Hi guys, my partner wants me to market his wordpress designs by getting link sponsors. What are your thoughts about this? How can I succeed in this industry? What are the hot templates that link sponsors are willing pay for? Ideas would be appreciated!
A lot of people sell the links to their footers of templates. Usually it depends on the designers following and where all it will be distributed to determine the price. A big thing now that will up your price as well is encrypting the footer link as 95% of the time if its not encrypted its going to be deleted as one of the firsts mods someone does.
I have a large userbase and I have good friends network. I can help your friend to market his/her's wp thmes, where he will get more money. Sponsoring a theme is a good is still a good idea, but there are more options which you can explore selling your themes.
Hot templates are anything that looks good and is unique Magazine style templates are pretty hot at the moment.