Envato Market: 6 online marketplaces to sell your designs

Perhaps being a freelance worker has the instability that it implies as a weak point. It is not something fixed, but we will work as we manage to close projects and as in anything, there are good runs and bad runs. That is why it is highly recommended that you be aware of all the options you have to sell your designs, earn extra income and alternatives doing what you like the most.

Online marketplaces for graphic resources like templates, vectors and so on have always been a controversial topic among designers because they somehow impoverish the professional design sector. This from my point of view, is so but only in part. Resources can be used as a way to reduce our time and streamline our process. But in no case to replace our work. Even so, there are very diverse opinions and in any case we should not ignore the reality and the situation we find ourselves with as designers. The only thing we can do is adapt to the environment and try know the possibilities and tools that are available to us.

Envato Market

On many occasions we have mentioned some platforms where we can market our designs and products but we have never focused on Envato. The Envato Market group is the largest in the network and offers resources in different areas and variants. This market offers resources for all kinds of freelance professionals. In this post we will see the markets that are under the envato signature and that may be of interest to any graphic artist.

You have to take into account some things to be part of this market. To become creators and take advantage of the large audience rates that these galleries have and guarantee sales, we must meet a series of requirements:

• To participate in this virtual market it is mandatory that you register. In the registration process you must select a payment method (either because you are going to receive a salary for sales or because you are going to make purchases) and enter your bank details (the use of Paypal is what will offer you the most security above all if you are going to register as an author and you are going to receive payments from your buyers. Although we are talking about a page with guarantees, anything can happen and we must have some protection).

• Everything you put up for sale and present to be exhibited must be done by you in its entirety, This is very important. If you try to sell a product for which you do not have the exploitation rights, you can look for a good problem.

• In order to be accepted and participate in the market as a creator and seller, you will need to know and know the basic rules. When you register as an author, you will be given a multiple choice test on the rules in full in English.

Among its buy / sell markets, the following may interest you, although it has more exhibitors dedicated to other subjects such as Audiojingle.

GraphicRiver

It has an extensive community of followers and a very extensive catalog. Within this web you can sell your designs whatever the type: from logos, fonts, templates, illustrations, PP templates, PSD files and objects, textures, vectors ... and a long etcetera. This is pretty good because no matter what your strength is, chances are high that you can submit your projects and sell them on Graphicriver. Although all that glitters is not gold. The fact that it is one of the strongest pages also has its weak point and that is that its great disadvantage is that the competition is very high since its community of creators is very high so you must submit your proposals and these must pass a filter by the administrators of the site. If it meets minimum quality standards, your product will be accepted and a price will be awarded. On the other hand, we must also take into account that it offers us two types of sale. If you are going to be an exclusive author of GraphicRiver you will receive a higher percentage of profits, if on the contrary you determine that your products are going to be sold through other channels and web pages, the percentage will be lower.

The conditions and forms of use of each of the online stores of Envato Market They are similar so below I leave you other shop windows that may be of interest to you, I also leave you a link to their pages so that you can obtain more dense and precise information on the subject.

• Themeforest: This page is focused on web design. It includes the purchase / sale of themes for blogs and pages of all kinds, as well as a wide variety of resources related to the web world.

• Videohive: If your world is audiovisual and you need an extra income, this online market is the most suitable for the Envato factory. Videohive is focused on buying / selling video products such as Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D, etc ...

• photodune: It is one of the most successful image banks on the web along with others like Dreamstime. In it we can acquire and sell images through licenses. The quantities and prices of each product will depend on the type of license that accompanies it. It is not the same to acquire a photograph with a license for use and commercial exploitation than to acquire it with a license for use only. It also requires a base level to participate.

• 3doceean: Perhaps one of the most profitable ones. It is focused on the world of 3D animation and offers an astonishing and extensive variety of objects created with softwares such as 3D Studio Max.

• Activate: Very similar to the previous one although focused on the Adobe Flash application. In it animations and components that are related to 2D animation and also web environment games are commercialized.