I’ve decided this week to become an affiliate for template monster and try and sell their templates on my site. I asked around their forum a little to get an idea of what their affiliates where making and found out that it is not something they like to talk about.

I decided I’d break the ice and told one of their members I’d like to do about $4,000.00 per month.

His response

You’re kidding me right? 4K a month? Hell I don’t even make that. You’ve got a startup in a market that is totally saturated and you plan on making 4K a month????

Jesus. Earth to Janeth….

And that is what I needed to know, as well as a little inspiration added in just for fun.

The idea is to do $4,000.00 in not only one month but the first month.

So…I guess it’s time to get started.

3d Web Templates

I’ve had a lot of people ask about our selling web design templates on our site. It is true that we are now selling web templates and I have to admit some of them are pretty darn cool. I’ve got everything from 3d web templates to corporate web templates.

Don’t get me wrong, we are still selling custom web designs but I feel that the internet is changing and I don’t want to get left out. I know a lot of guys are still crying
about people using Dream Weaver instead of hand coding, they just keep getting left further and further behind.

We are selling monster templates from template monster on our site and we make a percent off each sell. I was suppressed at the number of people that have bought a template and turned around and wanted to pay us to make changes to it.

At this point in the game it is not a decision I regret, although only time will tell.

I personally feel that for s simple 5 page website you are much better off spending $65.00 on a kickass template then spending $2,000.00 on a custom web design that want be as nice as the template. I know a lot of guys are trying to use the whole our website is search engine friendly but I can promise you the templates are just as search engine friendly as a custom web designed site.

Geeks on Steroids have spent the last 8 years building and selling custom website designs. It’s been a very lucrative as well as a very stressful business. One of the things I’ve always liked about building and selling websites is the community associated with web designing and online marketing.

It seems that someone is always giving away some form of opensource software that meets the needs of the next project you are about to undertake.

I’ve never really thought about the downside of this until late yesterday afternoon. I wanted to build three websites for myself and it was time for everyone to go home. Since there was no one around to build my sites I bought 3 templates from template monster and will have my guys customize them on Monday.

But this got me to thinking, for $62.00 a template there is absolutely no reason in the world why someone should have an ugly website design. Ugly websites just don’t work and some of the templates are darn nice templates, a couple tweaks here and there and you’ve got yourself a kick ass website design for under $200.00.

I am sure the custom web design industry will always be around but I am equally sure that the cheap templates have taken a bite out of the custom web design industry. This afternoon I decided to sign up as an affiliate an stick some template on my site to see how they do.

At this moment I have no idea how long I’ll be leaving them on the site but it does give me some incentive to do a little online marketing.