First sale

[Michael O]

Hello All, I hope to have 100 images approved by the end of this week. When may I expect to start seeing sales? 

 

Thanks, Michael

[StokeCreative]

Nobody knows, but realistically you need to keep adding. 1000 is probably a good minimum. Loads of threads on here on the subject. Good Luck!

[Steve F]

Hi Michael, welcome and congrats. Well, it's a long haul. You can have a client license an image and it gets recorded the same day. But often, clients license an image and they are recorded 1-3 months afterwards. Also, there's more and more competition these days. Old rule of thumb on Alamy was 1 sale per month per 1000 images. Obviously this was an average, so some people will do much better than this and vice versa. Not sure if that still holds these days with the size of the Alamy library and the size of other stock agencies which are competition for Alamy.

 

You can help your sales by having great images, but more importantly, by getting your keywords and captions done well. 

 

Short answer, get a bigger collection and you'll start seeing sales in a few weeks/months.

Edited November 12 by Steve F

[NYCat]

Just a tip. Put the scientific name of animals and plants in your captions and keywords. You have "Norther Cardinal" in keywords. Check spelling obsessively.

 

Paulette

[Radim]

The sales start is immediate, but you meant when I can expect the first sale. If you upload another 5000 photos, something will appear next year. I'm keeping my fingers crossed because you have a long way to go.

[Kat]

I had around 200 images up and was 6 months in when I made my first sale. That was nearly 8 years ago though, times may have changed. 

Edited November 12 by Kat

[sooth]

9 hours ago, Michael O said:

Hello All, I hope to have 100 images approved by the end of this week. When may I expect to start seeing sales? 

 

Thanks, Michael

that depends on whether you have something a picture buyer is looking for. if they are looking for stuff on climate change, and all you have are conceptual images of christmas, then even getting onto the search results will be unlikely. if a calendar or a card company is looking for holiday images, then it's more likely for your images to turn up; but, you are then dependent on the very small handful of picture buyers who are calendar or card companies or artists actually looking for holiday images. also, the search results may turn up similar conceptual christmas images taken by other photographers and your prospects of a sale will begin to diminish, esp if your alamy ranking, or if the keywords on your images are too vague and generalized causing them to get pushed further back in the search results.

[Ed Rooney]

 

Nice images, Michael. And a Merry Christmas to you. 

 

Don't hold your breath waiting for sales. Think of yourself in the weekly images production business. 

[phomme]

I started uploading photos to alamy back in September 2017, and made a total of 3 sales that year.