Premium Wordpress Theme Business

Discussion in 'General Business' started by 7BlueSky7, Apr 11, 2009.

0
  1. #1
    7BlueSky7, Apr 11, 2009 IP
  2. mentos

    mentos Prominent Member

    Messages:
    15,280
    Likes Received:
    473
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    330
    #2
    Make a professional website and sell it from website.
    Chose this because it will make your site look more high end and its more easy to promote.
    And don't forget about the pricing,make it more affordable to increase sales.
     
    mentos, Apr 12, 2009 IP
  3. TalentScout

    TalentScout Member

    Messages:
    186
    Likes Received:
    1
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    28
    #3
    Have you offered these on DP yet? It will be a great testing ground for you with pricing etc while finalizing your site.

    All the best
    TS
     
    TalentScout, Apr 14, 2009 IP
  4. Pope Sweet

    Pope Sweet Peon

    Messages:
    37
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #4
    Do you intend to make all those themes yourself?
    wow
     
    Pope Sweet, Apr 14, 2009 IP
  5. eFishy

    eFishy Guest

    Messages:
    213
    Likes Received:
    1
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #5
    Make some good themes and have a really nice looking website thats easy to use.
    Also like others have said your pricing is important, if you get it right your sales should rocket!
    And have a fair few designs for people to have a look through.
    Best of luck!
     
    eFishy, Apr 14, 2009 IP
  6. david42

    david42 Banned

    Messages:
    40
    Likes Received:
    1
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #6
    I can tell you one way im trying to do the same. I only started a week ago with a live site (Still has some wrinkles but its getting there) I made a free version and a premium version ($15) of my first theme.

    I then uploaded the free version to wordpress.org and its been downloaded 550 times already. I put some links in the "about" text file, giving people more details about the theme on my site. I have got quite a few click thoughs doing this and have seen my traffic spike because of this.

    Obviously the other idea is that giving away a free version should give me loads of nice links coming back to the site.
     
    david42, Apr 15, 2009 IP
  7. Civin

    Civin Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    371
    Likes Received:
    12
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    138
    #7
    If you do go the route of selling them from your own site I highly suggest setting up some form of an affiliate program. This will give you a working sales force, free advertising, as well as potential backlinks from all of the blogs that focus purely on advertising premium themes.
     
    Civin, Apr 16, 2009 IP
  8. RadioBounce

    RadioBounce Banned

    Messages:
    4,171
    Likes Received:
    16
    Best Answers:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #8
    I think you should make a portfolio and show all your themes there and allow your customers to buy them via paypal and other payment methods.

    You could also sell them on this forum ;)
     
    RadioBounce, Apr 16, 2009 IP