And I have my first sale on Shutterstock . Just keeping you updated 🙂
How I got to Shutterstock and how I passed the exam, I told here ⇒ And today I want to share with you good news. Only about 10 days have passed since I uploaded my first picture, and here is my first sale.
Very unexpected.
So I’m sitting here, working, it’s night outside. Once an hour I go to Shutterstock to check if my new works have appeared in my portfolio.
The thing is that after the works are accepted
They do not immediately appear on the author’s page. But they are in the search and buyers see them. People on forums write that it can take from a couple of hours to 2-3 days. I really didn’t have this. They were not displayed for half a day at most.
So, once every couple of hours, I go in and refresh my personal account page.
And then bam, in my personal account I see a picture on the map:
First sale on Shutterstock
This is how sales are displayed. Thank you, man from Mexico. You made my day 🙂
To be honest, I thought that sales start when there are more than 50-100 pictures in the portfolio. This is again, info from various forums finland phone number library on stocks. Therefore, I did not even hope.
And in general, I had this suspicion that I would not upload 100 pictures, but would abandon this business earlier. It just turned out that attributing images is a terrible routine for me. Even understanding the importance of selecting keywords, it is boring and annoying. Especially when there are 10 pictures, and all on different topics. I do not really understand how people attribute 50 pictures a day.
Maybe there are some algorithms that
I do not know about yet. Or they just draw in series to make it easier.
By the way, after passing the exam, I uploaded 23 vectors to Shutter, one of which was not approved due to an incorrect description. And i didn’t even realize it since I’m a “lazy ass”, I didn’t even re-upload it, but simply deleted it 🙂
In total, by the time of the first sale, I had only 22 works in my portfolio. Most of them are patterns (seamless patterns). I uploaded patterns selectively consumer data from those that I prepared for another Internet site. It is not clear by what principle I selected them. I did not look at trends, did not analyze niches and generally treated it somehow indifferently.