Creative Market

And, um, I was like, "I could do this.

I could put a cover together." And I think I bought, like, assets off Creative Market, and I was trying to get rid of the beard, and I couldn't get rid of the beard.

And I was like, "It's fine.

It's fine."

I think the idea of investing so much time into social media because people think that it's going to somehow lead to money, which it will sometimes, is putting your... livelihood into the hands of tech billionaires who could give two shits about you and they will turn off that faucet the moment that there's more money to be made somewhere else.

It's the same thing as Skillshare or Creative Market for me.

I started on Creative Market.

I love Creative Market.

I always owe something to Creative Market.

It's

been sold twice, though.

Which basically means setting up a shop in the busy mall.

So we are talking about leveraging established platforms like Etsy for printables, Envato for developers and designers, or Creative Market for design assets.

Right.

The big players.

Wait, 50%?

50%.

And Creative Market operates on a pretty similar model, taking roughly half of each transaction, depending on the specific licensing.

Okay, wait, wait, wait.

And then my first sale came in.

And then sales just started coming in from... platforms as well so i got accepted into creative market like so in creative market you have to apply and get accepted so i got accepted and it gave me some traffic i also started doing pinterest so it kind of snowballed and we were also blogging blogging and blogging like crazy so answering your question what it takes it takes a website that has at least 100 pages It's a numbers game.

So in order to make 10 sales per month, like 5-10 sales per month, you need to have at least 2,000 people on the website.

And to have 2,000 people on the website, you need to have a nice website that's ranking on certain keywords.

Did you use a mock-up of some kind or are these your photos of record sleeves?

So for the record sleeves I had ready to go, there's on Creative Market, they had like a record sleeve texture, which I applied to get like the fold at the top and things like that.

And then for the photos of Davies themselves, I like took them and photoshopped them to look suitably shitty and old timey.

Yeah.