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School Counseling. School Psychology. WordPress , on the other hand, can require more technical effort than many people have time for. Basically there are a lot of pros and cons to consider when trying to decide between selling digital product marketplaces vs.
Massive amounts of competition that can encourage race-to-the-bottom tactics, such as this creator who had to lower her prices to stay competitive. Marketplaces like Etsy are sounding a little less desirable as a selling platform right now? Then you could always create your own business website. Among many other things, the perks of selling from your own site include:. You can direct visitors to specific sections or products on your website instead of the marketplace guiding them to similar products from competitors.
Podia allows creators to sell unlimited digital downloads including printables , membership plans, and online courses. It comes with an intuitive drag-and-drop builder no techie skills required and lets you create a customized website and product pages without the hassle or rigamarole of juggling tools. Sign up for a day Podia free trial to see for yourself just how easy it makes setting up your website and selling printables.
Whichever platform you use to sell your digital products, this digital download strategy checklist and tips for selling more digital downloads should help boost your sales. For example, there were an estimated 1. Instead, you should make them with a clear-cut and well-researched group of people in mind.
You can also get on social media to see what printables people are sharing and commenting on the most. While all of this can seem excessive for selling a printable, conducting customer research is essential so you can create printables your customers will actually buy.
Profitable printable downloads run the gamut from financial planners to coloring books, and from industries as diverse as homeschooling to allergen-free diet planning.
There is one thing they all have in common, though: eye-catching designs and layouts. You really only need two tools to create and sell printables -- a graphic design tool and site builder.
Everyone has their hand out…be different. Give consistently and generously instead, and watch the beautiful thing that happens when you do. They think that people will just show up randomly and some do, I admit, some do, but most of it will be marketing. Promote your shop anywhere you can. If you have a blog, put a link to it in the navigation bar. If you have a YouTube account already set up, fit in the printables. Just use whatever you already have going. Give them to your students to use.
Have business cards ready for people who ask you questions about it. There are so many opportunities, you have to get the word out. Someone else checks out the book, sees your free printable bookmark with your logo on it, maybe they get curious and Google you.
Day D o you launch every time you create a new printable? But I like to mix it up. Some people want to pay more. You want to serve all the people and what THEY want to buy, so I have small dollar amounts and large dollar amounts in the shop.
Day W hat do you do when you have little desire to create your own products? Everyone goes through bouts of not wanting to create anything. Even me! Luckily for me, I have a ton of different options I can do. Because my businesses are so different and have different complexities and topics, I can really always be working on SOMEthing. I take a lot of time off too. Like weekends I usually am not working at all. Just work on something else or take a break altogether. Day W hat are the best printables to give for free?
You really need to determine that based on your audience. Who are you attracting? Who are you wanting to serve?
For bloggers, I would provide them a blogging binder, blogging printables, business printables, marketing printables. Then I would provide something like cleaning printables. Printables that are for the home. Recipe printables. Things of that nature. Whatever it is that is important to the people I want to attract and serve. For bloggers, it could be that worksheets work better. For stay at home moms, maybe charts work better think: chore charts.
With that said, what I CAN say is that binders and planners do well for me. Bundles do well for me. Larger packets of printables seem to do very well. I would encourage you to check out a few Shopify stores and just kinda look around at what is most popular. Do some research. Like you can see what is most popular on a Shopify site.
Day Can I sell my Canva designs? The licensing is very different from professional products such as Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, and InDesign. You definitely might want to look into this for yourself, because the rules change over time. The limitations of using software like that is also huge for example, in Illustrator, they have a spell check in there, which can save you hours of proofing! There are so many more options and things you never even knew possible.
They will be more advanced, which is what sets you apart and ultimately gets you the sale over something else. I never recommend Canva for printables that you sell. Now you CAN absolutely use Canva for free printables as opt-ins like a blog thing, but not for a shop. You can also absolutely use Canva for pictures and things like Pinterest pins that you create.
But the line is when you want to sell printables. Day Can I set up a successful store with only a few products? Yes, you absolutely can! When I started, I started with one product and then in my first month, I started adding more products as I saw the first one was doing so well. I know of other shop owners who start with one product as well, so you can start with one, two, three, or fifty. Day How do you know what printables to sell?
What are the top printable ideas to sell? Again, building on day 22, where I talked about what the best printables to give away for free were, the same thing is true for selling, if not MORE! No problem. Get one. Market your stuff. Go in Facebook groups and share your stuff follow the rules obviously but some groups allow you to share stuff.
It was a boost yes, but I was pro-active. I went out there and got traffic myself. I created a website that had free stuff my target audience was looking for. Since I sold Littlest Pet Shops, I made a site about Hasbro toys and shared coloring pages, screen backgrounds, games, and more.
You can still to this day, look around and see my pictures that I took are still some of the most popular on Pinterest. After you have an audience even of people , start creating what they want. Just serve your audience. Day What are better, digital products or physical products? This answer will depend on your personality. She just loves it.
Me, on the other hand, I love digital products. Things I can sell over and over and over again and make money on a more autopilot path. Physical products are like dropshipping and most all of those are scams. I see so many bloggers put their stores as physical products AND digital products to try it all out, thinking they will make good money and they are just completely wasting their time.
I would not even spend a second thinking about dropshipping. Other than your mom. Like really? Even selling things like T-shirts and stuff like that. Just so lame. Just save yourself all the hassle and time. I promise you. That stuff can work. Day H ow do you balance creating products when you have young kids at home? You can start with one product and add them as you are able. Work on your printables while your kids are napping, or at school. Just kidding. You could have your husband take the kids for one day a week to go do something fun and during that time, you can work on your printables.
One thing I also did was put the kids to bed earlier when they were younger. So instead of say 9 pm bedtime, move it to 8 pm bedtime. Remember that this is a marathon, not a sprint. Just do all that you can and what you can. Day How much time does it take to create printables? What program do you use to make printables? I mentioned this earlier, but everyone is at a different stage of learning. When I first started, it took me all day to create one printable.
I got faster and better over time. In my How to Create Printables course I use Photoshop Elements software to make and create printables , I have a ton of ready-to-use templates in there and I highly suggest using those for your printables because they will save a ton of time!
Day D o I have to be creative to create printables? My blog was about saving money and teaching bloggers how to make money with their blogs. I had to start looking at the world differently. Day W here do you get your printables printed at? Do you use a home printer or a service? There are really only two options for where to get your printables printed. Home is best! However it is still the cheapest and easiest option to print from home.
These will vary by location depending on where you live, but it gives you a general idea of how much you will be spending over time printing at stores or online! If this is the route you choose to go, make sure you order at times when they are offering discounts and promotions. But in the long run investing in a decent home printer will be worth it for you, especially if you are mass printing multiple pages. Most printers have scanning, copying and faxing capabilities so that is an extra bonus you get by printing at home!
How long they last will depend on how often you print and how much! I have personally tested several platforms as well as had coaching clients test them as well. First up is WooCommerce. If you have been in the blogging or online world long enough, chances are you have probably heard of this e-commerce platform. WooCommerce is a plugin to convert your WordPress site into an e-commerce store like amazon, eBay, etc. The good thing about Shopify that we already know? Now, say you have a blog or WordPress site already, you can still integrate Shopify easily with it.
So, one thing to consider is your blog getting hacked. But, can you imagine having your store be a part of that hacking? Not only are they a pain with every update that WordPress does, but they also make your website run VERY sluggish because of the number of plugins you have to install to make WooCommerce work. And what customer service are you really going to have with a slow site? People expect FAST service, so you want to have a fast website.
Otherwise people are going to leave and there goes your revenue, walking right out the door. Every plugin you add to your blog adds a weight on how fast your blog will display and load content. Imagine adding another plugins just to have a decent looking WooCommerce store! When people are asking us why their site is slow, I tell them to get rid of Woocommerce and go to Shopify. That usually gets rid of the bloat immediately.
One person I know, had over 65 plugins, and 45 of them were for WooCommerce. Whenever WordPress sent out an update, their whole blog broke. Come to find out, after going through and uninstalling one plugin at a time to see which one it was that broke their blog which took them days! As a general rule for your blog, whether you use WooCommerce or not, keep your number of plugins as low as you possibly can. It happens to everyone, because things fail from time to time. This month, my whole blog crashed!
It was down for several hours before getting it back up and running again. Had my store been on WooCommerce, I would have been without not only revenue from my blog ads, affiliate income, etc. It goes without saying, we should never have all our eggs in one basket. At the end of the day, I want you to succeed.
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