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…

 Focus On         2 comments

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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This week’s royalty free images of the week theme is Space! I give you the moon, the stars and … what the heck is that?

 Monthly Results         2 comments

June 2011 was a fantastic month here at NiltoMil.  Actually, it was my second best month ever.  Now, for new readers – when I say ever, I joined stock agencies in 2006.  So I’m at about 55 months and though I didn’t really begin stock work until early 2008 (39 months ago) to have my second highest earning month ever is pretty fabulous.
The total for the month, though not another $1k month like February, was $847.04
Highlights for the month include:

BME at 123RF for the 2nd time in 3 months. For …

 Micro Tricks & Tips         4 comments

It’s a Tineye-type Firefox or Chrome extension so I added it and rebooted Firefox. Right click an image and under TinEye is the new Google Images context menu.

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One of my goals has been to complete the 31 Days to a Better Blog project from ProBlogger. I didn’t know I could feel so far “ahead” on work for the blogs.

 Challenges         2 comments

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 …

 Micro Tricks & Tips         3 comments

Over the last 3+ years I’ve written a lot of posts for the new microstock photographer. Everything from how to get your first 10 images accepted to the Long Tail of Microstock. This is an index of those microstock blog posts for new photographers and new microstock artists.

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I only seem to post these type of posts once a year but now is as good a time as any. If you’d like to follow along with NiltoMil without opening your browser to my page every single time:

 NiltoMil News         6 comments

I feel like I’m making slight progress lately. Alamy, iStock and some smaller stocks are progressing well.