The MicroStock Blog

Time to upgrade my gear

Dave Navarro — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:36:31 +0000

While I have been out shooting a lot more footage for Microstock this year after a dismal performance last year, I am still spending a lot of time shooting commercials for local businesses and working on short films. The great thing about that is it pushes you to the limits of your gear and [...]

A look back at 2011

Dave Navarro — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:21:58 +0000

With the sad death of iSyndica, it’s just too difficult to pull together the small details in numbers for 2011. But the overall numbers show a growth in sales for me, which is a good thing.

But there’s a bit of bad news mixed in with the good. Sales on Catooh have dropped dramatically [...]

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 [...]

Update your blog already!

Dave Navarro — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:00:52 +0000

Well, actually, the post I read was a little more profound (profane?) than that, but I understood it immediately.

On a personal note, it’s been a busy year. I started my own local TV production company with several shows already in production and several more still to come before year’s end. I also [...]

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 [...]