Make money with WordPress Themes

WordPress Themes are a great way to make yourself some money online. Once you put in the initial work and money, WordPress themes will end up paying for themselves and give you some money in the pocket. There are a few ways you can go about doing this.

Become an WordPress Theme Affiliate

Affiliates are individuals who get a reward for every paying customer they bring to a vendors site. Typically the reward is a percentage of the value of the product the customer purchased. If you have a lot of traffic going to your website you can promote a vendor’s WordPress theme and send business to that vendor.

This can be done through a blog post stating the various features and a positive review of the theme; you can then provide a link to the demo and purchase pages of the vendor site. This is a good way to make money from a theme as you are not doing a lot except sending traffic to the vendor sites.

Become a WP Theme reseller

Reselling is basically setting up a deal with a WordPress theme vendor/developer for you to resell the theme at a higher price or resell it at the same price as the vendor because they gave you discount on the original price. This is also a great way to make money because you directly get to influence how the product is sold and how to market it. As a result you have some control how of much money you make.

Develop a WordPress theme

If you have an idea for a WordPress theme you can hire a programmer to code the theme for you. Once you have it working properly you can then put it up for sale. This is an excellent way to make money from a WordPress theme as a few sales could pay off the cost of making it, turning any additional sales into pure profit.

There are many ways to sell WordPress themes online. You can use a shopping cart such as eJunkie for example. They will deal with everything, from handling the checkout to delivering the product to the customer.

However in order to make this work you have to promote your theme and get some buzz going about it. There are thousands of free and paid themes available, so why should they buy yours? One way on gaining customer confidence in your products is to first offer a free version. This one can have the basic features that will show why you theme is a great theme to use on their site. If they love it they will probably buy the premium version.