Thanks to a little prodding from Rahul at Lookstat I’ve come up with an easy way to startup an advertisement on NiltoMil.  This year we’re going to work on filling these ugly black squares with some great advertisers who can offer NiltoMil readers something worth having (I’m not going to approve any ads for junky stuff.)

So the new page is at
http://www.niltomil.com/advertising

All of the options now include a 1 month, 6 month and 12 month price.  We are offering a free trial on ALL subscriptions. For month-by-month subscribers, you will get a free week trial.  For 6 month and 12 month subscribers, you will get the first month free.  So if you’re interested in being in front of the NiltoMil readers please hit that page up and we’ll get you running!

Note: pricing is locked in for as long as you maintain a subscription so it’s worth jumping in early.  As of today here are some stats about our blog:

RSS subscribers: 105 (Feedburner)
Avg visitors per day (last 30 days): 215
Avg visitors per day (Sept 1-30): 75
Pagerank: 3
Google “microstock blog”:  4th
Average time on site: 5:20 (Analytics)

As you can see by the September and January traffic, the blog is growing quickly.  I hope to continue that by posting a lot more in 2009 than I did in ‘08 as well as our base starting to grow.  At any rate, I hope this is the last I’ll ever post about advertising so thanks for bearing with me.

A couple people lately have asked me for the new ThinkTank link now that the old program has been moved out and the new one moved in.  No more cameraclubadmin for us!  To order from ThinkTank through NiltoMil go to:

http://www.thinktankphoto.com/affiliate

Enter the NiltoMil code: AP-216

Should your order exceed $50 (and it usually does), you’ll also get a free gift of your choice.  Last time I looked, the free gifts are the All The Other Stuff ($34.95), Bum Bag ($34.95), Lens Drop In ($34.95), and Lens Changer 50 ($27.95).    That may have changed by the time you read this.

Note: Sponsors help us do the cool things we do like our trips and push us further than we would have been able to go.  I know people dislike “ads” but supporting a FANTASTIC company like ThinkTank is a small thing to do when the products are amazing and necessary to us as photographers.  I hope you can share my support for a great company and help us keep doing what we do.

It’s always great when a project starts to gather momentum. I wanted to take a moment to AGAIN thank my blog readers for coming to see what I’m up to. I know the last month has been off but it’s going to get really exciting around here VERY soon. October 8th and counting!

There have been a few bits mentioned about NiltoMil.com that I think warrant posting about:

1) Image of the Day at Snapvillage for 100 Yard Dash – my #1 most popular image ever.

2) We’re doing an interview with Moodboard, a stock photo site that seems to have some cool options for selling your images.

3) More SnapVillage blog love – Inclusion in their “Top 20 Microstock Resource Sites”

4) Google loves us more. We’re up to #4 on “microstock blog”, #3 on “microstock blogs”, #7 on “microstock earnings” and #1 for “microstock goals” (no quotes on any search). We’re no Microstock Diaries yet. Lee is a fantastic blogger and anyone not reading him is missing a TON of great info. All we can do is try to be another voice in a growing sea.

Adding all this love to our TWO new sponsorships (ProPhotoRental.com and ThinkTankPhoto.com – see WeWillExplore.com for more details) and we’re feeling really excited to get back to work and ready to rock this winter in microstock. We have 5 more weddings before the end of the season. I will finish our last edits hopefully on November 9th, the day after our last wedding. Once that happens, I’m full time microstock for 6 months. Excitement!!!

Yuri Arcurs, the world’s top selling microstock photographer, just recently became officially sponsored by Hasselblad and will produce exclusively with the Hasselblad H3D-II-39. Only a handful of photographers world wide are sponsored by Hasselblad.

Most microstock photographers who are into the business at all know Yuri. Most also probably know about his Hasselblad sponsorship. I think that’s FANTASTIC for Yuri and I also get inspired and competitive when I hear this sort of thing.

We’re competitive by nature – we wanted to let Canon know that anytime, anywhere you want to throw down against Hasselblad and Nikon in this race, we’re in. I’m easy to find – matt@niltomil.com or comment here.

(Short addendum)

Dear Yuri,

You have ABSOLUTELY no idea who I am. You will.

Love,

Matt

If you’re following our microstock TRIPS at http://www.wewillexplore.com you may already know this but we secured our first sponsor for the trip today. Pro Photo Rental has agreed to sponsor us with some gear for our trip in exchange for some images from their lenses and telling you & them what we think of the gear. This is great news! We’re going to have much more access to cool lenses & such as well as the ability to branch out of our “normal” gear and shoot with some fun stuff we don’t normally get to use.

So that’s the first major announcement on our trip. More will be released soon – we may have a new sponsor to announce in the next week as well as a working outline of the trip.