Microstock earnings report - December 2009 + 2008 / 2009 comparison

4. January 2010, 06:09 Selling graphics

The year 2009 is over and it is time to put here some information about the earnings in December and also compare the whole year 2009 earnings with the previous year.

Although December is every year weaker month than November, I reached Best Month Ever on three agencies – Fotolia, Stockxpert and iStockphoto, so it was good month for me.

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Microstock earnings report - November 2009

1. December 2009, 04:57 Selling graphics

Well I did it again! November was again my Best Month Ever (BME) in microstock industry. The earnings were so good, that I had BME on every microstock agency, where I'm submitting my images.

The best improvement was on Fotolia – check the graph – the earnings are 4× bigger than they were in summer.

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How to reduce EPS file size

27. November 2009, 00:47 Illustrator

Sometimes it happens to everyone – you create a really cool vector illustration and want it to submit and sell on microstock, but you found, that the exported EPS file is too big. What can you do, to make the EPS file smaller? Here you will find several tips and tricks for reducing the EPS file size.

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Microstock earnings report - October 2009

1. November 2009, 03:50 Selling graphics

Exactly as I predicted, October was again Best Month Ever (BME) for me in microstock! The earnings were so good, that I'm not sure if the next month will be better again (November was the best month every year – look at the history graphs in my report). I had the BME on Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Stockxpert, Fotolia and 123RF!

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Microstock earnings report - September 2009

1. October 2009, 00:46 Selling graphics

September was the Best Month Ever (BME) for me in microstock. And I'm awaiting that another BME will be in October and also in November, because in those months are the microstock earnings the highest for every year (you can check it on my last graph in the article). I had also the BME on Shutterstock and Dreamstime.

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Discount code for Pixmac

11. September 2009, 00:27 Buying graphics

Another discount coupon for Pixmac: For any purchase you do on Pixmac with this code: PX100079, you will get 10 credits for free!

The code is valid to 2009–12–09.

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Discount code for Pixmac

1. September 2009, 03:44 Buying graphics

For any purchase you do on Pixmac with this code: PX50078, you will get 5 credits for free!

The code is valid to 2009–11–20.

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Microstock earnings report - August 2009

1. September 2009, 00:39 Selling graphics

August was quite a weak month – my sales drops to the March level. And it looks like August was weak month also in previous two years (in 2008 it was because my account on Shutterstock was disabled for several days). The sales went down on all my accounts, except Fotolia.

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Discount code for 123rf

20. August 2009, 05:56 Buying graphics

Check out 123RF & enter promocode tan8ibL3 on during your purchase for discounts.

Message from today's 123rf twitter feed.

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How to pass iStockphoto Flash Developer Application Quiz

18. August 2009, 05:40 iStockPhoto, Selling graphics

Well this is another article about iStockphoto application quiz (check the quiz for vector illustrators and for photographers) – this time for flash developers. The quiz is really easy and consists of four questions only. Don't forget to read the Stock Flash Training Manual before uploading your flash files (it will save you some rejections).

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