ThemeForest is the marketplace from the folks at Envato which caters to HTML templates, PSD files, email templates, and of course what we tend to care a bunch about around here: WordPress themes. Word on the street, where the street is Twitter and the word is the tweet from Collis Ta’eed you see above, is that ThemeForest approximately doubled in size this year. To get a bit hyperbolic, that’s like stacking a ThemeForest on top of another ThemeForest.
With reports of Orman Clark bringing in over $40,000 of sales in a single month and another author besting that record the next month, it’s really not a surprise that ThemeForest has grown as much as it has.
There are few businesses where year over year growth like this can be expected. Do you think 2012 will see ThemeForest (and other Envato marketplaces) still growing at this rate, or will it slow down at all?
I’m sure that many are tempted to try their luck with ThemeForest, which really exposes you to tens of thousands of potential customers.
I don’t know if it will double again but it would be hard to imagine it not continuing to grow in 2012. Hopefully it *will* re-double!
Yup, I’m also tempted, but my theme does NOT meet the standards yet … maybe in 2012
There’s no signs of sales slowing down! You guys hear that one author withdrew $52,000 for a single month’s worth of sales? That’s ridiculous!
That is ridiculous. And it wasn’t even Orman Clark!
In other words, there’s some hope for me to get a piece of this pie you guys have baked.
There’s a brand new theme marketplace which should open by the end of the year. Maybe it’s gonna bring back a few market shares in the Euroland market! Long live RueduTheme
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