotoMind
1158
0.8

FeaturePics
1024
0

YayMicro
1161
0

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.
November 2008 Earnings
October 2008 Earnings
September 2008 Earnings
August 2008 Earnings
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I?m a chronic measurer.? I need to know how much, how long, how many, how can I?? I measure my speed editing weddings, I measure my speed editing a portrait shoot, I measure how many images we take vs. keep, how many we shoot at a portrait session vs. a stock session.? I measure EVERYTHING.? How long my cards take to DL, how long it takes LR to import them.? I can make better decisions if I have more information.
SO – one thing I have no information on is the …