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Hi everyone,

I am looking for some help promoting my premium WordPress theme: WPUnlimited. I recently released version 1.1 and want to really get the news out there. So if you are willing to review it on your blog, link to it, or have a service that can provide me with promotion, advertising, links, influential marketing, then please contact me.

If you haven't seen the theme yet, please check it out and let me know what you think.

Lastly, if you have any features in mind that isn't in the theme yet (within reason... I know how you all think!) then speak up.

I am especially interested in partnering up and doing some cross promotion for WordPress plugin makers and WordPress developers.
 


I left a comment on your blog a while ago saying I liked the look of your theme and asking about personal vs developer licenses - I thought the personal license was a better deal than your developer license: since I use WPMU almost exclusively that was kind of a deal killer for me. I am building another WP customization site directed at wp noobs with plugins, hacks, and premium themes, so I might be able to work with you. Send me a PM if interested 'cause I'm going to be out of state again for a week or so.
 
Having a premium WordPress theme with continued development and advanced features for $150 shouldn't have been a deal killer. :)

Will PM you though.
 
You are kidding right? Because the theme would be non-exclusive in distribution, I'd get 25% of sales. Meaning to make any real profits there, I'd have to jack up the price to compensate, thus reducing the opportunity for any sales on there. I give more money to my affiliates than I'd get for a sale on ThemeForest. It's a bad deal for someone like me.
 
How many copies, exactly, do you think you're going to sell of your theme? After watching your video, it seems that it has a whole bunch of ways to change colors for pretty much everything - and that's it.

If you want to make money in the WordPress theme game, my suggestions are:

1) Start a "Studio" with another developer or two that you know, and regularly pump out high-quality themes that are targeted at a specific userbase. i.e. What Brian Gardner has done with StudioPress.

or

2) Develop high quality themes regularly, and post them to high-traffic theme sales sites. 25% of something is much better than 0% of nothing.

or

3) Develop a lot of themes quickly, give them away, and use your link in the footer for SEO/backlink purposes.

I'm sorry, but after watching your video and seeing the quality of site your theme produces, I wouldn't even remotely be interested in buying your theme for $150 when I can get any of these themes:

Convergence - A Community Based WordPress Theme
Sleekslide Demos - Kriesi.at
sharp
Community WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Themes - Our Community
Design Showcase Demos - Kriesi.at

...for $25-$30 - and I can use them on as many sites as I wish. Shit, I could buy all of those for about what yours costs.

Your WPUnlimited site looks good, but I would suggest you produce some demo sites that look *awesome* that are based on WPUnlimited to showcase what the theme can do... if it can.
 
david, i think you've been staring at code too long. it's not you who decides the price of your theme, but the market. chill out - you've received some honest feedback. you're probably too close to the project to take in this excellent feedback.

a) you're overpriced. b) your theme isn't that great. c) you're going to have to look for a better hook than a single theme.
 
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