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10.000 Sales and My Story

posted on 22nd of october, 2012

It all started in July 18th 2005, my interest in photography was renewed after I bought a Canon point-and-shoot (my old SLR was stolen from inside my bags in trip to New York City 3 years before).

I moved to Sao Paulo and did a photography course, but didn't know what to do with what I´ve learned. I had done a fantastic trip to Spain and Portugal with my wife and thought some of the images turned out quite good and I´ve heard about this new microstock world and that you could actually do some money online.

I didnt know if anybody would care about my images, but decided to give it a try, so I uploaded some images. This was my first approved image.

It took some months for the...

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	Posted by Afagundes on May 10, 2013 Thank you Janeken, I am waiting for your images to see what you are coming up with!
	Posted by Janaeken on May 09, 2013 What a story! You inspire me to continue in this new journey with more enthusiasm. I really enjoyed reading your story. I wish all the best for you!
	Posted by Afagundes on April 16, 2013 Robinstockphotos, if you have been there, its just a matter of coming back, I have visited many countries before start taking photography more seriously myself, but, hey, what can we do about the past? Just look to the future! At least you already know where the hot spots are!

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Tips of the Trade

posted on 24th of october, 2012

Hi Folks,

After all the response on my 10.000 sales blog, i decided to write down some tips of the trade, many things you already know, but its always good to emphasize, things I learned from my experience here, some you may know, but has long forgotten, some you may dont know, even better:

- mind your acceptance ratio, this can seriously compromise your long term goals, I did loose a lot of time because of that, you loose it because you upload a lot and few are accepted and you loose it because after a while DT wont let you upload much.

- be an active member of this community, I am pretty sure this helped and keep helping me a lot, I disagree with many people opinions sometimes, and the other way around,...

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