Are you a web designer struggling to find new clients at moment? You are certainly not alone! The web design industry is competitive and the economy is pretty bad still, so being a web designer you need to look for other ways to generate the income. If you think about it you actually have the advantage over people in many other sectors, thanks to the Internet and broadband. Stop thinking that you have to design the websites for local businesses. That’s the old way of web designing. Have you thought about starting your own WordPress theme website design service? Well this is just one of many ways you can ‘work’ other than designing websites the traditional way.

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WordPress has millions of user worldwide at the time of writing this and growing each day. Millions of people are taking advantage of this free and powerful blogging CMS platform because it’s easy to use and being supported by a team of professionals. If you’ve been on the net for some time you probably noticed different types of websites are using WordPress for their backend. With the growth of WordPress more people are looking for unique and professional looking themes for their site. And this is big opportunity for web designers. Being a freelance web designer you can now offer a new service to clients, and not just to local clients, but also clients from all over the world.

Many web design agencies and freelance web designers are already making WordPress themes to either promote their service or to sell them individually on their website. There are many ways you can make money with WordPress themes. You can offer them on a membership based site and charge a monthly fee for accessing the themes; you can offer them for free and earn by selling encrypted footer links; you can put affiliate links in the themes… the list goes on and on. If you are serious about it you can make a living from this, working from your own home.

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You probably know there are directories for websites, but did you also know there are directories for WordPress themes? If you are a WordPress theme designer, you should know how important Promotion is to make your theme successful and Popular. If many people know your theme, more downloads and more links or sales you can get. This is why you need to use every possible ways to spread your themes.

Submitting your WordPress themes to the theme directories is one of many ways to promote them.

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