A Creative Market Open House Event

Once a quarter, the Creative Market team gets together in our San Francisco home office to hang out, have some fun, discuss ideas and projects, and plan out the next quarter. Last week was one of those weeks for us. It was great getting to hang out with the everyone (since about half of the staff is remote at this point), but the whole team agreed that somebody important was missing from the party. Who was missing you ask? YOU were!

The Creative Market Team + The Creative Market Community

Getting together as a team is awesome, but we wanted to get the Creative Market team together with the Creative Market community. Each and every member of the Creative Market team works hard to make this place the best that it can possibly be, and we’re doing that for you folks, for the entire community! So, why not chat with some of you, get to know you, and see what thoughts and ideas you have for Creative Market?

A Simple Event for a Simple Idea

Seems like a pretty simple idea right? We agree. And a simple idea like that calls for a nice simple event. Nothing flashy, no big crowds to get lost in, just the Creative Market team; a dozen or so Creative Market shoppers, shop owners, and members; and menu of delicious food and drinks.

 

 

So, we reached out to a few local Creative Market community members, ordered some dinner, and had an Open House Event right in our very own Creative Market office.

The Results

The verdict? The open house was fantastic! The feedback regarding the open house, from both the team members and the community members that were able to join us, was overwhelmingly positive. We all had so much fun just hanging out, learning more about each other, and talking about a site that we all enjoy and are invested in.

 

We talked to community members who had been using the site for years, as well as some who were relative newcomers. We chatted with shop owners who have made thousands of dollars on Creative Market, and shop owners who have made tens of dollars. We got to know shoppers who have just recently made their first purchases, and shoppers who have spent hundreds of dollars on Creative Market.

 

Everyone had so much to say about the site, that the team had to start a shared spreadsheet to make sure we keep track of all of the ideas (there were some really great ones).

 

Will Creative Market Have Another Open House Event?

It was pretty clear that we all enjoyed this open house. While we don’t have specific dates in mind just yet, we are interested in making this a more regular occurrence. So, if you’re in the San Francisco area, don’t be surprised if you see an invite to a Creative Market open house show up in your inbox down the road.

Would You Be Interested in Attending?

If you’re in the San Francisco area, would you be interested in attending a Creative Market Open House? Let us know in the comment section below, and we’ll add you to our invite list for the future!

A Creative Market Open House Event

Dream-Theme: From Design Studio to Market Millionaires

Envato Market, and especially ThemeForest, are full of success stories. Reaching Power Elite status is one such success milestone that every Author on ThemeForest aspires to achieve. In case you didn’t know, Power Elite Authors are those that have generated over million in sales.

One such Power Elite author is Dream-Theme, a Ukraine-based design team that have crossed the prestigious million sales mark. In this post, we are going to take a quick closer look at Dream-Theme’s portfolio and discover the products and build-level you need to reach to become a design Market millionaire.

The theme and template collection of Dream-Theme is quite versatile and broad in nature. On the one hand, you have the ever-popular niche themes for creating portfolios, and on the other, they also have a generous sprinkling of multipurpose, corporate/business templates and themes.

Let us start with The7 WordPress theme, which is by far and away Dream-Theme’s flagship product with over 25,000 individual sales. Responsive, retina-ready, comes with support for bbPress and WooCommerce, translation-ready, you name it! Much like most other WordPress themes by Dream-Theme, The7 comes fully loaded with a huge list of features and optional extras.

The7, a Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme by Dream-Theme

However, Dream-Theme have more to their portfolio than just shiny themes with lots of features. In fact, Dream-Themes’ success can teach us a lot about what it takes to register over a million dollar in sales and still keep going. As such, let us dig a little further into Dream-Themes’ strong portfolio of items.

Dream-Theme started selling their products via ThemeForest back in 2010 and in that time they have amassed over 54,000 sales. As of now, the items in their portfolio range from to in terms of pricing. However, the diverse pricing is probably not the biggest variable that has led to their success.

As well as WordPress themes, Dream-Theme also sell a wide array of digital products. They successfully sell Tumblr themes, PSD templates, WordPress themes for magazine websites, WordPress themes with a corporate and multipurpose layouts, photography themes, HTML portfolio templates, and a lot more on top of that!

Depth, a Full-Screen AJAX Portfolio WordPress Theme by Dream-Theme

Such diversity is primarily responsible for the high volume of sales. By opening up to multiple markets and buyer types, Dream-Theme offer something for everyone.

They have managed to not only register high sales but have also built a loyal following and user-base as well.

Yes, They are popular because of the high-quality of their items and because they offer such a diverse library of products, but they’re also very popular because they also offer fantastic level of support to their buyers. It is a combination of all three of these factors that have justifiably placed Dream-Theme at the top of the digital market tree.

And here is how Dream-Theme describe their rapid rise to success:

“My deep belief is that site templates/themes should carry recent web design trends to the masses. Make them available (and affordable) to the mass consumer. So that’s what we’re basically doing: carefully studying trends and implementing the most useful in our products.”

Have you taken a look at Dream-Theme portfolio yet? If not, you should check it out right away!

Take a Look at the Portfolio of Dream-Theme →

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Creative Market + Crew: Get Help With Your Creative Assets

Let’s face it, we’re not all creative directors or web developers. Creative Market is an amazing place to purchase creative assets, but sometimes you need some extra help putting these awesome resources into action. That’s where our new partnership with Crew comes in.

What Is Crew?

Crew is a network of top designers, developers and creative project managers. They can get you up and running with a seasoned professional for virtually any creative project, no matter how large or small.

How Can Crew Help With My Creative Market Purchases?

We’ve partnered up with Crew to bring you three custom services created specifically for the Creative Market community:

1. Custom Logo Design
   


2. Theme Hosting + Setup
   


3. Template Customization
   

Now when you purchase a theme, template, or logo on Creative Market, you can head on over to Crew, and they’ll help you finish the process so you can launch your awesome project on a tight deadline with very little effort.

Creative Market + Crew: Get Help With Your Creative Assets

Creative Market Hits 1 Million Members!

It’s time to celebrate folks! Yesterday morning, June 1, 2015, the Creative Market community reached one million members!

That’s right, 1,000,000. If the Creative Market community were a country, its population size would be larger than Fiji. In fact, we’re coming up fast on the population of the Republic of Cyprus!

Who was that lucky one millionth member you ask? None other than the wonderful Sian Adamson, of Dunedin, New Zealand. Make sure to give Sian a warm Creative Market welcome in the comment section below.

In honor of this important milestone, we’ve launched a celebratory “trip through time,” where you can take a look back through the history of Creative Market, learn about important events, and watch the community grow.

As our way of saying, “thank you for being such an awesome community,” we’ve also got a special gift for you down near the bottom of the page. Check it out, share with your friends, and help us celebrate this special occasion.

Thank you for making Creative Market the kind of community that a million people are excited to join!

Creative Market Hits 1 Million Members!

How Janna Hagan Made Over $5,000 in Five Months On Creative Market

Janna Hagan is a designer living in Toronto, Canada. Before starting her new job as a designer at Shopify, she had some down time and decided to try her hand selling digital goods on Creative Market. Five months later, her shop has made over ,000 in sales!

How She Did It

Janna has some great advice for others looking to replicate her success. In a recent blog post, she outlined four techniques that she used to create products that sell. You’ll see how she tried to identify gaps in the market and used free goods to promote her shop.

Janna’s Products

Below is a small sample of some of my favorite products from Janna. Be sure to read her tips and stop by her shop to see her awesome work.

   
   
   
   
   
   

Tell Us Your Success Story

If you have a Creative Market success story like Janna’s, we want to hear it. Write up a post, throw a tweet at us, and we’ll share it with the world.

How Janna Hagan Made Over $5,000 in Five Months On Creative Market

How Janna Hagan Made Over $5,000 in Five Months On Creative Market

Janna Hagan is a designer living in Toronto, Canada. Before starting her new job as a designer at Shopify, she had some down time and decided to try her hand selling digital goods on Creative Market. Five months later, her shop has made over ,000 in sales!

How She Did It

Janna has some great advice for others looking to replicate her success. In a recent blog post, she outlined four techniques that she used to create products that sell. You’ll see how she tried to identify gaps in the market and used free goods to promote her shop.

Janna’s Products

Below is a small sample of some of my favorite products from Janna. Be sure to read her tips and stop by her shop to see her awesome work.

   
   
   
   
   
   

Tell Us Your Success Story

If you have a Creative Market success story like Janna’s, we want to hear it. Write up a post, throw a tweet at us, and we’ll share it with the world.

How Janna Hagan Made Over $5,000 in Five Months On Creative Market

Creative Market Fresh Goods: Volume 2

Fresh Goods is a regular series highlighting fantastic new products that have been recently uploaded by both new and seasoned Creative Market shop owners. It’s sort of like a quick stroll through the farmer’s market in your home town. Enjoy the sights, check out new products, and follow talented shop owners.

Awesome New Shops

These new shop owners are knocking it out of the park by uploading lots of great new products. The previews you see here are often just a small taste of each shop’s full offering so be sure to check out their full shops for more.

sylvatica

Looking for some great macro shots of flowers and other plant life? Sylvatica’s shop has that and more!

            

Yury Velikanov

Yury Velikanov’s shop is full of quirky illustrations with a throwback feel.

            

Seventh Imperium

Seventh Imperium may have only set up shop on Creative Market in April, but that shop already has a great selection of sleek and edgy fonts.

            

Luke Hayes

Luke Hayes’ photos will leave you with a hankering to go spend some time amongst the mountain air and evergreens.

            

Interbrand

Interbrand has recently started adding some wonderful mockups. We’re sure we’ll be seeing even more great products from Interbrand in the future!

         

Debut Uploads

In this section, we highlight some shop owners who have recently uploaded their first product. If you like what you see, stop by their shops and encourage them to add more!

Silo Creativo

   

Unicode

   

Jilly Bird

   

WoodardWorks

   

Open Marco

   

Ilgelo Design

   

Annie Sauvage

   

Seasoned Veterans

Here at Creative Market, we love to show off our newest shops, but we also want to recognize those hardworking creators who are truly the life of our community. Here we’ll take a look at the newest uploads from our popular and up-and-coming shops.

Nathan Knight Design

   

Dirtyline Studio

   

Favete Art

   

Pepper

   

Guerillacraft

   

Creative Market Fresh Goods: Volume 2