The new Timelineimages website enables Facebook users to customize their personal pages with a broad selection of high‑quality images.

Today, I’m sharing a translation of an article by microstock contributor Nikhil Gangavane (Thefinalmiracle) on how to reach 10,000 sales on a stock photo site. You can view the original on Dreamstime here: blog.dreamstime.com/2011/06/16/lessons-to-have-10000-sales_art35457.

Social networks have long been an effective tool for promoting websites and driving significant traffic. It’s no secret that many websites receive the majority of their visitors from social media rather than from search engines.

Today’s post is dedicated to reviewing the news that stock photo agencies have churned out over the past few months of the closing year and the beginning of the new one. But I’ll try to present the information with a bit of originality—after all, it’s the first post of 2011. So, let’s get started:

Anyone who has already started working with stock photo sites and reached a certain workflow volume eventually faces the challenge: how to speed up uploading and attribution? This becomes especially critical when you are working with multiple stock sites simultaneously.

When purchasing a photo or illustration from a stock photo site, you’ll encounter various payment options.