As of December 31st, our total earnings on Dreamstime will be just over $1000. While a decent amount of money, we will not get to our goal with another year like that. Obviously there’s a need to greatly increase our number of salable images quickly.

Goals in microstock may be measured by many different statistics: RPI, earnings, download rates, sell through, approval percent, size of your portfolio, etc. For Dreamstime, we’ll focus on the obvious two: portfolio size and earnings.

My goal for 2009 portfolio size is to have more than 10,000 accepted images by 12/31/09 on Dreamstime.

My goal for 2009 earnings is to earn $5,000 for the year. While not “huge” by any definition, this would be around $400 a month for the year and would represent the figure...