Envato Forums: 2015

Few months back, I was searching for something on google then I came across to a marketplace called www.designaze.com. At that time, it was just started, so I decided to sign up and uploaded few of my themes over there.

In 6 months, I get about 25 sales (2 extended) over there. I've made about 2k$. But only few people signed up and uploaded their themes.

Recently, I created an admin theme MaterAdmin (I asked someone to work with me over this theme) which got rejected by Themeforest but got approved by Designaze and bootstrapbay. But I didn't get any sales yet. And in fact I'm seeing a huge drop in sales in past few months.

So my questions are:-

1. Is there any ongoing recession for web design marketplace?

2. And if I start my own marketplace, can I expect sales?

Any help or suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Many Thanks
Optimistic Designs

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For the pro's --- Simple jQuery doesn't work inside prettyphoto

No pro, but try below.

  $('body').on('click', '#nav a', function(){    .. Do Something  });

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Changes to how we collect Billing Details

Good pickup dtbaker. I will put it on the list to clean up.
Thanks.
Adam

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Changes to how we collect Billing Details

Good idea ThemeSphere, I will add that to the list of feature requests. I think it would make it clearer.
Adam

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Having many genres on my AJ account a bad idea?!

Do you have a favourite Videohive author, Scott? Maybe someone who sticks to the trend of one specific genre and a person that has been able to "brand" themselves as the "go to" person for that particular genre?

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Launching Envato USA Inc

God bless America, and all who sail in her.

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Having many genres on my AJ account a bad idea?!

I think it's okay as long you can categorized your own music so buyer will be easier to search within your portfolio. By the way you are in top new authors list mate, congrats!!!

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Need advise on screencast software for video tutorials

I use screencast-o-matic

Only used it to make my videos for the 'how to' competition, so I've not used it that much, but it seems to do everything I need. Free version to try, $15 a year version for no watermarks and unlimited recording time.

http://ift.tt/1RcxvKs

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Launching Envato USA Inc

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Looking for someone to build Construction - WP Construction, Building Business

all files and plug-ins are installed and ready to go

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Launching Envato USA Inc

Hi everyone,

Following on from Collis' October 2015 announcement, we've just released the final changes to make our American company (Envato USA Inc) live and ensure we are complying with US federal tax requirements. These include:

All Envato Market US users will now pay, and be paid by, our US company.
Swift fees have decreased from US$35 per transaction to US$25 per transaction.
US Royalty Withholding Tax (US RWHT) will be applied on all sales by non-US authors to US buyers. There are a few exceptions to this rule - see "When will Envato not apply US RWHT?" in Collis' post.
US Backup Withholding Tax (US BWT) will be withheld at the rate of 28% of total worldwide sales and remitted to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for all authors, service providers and affiliates who have not submitted a W form (W-9, W-8 or W-8Ben).
US RWHT and US BWT will be reflected in corresponding transaction lines on the Statement page.
All revenue for the 2016 calendar year will be reported as required by the IRS in 1099 and 1042 forms.

Full details, including how US taxes are calculated, instructions for how to complete a W form and more, can be found in the following posts and help center articles:

We also have a special email address (taxinfo@envato.com) you can write to where we'll provide as much help as we can. Of course, this has the caveat that you should always seek advice from a professional accountant / tax advisor because we can't advise about your specific tax situation.

Cheers,
Adam

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Thank you Envato for a great 2015 from all of us at Audiojungle

Thanks to all the staff for their efforts

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For the pro's --- Simple jQuery doesn't work inside prettyphoto

Hi canoode

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply, but unfortunately it didn't work.

Have a great day ahead.

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Looking for Criticism on an AudioJungle track I made...

Hi, my name is Clayton.
I'm new here, so my sincerest apologies if this is a noobish, bad, or unwarranted question here.
I decided to become an AudioJungle author and wanted some constructive criticism before I post my song. It doesn't have a name yet, but I'd like to know if it should go okay in terms of passing the requirements in terms of overall mix quality, melody, and whatnot. If not, what do I need to fix exactly and what should I leave alone? I read the tips for authors but it doesn't really help me out that much. It's such basic info, IMHO. Lol.
I was told by many folks that a lot of my music would have a good market on here, and this certainly is not all I have.
I appreciate any helpful info that I can get.

Thank you,

Clayton

My track

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Happy New Year / Welcome 2016

Happy New Year from the Canadian praries!

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Happy New Year / Welcome 2016

Happy New Year!!!
http://ift.tt/1P3AArx

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Food Theme Hard Reject, looking for feedback.

try to valide your code http://ift.tt/1mmCFbz

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Plugin update problems. Support after 6 months

You can contact the author anyway. If it is an issue on the authors end, I'm pretty sure any author worth their salt will respond appropriately and be grateful for bringing it up. However, why not buy extended support ? Surely paying for their time is worth the peace of mind you are after

That said, extended support was introduced not many months back, so you are still covered today unless i've missed something

Happy new year!

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Revolution Slider - Invalid Purchase Code

It sure is funny how they tell you how it works AFTER you give them your money... Sneaky by both parties..

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Revolution Slider - Invalid Purchase Code

Whenever plugins come bundled with a theme, you simply do not receive your own license for that plugin, as the plugin is provided to you via extended license through the theme author. As such, only the theme author can provide you with plugin updates. There is no misleading or fraud here, as the use of plugins via extended license is clearly outlined in the rules and guidelines as set forth by Envato.

By buying a theme that includes bundled plugins, you acknowledge that you don't have direct access to plugin updates and support from the plugin author. If you have a problem with that, simply don't buy themes that include bundled plugins and/or purchase your own license of the plugin, which will then give you access to plugin updates and support.

But you can't expect a plugin author to give all that to you, if s/he never profited from you, when you purchased a theme that bundles their plugin. An extended license for a plugin is only 5x its standard license costs; in the end, plugin authors already do you a favor by agreeing to an extended license for the theme author, so you don't have to buy the plugin yourself. But in return, you simply have to wait on the theme author to provide a theme update, which also includes an updated version of the plugin.

But "crying wolf" and "threatening" unfounded legal actions for something that should be clearly understood by every buyer is utterly pointless and simply shows that you actually never read any of Envato's regulations. You can't have a "free" plugin and then expect the author to give you "free" support and updates on top of it. Simple as that.

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Plugin update problems. Support after 6 months

Didn't know what category to drop this in. Not much of a choice.

Anyhow... so with this new set term support. I just updated to new version of plugin and it's no longer working correctly. The previous version no problems. Obviously not my fault. So what if the 6 months support is up? Seems unfair to mark a buyer's support as no longer valid, yet latest update isn't working correctly. How does one get support then? Not the buyers fault.

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Very Bad Affiliate Stats

Well at least you're getting results. I tried affiliate marketing for Envato stuff. Lots of click throughs but no results. Now I did have two individuals that I recommended themes to, gave them the link, they registered and bought but I never even saw it recorded in my stats. Big zero, even though they bought and used my affiliate link. That's when I just stopped bothering with it. I had begun to question if the "real" stats were being recorded/shown.

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Revolution Slider - Invalid Purchase Code

I think this just happened to me too. Selling a theme with bundled plugins only to find that you can't update them seems misleading to me, at best, and flat-out fraudulent, at worst. I smell a CLASS ACTION lawsuit in the making here for Envato and any authors who participate in the scheme.

It could start with an inquiry by any state's Attorneys General, or a referral to plaintiff litigation firm. I suggest everyone raise awareness of this issue by sending an email or two to the Attorney General in your state. If you know a partner in a litigation-oriented law firm, by all means, contact them too.

Either way, freely repost a copy of this post on Facebook, Twitter, anywhere else others might see this and that should help get the word out!

Good luck!

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Happy New Year / Welcome 2016

Happy New Year!

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Very Bad Affiliate Stats

Here is mine:

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Very Bad Affiliate Stats

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For the pro's --- Simple jQuery doesn't work inside prettyphoto

Try with:
$("#nav a").on( "click" function(){

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Need advise on screencast software for video tutorials

Hi guys, new to the community. Happy New Year to you all. Looking for advise on cost effective screencast software. Any suggestions based on experience is welcomed. thanks

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Happy New Year / Welcome 2016

Happy New Year everyone!

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Envato Affiliate Contest $15K Share

Thanks @mikezyvoloski

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Happy New Year / Welcome 2016

Bom ano novo (Portuguese)
Happy new year (English)
and in my native language
S novym godom! (Russian)

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Very Bad Affiliate Stats

That is exactly what we are working on now! There are a lot of changes coming in the New Year

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Happy New Year / Welcome 2016

Thanks. Happy New Year

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January 2016 Sales

Happy New Year to all the authors!!

Wish all of us kick-off this year with more sales.

Enjoy 2016! Good luck everyone!

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Food Theme Hard Reject, looking for feedback.

Thank You for Your time and this reply! I'm in process of making some changes that varunsridzaran so nicely pointed.

I will check all browsers and assets. Your comment lifted my spirit.

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Envato Affiliate Contest $15K Share

Awesome! Yes, I am looking at the results on a daily basis and things are very close! Starting to compile the results now so keep an eye out for the announcement!

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Food Theme Hard Reject, looking for feedback,

I have got hard reject but I dont understand why. You experienced authors can you help me to figure it out plese where is the problem? If I know the reason, I can avoid to do it again.

My psd theme is here: http://ift.tt/1R1xxGT

This is the email what I recieve:

Unfortunately your submission Cake Bake - Food PSD Template isn't ready for ThemeForest and cannot be resubmitted as it did not meet our minimum requirements for quality and/or Envato Market policies. In order for submissions to be considered for sale they must be of high aesthetic and technical quality, unique to our library and cannot be in violation of Envato's policies.

Regrettably the Help and Quality Teams are unable to offer a critique or feedback on your rejected submission.

Please see our Help Center for more information: http://ift.tt/1ThWXwL

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Happy New Year / Welcome 2016

Happy New Year from Kerala, India.
Best wishes, Envato people!
Dirtyflint (Aleksander, Ukraine)
LittlePurpleTurtle (Elena, Netherlands)
01;00, 01.01.2016.

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Energetic soundtrack for demo reel

Hi there, check this one!

Upbeat Song

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Food Theme Hard Reject, looking for feedback.

This shouldn't have been hard rejected based on design alone. There must be some coding or copyright issues that prevented this from being approved. Based on the design this theme is good to go IMHO. Though varunsridharan's feedback, though helpful, wouldn't prevent it from being accepted. Double check on all browsers in case the reviewer is seeing something different. Double check your using open source (GPL or MIT) licensed code and not distributing any images, fonts or other assets within the theme. If that's not the case, then I don't know what is.

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Food Theme Hard Reject, looking for feedback.

Still looking for feedback on my theme. Please take a look and write what You think needs change.

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Happy New Year / Welcome 2016

Happy New Year!!!

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Thank you Envato for a great 2015 from all of us at Audiojungle

Great post.
The most amazing thing is I just got track approved on new years eve. And with a very nice note.

Envato team rocks!!

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Photobook social networking website for review

we developed a social networking website photobook with new idea of taking photos and share them with families and friends with new look and feel.

Please provide your feedback ?

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Many Thanks

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Thank you Envato for a great 2015 from all of us at Audiojungle

Excellent post!!!! Let's celebrate and Happy New Year!!!!! My glass of wine is always for you guys!!!!

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Search Algorithm Update

@michellerobinson This has been broken for almost a full 7 days now, I've also opened a ticket with support #380977. Whats the deal? This is getting ridiculous…

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PSD Template hard rejection

Hello @charlie4282,

Really many thanks for your precious comment, it's help me a lot to be in the right line.

Thank you very much,

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Thank you Envato for a great 2015 from all of us at Audiojungle

Yes,

Yes, thank you, Envato Team, and Happy New Year to all Community!

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Thank you Envato for a great 2015 from all of us at Audiojungle

Great post, I support you!
Big Envato,
Thanks for opportunity to make money for life!

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Thank you Envato for a great 2015 from all of us at Audiojungle

I just want to say thank you Audiojungle for all you've done. You've given so many of us musicians an outlet, and a chance to do what we love. You have without a doubt made my dreams come true. I am forever grateful to Collis, Cyan, Adrien and everyone at Envato for creating something so special and powerful. Its powerful because Envato is the bridge between you and your dreams. Video editors can do what they love, musicians can create music, graphic designers, web designers...we all get to be as creative as we want....while still being marketable of course

Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2016 is a great year for everyone. Remember, this may be our one and only life so be the best version of you that you can be. Continue to get better at whatever it is your passionate about. And thank you again to everyone at Envato for a great 2015. Happy New Year!!

In the spirit of Star Wars I have collected some gifs that I thought would be funny to share

And Yoda and Darth Maul because their awesome

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Help me about w-8 form

Hello,

I am an egyptian freelancer
I tried to fill w-8 form to avoid deducting 30% of the use earnings but i don't have itin number an don't know what is tax treaty between eGypt & US .. I don't know what should i do ??

Please help!!

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nWallet

Hi @dysko,

First of all, thanks for your amazing job on the app! Doesn't seem to refresh on Android 5.1.1 though (Sony Xperia Z if it matters) Can you please have a look?

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