April was an interesting month in my Journey into stock.
My big selling agency was still Shutter Stock. but it didn’t perform as well as last month, or even January. I had less income at all sites, though my portfolio is so small that I can really read anything into the stats.
I stopped uploading to a lot of sites in April, and slowed my input to Shutter Stock. This was because I was spending my time and effort to get my own Micro Stock site up and running.
Stockimages.glennspecht.com
My own site is now open. It is fully functional as a selling site, though there have not been any sales. I have been tweaking to improve the look for viewers and search engines. As well I am waiting for improvements in the Symbiostock Network.
Goals for May
I fell short of the number of images I have on Shutter stock, finishing the month with 235. I need to increase my image output to feed the beast. For Shutter stock I would like to add 50 more images minimum…. an outside goal would be to reach 300 on-line.
Istock
Istock has had a limit to 18 image submissions per week. This slowed me down, and increased frustration levels. That limit has been removed so I will start submitting more image. I don’t have a goal, since I am un-sure of what they really will accept.
Other sites
I realize that I need to put some effort into submissions to these sites, but it is still a low priority. no real goals except to improve my submissions.
stockimages.glennspecht.com
This site is still where I will put most of my effort, since I believe, it has the most chance of increasing sales and income. I have branded the site as Editorial Travel Images, which means I can load and market a lot of my Tokyo images as well as the stock images I have on other sites. My goal for May for this site is to load my Tokyo images.
April Chart.
I have made some changes. I have dropped keeping track of rejections, because at this point ir doesn’t matter to me. What counts is numbers accepted, and sales.
| # accept | Stock | editorial | Â sales Jan | Feb | March | April | RTI | ||
| Shutter Stock | 232 | 137 | 95 | $8.50 | $4.50 | $14.74 | $7.88 | $35.62 | 0.15 |
| 16.95% | 0.0800 | 0.0340 | 59.99% | ||||||
| iStock | 84 | 81 | 3 | $3.14 | $6.26 | $1.40 | $2.52 | $13.32 | 0.16 |
| 6.14% | 0.0200 | 0.0300 | 22.43% | ||||||
| fotolia | 23 | 23 | 0 | $0.25 | $0.25 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.50 | 0.02 |
| 1.68% | 0.84% | ||||||||
| Canstock | 173 | 173 | 0 | $0.75 | $1.75 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $4.50 | 0.03 |
| 12.64% | 0.0050 | 0.0058 | 7.58% | ||||||
| Dreamstime | 162 | 162 | $0.35 | $0.70 | $0.00 | $1.05 | 0.01 | ||
| 11.83% | 0.0050 | 0.0000 | 1.77% | ||||||
| 123rf | 125 | 108 | 17 | $0.43 | $3.29 | $0.44 | $0.22 | $4.38 | 0.04 |
| 9.13% | 7.38% | ||||||||
| bigstockphoto | 111 | 92 | 19 | $0.00 | 0.00 | ||||
| 8.11% | |||||||||
| Veer | 34 | 34 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||
| 2.48% | |||||||||
| photodune | 204 | 204 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||
| 14.90% | |||||||||
| Pond5 | 22 | 22 | 0 | ||||||
| 1.61% | |||||||||
| GraphicLeftover | 87 | 87 | 0 | ||||||
| 6.36% | |||||||||
| Deposit Photos | 112 | 105 | 7 | ||||||
| 8.18% | |||||||||
| panthermedia | |||||||||
| Alamy | 0 | ||||||||
| 1369 | 1228 | 141 | $13.07 | $16.40 | $18.28 | $11.62 | $59.37 | 0.04 | |
| percentage of total income | 22.02% | 27.62% | 30.79% | 19.57% | |||||
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