Buy photos on PhotoDune in the month of November and at the end of the month we’ll credit you back 50% of the total purchase price into your account! Choose from over 330,000 fantastic quality photos from some of the best microstock photographers in the world. Our prices are already extremely affordable, but now you’ll get half your spend back as credits, so you can buy even more! And best of all, authors will still earn their regular commissions.

All you need to do is head over to PhotoDune any time in November and buy photos! It’s that easy! For every dollar you spend on PhotoDune during the month of November, we’ll credit you fifty cents back the following month to spend on anything you like, including our other Envato Marketplaces. Continue Reading

Of all the many marketplaces we run here at Envato, the one I use the most myself is GraphicRiver. So I was very excited to get to pick out $500 of files from GraphicRiver and PhotoDune to include in a Graphic Designer Bundle which is now on sale for just $20!

The reason I love GraphicRiver is that while I can usually create (or recreate) most things myself, it saves me a lot of time and effort. And there are some really cool ideas, images and effects that can be combined to awesome effect. I don’t know what other designers think of the site, but for me personally, I love it! And I picked out a whole bunch of my favourite items for this bundle, not all of them though – so there’s still lots of reasons to go shopping! Continue Reading

One of the fun parts of being an author on Envato is watching your rates go up as you sell. It’s like a reward system built into your sales process so that not only are you selling more, but you are making more per sale. That’s pretty cool, but once you hit $75,000 of sales, you’re going to reach the cap of 70% of every sale. So what happens next? Well today we are rolling out a new program to provide achievement, status and reward off into the upper stratosphere of sales!

Our new program is called Envato Elite and aims to reward the best of the best authors here on the Envato Marketplaces with some very cool, some very useful and some just plain fun achievements. They range from access to a new pricing adjustment system to ad campaigns for authors’ files to superbowl-style Elite rings all the way up to first class tickets to Melbourne from anywhere in the world and special ceremonies in your honor.

There are over eighty authors who qualify for Envato Elite status, and shortly we’ll be sending out an email to all of them to arrange their various rewards. We’re applying them all retroactively so the real high achievers like Kriesi will have lots of stuff coming to them all at once! In fact a special word should go out to Kriesi who was the inspiration for Envato Elite. I’m fairly certain he’s going to be the first past the golden $1,000,000 post, and I’m really looking forward to celebrating that massive milestone when it happens!

So head over to Elite.Envato.com and check out the details of this exciting new addition to Envato community life!

More Information

1. Exclusivity is not a prerequisite for membership. You can be a non-exclusive author and still be a part of this exciting program!
2. Price Adjustment is a very exciting new tool that we’re introducing to Elite authors to recognize the brands and followings they have built, allowing them to charge a small premium above the regular files. You can find details of how it works in the terms and conditions on the Envato Elite site, and qualifying authors will be emailed with more details about how to use the system.
3. We will be applying the rewards retroactively, so anyone who has already passed an achievement level will receive its benefits.
4. Authors who have qualified will receive an email in the next week explaining the next steps (for things like specifying Tshirt sizes, changing prices, nominating files to be advertised etc). If you don’t receive the email by the end of next week, then contact support.

And if you have any questions, leave a comment!

The greatest turning point for Google is arguably when they discovered that laying ads next to search results led to high clickthroughs, and thereby lots of money. This works because a person who is searching is ready and primed for clicking through to something so long as it’s relevant to what they are looking for. Well, what works for Google, can work for you too!

Today I’d like to introduce you to a nifty little way to generate referral income from sites that show content similar in nature to the marketplaces. It’s on the same principle as showing ads next to Google Search results. Except instead you show Envato Marketplace search results next to your content. Continue Reading