Earnings for August 2009
Well, it’s time to give you guys some numbers. They will be pretty skewed this month for a number of reasons. I spent a lot of time designing and researching for this blog instead of writing. Since I still have bills to pay, I am still also desperately looking for a regular day job. Much of this month was also dedicated to learning and using social networking sites. Anyway, here are this months numbers.
I’m going to start with my word count for the month. This is as much for me as it is for you. I want to get faster each month, without compromising the quality of my writing, and this is one statistic I will use to track that.
| Location | Number of Articles | Word Count |
| Blog | 8 | 2594 |
| Triond/Bukisa/Red Gage | 1 | 945 |
| Xomba | 4 | 268 |
| Bright Hub | 4 | 4473 |
| Total = 8280 |
All in all, I can’t say I’m impressed with my word count. I hope to double this in September and I think that is achievable, especially since I only really dedicated half of last month to article writing. There is also no new photography being added this month. My wife and I are looking for a space to set up our studio again and shoot. A studio setting is where I thrive. I can shoot outdoors but to really do this well, I need to be in an area that I find inspiring. This city, the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, just does not provide for me in that capacity. As soon as we have a space to shoot in, we will start adding photos to the monthly tally.
Now on to the dollar count.
| Location | Total Amount of Articles | Monthly Income |
| Triond | 11 | $0.47 |
| Bukisa | 8 | $0.48 |
| Red Gage | 32 | $0.38 |
| Adsense (Blog,Xomba, etc) | $0.15 | |
| Bright Hub | 4 | $40.00 |
| Total: $41.48 |
Obviously I won’t be living off this months earnings, but it’s a start. Now let’s move to photography earnings.
| Agency | Number of photos | Earnings |
| Shutterstock | 143 | $30.30 |
| Dreamstime | 213 | $10.53 |
| iStock | 44 | $3.85 |
| StockXpert | 134 | $3.10 |
| Fotolia | 200 | $3.19 |
| BigStockPhoto | 194 | $1.50 |
| StockPhotoMedia | 248 | €2.50 |
| 123rf | 184 | $0.36 |
| Canstock Photo | 222 | $0.75 |
| Scandinavian Stock Photo | 187 | €1.00 |
| Total: $53.58 & €3.50 |
This, I am more impressed with. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not near enough to live off of either, but considering this is the off-season for microstock sales and that I haven’t been uploading new photos, I am happy with this months results. I did sell an extended licence with Shutterstock this month for an extra 28 bucks, but even without the EL I would have been happy. I hope over the next month, if we are unable to gain a space to start shooting, to at least upload five more shots. If we can gain a shooting space, to upload more than five.
We’ll see what the coming month brings. That’s it from this front, it’s time for me to start my next Bright Hub article.
