Razor42 posted at 10:49PM Sun, 12 February 2017 - #4297265

Lol, the way you've selectively edited the parts of my post that you chose to quote makes it read as though I am against brokerages or anybody selling through them. Thanks CNN.

I'm not against any brokerages or anyone using them. The only place I've ever sold to the general public has been renderosity, and I plan to again. I'm aware of the benefits and the limitations.

I really don't know how I can make what I said anymore clearer. Obviously we come from two very different mindsets.

No it's both. Let me ask why won't Renderosity allow me to post a link to my product at Daz3D?

You don't need to post a link to your product at daz3d for it to still be advertising for Daz3d. If you create a product for V4, that product description is going to list V4 as a requirement for that product to work. That in itself is the advertising. Your name being at the top of the product page is your own advertising. So if someone googles your name and you have content listed somewhere else they will find that content, or at least the site listing it, by googling your name, if you've used the proper key words to show up in search engines. How is that so difficult of a concept to understand? And you are calling it parasitic marketing as though it's something bad or that no one does it when that is virtually the exact model this particular market has developed around.

Everyone marketing themselves online does not need a college degree in marketing or web design or accounting. That's just ridiculous.

Maybe I don't have the insider's scoop on how daz markets, but I can look a the newsletters in my inbox every night and compare them to what I see on their store page and see that every new product is not in that newsletter. I guess my eyes are lying to me.

A new vendor posting on facebook isn't going to have a lot of followers the first week or even the first month. And if they're just posting facebook ads linking back to their product whenever they have a new release then no that probably won't get them very far in a short period of time. How about posting renders of that product to other services like deviant art, or the galleries right here at rosity with a link back to the product page in the rosity store? Very few vendors do that, even when the comments ask for what products are being used here or there. How about offering incentives to your regular customers or exclusive freebies to your own newsletter subscribers? There are a lot of ways to market yourself. You're supposed to be the creative type. But I realize that coming up with excuses is much easier than solutions.

Have you actually tried any of the methods I mentioned or anything other than relying on your brokerage?

I'll respond to the rest when I have more time.