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. I sell most of my images through their PP ( partner program). They always seem to have trouble coming up with the numbers, and June seems to be the longest they have taken. They still have not reported for May. 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. It was my best month with them. I have also started to up load full released model images. 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. It will be a busy month for me with non-photographic projects. The main goal is to keep my Shutter Stock and Symbiostock portfolio growing.
Anyway here is this months numbers. One change I added to this chart is the addition of a projection of income. 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% | ||||||||