November 2007 Archives
Over the past few weeks millions of baseball fans in the tri-state area and beyond have been following negotiations between two of the most recognizable brands in the US, the New York Yankees and regular-season superstar, Alex Rodriguez (a.k.a A-Rod).
During the World Series A-Rod announced he was opting out of his contract with the Yankees to persue the free-agent market, but once he saw that no one else could really afford him (or was big enough for him), he went back to the Yankees sans agent to work out a deal. There was much debate among the fans and press as to whether or not the Yankees should take him back or who needed whom more.
In my mind there was no debate, the Yankees were definitely going to take him back because they needed him just as much as he needed them, which is more than they need a World Series championship.
Lately news has been trickling in from the microstock sites about single image sales in the thousands of dollars. Dreamstime last month sold rights to one if its images for $5,100, and Stockxpert only a couple weeks ago had a $10,000 sale.
On the surface, news of this nature is good for energizing microstock contributors, but what can these sales tell us about the microstock industry overall?
