Now the time has arrived to dump the 3D model selling sites, We 3D modelers are now free to sell our stuff directly with out loosing our money on commissions and royalties. Dedicate some time to create a personalize blog either on Wordpress or Blogger with all your works and prices. Add the E-junkie plugin to your blog, and upload your stuff to it. And that will start selling your models automatically and you will see cash in your Paypal account instantly. You can advertise your selling blog on 3d forums. Sharing the blog links of different 3D artists on blogs will increase the customers much further.
Google helps your potential customers to find your models for sale on your blog. Yes it works. Believe me, Google employs powerful algorithms to sort trillions of web pages and present them to people who are searching them on net. If you create one such blog with all your beautiful models with price tags, people can instantly find your stuff on hit of button. Create separate posts for each category of models, such as all animals in one post and all vehicles in another. Maintain dedicated posts for several categories of models. When your posts reach 20 in number, then google will start displaying your links on search results. Isn't it an wonderful way of connecting yourselves to your clients?
You can further enhance the chances of finding more potential customers, always there is google adsence program to advertise your blog and stuff. Login to Adsence program and advertise your blog with great deals and your clients will pour in.
E-junkie
lets you to add the shopping cart to your blog, eBay or other sites for
selling downloadable items. This is one of the simplest solutions for selling 3D models, Textures, Stock photos, plugins etc. Once you have setup stuff on E-junkie, all you
need to do is: place buy now button or send direct links to the possible
buyer, and everything else will be taken care by this automated system.
Benefits of using E-junkie for sellers:
- Buyers get a unique download link that expires after the specific time. This way, your digital goods is safe from unauthorized downloads.
- Your product is uploaded to E-junkie server, so you don’t have to worry about bandwidth & storage.
- They offer 7 days free trial, so you don’t need to pay anything to get started. If you don’t like the system, you can stop using it without paying.
- You get paid instantly.
- PDF stamping to personalize the downloads. You can read about it here.
- You can setup an affiliate program for your product using e-Junkie.
In the above screenshot you can see the features of e-Junkie. The
best part is pricing, as they don’t charge any transaction fees. (That
will be charged by PayPal
or any other payment processor you integrate here). eJunkie base
pricing is $5/month, which let you upload up to 10 products, and total
disk space of 50MB. You can see their pricing here.