Summary: Learn how and where to sell templates and WordPress themes that you have designed so that others can appreciate their value.
Offering templates or Wordpress themes for sale on your website can be a good way to generate revenue, especially if they are themed to your content. You can optionally include a backlink to your site in the credits, providing you with additional links in. As well as selling templates on your site, there are multiple places and ways to sell templates or WordPress themes on the internet.
When looking to sell your templates or WordPress themes, try these sites:
Theme Forest: They allow you to sell templates for HTML, Joomla, Flash and Photoshop as well as WordPress themes. There are different shares of the profit based on non-exclusive and exclusive templates.
Templamatic: This sites offers up to 65% proceeds from all templates, themes, or skins sold. They accept WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla as well as skins for numerous social websites.
Sitepoint: This site focuses primarily on WordPress themes. The difference here is that there is a fee taken instead of a percentage of your sales.
BuyStockDesign: This site allows you to make 50-75% on each sale and focuses on templates for HTML, WordPress, Joomla and PSD. If selling templates, be sure to sign up as an author.
Mojo Themes: This is an online marketplace for buying and selling themes and templates for CMS and e-commerce platforms on the web, including Joomla, Magento, WordPress, and Tumblr, for everything from PSD templates to HTML templates.
You can also try sites like EBay to sell your templates, tools, and themes as well as set up your own e-commerce site and sell them yourself (or monetise your existing site). Just be sure to create a marketing plan that leverages the power of social media and other online marketing strategies, such as blogs, linkbait and advertisements. Also consider working with some affiliates to increase your audience and realise greater revenue.
If you are interested in making a lucrative career out of selling templates and themes, be sure to remember some simple rules for maximising your sales beyond just having the right sales channels:
- For themes, use a variety of colours to make it stand out in a crowded marketplace.
- People like easy and convenient, so make sure it is a one-click install.
- Variety is the spice of life, so make sure that users have the option to change the look of their theme to better suit them. It may be that they want to tweak the colour or pattern.
- It is important that every theme fit well with basic blog functionality; otherwise, it’s not valuable to the user.
Keeping this advice in mind will help you with the design and marketing of your theme or template.
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said at 7:26 pm on August 5th, 2010
Great share, great article, very usefull for me… thank you
said at 9:20 pm on August 10th, 2010
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