Other sites vs exclusive

Hi guys, I’m new to the whole selling stock thing, I was wondering if most people go exclusive with AJ or do you find better returns putting yourself everywhere? Obviously it’s a lot easier and faster to keep things to one site, what do y’all think? And thanks in advance for any replies.

Im in the same mood, just started with the stocks and wondering should I become exclusive on AJ or non-exclusive and send files also to the others… As “house of sounds” says, its a lot easier to keep on one site, and of course earnings are higher . Im very curious about this topic, and hope somebody will give some good advice. Thanx!

That is a hard question to answer. I for one haven’t ventured out from AudioJungle, other than to look to see what the others offer and how they operate. I haven’t found a stock site yet that compares to this one! I have seen some of the more experienced authors here actually start being exclusive here after having started out non-exclusive. I would love to hear some of their opinions on the matter.

I do know that you will find the Community here to be downright amazing. It is probably the biggest influence on my having no concern about becoming non-exclusive. And the fact that Envato does a good job of listening to their authors. They may not always be able to take all of our ideas and implement them, but they certainly know what is on our minds and they do a pretty darn good job of communicating with us. I haven’t seen any other stock site do anything like that!

Anyway, I am sure someone here with a little “outside” experience will be able to give you some pointers and advice.

I wish you luck guys!

I started as a non exclusive here and 3 other sites. Audiojungle turned out to be the most selling one.

Open non-exclusive account with other content and compare sells with other sites. For me non-ex works better but it needs much work.

fxprosound said
For me non-ex works better but it needs much work.

Ditto. AJ is not my best selling site, nor is it highest with non-exclusive commission rates. Going exclusive (if I could at this point) would be a very welcome earnings hike on AJ but my overall earnings would lower considerably. But it would be a heck of a lot easier, and arguably if I were able to focus marketing efforts here I could eventually make up the difference.

As far as community goes AJ is far and away the best. Also, going exclusive here makes a lot more sense than it did when I started – 2 years ago there wasn’t as much incentive because overall site sales weren’t as high as they appear to be now, the exclusive rates started lower, and climbing the rate ladder was far less achievable. Back then it was a no-brainer (in my mind) to stay non-exclusive. However, if I could have seen 2 years into the future, I honestly don’t know at this point what I would have chosen to do.

So, in a nutshell:

Exclusive PROs: Immediate higher rate, far lower maintenance overhead, you can concentrate on driving people to a single marketplace. Also if you’re going to go exclusive anywhere, as far as I can tell AudioJungle is the place to be.

Exclusive CONs: Limits your audience to a single marketplace, opportunity cost of not getting in early on a future successful marketplace, puts all your eggs in one basket so if a sudden change to the site limits your sales you don’t have a buffer by selling somewhere else. (This last point happened for a couple of months to me on another site, but balanced out for me because it was almost exactly when AJ raised the non-exclusive commission rates :)).

Honestly, I hate to offer advice in this matter. Non-exclusive has worked well so far for me, but I’ve also heard the exact opposite from other people. Maybe ask yourself how much time you want to spend creating music vs. maintenance time, and what that time is worth to you.

Thanks for the replies so far guys, keep em coming. I am wondering if I was a little premature in going exclusive, but I was noticing on other sites my files weren’t even getting page views so it just made sense at the time. On a related note, do the non-exclusive members do outside promoting to all their stock sites? For those that have their own website, I am wondering why you would refer a customer that visits your to a stock site that takes a percentage when you could get a hundred percent profit by selling strait from your site. Thanks guys!

houseofsounds said
... I am wondering why you would refer a customer that visits your to a stock site that takes a percentage when you could get a hundred percent profit by selling strait from your site. Thanks guys!

May be ‘cause anyone can handle a building of your own simple site, but making a full-automatic sales system – it’s a completely another level of web-programming.

Yes, concerning the topic… As for me, I keep my main (exclusive) portfolio here and lots of a non-exclusive stuff on the other stock-sites )

permian said

houseofsounds said
... I am wondering why you would refer a customer that visits your to a stock site that takes a percentage when you could get a hundred percent profit by selling strait from your site. Thanks guys!

May be ‘cause anyone can handle a building of your own simple site, but making a full-automatic sales system – it’s a completely another level of web-programming.

Good point, I didn’t think of that.