Accelerating income from microstock: experience and a few thoughts!
posted on 2nd of april, 2011
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At Easter 2009 I was trying to get a picture of Inverness castle using a wide angle lens so a bunch of wild daffodils was in the foreground and the castle behind.
The width of the River Ness stopped me from getting the shot I wanted. However at this moment another photographer turned up and we had a conversation in which he said he was not doing anything with his web site but was submitting to microstock agencies. When pressed he said he was making $480 per month. I thought to myself better give it a go and shortly after I joined Dreamstime with lots of initial rejections and a very poor acceptance ratio. It took 19 months to make my first $1000 and now 4 months later I have made another $642 so my earnings per month after 19 months was $52.63 but has quickly risen to $160 per month.
So the lesson is persevere.....
Believe in yourself
Grab the goal.....
I have selected a few images from other photographers portfolio as examples of success, opportunity, ideas, making money , innovation, ....... There is no question but innovative, creative images well executed sell well.
Stick to it.........
Then with look you will have success
Thank you to Dreamstime for giving us all the opportunity to be more creative and to make money. The purchase of images must be a certain measure of success.
Any readers with additional ideas / advice please add the comments below and this may be most helpful.
If you study the portfolios of the above authors you find earlier they started the better they are doing !
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Tags: ideas innovation money opportunity success
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Comments (10)
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Truly inspiring!
- posted by
Akulamatiau
on September 01, 2011 |
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well done! i have so many ideas but i dnt have a decent camera, and im not goin to afford a normal camera anytime soon, but im trying to create something from what i have :))
- posted by
Ela9
on April 28, 2011 |
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Well done! :) very nice pics! Thank you for your advice and kind words!
- posted by
Le0nid
on April 28, 2011 |
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I like that with money making :)
- posted by
Emicristea
on April 05, 2011 |
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Readers please notice Cammeraydave's has about 1500 images on line and about 18,000 sales............. it leaves most of us feeling sick.............. his image quality must be head and and shoulders above average. David.
- posted by
Davidwatmough
on April 04, 2011 |
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Yes, perseverance does indeed pay off. But one has to wonder about
microstock - maybe if these agencies paid us more than micro money
we'd all have a little more in our pockets - hahaha.
- posted by
Leesniderphotoimages
on April 04, 2011 |
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Good to see your perseverance has paid off for you in so many ways.
- posted by
Cammeraydave
on April 03, 2011 |
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that's great!! well done
- posted by
Keki
on April 03, 2011 |
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nice pics
- posted by
Uptall
on April 02, 2011 |
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Well put. I am several $ away from my first $K and couldn't believe it myself and best of all the knowledge I gained in photography and well, art! Cheers to DT!
- posted by
Jeniicorv8
on April 02, 2011 |
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