I just sold my first copy!

[rafark]

It was on January 2013 that after many failed attempts at making decent money (or any at all) from blogs and selling cheap logos I had decided to develop and sell WordPress themes after looking at the amazing figures those guys were making for what seem to be such an easy thing to do. Wrong. I was so wrong, it is so easy to create a theme, but it's very hard to create a high-quality product that is up to standards so that other people will put their trust on you. And I had no clue about design, let alone programming.

So from 2013 to mid 2014 I created several themes nobody wanted even if I gave them away for free. They were pure garbage. I realized I needed to start from the beginning, so I stopped creating and started learning what I needed to in order to create the product: programming and graphic design (at least the fundamentals). Needless to say I exceded myself in the sense that I learned much more than what I should have or needed. Big mistake, I had not set a limit.

Long story short, today after 5 years of unpaid work and failures, I finally made it! I sold a copy of a theme of mine! I'm now one of the guys I wanted to be.

I'm excited to see all these years of drought and perseverance are finally starting to pay off. If you keep working on your goals, sooner or later, one way or another you'll end up accomplishing them.

 

[Lukmat]

It was on January 2013 that after many failed attempts at making decent money (or any at all) from blogs and selling cheap logos I had decided to develop and sell WordPress themes after looking at the amazing figures those guys were making for what seem to be such an easy thing to do. Wrong. I was so wrong, it is so easy to create a theme, but it's very hard to create a high-quality product that is up to standards so that other people will put their trust on you. And I had no clue about design, let alone programming.

So from 2013 to mid 2014 I created several themes nobody wanted even if I gave them away for free. They were pure garbage. I realized I needed to start from the beginning, so I stopped creating and started learning what I needed to in order to create the product: programming and graphic design (at least the fundamentals). Needless to say I exceded myself in the sense that I learned much more than what I should have or needed. Big mistake, I had not set a limit.

Long story short, today after 5 years of unpaid work and failures, I finally made it! I sold a copy of a theme of mine! I'm now one of the guys I wanted to be.

I'm excited to see all these years of drought and perseverance are finally starting to pay off. If you keep working on your goals, sooner or later, one way or another you'll end up accomplishing them.

Good luck, I am happy with you but it's only one copy Sell 50 copies and come back^^

 

[MisterF]

Excellent news mate, onwards and upwards now.

 

[lbhbochc]

That's great man, congrats.

 

[hacko]

Congratulations on the sale, but did you actually make themes for five years with no sales at all or what? I'm sorry, but in terms of progress that's terribly, terribly slow. You could have learned both more about creating themes (or create a team to work with), sales, create your own site and sell your themes from there, and other details on running a service more effectively while seeing results during all this time. It also doesn't mean that it wasn't just a lucky sale, so how can you know that's it's actually starting to get better?

If possible scale up, but if not I would really just take this as a learning experience and how you SHOULDN'T do things, and focus on learning whatever it is you were missing out on.

 

[GiftGuru]

I'm sure it won't be the last thing your mom does for you... lol... jk... nice job

 

[jazzc]

Congrats!

 

[Makemeproguys]

Congrats brother
How much you earned if I may ask
And where were you selling it?

 

[rafark]

Good luck, I am happy with you but it's only one copy Sell 50 copies and come back^^

Of course it is. I'm not celebrating the quantity, but the fact that I'm on the game now. you won't see me brag about 50 copies, that's just too low for my expectations.

Congratulations on the sale, but did you actually make themes for five years with no sales at all or what? I'm sorry, but in terms of progress that's terribly, terribly slow. You could have learned both more about creating themes (or create a team to work with), sales, create your own site and sell your themes from there, and other details on running a service more effectively while seeing results during all this time. It also doesn't mean that it wasn't just a lucky sale, so how can you know that's it's actually starting to get better?

If possible scale up, but if not I would really just take this as a learning experience and how you SHOULDN'T do things, and focus on learning whatever it is you were missing out on.

No, I made themes on 2013-2014. Then I stopped releasing shit and spent my time learning instead. Finally, I spent the last couple of years developing the whole project. I launched the website two weeks ago but the cart system was implemented last week. You could say I was aiming to have mainly lucky sales when I started, certainly not now after years of planning, development, and testing. I learned to not rely on luck.

I did made the mistake to learn more than what I needed. Do I regret it? yes, I do. However, this was one productive mistake. I'm now able to create a full-blown software company if I wanted to.

I'm sure it won't be the last thing your mom does for you... lol... jk... nice job

lol but if it were for my unsupportive family...

 

[Sceptic]

Congratulations!

 

[vwillis]

Feels great doesn't it.... seeing something you created have monetary value to someone else

 

[phoenix9]

Just like any business, learn how to market your products.

Even if you can build the greatest products in the world but if no one knows, it's useless.

Learn how to get targeted traffic and conversion.

Btw, congrats for your 'never give up' attitude, but you should work smarter.

 

[PbnGeek]

You must have learned a lot of things?

Are you going to launch your theme on theme forest or some market place like that?

 

[Makemeproguys]

You must have learned a lot of things?

Are you going to launch your theme on theme forest or some market place like that?

I believe he is already selling them there

 

[srb888]

Congrats! Happy for you. Don't stop at it. Your success will attract more success, so plan more themes,/products, market them, and ride on this success wave.

Good luck.

 

[DrN3MESiS]

This is great news for you!
Keep working hard man, it always gets better!

 

[TechEinstien]

Great News. I hope you will sell more.

 

[whoami]

Great news! I'm glad you kept at it and kept learning.

 

[shadow5]

Hell yea!!!!

Good work!

I'm in design so I know how it feels to make that first sale!

 

[jefis]

Great story! The main part of success in IM is self-education. You must get really good in what you do to bring value to people.