Earnings in July 2014

Another update in my regular series. Total income for the month was $2217, which is about $200 higher than last month, but, on the downside it is pretty similar to what I earned 12 months ago on a smaller portfolio! That isn’t a great sign for me. As usual, Shutterstock easily overwhelmed all other sites with about 45% of total earnings. iStock was next with $235 and finally I am out of the 6 month “recoupment” program where they were with-holding money each month because of an overpayment on the Partner program last year. I’m not expecting much from iStock though – they seem to have hit a plateau. Alamy was pretty good at $204. As I have mentioned before, I am separating out interesting, unusual and definitely editorial images these days and putting them only on my own site plus Alamy, Corbis and Zoonar (as RM). So far, I have been on Corbis for 5 months or so and have grown my portfolio to 345 images. Although I have reported no earnings yet (they pay when everything is cleared) I’ve seen some early sales and have perhaps sold 10 images so far.

My own stock site BackyardStockPhotos.com had $44 in sales, which puts it well above CanStock for the month. Sales are intermittent, but I keep my fingers crossed! I did talk with one buyer who was looking for a large panorama for his office wall. He thought $20 for the file to make a 5 foot wide print was a good bargain!

Hope your sales are doing better!