How was your October 2016?

[Tony C 12]

1 sale for $40. I'm happy with that since I only have 40 images with Alamy.

Edited November 1, 2016 by Tony C

[Abiyoyo 629]

3 sales for $555 gross. Average CTR

Edited November 1, 2016 by Abiyoyo

[Jill Morgan 862]

Just the one for $60 this month, but tons of zooms. 

 

Sad part, have equaled last years sales in numbers, but income less than half.

 

Jill

[Foreign Export 277]

best month ever for revenue - pretty pleased 

[losdemas 1,958]

3 for 112, including one distributor.

 

Ironically, the best value sale was one from a client who paid 33% more for a similar usage a year ago.  This usage was from around the same time and only discovered behind a pay-wall thanks to Google Images and a thumbnail linking to the article.  Why I should have to fight for a year to get 33% less from a known client for a confirmed usage is beyond me! :angry: .  Makes me wonder what else is hidden behind that pay-wall?!

 

Anyhoo...(calm down, Danny!) Alamy did recover some form of payment eventually; November has always been good to me; I have an advertising usage from another agency and 3 or 4 direct sales to a calendar company; a payout from Alamy this month; plus DACS pays out soon, too.

 

Reasons to be cheerful...

 

EDIT: edited link

Edited November 1, 2016 by losdemas

[Lisa 9,165]

Six sales in October (5 Alamy Stock and 1 Stockimo iPhone). 

 

Edit: How did I get sandwiched between Philippe and Kumar? 

Edited November 1, 2016 by Lisa

[Doc 1,505]

Best month ever for numbers - 95

 

Gross income: $2850

 

But only 4 sales over $150, best $196, so, poor average value;

 

Zooms slightly below average for me

 

Kumar

[Brighton Coast 105]

Below average with 29 sales and not so good revenue either

[Bryan 10,512]

19 for $391 gross, so not complaining overmuch.

 

Good news, first 3 figure sale for what seems eons, and best ever month for zooms after a particularly zoom light period. 

 

A personal use sale appeared during the clouds of night on the 31st, so, hopefully, genuine.

 

Not so good news, the 3 fig sale was through a distributor.    

[John Mitchell 2,989]

Average-ish month with 11 RM licenses for $455 gross. Prices were on the low side (and several very low). One $100+ sale.

 

I'm on track to possibly equal or surpass my best year on Alamy (2014) in total number of sales but not in revenue.

[jumpingrocks 0]

Very decent October considering my very low volume of images- $200 with 3 images sold. Decent PPI

[SFL 143]

Below average month, particularly in thrms of $$$. 6 sales. Lowest $9.xx

[Webby 124]

down on last month. 4 sales for $80

[Lizzy 40]

My best month ever in terms of revenue ($211), and joint highest for number of sales (4). 

 

Very, very happy     

 

Zooms have been a bit on the slow side though.

[Gina Kelly 104]

Not great - 2 sales, $31 gross.

[Reimar 338]

Above average sales volume (17) and below average sales amount ($657).  Lots of 5 and 10 dollar sales.

[mickfly 353]

Five sales, low value but plenty of work to do this winter to improve things.

[Windmillskies 5]

Much the same - plenty of zooms, but not much in the way of sales - a couple of low prices.

At least with my still small collection things get noticed in the 60+million so I must be doing something right.  

 

Martin

[Jansos 541]

16 sales = $305 gross. Highest $161, lowest $4.75. Pretty happy with that but looking forward to bigger numbers one day soon. :-)

[John Mitchell 2,989]

One can't help noticing a common thread in this thread -- low(er) prices.

[TeeCee 1,171]

Bizarre month…

Two refunds, though one re-purchased  at exactly the same price and terms as the original sale.
A few personal uses, and one unauthorised newspaper use now on the books. Almost all of this before the month was half done.

Final result - 13 sales and $236. Largest value sale $58.

Bizarre month …

[Lynn Palmer 144]

Not bad, although zooms all but disappeared I had two good sales totaling $420.

[Chuck Nacke 692]

I have to get "real" and I have been and continue to be a big fan of Alamy, but the licenses

that I have been seeing for the last couple of years are insulting to me and yes I have licenses

every month.  What I am seeing is a race to the bottom and I can not justify spending time

prepping images to upload to Alamy for the return that I have been seeing.

 

Sorry to post this, but it is my honest feeling.

 

Chuck

[cbimages 347]

4 sales for $297. range $12 to $125.

[Perry 111]

Worst month of the year by sales and revenue.

Zooms down by at least 50%. Ctr low. (mystery for me after 10 months of steady growth)

 

Perry