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The Thesis Theme Design Business as I see it!

July 15, 2011 - Last Modified: April 1, 2014 by Hesham Zebida 1,947

Thesis Themes Design Business

Thesis Theme became the most popular WordPress theme among people who wants to make money online, this incredible WordPress theme creates a new business opportunity for many designers and developers, needless to mention bloggers and internet marketers who actually depends on it to run their online business. With over 37,534 people depends on Thesis Theme, the business reached 2 Million Dollars in total sales two years ago, and still going up.

*Update:

DIYthemes has now paid out over $1 million in affiliate commissions since July of 2008.

I am going to talk about Thesis Theme Business as a successful and profitable model for all people who are in it’s circle, I can tell because I am simply one of them.

I will share with you my business story, and I will reveal a few of my secrets!

Thesis Themes Business, the huge opportunity!

Thesis Themes business has been a fantastic experience for me so far. I have created my first design for FamousBloggers.net more than a year and a half ago. I realized that my readers expect more from me, so I started to share some useful Thesis themes tutorials on the blog, after that I got many customization requests. But to be honest, I didn’t want to dedicate my time for a specific client, I preferred to create my thesis skins business model towards selling memberships and individual skins for thesis.

ThesisAwesome.com found it’s way to light at the beginning on 2011, and the business really went better than I expected.

The Big fish eats the little ones!

Three months latter, I got an email from a design company asking me if I can design for them a few thesis skins for their business, so I rejected their request without even discussing a price, it was just a simple decision to make! I had a clear vision, and I was sure that my site will bring in more profits, so I didn’t want to give my hard work to someone else that easy even if they pay me 100s of dollars, I didn’t want to create my own competitor in the market!

As soon as my competitors noticed the grow of my site, two big names in the Thesis customization and design world contacted me, both of them want the exact same thing, which is merging or acquiring my site. I am not sure why they thought I would give it up!

I realized that Thesis Skins business has more potential than I thought, I understood the motivation behind that, and I know why they both wanted to erase the existence of my site by merging or acquiring, both ways were not a win-win situation, someone has to lose, probably it was me!

So I decided to keep working hard on designing more skins, and add more development into the ones I am having to make them works better based on clients feedback. I knew that focusing on support and solving clients’ problems is really great for growing such business.

My Thesis Skins business started to take off, it really did good in only 6 months since it’s launch, so I am so proud to kick the 5 figures of income in such short period!

Some Thesis Skins you probably don’t know about!

I’ve designed several skins for Thesis themes, most of my designs are towards blogging, internet marketing and sales pages, I thought to share it with you, so here is a few examples that I think you don’t know about (looking forward to hear your feedback):

Thesis Affiliate Skin

games thesis skin

I started to work on Affiliate skin 3 weeks ago, this happened when Mo and I planned to create a Games affiliate website based on Commission Junction network, so we  thought to use WordPress and Thesis Theme to create the site. Then we added more ideas and development into that to create a Thesis Skin to affiliate products from Commission Junction, I decided to add this design along with a special plugin once it’s ready to my collection at ThesisAwesome.com.

But, what could take me so long is I want to add some other networks to the blend, I am not so sure that CJ is actually a great choice, so please let me know if you are having success on CJ network.

Note: This skin has a dark layout to fit the gaming website soul, but I think the release won’t be dark, so you will be able to use this design to create any kind of affiliate sites.

Check Thesis Affiliate skin, demo: Shop Top Games

My Product Skin for Thesis

my product skin thesis

Many people still need to create a professional sales pages for their products, I did several tries till I ended with this design for Thesis Product Page Skin, which will allow you to easily create a sales page for your product in no time at all, it’s going to use widgets to create the layout of the page, really simple and easy, plus the option to re-arrange widgets just by dragging and dropping. Also this skin will be release once I create it’s options page.

Demo: Thesis Product Page Skin

 One Page Thesis Skin

one page thesis skin

I’ve created this sales page design a few months back, it was created especially for Popup Domination and Keyword Winner plugins when they were first released in the market, I got domain names for both plugins and installed WordPress on them, then designed my skin to give them a simple and nice look as you can see below!

[box type=”info”]By the way the Popup Domination sales page was installed on a .CO domain name, some people says that Google is no longer index pages on a .CO domain name, but my page is still on Google search and the domain got it’s firs Page Rank in the last update, so I just want you to know![/box]

I am not so sure if I will release this skin as using it could be a little hard for users with no design experience, so let’s see what will happen latter, maybe I can reduce the pain one day!

Demos: Popup Domination and Keyword Winner

Why I develop using Thesis Theme?

I develop using Thesis Theme framework because it makes my work more easier and I can see great results faster than if I use any other WordPress theme, here is some points I think of:

  • Thesis Theme framework have excellent collection of hooks
  • Big community,  over 37,534 members (potential clients)
  • Great support by staff and community

I thought to create my own theme for development to make designs that work for everybody, but this will require a lot of extra time, which I don’t really have!

Don’t have Thesis Theme yet?

  • If you don’t have Thesis Theme yet, then get it now, here is my aff link : Get Thesis Theme
  •  Check out my Thesis Skins over at ThesisAwesome.com
  • If you are into affiliate marketing, then don’t hesitate to join my Thesis Skins Affiliate program, it pays 50% commission for every sale!

Give me your Opinion

I shared this thoughts with you to let you know that thesis themes business is really good, I want to encourage you to get into this awesome business, but remember.. you need to have enough skills to create, design, develop, market and maintain an online business based on thesis theme framework, and the most important thing for people like us is passion!

I really want to hear what you think about Thesis Skins I’ve showed you, give me your opinion, feedback and suggestions, tell me what you are looking for, so maybe I can bring it to the Thesis Skins market!

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About Hesham Zebida

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I create websites with WordPress, and I develop Schema Plugins to help SEOs. I am a social network lover. I am also the night creature who works hard to keep this project up. Owner and founder of the Famous Blog.

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{ 17 Responses }

  1. Trung Nguyen says:
    In fact, my blog is not using Thesis, however, these Thesis skin are awesome and I'm thinking to convert them to my Genesis child theme, I really love My Product skin, which is used by my friend, Tinh Tran for his product site. Cool.
  2. Sorin says:
    Hello, Please tell me if you offer refund in case if something don't work ok after install the theme? Thank you.
    • Hesham says:
      Hi Sorin, Due to the nature of the skins, I am not able to control who is using it, and usually I put time and effort to setup the skins when needed for clients (for free), therefore, I do not provide refunds.
  3. Damon says:
    Glad you didn't sell out Hesham, I am debating between the silver and the blogskin themes because I like the awesome options panel. The fact that you threw in the silverskin with the products theme will likely make up my mind for me :-) Keep up the great work. I have a few more clients that I am going to be doing blogs for, so keep cranking out the themes cause I can't make them all look the same :-)
  4. Ileane says:
    Hi Hesham, I'm so pleased with the Thesis Awesome blogskin that I'm using for my blog. I see other bloggers using it but my blog still has a unique look and feel because of all the options you included. The support has been fantastic too. The Affiliate Skin looks great and I don't think it's too dark but I guess it might be for someone selling toys or children's products. My daughter just got a new theme and she couldn't use Thesis because she wanted a magazine style theme - she ended up getting Pulse. What do you think about making a magazine style skin one day? Well, keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing what you have in store for us next.
  5. Faissal Alhaithami says:
    Thump up for the hard work you are doing! the new skin are awesome just like you mate! I found your story very inspiring, Keep going.
  6. Ahmad Wali says:
    It is sure the perfect business and people also making good income as an affiliate. I would love to learn the development and design (wish I can find some resource). Regarding the new themes... Wow Hesham! I love the product theme single page. It is perfect to launch a product on Click bank. I am going to get my hands on them when they are available. I would like to see some customization of product theme according to the product where we can change the color scheme and design from control panel. I also experienced when people hit the close x button the pop-up shows wait discount and stuff. I would like to see some option like that. For affiliate skin I am not big fan of dark colour scheme because they never works well for me. I would love to see them added to Thesis Awesome with the features. Wali
  7. Ming Jong Tey says:
    I haven't tried out Thesis Theme but just love the theme from its look! Very done on the thesis skin business! Indeed, it is so true to tap on a market in demand and to tide the wave! Good job Hesham :)
  8. Dheeraj says:
    Your Thesis skin collection is "awesome".
  9. DiTesco says:
    What a great write up buddy and YES, I find your story very compelling while inspiring at the same time. I think you have made a wise decision not to sell an instead, putting more effort to establish your business. Getting feedback from users is the only way to go, as after all, there are the ones that uses it. Congrats my friend and keep it up.. I still remember the first time so spoke to me about it.. long way you have gone :) And ohh, you are right... I did not know about your new skin.. checking it out now ;-)
  10. Wasim Ismail says:
    I have recently upgraded my blog to Thesis, im still doing some work to it, I must say it is easier to use, but does take a bit of time getting your head around it. Overall still experimenting, but I'm certain it’s a good move.

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