Author Topic: 1 year of micro stock 1800 images and $1000 bucks a month is this good? (Read 15801 times)

sambo · « **on:** June 06, 2014, 10:17 »

It's been a year since starting on our Microstock agency and it been hard work and a pretty steep learning cure and but the last 3 months we have hit $1000 each month from around 1800 images and I just wanted to get some feed back on if this is normal good or bad...

dingles · « **Reply #1 on:** June 06, 2014, 10:30 »

one agency or many? All photos?

PixelsAway · « **Reply #2 on:** June 06, 2014, 10:30 »

What means "our Microstock agency"?

Ron · « **Reply #3 on:** June 06, 2014, 10:33 »

Yeah, thats pretty good, depending on how many agencies you are submitting too. But if you got your images with the top 4 agencies, 1000$ is what you can expect.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #4 on:** June 06, 2014, 10:41 »

Quote from: sambo on June 06, 2014, 10:17

It's been a year since starting on our Microstock agency and it been hard work and a pretty steep learning cure and but the last 3 months we have hit $1000 each month from around 1800 images and I just wanted to get some feed back on if this is normal good or bad...

Without knowing your portfolio, it's kind of hard to judge.

Hang around for a while and you'll get some idea.

Maximilian · « **Reply #5 on:** June 06, 2014, 11:02 »

i think very good. i do graphics (illustration) and dont get the half. started 2 months ago.

Goofy · « **Reply #6 on:** June 06, 2014, 11:26 »

For only one year that is rocking! Just think if you continue at this pace in just five years you will make a very decent living!

pixsol · « **Reply #7 on:** June 06, 2014, 11:49 »

Compared to my numbers, your results are quite good

sweetgirll · « **Reply #8 on:** June 06, 2014, 12:02 »

Do you have a microstock agency?

Or you contribute to agencies? If so, what agencies are carrying your photos? Shutterstock, Istock, Fotolia?

Some people have a thousand images and they upload to 10 agencies, other person could have the same amount of images but is just uploading to only 1 agency.

So it does make a difference.

Freedom · « **Reply #9 on:** June 06, 2014, 12:32 »

Given today's market, it is very good. Congrats!

Me · « **Reply #10 on:** June 06, 2014, 13:40 »

Don't like your member name much

robhainer · « **Reply #11 on:** June 06, 2014, 14:14 »

Quote from: Me on June 06, 2014, 13:40

Don't like your member name much

Hopefully the poster isn't a primary English language speaker, and he doesn't realize that name is offensive.

una · « **Reply #12 on:** June 06, 2014, 14:22 »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo_%28martial_art%29

Beppe Grillo · « **Reply #13 on:** June 06, 2014, 14:49 »

Quote from: robhainer on June 06, 2014, 14:14

Quote from: Me on June 06, 2014, 13:40
Don't like your member name much

Hopefully the poster isn't a primary English language speaker, and he doesn't realize that name is offensive.

Sambo is the male of the Samba…
I don't see nothing offensive it this…

marthamarks · « **Reply #14 on:** June 06, 2014, 14:51 »

Quote from: Beppe Grillo on June 06, 2014, 14:49

Sambo is the male of the Samba…
I don't see nothing offensive it this…

Only in the United States is "Sambo" offensive, and only for historical reasons.

The matter should never have been brought up on this thread.

Goofy · « **Reply #15 on:** June 06, 2014, 15:23 »

It really doesn't take much to veer off the path on this site- once again the numbers are impressive for only one year in the business! I am jealous

cthoman · « **Reply #16 on:** June 06, 2014, 15:34 »

Quote from: una on June 06, 2014, 14:22

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo_%28martial_art%29

That's what I was thinking of was the Russian jiu-jitsu. I guess I watch too much MMA.

dpimborough · « **Reply #17 on:** June 06, 2014, 16:29 »

Quote from: marthamarks on June 06, 2014, 14:51

Quote from: Beppe Grillo on June 06, 2014, 14:49
Sambo is the male of the Samba…
I don't see nothing offensive it this…

Only in the United States is "Sambo" offensive, and only for historical reasons.

The matter should never have been brought up on this thread.

Sambo, the name in Ecuador for cucurbita ficifolia, a type of gourd
Sambo, a romanized term for the three ancestral treasures of Chinese culture
Sambo, Irish and Australian slang term for sandwich

One word many different meanings

robhainer · « **Reply #18 on:** June 06, 2014, 16:46 »

Well, in the United States, it's about the same as using the n-word. If someone had used that for their user name, I could see someone else not liking it.

shudderstok · « **Reply #19 on:** June 06, 2014, 16:51 »

Quote from: robhainer on June 06, 2014, 16:46

Well, in the United States, it's about the same as using the n-word. If someone had used that for their user name, I could see someone else not liking it.

well the world is not the united states. this is nothing more than the ~~side~~ ill effects of political correctness from the perspective of one person. one thing for sure in the united states you are bound to offend somebody most of the time.

robhainer · « **Reply #20 on:** June 06, 2014, 17:31 »

We're not posting in Spanish, Chinese, German, Italian or another other language but English. In English, it's a racial slur no matter how many of you want to put a minus on it. I'm not saying the poster did it on purpose. In fact, I pointed out it was an accident. But you all want to take it even further than that and bend over backwards to make it OK. All I'm saying is I can understand how it could upset someone. It's not a matter of political correctness. I welcome you to go to Atlanta and call a black person that name and see what happens to you.

shudderstok · « **Reply #21 on:** June 06, 2014, 20:10 »

Quote from: robhainer on June 06, 2014, 17:31

We're not posting in Spanish, Chinese, German, Italian or another other language but English. In English, it's a racial slur no matter how many of you want to put a minus on it. I'm not saying the poster did it on purpose. In fact, I pointed out it was an accident. But you all want to take it even further than that and bend over backwards to make it OK. All I'm saying is I can understand how it could upset someone. It's not a matter of political correctness. I welcome you to go to Atlanta and call a black person that name and see what happens to you.

Why don't we have a rendezvous (french word) in Australia where they speak ENGLISH and we can sit down over a sambo and a tinny and we can discuss how the USA is the pivotal center of the English speaking world and how every word that is in use there is null and void elsewhere especially if it is in other languages and/or could possibly have different meanings rather than the American English version. I hope the use of a french word here is allowed in the English speaking forum. Have a great weekend and breath...

emblem · « **Reply #22 on:** June 06, 2014, 20:28 »

Well I guess that's the last we'll hear of the OP.....what a shame.

EmberMike · « **Reply #23 on:** June 06, 2014, 21:19 »

Quote from: robhainer on June 06, 2014, 16:46

Well, in the United States, it's about the same as using the n-word. If someone had used that for their user name, I could see someone else not liking it.

I had never even heard of it until this thread, and I highly doubt it's in the same category of words as the n-word here in the US.

There's even a restaurant with the name in California. If it were equal to the n-word, I'd expect some pretty negative press and an angry mob outside the restaurant.

Reckless · « **Reply #24 on:** June 06, 2014, 21:40 »

Quote from: EmberMike on June 06, 2014, 21:19

Quote from: robhainer on June 06, 2014, 16:46
Well, in the United States, it's about the same as using the n-word. If someone had used that for their user name, I could see someone else not liking it.

I had never even heard of it until this thread, and I highly doubt it's in the same category of words as the n-word here in the US.

There's even a restaurant with the name in California. If it were equal to the n-word, I'd expect some pretty negative press and an angry mob outside the restaurant.

I guess your much younger than I imagined EmberMike. Although at one time before the negative connotation later associated with the word, there was a chain of Sambo's restaurants.

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