March Totals

Record moth with total commissions at $60.61, helped by a sale on Alamy. Dreamstime is my best site apart from Alamy, although 123reg has started to pick up. Also had a few sales from isign.

I found out that my images are not for sale with extended license on Fotolia, I'm stuck on an asking price. I'll have to ask in the forums and see what the going rate is.

I'm consistently missing my upload targets. I'm just going to try and get as many as possible so as not to get too down hearted. I have to be realistic with work and other responsibilities. On Dreamstime, which is pretty average as far as acceptance goes, I'm averaging 21 uploads a month. Well below my 80 target. I'm going to stay positive and as long as the commissions are increasing I'm at least happy.

November Totals

I'm fealling very pleased with myself this month. I've gone from $6 odd last month to over $50 this month. This was due to an extended license sale on istock and a repeat purchase of a file sold last Dec on Alamy. I'm happy but know there will be a drop next month. I've uploaded a few more files with an extra 100 across all sites. I really need to pick this up for next month. Almost time to make some new year resolutions.

Schoolboy license error!

Another kind person at microstockgroup just reminded me that if an image is RF at one agency it needs to be so at all agencies. Since I used to only upload to Alamy, all my images there I put as RM. I've only sold one, which isn't on any other site so the problem isn't as bad as it could be. I've found the hard way that once you set a license option at Alamy it can't be changed. I've just had to go through the emotional task of deleting the 50 odd images that are on other sites as RF.

In the long run it will be worth it as I wanted to tidy up my Alamy portfolio, which is the result of 5 years of sporadic uploading. Let others learn from this...

Back to work deleting and uploading and keywording!