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Let’s talk about RevoStock

Dave Navarro — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:20:36 +0000

Back in mid November I was sent an email from the owner of another microstock related web site. In this email was the results of a survey taken from 44 RevoStock producers with 1000 stock footage clips or more in their portfolios. I knew from my own experience that RevoStock sales were WAY down, [...]

Trying out Fotolia

Dave Navarro — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:39:00 +0000

I got an email message from Fotolia offering me a free 30-day subscription and asking me to try it out. I’ve been a bit busy lately, but my shooting schedule is a bit lax this month so I plan on spending a bit of time working on my web sites. So now is as [...]

Falling out of love…

Dave Navarro — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:16:25 +0000

The very first MicroStock agency that I signed with was Pond5. Their process was (and is) simple, just sign up and start uploading. If your files are not total crap, they approve them and (hopefully) you start selling. What’s (mostly) great is that they don’t pass judgment on what might sell, they leave that [...]

2011 MicroStock Performance So Far

Dave Navarro — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:16:30 +0000

Sales this year so far have been interesting. Overall, they are above my 2010 sales at this time, but growth is slow. I think that’s mostly due to the fact that I haven’t been vigilant about adding new content to my portfolios.

Sales are up considerably on ClipCanvas which seems to be a very [...]

RevoStock responds…

Dave Navarro — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:52:39 +0000

I tweeted this morning about yesterday’s blog post “February News” and Craig L., the owner of RevoStock took issue with a number of things I said… So, let’s set the record straight.

His first comment was with regard to my claim that their Google ranking was below ClipCanvas and the Envato Marketplace. I have [...]

February News

Dave Navarro — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:21:52 +0000

As I had mentioned in an earlier post, without iSyndica around to give me reports, having to gather up all of the data myself from all the sites is a major pain-in-the-ass. But I’m working on it and will catch up with everything over the coming week.

Here in Kansas it’s been a long [...]

Welcome 2011

Dave Navarro — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:38:54 +0000

May you be better than 2010…

I got caught up in all the holiday stuff, which is why I haven’t updated the site since November. I did finally get the site moved to a new server, so hopefully it will run a lot faster.

I’ll have the November and December totals up in a [...]

October 2010 Sales Report

Dave Navarro — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:43:09 +0000

October was a very welcome month with mostly higher sales across the board. Pond5 led with a new “Best Month Ever” in both number of clips sold and sales dollars. The only real bummer was the whole iSyndica thing… especially when it came time to gather the data for this months report. Ugh!

October [...]

Missing iSyndica

Dave Navarro — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:46:47 +0000

I feel like a drug addict going through withdrawal. It’s not so much that I miss the ability to upload once and “syndicate everywhere” (I do miss that), more it’s a matter of missing the analytics. Being able to log in every single day to check my sales stats not only helped me to [...]

Batten down the hatches

Dave Navarro — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:30:39 +0000

In my little corner of the world, the weather is starting to turn colder and we’re getting more frequent storms. Shooting footage and photos outdoor starts to become less of an option. So, I’m spending every good day out shooting new stuff and every bad day preparing for a long winter inside.

Fortunately, my [...]