Tomorrow is the big day: Revit Market gets moved over to the main TurboSquid.com site!

What does this mean? Several things:

• Revit files (RFAs) will use plain-English categories, meaning customers can more easily browse for what they need.
• Customers will be able to search more easily for other file formats like DXF, DWG, and OBJ.
• Google will list direct links to products in ordinary Google searches.
• For publishers, it means you’ll get access to the Affiliate program, where you can make an additional 20% royalty on your model sales.

Revit Market has topped the 3500 mark, and with Revit files incorporated into TurboSquid’s main search, we expect it will keep going strong.

Record sales last month! Many publisher saw increased sales in August. TurboSquid as a whole also reported higher-than-usual sales. Either the economy is recovering, or we’re just doing well. Who knows? All we know is, Revit Market is happening these days!

If you have more families to publish, let me know. We can pre-certify your families to make sure everything you publish is certified.

We’re also seeing more CAD models posted at TurboSquid in general. We see this as a great sign for the future. Keep on posting those Revit families, and stay tuned for more exciting changes at Revit Market!

TurboSquid has just introduced the SquidGuild, a program to reward publishers who commit to selling only at TurboSquid. Revit Market benefits from this announcement in a few important ways:

• All Revit Market publishers are eligible for the same increased royalties as other TurboSquid members.
• Revit Market publishers who join the SquidGuild will receive a monthly report specific to Revit Market, detailing popular keywords and keywords that lead to sales.

You can read all about the SquidGuild here. If you want the newsletter that describes the details, pop me an email and I’ll send you a copy.

Nice press release about Revit Market went out this week.

Some of the high points:

• 2500+ families for sale.
• Quality guarantee – Revit Certified families are guaranteed to flex as expected.
• Entourage stuff (furniture, plants, vases, bottles, decorative items) are the big sellers these days. If you’ve got any families like this hanging around your hard disk, feel free to publish them for sale! The more, the merrier.
• Customers who buy from Revit Market gave some nice quotes for the press release. Several have come back week after week to buy more stuff.

As they say in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “Share and enjoy.”

Revit Market now has more than 2500 families available for download! Most are in the $3-$20 range. Here’s what our customers are saying:

“I found so many useful entourage families at Revit Market that I couldn’t find anywhere else. And they all worked the way I expected them to! Being able to download families when I need them, and for such great prices, has made it possible for me to finish projects without staying up all night, projects that I couldn’t have done otherwise.” – Kit Rautio, Rescadd Design Services

“Precise, accurate and high-quality Revit models are always in demand by architecture firms using BIM technology. Revit Market has proven to be a valuable and dependable resource for us, improving our workflow and increasing efficiency and productivity.” – Oswaldo Martinez, DiGeronimo PC

Look for our press release next week, coming to a CAD news outlet near you.

We’ve also got some cool new landing pages to catch that all-important Google traffic:

• Furniture
• Appliances
• Fixtures
• Windows
• Doors
• Plants

More stuff coming soon!

We’re doing it! Revit Market’s Grand Opening is scheduled for this Wednesday, July 8. Check out the plan for the big splash:

Landing pages. We have landing pages in the works for all the main categories users search for: Furniture, Windows, etc. The Appliances page is up now. Others will follow by July 8. These pages will come up in Google searches when users search on keywords like Revit appliance family. Google isn’t picking them up yet, but will soon.

AUGI magazine ad. A Revit Market ad, in conjunction with Autodesk Seek, is featured on page 35 of the AUGI AEC Edge magazine. The ad has already increased traffic (and sales) by a noticeable degree.

Press Release. Going out on July 8 to numerous CAD news outlets, announcing that we’ve reached 2500 assets. Current count is actually 2593.

Ad in Arch Viz book. Revit Market is going to have a spread in the book 3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization – Advanced to Expert. A large number of 3ds Max arch viz users also use Revit. The book also features several images from Revit Market contest entrants, mostly in the Composition chapter (Chapter 2). The book is scheduled for an August release.

Please note that we are not going to remove the Beta label from Revit Market for a while to come. The Grand Opening is to announce the size of our library (2500+ Revit families) and to attract customers.

There are more promotions coming, too. I’ll post again on July 8 with all the details.

The AUGI AEC Edge magazine is out, and Revit Market’s ad is displayed! Check it out on page 35. It’s a joint ad with Autodesk Seek.

http://www.augiaecedge.com/current/default.htm

Many thanks to all who entered our Revit Family Contest! The finalists have been posted on the contest page.

Winners will be announced on the same page on April 15.

Tuesday, March 31 marks the end of the Revit Family Contest. The idea behind the contest was to get more content for Revit Market while giving you the chance to show off what you’ve got. Not only do you have a chance to win the first prize of $2500 in three categories, you also get ongoing income from sales of your families.

The contest requires each entrant to publish original families at Revit Market. What does this mean?

• Publish = Put up for sale
• Original = You created it yourself, or own the rights to it

Publishing at Revit Market is free. Entering the contest is free. A no-brainer, no?

This is how it works: You create a project using some of your original families. Then you publish the families for sale at Revit Market, and send me some screen caps or renderings of the project, showing the families in action.

Revit Family Contest entry from RPA Design

For more information on how to enter the contest, visit the Revit Family Contest page.

One of the things that helps us improve Revit Market is feedback. I’ve been fortunate enough to be contacted directly by a couple of early users with their comments. Here are some of them.

Comment: When I click the graphic links on the Marketplace tab, all I get is max, 3ds, lwo, dxf files.
Response: In the next revision of this page, all links will go to RFA content. The next revision will be up in the next couple of weeks.

Comment: Some of the content is polygonal in origin. It looks like it was imported from DXF files.
Response: True. Some of the RFA files that were posted long ago, before Revit Market was launched, are polygonal. We are working on getting that content updated, removed, or left in the 3D Models media type where it won’t come up unless you specifically search for polygonal content.

Comment: Who is responsible for problems caused by incorrect data?
Response: Our End User License Agreement stipulates that all responsibility for accuracy and appropriate usage of downloaded content lies with the buyer or user, and that the creator/seller is not in any way responsible.

Do you have feedback you’d like to give? Add a comment here, or email me at mbousquet@turbosquid.com.