Author Topic: No sales in 2 weeks (Read 3148 times)

ilgitano · « **on:** June 08, 2009, 12:37 »

I don't get it. No sales in 2 weeks. DT, FT, SX, IS, 123, BS... nothing.
And April and May were simply catastrophic. What's going on?
Is there anyone out there going thrue the same thing?
I starting to wonder if I'm still alive.

gbcimages · « **Reply #1 on:** June 08, 2009, 12:43 »

FT,FP,123,StockXpert,AND BigStock HAVE BEEN SLOW FOR ME BUT OVER TWO WEEKS HAS BE 123AND FT AND FP LAST SALE WAS SEP 08

sharpshot · « **Reply #2 on:** June 08, 2009, 12:55 »

Sales have been good all this year, much better than last year.

melastmohican · « **Reply #3 on:** June 08, 2009, 12:59 »

DT - 2 month ago BME but now back to nornal levels
123 - normal to low
StockXpert - slightly below normal
BigStock - 1 DL per month which is normal for this one
FT - is actually picking up from very low levels
FP - nothing in 2-3 months
SS - you dive last month but seems to recover now
IS - As usual, couple sales a month

stockastic · « **Reply #4 on:** June 08, 2009, 12:59 »

DT went stone cold for me in May. I think they made some search changes that greatly reduced the exposure of new images. I just started in January so my images are probably mostly 'new'.

My views pretty much stopped at that point too. The last group I uploaded are getting no views at all.

On SS, my 'old' images still sell but again, the most recent group doesn't.

I still get some sales on FT, and the new images get some views.

On IS my new images do get looked at, but make very few sales. IS is also too much hassle and I can't get enough images up there.

So - bottom line: I'm probaby going to drop out of DT and continue submitting to FT and SS. And, maybe, somtimes, to IS.

As the months have gone by, my return per image continues to decline.

bittersweet · « **Reply #5 on:** June 08, 2009, 13:45 »

Quote from: ilgitano on June 08, 2009, 12:37

I don't get it. No sales in 2 weeks. DT, FT, SX, IS, 123, BS... nothing.
And April and May were simply catastrophic. What's going on?
Is there anyone out there going thrue the same thing?
I starting to wonder if I'm still alive.

May I ask the sizes of your portfolios?

Karimala · « **Reply #6 on:** June 08, 2009, 14:08 »

Quote from: sharpshot on June 08, 2009, 12:55

Sales have been good all this year, much better than last year.

Yep...last year was fairly stagnant, but 2009 has seen month after month of BMEs on the most important sites.

ilgitano · « **Reply #7 on:** June 08, 2009, 14:10 »

May I ask the sizes of your portfolios?
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I have between 250 and 350 images with the exeption of IS where I have a tiny portfolio of only 35 images. I was getting to many rejections there so I stopped uploading for 6 months. I started again recently and my acceptance rate is near 90 percent. I used to consider DT as "home base". Downloads were regular. Same time last year, I used to ssale about 40 images a week with smaller porfolios... now nothing. I've uploading regularly 30 images a week at least for the past 4 weeks.