How to Get Fucking Inspired

[fm1234]

Got this message from Envato a few days ago. For the tl;dr crowd, here's the salient bit:

Marketplace Author Kriesi Achieves $750,000 in Sales!

Popular ThemeForest & CodeCanyon author Kriesi has exceeded $750,000 in sales and is the first Marketplace author ever to reach the last rung of the Elite component of the Envato Elite program. Kriesi's products are popular for a reason, beautifully elegant WordPress themes, site templates and plugins have all helped to set Kriesi apart from the rest. If you haven't seen Kriesi's work, check out his ThemeForest and CodeCanyon portfolios to see what Kriesi has to offer! A massive congratulations to Kriesi from the Envato team, and we wish him his best on the way to the Power Elite levels!

Jesus ... $750,000 worth of premium WordPress themes and PHP codes. Envato actually added some new tiers to their seller levels, in honour of this guy.

I'd love a WF moderator to approach this guy for a Q&A, see about how he handles the business end (ie. outsourcing grunt code/support/etc., from where he draws inspiration, how does he manage customer contact with that many customers, etc.)


Frank

 

[1337hovie]

from what i understand, its on a tiered structure or something, i don't think he got all 750k, i think the highest you can get is 50% of the sale.

if you're looking for good reviews on upstarts, etc - Mixergy.com is good; there is a video interview with the guy from 37 signals (basecamp app, etc), and other web development entrepeneurs.

Nonetheless, i wouldnt mind coding up a wp theme and slappin it on the market, see what id get for it.

So many sales on WP themes that are very 'minimal', which is just easier..lol

 

[dreamache]

i wouldnt mind coding up a wp theme and slappin it on the market, see what id get for it.

I may do this some day just to see myself as well.

 

[crackp0t]

I can code pretty damn good, but my design skills are PACE LATTIN so I've bought some and adapted them to what I needed. Nothing WP related, but it with a little bit of elbow grease it was easy to make it a generic HTML theme.

 

[Andrew Scherer]

If I was PACE LATTIN I would scoff at any pittance under a mill.

 

[crackp0t]

If I was PACE LATTIN I would scoff at any pittance under a mill.

You're doing it wrong bro. You're suppose to use it as a pejorative. Like when I said my design skills are PACE LATTIN. You could say my design skills are shit.

 

[Fatbat]

from what i understand, its on a tiered structure or something, i don't think he got all 750k, i think the highest you can get is 50% of the sale.

Minimum is 50%, top tier is 70% (you earn that when you've cleared 75k in sales). So he earned (rather roughly and rounded off) 500k off his 750k in sales.

Payment schedule is here... http://themeforest.net/wiki/account/money-account/payment-rates/

 

[MSTeacher]

I can code pretty damn good, but my design skills are PACE LATTIN so I've bought some and adapted them to what I needed. Nothing WP related, but it with a little bit of elbow grease it was easy to make it a generic HTML theme.

I'm just the opposite. My design skills have gotten pretty good but my coding skills ain't worth Pace Lattin.

 

[crackp0t]

I'm just the opposite. My design skills have gotten pretty good but my coding skills ain't worth Pace Lattin.

The world needs people like both of us . Some time code is PACE LATTIN some time it's the design.