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10/05/2005 11:49:15 AM · #1 |
I read about Shutterstock for the first time on DPC, so I thought I'd give an update. I didnt start this thread to rant and rave about how cheap stock sites are the best way to make money....but for a poor college kid, I'd say $224 isn't too shabby!
Chris
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10/05/2005 11:50:32 AM · #2 |
way to go! Cash in!
im at 28 bucks... bleh
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10/05/2005 11:51:55 AM · #3 |
Way to go!
Here's mine stats:
All Time Totals: 713 4179 0 3 $297.45
Where the huge number stays for refs ;)
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10/05/2005 11:52:22 AM · #4 |
You know what's funny? I slam that site frequently but I checked and I just hit the $75 mark because when I first started I referred a whole bunch of people. I've pulled all but one of my photos and am collecting almost a dollar a day in referrals!
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10/05/2005 11:57:31 AM · #5 |
If you slamed it I don't know. I think it's nothing really bad.
I haven't submitted anything since march and I have 219 pics. With the ref I make 30$ a month. Anyways it paid part of my new 350D...
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10/05/2005 12:02:06 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Montereykiddo:
I read about Shutterstock for the first time on DPC, so I thought I'd give an update. I didnt start this thread to rant and rave about how cheap stock sites are the best way to make money....but for a poor college kid, I'd say $224 isn't too shabby!
Chris |
Wow! that is great! I make alot from referred people too!\
Melissa
Message edited by author 2005-10-05 12:02:32.
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10/05/2005 01:07:09 PM · #7 |
| My referrals would buy me a couple of beers. I think it is over 500 now. |
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10/05/2005 01:12:44 PM · #8 |
$45.55 in half a year or so. I stopped adding pictures 4 months ago and my total is 96 photos. I got bored.
Nick
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10/05/2005 01:59:37 PM · #9 |
I made $358 selling one photo on Alamy - the same photo I sold on Shutterstock four times for a whopping eighty cents.
My total for four micro sites in 5 months - $48 - couldn't request a check or payment from any of them because I didn't reach the minimum.
Be brave. Your stuff is better than what micro-sites pay. Submit to the big guys and buy a new camera after 6 sales.
Congrats on your total, really. You've proven you can create stock that sells, now pick up a new agency and start getting paid for it.
Message edited by author 2005-10-07 14:58:15.
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10/09/2005 01:09:02 AM · #10 |
Wow! $358 for one photo? Maybe I should look into Alamy.
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10/09/2005 02:04:02 AM · #11 |
I have made a mental note to myself many many times to join alamy but never find the time to sit down and actually go through the process for the first time. I hear they are thinking about web uploads, maybe i'll wait for that. But anyways i started microstock at the end of December and have done quite decently considering I started from basically nothing at all. I have built up a collection of between 100-150 good shots and about 150-200 more shots that I would be ashamed to call my own but I would still sell to get those extra 20c here and there.
So for real numbers I have made 657.50 on istock, 659.98 on shutterstock and I joined Dreamstime last week and made 17 so far. Each month my sales keep going up and up, and Im adding new shots every now and then but I've set a personal goal to get to the 400 approved image mark on istock by the end of the year (istock is my favorite site to sell on, and I've used it since i began to guage how im doing). Last week I made 59 on istock, 48 on shutterstock and 17 on dreamstime for a combined total of 118. I am setting my sights on getting to the $2000 total mark by the end of the year, which would be really awesome because it would mean that I would have paid off nearly all of my big photo related expenses to date (Canon G5 = 500, Canon 350D+kit lens = 900, Tamron 28-75 = 360, 50mm = 70, tripod, remote, filters, etc = the rest)
Next on my to-do list is to join alamy and to save up for a 16 megapixel camera, maybe the Canon 6D when that comes out :-)
edit - typo
Message edited by author 2005-10-09 02:07:07.
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