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Tuts Marketplace!Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s not every day that I get to announce a new marketplace, and this one today is extra special! It unites our massive tutorial network Tuts+ with our kickass marketplace platform to form the Tuts+ Marketplace for Premium Tutorials, Screencasts and eBooks. This is an exciting new opportunity for people to share their skills with the world and earn an income doing so.
The new marketplace works just like the other Envato Marketplaces, and your regular user account and balance will work on the new site, you’ll be able to sell at our usual great commission rates, and we’ll be marketing the new site to our existing membership of 500,000 marketplace users!
Check out these Premium Tutorials
To help us launch the new marketplace Fabio Sasso from Abduzeedo, Chris Spooner from Spoongraphics and David Leggett from Tutorial9 have put together 3 special launch tutorials:
Video Game Cover Light EffectsVideo Game Cover Light Effect in Photoshop
Professional Landing PageCreate a Professional Landing Page in Photoshop
Design a Colorful Print Ready Business CardDesign a Colourful Print Ready Business Card
FREE Tutorial of the Month
Like all our marketplaces, there will be a free file of the month every month, and for our launch Jeffrey Way of Nettuts has provided a kick ass tutorial:
Special Edition Community Podcast!
To introduce the Tuts+ Marketplace and explain what this means for buyers and authors, we’ve created a special edition of the Marketplace Community Podcast.
This episode features Skellie (the Tuts+ Manager) and Sean Hodge (Site Manager of the Tuts+ Marketplace) to give you the low-down on how the Tuts+ Marketplace will work and what it means for you.
As always, they’re accompanied by super-duo Jordan and Drew!
What Does the Marketplace Mean for Tuts+?
Our Tuts+ sites are continuing as usual and we are still committed to great free educational content. The Marketplace fills the spot for a place to get premium, advanced content on specific niche topics, or just in a super compiled format like an eBook. It also represents an opportunity for authors to have a platform to earn a living teaching their skills.
The marketplace along with our regular Tuts+ premium program and Tuts+ advertising will be providing the revenue to pay for all our free Tuts+ content. With our tenth Tuts+ website launching in October, it’s important for us to keep the business sustainable and oriented to grow into more and more areas so that we can bring the same great tutorials to more and more people.
If you’re a Tuts+ Premium subscriber already, you’ll find that a lot of the initial items on the marketplace are already available to you through the Premium subscription. As people start contributing their tutorials, we expect the new marketplace to slowly diverge and diversify. When this happens we’re planning some integration with the premium subscriptions, so stay tuned! In the meantime the Tuts+ Premium program will continue to deliver great tutorials to our subscribers as it has been for over two years.
So all in all, the new marketplace is an addition to our existing Tuts+ sites, designed to create new opportunities for people to sell their tutorials, and to grow the library of premium tutorials we offer using the versatile and robust Envato Marketplace platform that has been so successful on sites like ThemeForest.
Check it out!
So take some time and go check out the new marketplace, see if there files you feel like buying and be sure to let us know what you think! We’re very excited about the future of this marketplace and how it’s going to grow and evolve!
Hey! Good luck with this new project! Wish you the best!
Awesome!
Sweet!! This will bring a lot more people to the marketplaces
Congratulations!!
Oh yeah! Didn’t expect anything like this, but sounds great
Great stuff guys!
This is so awesome and has definitely made me put aside that little bit extra in my pay to stay as a Tuts+ member
Nice work guys – very cool indeed!
This is awesome.
Does the “E” in Envato means “Exciting”? lol
If it stood for anything, it’s for “Education”
Awesome!
Nice work guys! =D
Hooray!
Whhhoooooooa
cool ! and good luck with it!
cool and good luck with it
Yay! It’s here!
Thanks to Skellie and Sean for joining us on the podcast!
I’m listening to you guys (and girl!) right now. Thanks for the podcast!
The podcast were great!! Totally worth to listen to
Too bad about, DrewDen though
Loving it!
Awesome as always! Another opportunity for designers and developers earn a bit extra on the side.
Actually, this is not the first marketplace for premium tutorials, but welcome anyway
Congrats Envato Team. Hope this will bring more advanced and production level quality tutorials.
I dont understand why you people get excited about this news . ( unless all of you authors ) For me it sounds that people need to pay extra money for some new tutorials on top the premium subscription.
Regardless of this new business model I still respect Envato guys
Hi k a. Don’t worry – that’s not the way it will work!
People who pay the Premium subscription still have access to all the Premium tutorials. The new model is for people who just want a few Premium tuts without having to pay the subscription.
Have a listen to the podcast, where the way it will work is explained very well and at length.
I’m not an author – far from it – but there’s just some things that I know will be included in this marketplace that wouldn’t fit under any of the other Tuts+ / Marketplace venues; things that I would like to have / learn.
That is why I’m willing to pay a quality company good money for these things.
When you think about how cheaply they sell these items as well, it’s really not worth complaining about. If you don’t want to pay, that’s your choice, but you can’t get upset that some of us actually want to pay for someone else’s time and effort in bringing products like this to the community.
Great news! Very useful and interesting resource!
Envato does it again!
Great to hear Skellie on the podcast.
This idea sounds like it could have a lot of potential.
This is truly exiting! I see great things ahead!
Sounds interesting!
This is gonna be the best site for people who cannot read documentations and specs. Awesome – let’s make millions of people who cannot understand how works the stuff they do.
Thanks for the support everybody. And it was loads of fun being on the podcast, the hosts are hilarious
I look forward to growing the Tuts+ Marketplace, working with new author’s, and kicking a** by helping add loads of awesome educational content to it.
I hope some of the free tutorials will continue and not all of the good tutorials migrate over to the paid subscription.
in my opinion, the blog site had really deteriorated in quality and quantity since it was converted to the tumblr format and seems to have been turned into a promotion site, not a learning site. what ever happened to all those featured tutorials on the blog? wordpress, php, jquery, etc?
just been going through the WordPress for Designers series and not sure if this would have been created for free viewing in the new envato world.
Al
Hey Al,
Rest assured, the free content will still be published across the Tuts+ sites. The Tuts+ Marketplace is strictly for tutorials that are already premium, and any that we commission in the future.
Our aim is to cater for people who don’t want to subscribe, but see one Premium tutorial that they want, because not everyone will get the same or equal value out of a subscription.
Cheers
Aaron
Nice stuff !!!
Whoooa, that is such an awesome idea! : O
I’m very interested in this. Although I’m going to say that this makes me VERY happy that I CANCELLED my Tuts+ subscription this past month. The reason I liked Tuts+ at first was because the tutorials were top-quality and were given top-focus–but this just proves what I was thinking before–that the focus of Envato has derived far from being a content provider into becoming a marketplace seller.
Hi Scott,
I’m sorry to hear of your dissatisfaction with Tuts+. It is difficult to maintain a quality standard that is in line with everyone’s standards and preference, and surely as your skills progress, tutorials that were once hard are now easy for you, causing you to look at them in a different light.
The Tuts+ marketplace allows for people to access the select Premium content that they want, but don’t want to subscribe for. It’s also a cross over with the existing Envato Marketplaces, allowing authors are buyers alike to use their credits on tutorials, something that has been requested more times than I could ever count.
Additionally, we’ve also run a Tuts+ wide survey, and nine site specific surveys to really find out what our readers want and I think this is a clear demonstration of our commitment to education and continuously improving the content we provide our readers with. If you have suggestions, we’re all ears
Cheers,
Aaron
Great surprise , Envato!
Wow, I never would have guessed this as the new marketplace!
This is SICK! Quality learning AND an income opportunity? Count me in!