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Hello, sometimes I've seen people commenting here that are part of Third Party Publishing companies, so my question is mostly for them, but obviously all the help is welcome. A friend and I are thinking of going the road of self publishing, under the assumption that we have several things in the works that could easily match the quality of the d20pfsrd store items we've seen so far, and we have all the skils needed to create content like that.
We both have our day jobs, but would like to think and try projecting our lives towards creating our own publishing company. Following that thinking, we found several ways of getting funding to our company, mostly from the public sector programs, but in any case they always expect to have at least some form of business plan.
In order for me to be able to create realistic business plan, I would need some information, that has proven hard to find. If you could help me to answer this questions, or point me in the right direction, that would be great.
How many 3PP sales are made a Year? from d20pfsrd? from driveThruRPG?
Is there market for publications with pricepoint over 5 USD? 10? 30?
What are the best channels to promote the publications? Paizo Forum?, Other 3PP?, Facebook? Twitter?
If you have self published:
Is it a full time job for the main participants?
How much time did it took you to break even?(reach a number of sales that was enough to pay your costs)
How is your preferred way to engage/find Illustrators? freelancer.com? envato.studio?
any help, on any of those points would be appreciated, even if you point me to an article, or links to read about it.
Thanks