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Fellow CodeCanyon seller. Take your app from CodeCanyon, and try to reach the entreprise market.

Price your product in this way:

- single user: $79 ($49 for updates)

- agency/small business: $299 (+ $129) + $199 for optional install

That's a pretty simple pricing, and it'll make you 1,000 time more sane than putting it on CodeCanyon and fighting with dads and moms trying to setup this on their shared host with a thousand other app and site.

This month estimate earnings on CodeCanyon: 100 (sales) x $45 x 0.7 (best case) = $3,150

Support overhead: 100 person.

You'll need 20 single user license sales, and less than 6 sales in the enterprise edition. That's just 26 person to support. Don't forget that enterprise people are more inclined to give you the $200 and get the thing setup.



I am currently also selling my product (newsletter mailer) via codecanyon. My main concern leaving codecanyon is how to drive potential customers to my site. As you already said there is a huge support effort on codecanyon, due to "inexperienced" customers.




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