jungleTANGO: Make Money From Your Wordpress Themes
One of the best things about using Wordpress for the average user is the wide range of themes that are available. There are many sites that offer free themes, and a lot of developers will sell premium themes directly from their website. Selling themes, however, can be a tedious task that requires a considerable amount of over site by the theme developer. Enter jungleTANGO. jungleTANGO is a brand new site that offers a streamlined way for developers to sell their new themes. Also, it provides a way for amature theme developers to sell their themes easily. How does it work? Let’s take a look.
Registration is free and pretty painless. After you register you are ready to purchase themes. To purchase themes, you must first buy credits, with one credit costing one Euro. Currently there are only seven themes available. But with twenty-nine users signed up in only a few months, I would expect that number to grow quickly.
To become a merchant, you mush read the terms and membership agreement and then take a short eight eight question quiz. If you get 100%, you can then sell your themes. The quiz system is a little annoying. I would rather just see the usual checkbox and assumed liability on the user, as I am usually too lazy to read all the fine print. That said, this makes sure that merchants have at least skimmed the agreement before actually signing up.
As a merchant you can set the price for your themes. You can sell your themes on a continuous basis, meaning people can continually purchase your theme, or as a unique theme, meaning you set a “buy out” price that will pull your theme off the market once purchased. The main downfall? Currently the price structure is pretty steep. If you sell your themes on a continuous basis, jungleTANGO will give you 25%, while keeping 75% as a “service and third party fee”. If you sell your theme using the unique, buy-out model, you keep 75% of your earnings. Personally, I think a pricing structure for the continuous model that is more in favor of the developers would entice a greater number users to use this service.
Overall, I think jungleTANGO has good potential to fill a need in the Wordpress community. It makes selling your themes, and making a little extra cash, quite a bit easier. Also, their website is sleek and easy to navigate and has links to a number of resources to help theme developers in their projects. If you’ve ever considered releasing Wordpress themes, head over to jungleTANGO and give them a try.
Wow. If Matt Mullenweg and company decide to go ahead with their own version of a WP Themes Marketplace, I wonder how jungleTANGO will cope.
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Agreed, especially with their current payout scheme. If they made their scheme better then the 50/50 that Matt’s suggesting, they might do ok. Otherwise…
Yeap, nice site! When I think about 25% payout for the commercial theme - it sounds really poor but there’s a hack; commercial themes can even bring more money than unique! Imagine you have 10000 downloads for 5$ theme :) Anyway, it looks like these guyz would rather have unique themes there. 75% for unique theme is even better than Matt’s 50/50.
Agreed, 75% is much better then Matt’s proposal. But if I’m correct, there was some outrage over Matt’s 50/50 idea. But you are right, this gives people much more incentive to set a unique theme’s price.
Another interesting concept on ways to make money on the Internet. I would appreciate anyone taking a look at my blog and posting a comment as to how you like the content and free theme I am using.
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