July was a god month in my Journey into Microstock.
I hit 2 milestones at Shutterstock, 504 accepted images and my first payout ( shutterstock can be paid out at $75) This is good considering that most of the people on the forums say that July is historically a bad month due to holidays in the Northern Hemisphere.
I have some sales with sites that have not sold before, but Shutterstock is still my big seller.
My own on-line Symbiostock stores, peopleimages.grsphoto.ca and stockimages.glennspecht.com/wp/ are seeing increases in traffic, but still no sales. I hope that I can make a breakthrough here some time soon.
I have no goals for August, there is just too much going on with travel and other commitments to try and make goals that will be impossible to meet. I would like to continue with having 100 images accepted at Shutterstock, but,if this happens,it will liely be towards the end of the month when things will, hopefully, settle down for me.
| # accept | Stock | editorial | Jan | Feb | March | April | may | June | July | RTI | ||
| Shutter Stock | 504 | 257 | 247 | $8.50 | $4.50 | $14.74 | $7.88 | $10.01 | $17.76 | $16.48 | $79.87 | 0.1585 |
| 25.51% | 0.0800 | 0.0340 | 0.0285 | 0.0406 | 0.0327 | 54.57% | ||||||
| iStock | 154 | 151 | 3 | $3.14 | $6.26 | $1.40 | $2.52 | $26.75 | $2.93 | $0.84 | $43.84 | 0.2847 |
| 7.79% | 0.0200 | 0.0300 | 0.2450 | 0.0105 | 0.0056 | 29.95% | ||||||
| 123rf | 369 | 352 | 17 | $0.43 | $3.29 | $0.44 | $0.22 | $0.95 | $1.93 | $0.70 | $7.96 | 0.02 |
| 18.67% | 0.0052 | 0.0020 | 5.44% | |||||||||
| Canstock | 173 | 173 | 0 | $0.75 | $1.75 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $4.50 | 0.03 |
| 8.76% | 0.0050 | 0.0058 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 3.07% | ||||||
| Dreamstime | 172 | 172 | $0.35 | $0.70 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $2.34 | $0.00 | $3.39 | 0.02 | ||
| 8.70% | 0.0050 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0136 | 0.0000 | 2.32% | ||||||
| fotolia | 34 | 34 | 0 | $0.25 | $0.25 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $2.05 | $2.55 | 0.08 |
| 1.72% | 0.0603 | 1.74% | ||||||||||
| bigstockphoto | 111 | 92 | 19 | $0.50 | $1.00 | $1.25 | $2.75 | 0.02 | ||||
| 5.62% | ||||||||||||
| Deposit Photos | 112 | 105 | 7 | $1.50 | $1.50 | |||||||
| 5.67% | ||||||||||||
| 1976 | 1683 | 293 | $13.07 | $16.40 | $18.28 | $11.62 | $38.21 | $25.96 | $22.82 | $146.36 | 0.07 | |
| percentage of total income | 8.93% | 11.21% | 12.49% | 7.94% | 26.11% | 17.74% | 15.59% | |||||