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You can turn everything into a business as long as you have a reasonable business plan in place and know that users are willing to pay for some extra features o
by ledlauzis 11y ago
You can turn everything into a business as long as you have a reasonable business plan in place and know that users are willing to pay for some extra features or service.
Story time:
2 years ago I started to learn frontend web development from various online courses. I had zero technical background and no intention to make money. Within few months I learned enough to create my first WordPress theme. It was terrible but it worked . I made few more themes and never did anything with them. I made like 6 themes and just deleted theme few months down the road. Then I decided to submit one theme on WordPress.org just to see if it gets approved. Themes goes through review and someone would evaluate my code and that's what I was after. Long story short my themes now have been downloaded over 1,000,000 times and I have turned it into 6 figure a year business.
While I haven't sold a single theme yet, apparently you can recommend hosting and premium plugins that goes along with your themes and make a decent income.
For those interested you can visit site at: https://colorlib.com/ https://colorlib.com/
- tylercubell 11y ago> I have turned it into 6 figure a year business. > While I haven't sold a single theme yet What?
- andrea_s 11y agosponsorships
- jnbiche 11y agoHe has very popular themes that he gives away, and then advertises for paid products on his theme's download pages (presumably).
- Radle 11y agoAs he said, he finances via direct advertisement. Not by selling products, but by recommending additional features.
- Radle 11y agoAs he said, he finances via direct advertisement. Not by selling products, but by recommending additional features.
- ledlauzis 11y agoYes, that's correct :) Most income comes from advertising, paid reviews, sponsorship, affiliate products (hosting, plugins, premium themes from other developers).
- freewizard 11y agoI don't know why but I feel theme is not the most typical open source project.
- sireat 11y agoI still do not understand how 1M free theme downloads translate into 6 figure business. Does that mean every 10th downloader actually gets you a comission of $1 on some affiliate purchase or does that mean that every 100th downloader buys something generating $10 in affiliate income?