Over the years we have tried many different ways to work together with other artists and creators but never really found a good way to scale it, but because of the reasons listed below I think there is a better and easier way to make it work now.
- Gumroad recently released a new collab feature which enables multiple sellers to share profits from a product, this opens up a lot of new opportunities. Before, earnings would have to be manually calculated and sent out which greatly limited the amount of people we could work with. For Artstation there is also similar ways to make it a straightforward process.
- These last couple of months I have had many artists message me looking for either a job/collab or advice on how to sell products on marketplaces. This of course has a lot to do with all the layoffs, and I'm guessing there is a lot of other people that might be in between jobs or just want to have something on the side that could find this interesting.
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So what kind of artists/creators and collabs are we looking for? There is a lot of different ways to collab and can be discussed in more detail when you reach out, but here are some examples.
- You want to make a product, for example a tutorial where you make use of one or more of our products. This would allow you to bundle those products together and sell it as one on your own store.
- You have resources that you have created for your own work, such as 3d assets, 2d/3d brushes, materials, references, scripts. But you don't want to create a store or manage a product on your own.
- You have a successful product and your own store, but might want to get additional sales through bundling.
- Use our products or parts of a product to create a new product to sell on your own store.
- You already have a product from the past but it didn't sell well, or you think it has more potential if more people get their eyes on it.
- You want to create a store with your own products but you want help/feedback and a marketing boost to kick things off.
- You already have a store but want help/mentoring and more eyes on your product by releasing something together
- You enjoy marketing and running a store but don't want to create your own products.
- We can gather multiple sellers with similar products to create bundles that reach a bigger audience.
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No matter what option we end up choosing our biggest contribution to such a collab would be our experience of 8 years selling art resources. As well as the large following and customer base we have gained from over 1 million USD in sales. We can provide valuable information on what sells best, when to release, how and where to market, what works and don't.
I have seen many good products go unnoticed and a lot of bad products sell really well, and it mostly comes down to presentation and marketing, which are things I hope we can help with. I have helped artists in the past starting up their stores and giving them feedback, but have become more reluctant to do so as many tend to create very similar products and naturally end up competing with our own. I hope by doing it this way we can go all in helping people as it would benefit us as well.
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As for what type of products and people we would like to work with. We are open to most types of products and collabs but some types of products we have more experience with, some examples below.
- 3D/2D Brushes
- 3D/2D Kitbash
- References
- Decals- 3D assets
- 3D/2D Tutorials
- Alphas- Stencils
- Textures
- Plugins
- Scripts
If you are interested and want to discuss things further, send us an email or DM Jonas Ronnegard on Discord. Please include a link to your portfolio/store if you have one, together with a short summary of your situation and roughly what kind of collab you might be interested in. Please allow some time for us to reply as we will try to reply in order.
Mail: jrotools.info@gmail.com
Discord: https://jrotools.co/d
