Earnings for October and November 2009
Well, I am back. I’m sorry but I had to disappear for a while for personal reasons. I spent a lot of time job hunting for a day job and at one point thought I had obtained work in another city. My wife and I even packed most of our things to move. Then the job fell through so we were back at square one. There has also been an issue here affecting our entire condo complex which has been costing me an absurd amount of time. Regardless, I am back and hopefully won’t be going anywhere again anytime soon.
I am going to do a recap of the last two months for each category. I did spend the first half of October writing. I spent a lot of time writing for a blog I started on Today.com but as you will notice I have not added Today.com to my word count or earnings charts. You will find out why later this month when I do my write-up and add them to the list of writing markets.
Here are the word counts for October and November:
October
| Location | Number of Articles | Word Count |
| blog | 4 | 2113 |
| Triond/Bukisa/Red Gage | 1 | 697 |
| Xomba | 5 | 225 |
| Total: | 3035 |
November
| Location | Number of Articles | Word Count |
| Xomba | 1 | 87 |
| Bright Hub | 2 | 1533 |
| Total: | 1620 |
Since productivity was down, so are my earnings. My earnings from Triond and Bukisa saw no decline but I make so little from either company it made little difference to my bottom line. I had another photo featured on Red Gage in October which I am very happy with. I made an extra $5.05 bonus and being featured brought a lot more views, allowing me to make more money from them. October was also the first month I saw any profit from Bright Hub’s revenue share program. I admit I was a little disappointed in October when I got my pay stub from Bright Hub. The amount made from the Bright Hub revenue share program changes from month to month depending on how well Bright Hub is doing. October’s revenue share was rather low but November’s was much more uplifting. Even though I didn’t write any blog posts in November, I did write two Bright Hub articles. I wrote for Bright Hub only because one of my channels desperately needed articles so I tried to help out as much as I could.
Here are my earnings for the months of October and November:
October
| Location | Total Amount of Articles | Monthly Income |
| Triond | 14 | $0.23 |
| Bukisa | 14 | $0.20 |
| Red Gage | 14 | $5.64 |
| Adsense (Blog,Xomba, etc) | $4.57 | |
| Bright Hub | 11 | $5.71 |
| Schvoong | 1 | $0.00 |
| Total: | $16.35 |
November
| Location | Total Amount of Articles | Monthly Income |
| Triond | 14 | $0.22 |
| Bukisa | 14 | $0.22 |
| Red Gage | 14 | $0.37 |
| Adsense (Blog,Xomba, etc) | $2.76 | |
| Bright Hub | 13 | $34.96 |
| Schvoong | 1 | $0.00 |
| Total: | $38.53 |
When it comes to photography, October and November are the start of the good season for me. On a sad note though, one of my favourite microstock agencies has closed. Image Catalog is no more. Even worse, they didn’t payout any of the money they owed to contributors when they closed. I had accumulated $20.00. Granted 20 bucks is a not ton of money, but right now every penny counts and I could have used that cash. Apart from that gloomy bit of news, I am pretty happy with how the past two months have gone. I have added no new photos and probably won’t until I find a day job. This is just a little extra motivation for me to do so as quickly as possible.
Here are my earnings in photography for the months of October and November:
October
| Agency | Number of Photos | New photos added | In Queue | Earnings |
| Shutterstock | 146 | 0 | 0 | $3.00 |
| Dreamstime | 222 | 0 | 0 | $26.93 |
| iStock | 53 | 0 | 0 | $3.08 |
| StockXpert | 144 | 0 | 0 | $5.00 |
| fotolia | 207 | 0 | 0 | $9.95 |
| BigStockPhoto | 202 | 0 | 0 | $0.50 |
| Feature Pics | 251 | 0 | 0 | $0.00 |
| StockPhotoMedia | 258 | 0 | 0 | $0.00 |
| The Photo Storage | 187 | 0 | 0 | $0.00 |
| 123rf | 193 | 0 | 0 | $1.30 |
| Canstock Photo | 232 | 0 | 0 | $0.30 |
| YaY Micro | 160 | 0 | 0 | €0.00 |
| CutCaster | 136 | 0 | 0 | $0.00 |
| Total: | $50.06 |
November – Micros
| Agency | Number of Photos | New photos added | In Queue | Earnings |
| Shutterstock | 146 | 0 | 0 | $4.00 |
| Dreamstime | 222 | 0 | 0 | $22.72 |
| iStock | 53 | 0 | 0 | $1.00 |
| StockXpert | 144 | 0 | 0 | $5.00 |
| fotolia | 207 | 0 | 0 | $10.95 |
| BigStockPhoto | 202 | 0 | 0 | $1.50 |
| Feature Pics | 251 | 0 | 0 | $0.00 |
| StockPhotoMedia | 258 | 0 | 0 | $0.00 |
| The Photo Storage | 187 | 0 | 0 | $0.00 |
| 123rf | 193 | 0 | 0 | $1.00 |
| Canstock Photo | 232 | 0 | 0 | $0.30 |
| YaY Micro | 160 | 0 | 0 | €0.00 |
| CutCaster | 136 | 0 | 0 | $0.00 |
| Total: | $46.47 |
So it’s back to the grind for me but with a new plan. I have decided to apply for three jobs a day. After I have applied for those jobs, I can work on writing. So far this has worked out pretty good. In the past few months I have applied for nearly 170 jobs. If I apply for three a day I will add almost 90 more to that total by the end of December. On the writing side of things, I will be focusing most of my time on Bright Hub, this blog and a new blog I am going to start over at blogspot.com which will replace what I had hoped to create on Today.com.
That’s it for now, see you guys mid-month!
