 Alright in this video I'm going to walk through my November online photo sales. Now November was a really really good month for me. It was actually my best month of 2020. Not only was it my best month but it actually doubles my second best month. I made more in my online sales in November than I did in August, September and October combined. So it was really good month for me. I'm pretty excited, pretty happy but I've got a lot of great things to talk about so we'll just get into it now. Now one of the reasons why I had such a great month was I got a lot of sales from my own website. So I have my own domain SouvenirPixels.com and I've got a website that's hosted on Smugmug and I sell my photos on there and people can download them for stock or they can also download them for prints. Now there's one company that found my website and they were making a calendar for their customers so they want to send out this calendar for their customers for 2021 and they ended up buying seven of my photos. Now I sell my photos for about $29 and Smugmug takes a small cut so it ends up being a fairly large amount and it ends up being my biggest site of the month. Now I don't get sales on Smugmug every month but I get more than a lot of other sites. However, the good thing about Smugmug is that they take a very small percentage. So the downside is you need to market your own stuff so this person probably found me through my social media so I have to do my own marketing for it. But when you get downloads you get to keep the majority of it and you get to set your own price. So this worked out very well for me $180 in just November. Really happy with that and it was my best site of the month. Now not only did I have a great month on Smugmug I also had a great month on Fine Art America. This was my highest Fine Art America sales for any month of the year and I made $170 on just three sales. Now one of the things with Fine Art America I find is I do get more sales this time of year. Being November people are buying Christmas gifts so I find that November is typically a good month for Fine Art America but making $170 in one month off of my old photos is still pretty good. That actually only came from three different sales. All of them were photos that I uploaded there over three years ago from vacations I'd had in the past and this photo in particular I'll put it up here. It sold twice so two of those three sales were this one photo. This photo is interesting I actually really like this photo when I took it and edited it I really liked it but it makes very few sales on the stock sites and this is the first time it's ever sold on Fine Art America as well but it sold twice in the same month the first and second time. Now I actually see this a lot and I think what happens with Fine Art America is that when you get a sale one sale they'll bump you up in the search results for a certain period of time. So often what you see is you get a first sale of a photo and then shortly after you'll get the second sale of that photo and I think that's what happened again in November. So the first person was probably looking for something very specific you know that photo and bunch of bunch of y'all you know maybe they had a good time traveling there and they wanted to find a photo of it and then so that's got the first sale then the second sale probably came from you know bumping up the search results because of the first sale. Anyway it's really happy about it $170 from three sales on Fine Art America. Alright now next on the list is Shutterstock. Now not only was did I have my best month for Smugbunk sales my best month for Fine Art America sales I also had my best month for Shutterstock sales. So recently I've been averaging like $30 or $40 maybe on Shutterstock a month and in November I got like what $85 looking up there so I got $85 and the majority of that though actually came from three sales so on Shutterstock what you get is you get a certain percentage of the sales so if people purchase extended licenses those cost a lot more and then you get a much bigger percentage and because of that I'm just gonna look at the exact numbers here because I wrote them out I got three larger sales so I got one sale for $29 one sale for $26 and one sale for $11 so out of the $85 that I got from Shutterstock 65 of those dollars came from like three different sales right so that's why I made so much I got some big sales I don't get big sales like that every month and it just so happened that three of them came through in November right now I know this is gonna come in the comments people are gonna say well I thought Shutterstock only gave ten cents Shutterstock does not give ten cents per download Shutterstock gives a minimum of ten cents per downloads okay so I had a large number of ten cent downloads that added up to you know ten twenty cent downloads that up to like $20 but then I also had those other three big sales that was $65 just how I get my $85 on Shutterstock right so again still not as good as what I was getting Shutterstock three four years ago but it is has been my best Shutterstock month of the year and it coincides a lot of other best sites of the year so I'm really gonna add it up for November alright so those are three great sites then I have all my other sites here now deposit photos you know was slightly better than I think average but I typically make around $20 there's 25 isn't that big of a deal next are the two free sites the Pixabay and Pexels so those are donations from those sites so when I have like RPD up here that's revenue per download or revenue per purchase for fine art America but in these sites this is revenue per donation so I received a number of donations and it added up to two sites I got $50 in donations which is also quite good all right now next was Adobe stock Adobe stock was pretty much average that's about what I've been making recently I'm after that is pick fair now pick fair is a site I don't up there very regularly anymore because I don't make a lot of sales that's only my second sale of the year so you know it's nice that it came in but it was only $8 so I don't upload there regularly but it is nice to get that second sale and then the rest of the sites are pretty much average just the low sites now but that ended up being $550 for the month of November and as I mentioned at the start that was my best sales month of the year it was by far my best sales month of the year probably you know after that I think my biggest month was like $250 so if you've been watching this channel for a while you know that you know a lot of the photography I do I do it on vacation and so it's vacation photography so when COVID hit and traveling stopped it hasn't been great for my stock sales and my year this year although I haven't tallied everything up I'll probably have a lower year in 2020 than I did in 2019 so it's really nice that I did get this kind of larger month at the end of the year another reason it's nice is I wanted buy some gear my last trip out doing some photography I noticed that my one tripod was pretty it was starting to shake and I figured out that I couldn't really fix it very easily I have another tripod that I use sometimes and one of the legs got stuck and I also couldn't fix that easily so I've got like these two five-year-old tripods that both have kind of gone south over the past year so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use this $550 to get myself a Christmas present and I actually already got it in the mail it's right here I picked up the peak design tripod probably one of the more expensive options that you can get for a travel tripod but you know I somewhat rationalize it by the fact that you know I just made $550 on my sales and hopefully this tripod is gonna you know get me out taking more photos in 2021 and you know which will turn into additional sales so it's kind of like an investment but it's more just you know for me in my photography because I wanted to get a new tripod and this one seemed pretty good from all the reviews online anyways that's my photo report for this month next month what I'll probably do in January is I'll do a year in review so I'll go over all of my sales from 2020 look at all the different sites see how they compared to the year before so we can kind of see which sites are getting better and which sites are maybe going down hopefully it'll help you give you some ideas but where you should be focusing your you know upload efforts in 2021 anyways hopefully found this useful and best of luck selling your photos online