scootstah Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I've been toying with the idea of putting some stuff up for sale. Stuff like templates, random graphic design stuff (icons and such), and some of the projects I've been working on. Basically I would just throw this stuff up on some ecommerce platform and let people buy it and download it. They would have really lax licensing, so no recurring fees or limitations and such. They buy it and own it forever. So then my question is, is it a bad idea to just throw this up as "some guy selling some stuff on a website", or should I go through all the hassles with making a business name and all that jazz? I'm not 100% on how this stuff works. It would definitely be nothing on a large scale. I'd be doing excellent to get 5-10 things up. Or should I just stick to using services such as Themeforest to sell stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Your going to need to go through some type of service to get this to work at all. People like to be able toi compare products, and having a web site with 5 - 10 templates / scripts / stuff isn't really going to attract any attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 I was going to do that as well. The thing is though that I have a pretty specific niche and there isn't a whole lot of competition anyway. Plus, most of those services take a pretty hefty chunk of profit from sales. It's not to live off, just some disposable income on the side. If I made a couple sales a month I would be happy. I've never sold anything in this fashion before though, so I'm a little unsure how the process works ... like if I need any licenses or permits and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Be aware that normally with those sites, if you don't sell it exclusively on their site you get even less profit. For example, with Themeforest you typically get about half to 3/4 the profit by selling the items exclusively... whereas if you if you don't, then you only get about a third of the profit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 Be aware that normally with those sites, if you don't sell it exclusively on their site you get even less profit. For example, with Themeforest you typically get about half to 3/4 the profit by selling the items exclusively... whereas if you if you don't, then you only get about a third of the profit. That's where subtle variations come into play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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