We all know the horrors of spec work, but even without doing spec work we all probably still have some work lying around gathering dust.
Maybe you did some work on a personal project and decided not to finish it up, or perhaps you where learning a new technique and did some test designs.
Rather than letting your work gather dust, why not sell it and pad that emergency fund, but where can you sell it?
Marketplaces
Many marketplaces exist for designers to sell their stuff, some are specialized in graphics, domains, or complete websites, whilst others allow you to sell you stuff whatever it happens to be.
Sitepoint

http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/
Webunload

http://www.webunload.com/
iStockphoto

http://istockphoto.com
Flipsquare

http://www.flipsquare.com/
Graphic Leftovers

http://graphicleftovers.com
Vector Stock

http://www.vectorstock.com
Stockxpert

http://www.stockxpert.com
Crestock

http://www.crestock.com
Shutterstock

http://shutterstock.com
BigStockPhoto

http://www.bigstockphoto.com
Fotolia

http://us.fotolia.com
Photospin

http://www.photospin.com
Dreamstime

http://www.dreamstime.com
ShutterPoint

http://www.shutterpoint.com
Constant Content

http://www.constant-content.com
Forums
Forums popular among webmaster, designers and developer make for a natural place to sell your wares.
Digital Point

http://forums.digitalpoint.com
TalkFreelance

http://www.talkfreelance.com











Good point about not doing spec work, but giving a client more than one preview to choose from creates it’s own backlog of designs. If you’ld like to share those designs publicly with the web design world, check out the new publication website:
http://www.floggedmagazine.com
It looks like a cool site crowd.
@ty: Cool site not heard of it before.
Hey I just discovered a freelanceSwitch site spin-off article that really fits here too:
http://notbythehour.com/part-1
Lot’s of great stuff there.
Hey, thanks for the mention!
my suggestions
1. Flashden.net (for all of you who make cool flash stuff)
2. Themeforest.net (for web designers/developers who want to get their site templates out there)
those are my two visits weekly for inspiration, purchases and more.
@Jonathan: Nice additions! Thanks.
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