Posts by quickandeasy

Not casting opinion on this rule change, but I turn off all the layers in the free files I give away and in some cases, simply turning of layer visibility reduces file size by 25%.

JaneVision said
I find myself wondering why I am giving envato a massive 50%, or 67% in the case of my non-exclusive account?

So that you can use their fantastic and widely used (within our niche) sales platform.

This is the same as how music labels spend millions on ad campaigns for new releases and direct all the traffic to iTunes.

Teo_nikif said
I understand what quickandeasy wants to say but he can do so in a nicer manner. At first I though he ‘d pop out of my screen and bit the crap out of me just because I was sharing my opinion with my fellow authors.

My apologies if I come across in an unfriendly manner, that isn’t my intention.

My intention is however to make the solid point that as Authors, the success and selling of our files is our business.

dekurvajo said
Market is not competitive, but divided. It is’t happened by purpose, it happened “natural” because of the wrong exposure. Search engine is’t work for buyers…

I disagree.

Saying the marketplaces are ‘divided’ implies that each Author deserves an equal share.

The marketplaces are competitive, as any business marketplace is. This is a business and there are people here selling the same as you. You therefore have competition.

RE buyers finding your items etc – this is the exact point I am making about Authors doing their own promotion.

If you want to make sales on your items, be proactive and put your products in front of potential buyer’s eyeballs yourself – like every other business does.

Don’t simply sit there waiting for them to find you.

ToivoMedia said

quickandeasy said
Sales are increasing.

So if you write something in bold, that makes it true. I’m gonna give it a try.

I’m the greatest guitarist ever to have lived.

No, writing it in bold doesn’t make it true, but comments like this do.

If everyone had decreasing sales, I could understand the above arguments – but they’re not.

Sales are increasing.

This means that there is more money being spent and more money available for the taking.

As I’ve mentioned in previous comments, this is a competitive marketplace, Authors have to be proactive to stay on top.

Yes, of course Authors with increasing sales will say the market is good and those without increasing sales will complain – however those Authors with increasing sales are the Authors who are putting the work into promoting their products, creating better products, creating products regularly and creating products that are in demand.

Not simply sitting around expecting the ancient Envato spirits to magically fill up their bank accounts.

ToivoMedia said
Really great tips there, but some of us were doing our best already.

This attitude of “I’m doing my best” is the exact complacency I am referring to in my previous comment.

This is a competitive marketplace.

If a person’s best isn’t hacking it, they need to focus on being better.

Producing better items that are better than the competition.

That is how you reach or stay on top, become a market leader, beat the competition.

Not simply sitting there and complaining that sales are going down the pan.

Hey Doriel,

if you would like to change your username, please contact Envato Support.

Note, you may only change your username once.

As I point out in my first comment which you can see if you click ››› right here ‹‹‹ ..... Go on, click it.

You can see that sales for the listed top Authors are up and sales for the popular items are also up.

This indicates – wait for it – that sales are up.

So does this comment.

The problem for most Authors is being caused by a lot more items being entered into the marketplace.

This means that those early Authors who used to relish the relatively long initial ‘on the front page / front category page’ time period of a newly accepted item are no longer seeing much benefit from it because the items are pushed off those pages pretty quickly.

However, Envato is not here to print money for you.

Many of you act like you deserve high sales for some reason, whilst doing the same, if not less than you did a year or two ago.

You wanna know how to increase your earnings?

• Make better items.
• Make unique and in-demand items.
• Stop sitting around waiting for Envato to sell your items for you and do some promotion.

Stop complaining of low sales because you’ve become complacent.

Interesting idea…

One of the reasons items made by ‘top Authors’ stand out so much and gain such good promotion is because they’re usually very high quality.

If the items made by an Author are not good quality, they won’t stand out and the Author will struggle to become a ‘top Author’.

Don’t forget, there is a Top New Authors page.

Congratulations CodePower, now on to 1,000!