{"id":16808,"date":"2014-08-27T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=16808"},"modified":"2024-03-28T06:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:20:02","slug":"creative-market-6-months-and-23000-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/creative-market-6-months-and-23000-later","title":{"rendered":"Creative Market: 6 Months and $23,000 Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just over 6 months ago I wrote a blog post<\/a> in which I talked about setting up a shop on Creative Market and attempting to sell my own digital goods for the first time. In that blog post I openly discussed how my shop had performed during the first nine months that it had been online, going as far as to share exact sales and earnings figures.\nThe conclusion of that blog post was that, despite the underwhelming sales stats, I saw potential in Creative Market as a platform and believed that by investing more time in my shop those figures could be significantly improved. I promised to monitor the performance of my shop for the next six months and then post another review so that you could see the results for yourself.\nWell, that time has now come, and I’m happy to say that things have gone far better than I ever expected.\n

<\/span>Earning Over $23,000<\/span><\/h2>

\nFrom the date I published that first blog post (January 21st) to July 21st, sales of my goods on Creative Market earned me $23,608—a massive improvement on the $134 I’d earned prior to this.\nDuring this 6 month period I released five new products, meaning that I now have a total of 6 available. Here’s a breakdown of how each of them performed on an individual basis.\n<\/p>

<\/span>Product Stats<\/span><\/h2>

<\/span>Escutcheon – Vector Shield Shapes<\/span><\/h3>Release date:<\/strong>

April 12th, 2013\nPrice:<\/strong> $3\nSales:<\/strong> 31\nTotal earnings:<\/strong> $65\n

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<\/span>Riband – Illustrator Art Brushes<\/span><\/h3>Release date:<\/strong>

January 21st, 2014\nPrice:<\/strong> $4\nSales:<\/strong> 44\nTotal earnings:<\/strong> $123\n

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<\/span>Pointer – Illustrator Art Brushes<\/span><\/h3>Release date:<\/strong>

January 31st, 2014\nPrice:<\/strong> $4\nSales:<\/strong> 62\nTotal earnings:<\/strong> $174\n

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<\/span>Retro Textpress – Illustrator Styles<\/span><\/h3>Release date:<\/strong>

February 24th, 2014\nPrice:<\/strong> $15\nSales:<\/strong> 657\nTotal earnings:<\/strong> $6,900\n

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<\/span>Chalkbox – Illustrator Styles<\/span><\/h3>Release date:<\/strong>

March 10th, 2014\nPrice:<\/strong> $15\nSales:<\/strong> 214\nTotal earnings:<\/strong> $2,247\n

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<\/span>Inkblock – Illustrator Actions<\/span><\/h3>Release date:<\/strong>

May 6th, 2014\nPrice:<\/strong> $17\nSales:<\/strong> 730\nTotal earnings:<\/strong> $8,694\n<\/p>

<\/span>How Those Numbers Work<\/span><\/h3>

\nYou may have noticed that the earnings totals here don’t quite add up, but that’s because there are still a couple of figures missing. The first is what I earned for my participation in the Creative Market Summer Savings Bundle<\/a>. I contributed four items, which in total earned me $5,341.\nThe second figure we’re missing is what I earned from the Partner Program<\/a>, which allows you to earn 10% of every purchase for an entire year from all new customers you refer to Creative Market using your Partner URL. During this period I earned $64 in referral commissions, bringing my grand total to $23,608.\n<\/p>

<\/span>What Made This Possible<\/span><\/h2>

\nIt actually all started by sharing that first blog post on Twitter. The team at Creative Market read my post and informed me that, by adding one or two more items to my shop, it would put me in the position to either offer one of my products as a Free Good<\/a> or have one featured in the Handpicked<\/a> section. At this point I only had two products available, Escutcheon and Riband. For one of my products to be considered for either of the aforementioned, I needed at least three.\n<\/p>

<\/span>The Impact of Handpicked<\/span><\/h3>

\nThe following week (on Friday, January 31st) I released Pointer. By the following Monday (February 3rd), I was lucky enough to have it featured in the “Handpicked” section. To show you what this did for my sales, here’s a comparison of the weeks before and after:\n<\/p>