In my third month of microstock I am seeing a slight stabilization in earnings (a little above last months results). While Dreamstime continues to be a non-seller for me, Bigstock has yielded my first sale since December 2009! After Stockxpert’s closure, which was a reasonable seller, I have decided to add Can Stock Photo to be my replacement agency. So far I have 30 images approved on CSP and the counter is still going up. My total portfolio unfortunately has not grown a big deal, as sometimes I am either swamped in work or I am just being to lazy to grab my camera. I realize I need to get more active building my portfolio if I ever want to make it to the payout minimum.

So, January… Not what I had expected after having a pretty decent start in december. However, every dollar earned is good! Once again Shutterstock yielded the most sales for me with the images below.

My first sale on Fotolia (also one of the images above) is now a fact. Unfortunately BigStockPhoto and Dreamstime have still not generated any sales for me. Stockxpert is almost the same as last month with all revenue so far comming from Jupiterimages Unlimited Subscription downloads.

All in all as a beginner in microstock I must say I am not disappointed with what I have achieved in just 2 months. I do however realize I still have a lot of work to do as my portfolio only counts 38 images total at the moment. I want to get my portfolio up to at least 100 as soon as I can, as more images means more exposure and more image sales.

I hereby proudly present my very first Microstock Earnings Report to you! I figured for you to be able to get a realistic view of the microstock world I should include my earnings reports (however small they may be) on this blog. So far I can say it has been a “good” starting month for me. $ 18,58 earned with only a 25 image portfolio so far.

Shutterstock stands out of the crowd with 45 subscription downloads this month (mostly at $ 0,25 per download). On iStockphoto I only sold 2 images, but these where downloaded without subscription thus resulting in a higher price per download. So far Big Stock Photo, Dreamstime and Fotalia have not generated any downloads yet.