September stock numbers
Awesome month!
Overall sales were $112 at an average of 10 cents per image (RPI) this month having now sold 30% of my images to date (STR) with an average of 192 images in my portfolio at 6 sites.
BMEs at bigstockphoto and 123rf. 3rd best month at iStock. I got a licensed sale for $13.50 of the following image from bigstockphoto, my first there:
I’m really glad the summer slump is over! I haven’t had a chance to do almost any new shooting, processing or uploading, but expect to have a chance to do some this month.
Congrats to Constance on her recent acceptance by Shutterstock. Check out her great portfolio there!
| agency | earnings | photos | RPI | STR |
| istockphoto | $48 | 169 | $0.28 | 45% |
| shutterstock | $25 | 156 | $0.16 | 78% |
| dreamstime | $7 | 198 | $0.04 | 22% |
| fotolia | $3 | 147 | $0.02 | 18% |
| 123rf | $10 | 259 | $0.04 | 7% |
| bigstockphoto | $20 | 225 | $0.09 | 10% |
| $112 | $0.10 | 30% |
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Congrats James, your RPI at Istockphoto is steady that’s nice.
They changed the best match last month, can affect sales in a good or bad way I heard. I saw you did an average of RPI, I use a cumulative instead
Cheers
L
October 11th, 2008 at 6:53 am
can I ask what you make your little graphs in, I’m using Open Office and they always look really dull and boring!!!!
October 11th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
You probably won’t like the answer
I use Microsoft Excel 2007’s standard charts (on a PC) and then customize them in Excel with extra formatting. I’ve tried the most recent version of Excel on my Mac at home and haven’t been able to reproduce the effect.
October 12th, 2008 at 5:52 am
ahh…
I thought you’d say something like microshaft
I just installed the latest version of OpenOffice and its a little better, I’ll have to play with that.
Just thinking, is there any chance I could take a look at the Blank version of your spreadsheet for stock? My spreadsheet skills aren’t that great and I’m sure i could be working things out better. (you should have my email address from my comment)
cheers
Ade
October 17th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Thanks for the reference to my new shutterstock portfolio.
Aside from the hassles with getting started, it’s been fun to see the differences in the market, site management, etc between istock and shutterstock. One of these days I’m gonna ask you to do charts for my numbers, too! 
- Constance aka fairlady