As the July 1st long weekend develops in Canada I again take stock of my Journey into Micro-stock
Istock
June was almost my best month to date… I say almost because I don’t know for sure what I will be getting from iStock. Â I sell most of my images through their PP ( partner program). Â They always seem to have trouble coming up with the numbers, and June seems to be the longest they have taken. Â They still have not reported for May. Â In iStocks defence they did have to deal with floods at their headquarters… they are located in Calgary
Shutter Stock
Shutter Stock has become a steady earner, with steady growth. Â It was my best month with them. Â I have also started to up load full released model images. Â So far the results are encouraging. About 20% of the images I submitted, sold within 6 days, some muliple times.
Symbiostock
I have added another site to my Symbiostock Network. peopleimages.grsphoto.ca.  This site will be people images ( obviously) that I have model releases for.  This will include images I take now, and images that I have releases for back in Canada.
The Symbiostock network is becoming an amazing technology… I just hope that I get some sales soon.
Goals for July
I haven’t thought much about what I want to accomplish for July. Â It will be a busy month for me with non-photographic projects. Â The main goal is to keep my Shutter Stock and Symbiostock portfolio growing.
Anyway here is this months numbers. Â One change I added to this chart is the addition of a projection of income. Â I will refine this as time goes on, but it as interesting exercise.
| # accept | Stock | editorial | Jan | Feb | March | April | may | June | RTI | projected | ||||
| Shutter Stock | 437 | 239 | 198 | $8.50 | $4.50 | $14.74 | $7.88 | $10.01 | $17.26 | $62.89 | 0.14 | 14.86 | $60.49 | |
| 23.02% | 0.0800 | 0.0340 | 0.0285 | 0.0395 | 51.67% | 0.0340 | ||||||||
| iStock | 154 | 151 | 3 | $3.14 | $6.26 | $1.40 | $2.52 | $26.75 | $1.61 | $41.68 | 0.27 | 11.76 | $51.83 | |
| 8.11% | 0.0200 | 0.0300 | 0.2450 | 0.0105 | 34.24% | 0.0764 | ||||||||
| 123rf | 369 | 352 | 17 | $0.43 | $3.29 | $0.44 | $0.22 | $0.95 | $1.93 | $7.27 | 0.02 | |||
| 19.44% | 0.0052 | 5.97% | ||||||||||||
| Canstock | 173 | 173 | 0 | $0.75 | $1.75 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $4.50 | 0.03 | |||
| 9.11% | 0.0050 | 0.0058 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 3.70% | |||||||||
| Dreamstime | 172 | 172 | $0.35 | $0.70 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $2.34 | $3.39 | 0.02 | |||||
| 9.06% | 0.0050 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0136 | 2.78% | |||||||||
| fotolia | 23 | 23 | 0 | $0.25 | $0.25 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.50 | 0.02 | |||
| 1.21% | 0.41% | |||||||||||||
| bigstockphoto | 111 | 92 | 19 | $0.50 | $1.00 | $1.50 | 0.01 | |||||||
| 5.85% | ||||||||||||||
| Projected | ||||||||||||||
| 1898 | 1654 | 244 | $13.07 | $16.40 | $18.28 | $11.62 | $38.21 | $24.14 | $121.73 | 0.06 | 26.62 | $124.20 | ||
| percentage of total income | 10.74% | 13.47% | 15.02% | 9.55% | 31.39% | 19.83% | ||||||||
