10/22/2007

Sales Trends

I keep track of my weekly sales in the world of microstock. The graph above shows my rolling, 4-week sales. That is, each weekly data point represents the sales over the past 4 weeks. This provides some smoothing effect. I graph overall image sales (dark red line), Shutterstock (blue line), iStock (green line) and everybody else combined (ROW = rest of world -orange line). This is just image sales, no referrals or such. As you can see, over the past 16 weeks (1/3 year), my trend lines look pretty good. Overall sales are up about 50%. SS has been remarkably steady, while IS has been more variable (and not soo good the past couple of weeks). The ROW is still pretty mediocre, but at least on the right side of stable. Still not ready to quit my real job, but I do like the direction, and will be ordering a new lens for my camera today, funded through microstock earnings!


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10/10/2007

Most Popular, Part 2 (iStock)

Here's my Top 8 "most popular" at iStock, as of today (10/10/2007). They use some secret algorithm, a mix of sales and views with some factor for time on the site....




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10/03/2007

Most Popular, Through Today

Here's my Top 10 "most popular" at Shutterstock, as of today (10/3/2007). They use some secret algorithm, a mix of sales and views with some factor for time on the site....

10/02/2007

September retrospective:

September was a new "BME" for me, as in Best Month Ever. Both in terms of photos sold, and total revenue. Income was helped a lot by a buyer-referral, but was a new high even without it. That was my first referral, pretty cool!

Top seller at iS:


This was also the top seller at SS. which is kinda cool. This image had been rejected a couple times at SS, I decided to resubmit it. It was approved, and is doing well!