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have I been in the wrong industry for years?
madman:
I am stock photo contributor for about 10 years, as everyone know, the microstock industry grown up every year but small contributor earnings decrease day by day because of the microstock sale sites are in the race of selling our efforts a little more price than free.. while we complain that our earnings are getting closer to zero, something else is happening somewhere.
https://themeforest.net/item/avada-responsive-multipurpose-theme/2833226?s_rank=1
check that link and you see how strange it is, one wordpress template has sold more than $25 million in 8 years. :o
when I think to myself, it seems like it is not possible to understand this.
Cider Apple:
OMG that's incredible.
Scary to think of over half a million similarly designed websites out there. Success is all about design, opportunity and timing I suppose.
I've been thinking that I should have been designing AE templates too years ago instead of just AE clips, think I've missed that boat.
I'm thinking like you, maybe the way forward is more specialized content? Harder to do with less competition (although many talented artist's are doing this).
madman:
it seems there was much more potential in web design, especially wordpress, I would choose to specialize in this way if i could go back in time. ???
THP Creative:
I've used Wordpress themes for years, including Avada.
From what I've seen, the ship has sailed on that front. Go back maybe to 2010-12 or so, and sure, there was incredible opportunity. And some capitalised on it, like many microstock contributors did with iStock in the early days.
But now there are a flood of themes and new ones come and go all the time. Most stop being updated/supported after a couple of years, leaving the buyer in a poor position.
That's partly why popular themes like Avada, Enfold (my personal fav: https://1.envato.market/c/361556/275988/4415?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthemeforest.net%2Fitem%2Fenfold-responsive-multipurpose-theme%2F4519990 and other's are successful now - people can rely on them being maintained. So it's WAY harder to break into this market now than before. Plus, providing support for these themes requires a team of people, which I think many guys starting out seem to forget, and very quickly get overwhelmed with support requests.
But like you say, if you could go back in time....I would have started microstock in 2000 and then switched to Wordpress themes in 2010 :D
qunamax:
--- Quote from: madman on January 24, 2020, 04:01 ---I am stock photo contributor for about 10 years, as everyone know, the microstock industry grown up every year but small contributor earnings decrease day by day because of the microstock sale sites are in the race of selling our efforts a little more price than free.. while we complain that our earnings are getting closer to zero, something else is happening somewhere.
https://themeforest.net/item/avada-responsive-multipurpose-theme/2833226?s_rank=1
check that link and you see how strange it is, one wordpress template has sold more than $25 million in 8 years. :o
when I think to myself, it seems like it is not possible to understand this.
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I'm no expert but I suppose making a theme requires at least a handful of coding and if I wanted to do coding in my life making themes would be the last thing I want code on my list, long below mobile apps and games in this moment.
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