Good luck!

We also did a lot of research to make sure it would be worth the effort. We found that there is a direct correlation between a country’s GDP and the percentage of customers at TurboSquid that are from that country. Not so with Japan. The percentage was smaller than expected. We researched this further and found out that there are several cultures that don’t feel they should have to shop in a language other than their own. China was one, Japan another. The computer graphics community in Japan is huge, which made Japan the logical first step in our internationalization efforts. Italy and Germany have also come up as underserved markets, but Russia is not on the list. Out of all these countries, the discrepancy between what we were selling and what we could be selling was largest in Japan.

Last time I checked, nothing prevents a Japanese buyer from purchasing 3d models on other, non-Japanese website. Do Germans need their own stock website, Russians, French, Italians? Makes very little sense to me. Do not they also have cultural and language differences?

Also Bublic, if non-guild folks sold there, they would only be making something like 35 percent of the sale price. We don`t want a repeat of the famed subscription service.