eCommerce Tycoon

**LeetPCUser** · 06-12-2008, 12:53 PM

I have a friend who is doing designs for me and he does a fairly good job. He also has some other friends who design. He recommended we set something up where I am the middle man selling their designs. Although the template market is pretty saturated, I was thinking of selling to vendors. Does anyone know how to sell to different places like Template Monster?

Is anyone interested in the buying of templates? Any feedback you could give would be great.

Thanks.

**Elenis** · 06-12-2008, 01:19 PM

All kinds of internet market are saturated...go do something else...

**Rajaie** · 06-12-2008, 02:09 PM

It's going to be pretty hard, so I suggest you have a plan...

**LeetPCUser** · 06-12-2008, 03:03 PM

I just have no clue how to sell them. I have a ton of quality templates.

**Sneakyheathen** · 06-12-2008, 03:40 PM

Heck, setup your own site and go for it if you really want to. If you're more into selling to vendors, then I suggest using the contact page to email them. Be pro-active!

**ECSuite_Russell** · 06-12-2008, 04:09 PM

If you setup your own site make sure it's Shiny. When I'm on a web design or template site first thing I look at is the quality of their own site. A web designer with an ugly website doesn't inspire confidence in the product.

**Elenis** · 06-13-2008, 04:31 PM

strange...google is the ugliest (and simplest) thing around...

**ECSuite_Russell** · 06-13-2008, 05:21 PM

Google isn't selling web design.

And I think simple is elegant, my shiny comment was more a Firefly reference than anything literal, hehe. Just make the site clean and polished, I'd personally be wary of buying templates from a company I was unfamiliar with that also had a crummy website.

**steferner** · 06-13-2008, 10:11 PM

I would agree that the best way is to self publish those Templates... but if you don't want to be troubled with keeping up a site for it, I would just jump right in and contact the sites in that market like Template Monster and ask... Making sure you have some examples up somewhere to show them. Maybe you could set up some kind of sub-contracting with them?

**witnesstheday** · 08:48 AM

I dunno about you, but I feel the next shift in hardware coming along. Before we know it, "the web" is going to look even more different compared with today than today's "web" looks next to the web of yesteryear - when Netscape and News groups and far more ftp'ing than broadband-powered browser-based downloading, was the way it was. When there were warez, not torrents, when blogs were what techies kept in the backrooms of their servers.

Monitors were worse, graphic design was that slight touch not as good as today (with all our advanced uses of the swf/flv media), network speeds were ridiculously different, and the places we accessed the web were totally different and far fewer.

What will the web design templates of tomorrow look like anyway? If you're going to put your best into a business, you have to work out the longterm strategy. Being a middle-man for talent is well and good, if you can stay ahead of the market enough to exploit that talent to the full.

You wanna know what you should do? I'll tell you. Get that talent to produce online video, not web design. Online video is about to enter a very big boom period - online video usage already has, and financing is grinding into motion - a surge in video design contracts is sure to happen by this time next year. Already a market is forming and our moany friend over there can't tell you it's saturated, because as yet, it really really really isn't!