Show Your Love: Referral Competition!
We’re going to try something a bit different for this month’s contest! I want you to promote ThemeForest – most notably your template offerings – in any way that you can. At the end of the month, we’ll reward the top 5 referrers with $200 each, via Paypal!
How Do I Enter?
Each author has his own referral account. When a new user visits ThemeForest via your unique url, you’ll earn 30% of his or her first deposit! This is a year-round agreement that we have. BUT – to spice things up a bit more, we’re also going to give an extra $200 cash prize to the top five referrers between now and May 31.
To enter, you MUST email sitemanager@themeforest.net with your ThemeForest username. Once you do so, I’ll mark your current stats, and send you a confirmation email. Once that’s done, you’re free to be as creative as you like!
How Can I Promote My Templates?
There are dozens of way to promote your themes.
- Make a posting on your blog.
- Add a ThemeForest banner to the sidebar of your website.
- Don’t be obnoxious, but inform your followers of your themes on Twitter, Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook!
- Add a link to your profile as your email signature.
- Upload more templates!
- Write a tutorial for Nettuts+ or “In the Woods”. Then, use your author bio to link to your ThemeForest page!
Any I missed? If so, leave a comment for the rest of us. Remember – even if you don’t refer enough people to earn a space in the top five, you’ll still earn 30% of any new users’ deposits… year round!
Get Started! The Clock Starts…Now!
- Step 1: Email sitemanager@themeforest.net with your username.
- Step 2: Review our “Referrals” page to retrieve your unique URL and ThemeForest banners.
- Step 2: Use your UNIQUE referral url to promote your themes.
- Step 3: Check back on June 1st to see if you’re a winner! We’ll choose the five authors/buyers who bring in the most visitors who deposit funds.
Good luck!
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Now, are the winners chosen by referral amount or by the amount of money the referrals deposit?
lol cant have refferal link as your website in the comments then i guess?
as it never worked the first 2 times lol
Stoked for this already have a 120 this month
those are just clickthroughs though…
nice one and love this, just made a post and drop email, lets wait now
Is it possible to link to a specific template with your referral link?
Yea, if getting referrals would be that simple
. My presence in the web is too weak, so good luck to everyone else with competition
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Wait so this is just clickthroughs and not registered members or actual deposits? If so surely you could automate traffic to the reffral link?
@Free CSS – That’s a really good point that I didn’t consider. Instead, it will need to be based on registered members. I’m going to update the posting. Thanks for the heads up!
lol now i defo dont have a chance
only ever had 1 person refered and registered lol
The conversion rate is pretty bad for ThemeForest to be honest. I’m getting highly targeted traffic and no sign ups so far.
My conversion rate isn’t too bad, about 10% of my referrals turn into sign ups. Now if only they would all start depositing! 20 sign ups in March but only 10 deposits -.-
I agree with pandemic, I have high clickthroughs on a template website and very poor sign up rate. Deposit to signups is good though.
Referred 29 users this months
Anyone more?
@ Pavel – very nice those are registered users right?
I’m only sitting at 176 Clickthroughs, 3 Registered Members & 3 Deposits. My current conversion rate (clickthroughs vs. registers) could be alot better being that its only a little bit over 1%
How’s everyone else fairing?
@Chris, yeah.. 29 registered users, and about 2000 Clickthroughs
I have 1000 clickthroughs and 16 registered users right now.
I wonder when they are going to show some love to the people who actually buy.
Do we know the winners? Jeffrey?
Where are the winners?
It’s June 5th and no sign of winners? Hmmmm.
I’m a bit curious here as well
When will we know the winners of this contest?