Comments on: Why Doesn’t Anybody Show their Microstock Earnings Online?

By: Etienne

Etienne — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:21:59 +0000

Apologies for the late reply on this topic, but on http://www.microstockadventure.com I now provide monthly earnings reports as well. I am only just starting out in the microstock business, so I am not yet as successful as some people here, but practice makes perfect!

By: Matt Antonino

Matt Antonino — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:48:11 +0000

I read this post – and then the date – and then compared your list to those who blog stats now and it seems like people are more & more willing to share their info openly.

By: erwin

erwin — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:51:22 +0000

Be careful if you send to the subscription agenceis model such as shutterstock, 123rf, dreastime it bad for the long term, consider this:

1. subscription sales are much more destructive for the business as a whole, than microstock in general. Subscriptions enable customers to build large image archives that reduces the need to download photos in the future and thus our (photographers) profit potential.

2. average subscribers only use about 15 - 30% of the full potential of their membership. This means that most pictures in a subscription sell at a 5-6USD price-point in average, giving us (photographers) about 25 cents in commission. A bottom-line commission of about 5 percent. Even if I was totally wrong and every subscriber actually downloaded the double of what I have heard, the commission would still only be 10%.

3. Same price at all size, even 16mp the price same as 1.3mp?

Downsize your image before send to the subscription model agencies.

By: MikLav

MikLav — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:09:48 +0000

There is another (more successful) photographer sharing his income for a long time (on a monthly basis):
http://www.dphotojournal.com/sell-photos-online/ – Paulus Rusyanto a.k.a. Ximagination

By: lpkb microstock

lpkb microstock — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:16:30 +0000

thanks for the link. i thought the same thing–if people are considering the model, they need to get some kind of an indication of possibilities, and the ability to look at my portfolio and compare it to my earnings will be a great value to them in deciding if they want to give it a shot. i have been very lax in uploading photos for a year or more but still the photos i uploaded in the first year continue to make money a little at a time… so i’d say the experiment was a success and i do plan to upload again, it’s just a matter of making the time.

By: pdtnc

pdtnc — Sun, 06 May 2007 08:25:37 +0000

Hey, thanks for the linkage to my stock totals, I’m probably due another update now as most of the rf stock sites I’m on are up to a year of continuous running.