Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: OTish: It's a tough market when even freebies don't "sell"

rokket opened this issue on Sep 05, 2014 · 79 posts


AmbientShade posted Sun, 07 September 2014 at 6:56 AM

Quote - There is a big drawback with being a vendor online. There is no where to advertise what you have to sell. CP doesn't have it's own forum, and other stores don't really allow you to talk about what you have for sale at other stores, so there's no way to really let people know what you have if the stores won't push you. And most of the time, they only push their big vendors.

Sure there are, you just have to be creative with it and aim to stand out from the crowds, and build for the figures that people actually want to use. If you're just approaching it as a past-time hobby, or only building for one figure that most people don't have an interest in, then no, you're not going to make much money. 

Freebies have a reputation for not being allowed to be used in commercial media (book covers, prints, animations, etc), so that is going to disuade people. I don't download freebies because I have better things to do with my time than try to keep track of which of them I can use in what types of projects. If I buy something, I know I can use it in most things I'm doing as long as the product itself can't be accessed in the end result project.