Digital Products

How to create, market, and sell digital products.

Digital products have no doubt become increasingly popular, especially with a ton of more interest and resources to create online businesses and actually work from home.

With selling digital products there not only is a huge market for them but furthermore, they create passive income that can pay you over and over again without even running out of inventory. Create your digital products once, and they can bring you income well into the future.

Before getting started

There are a few tips, as well as knowledge, you’ll want to have and obtain before jumping into creating digital products and getting them online.

First, you’ll want to pick a niche (even if you have multiple interests, your focus should be on one specific niche to build first). Why? Because it’s going to be a lot easier for you to manage one specific top vs a lot of topics.

Additionally, you’ll want to make sure that niche is going to be profitable and enjoyable without a ton of competition.

A good way to do this is to do your research. A keyword research tool will help you determine competition, see what’s trending, and help you find winning products.

View the Best Keyword Research Tools for Digital Products

35 digital products you can create today

Apart from the digital products on this list, you can also create merchandise and sell things like T-shirts, Hoodies, Hats, Phone Cases, and more.

Another alternative to selling digital products is to create them for other people. If you can get good at creating digital products, or want to learn more, check out our page on freelancing.

Now it’s time to actually create or obtain your products and to actually start on your mission to create them.

6 Best Websites to create General Digital Products

Canva

Canva is probably the most widely used for creating products, and one of the easiest. Although the pro-plans can be a little spendy, you can create a variety of products with their free version (they also offer a free trial for their pro version). With a wide array of templates, pictures, and free images, there isn’t much you can’t do with Canva.

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Google Docs

Google Docs is a part of a comprehensive package of online applications offered by and associated with Google. Users of Google Docs can import, create, edit and update documents and spreadsheets in various fonts and file formats, combining text with formulas, lists, tables and images and is a great option for bloggers creating their own content.

Procreate

 Procreate is an award-winning illustration, sketching, and painting app made exclusively for iPad and one of the hottest drawing apps in the App Store with more than 13,000 reviews and an average 4.5-star rating.

Snappa

Much like Canva, Snappa is a must-have tool for the non-designers who publish content online. It’s easy to use and has a nice set of templates, and despite its simplicity, offers unlimited possibilities for creative minds. Over 20 million images (and counting!) have been created using Snappa.

99 Designs

99 Designs is another favorite designer website. This trusted global creative platform is great for creating quality graphics to your liking. Create logos, websites, merchandise, packaging & more.

Easy Digital Downloads

Easy Digital Downloads was designed to meet all of their consumer’s online business needs. Payment flexibility, discount codes, as well as shopping carts, and unlimited file downloads are just a few of the features included when using Easy Digital Downloads.

If you’ve tried designing/creating your own products and it’s just not working for you or it’s taking too long, there are some resources out there to help you.

Some that will even create your digital products for you.

And/Or teach you how to create them.

And/Or market your products, links, or websites.

Keep in mind that every skill you learn is going to help you reach your goal of finding how to create, promote, and sell digital products.

However, if you really want to hire help, one site we have found, and love is Fiverr.

Fiverr

Fiverr is a marketplace where sellers can promote their business or services as freelancers, and most of them are digital. Because there is so much demand in the digital niche, here you can find sellers that can create digital products for you, design and launch a website or Shopify store, create logos and banners, and tons more. Basically, anything you need for your online business you’ll be able to find.

Once you’ve finished creating your digital products you’ll want to decide where you’re going to sell them.

Where to sell your digital products

By far and the most recommended way to sell your products is to build your own website with your specific niche.

You can choose to use a website platform that’s basically already ready for you to start selling your digital products

AND/OR

Create your own website and bring customers to it.

Which way you choose to sell your products is going to depend on what kind of products you’re creating.

10 Best Platforms/Websites to sell your Digital Products

1.Shopify

Shopify is an e-commerce platform that lets both individuals and small businesses sell their products or services online. It’s one of the most widely used websites to build a profitable business with digital products and physical products alike.

2.Etsy

Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. It’s home to a ton of items from unique handcrafted pieces to vintage treasures and digital products increasing in interest everyday.

3.Sellfy

Sellfy allows creators of ebooks, comics, design assets, music, video or any type of digital file to sell their goods by opening a beautiful storefront on Sellfy. What is more, they handle everything from product hosting and payment processing to automatically sending download emails and delivering the products. Furthermore, Selly is trusted by over 100,000 writers, designers, filmmakers and other indie creators, who already use this platform to sell digital downloads online.

4.Teachable

Teachable is a website/platform where users can monetize their expertise with course creation, ebooks, quizzes, PDFs, and other teaching elements, providing knowledge for others to obtain

5.Gumroad

Gumroad is another online platform that facilitates the sale of products by creators directly to consumers. This platform is built as a plug-and-play product that offers features such as payment processing, file hosting and delivery, and various tools for marketing and communications.

6.Podia

Podia is another platform to sell your digital products on. Online courses, digital downloads, webinars, ect are easily sold on Podias platform. If you end up loving Podia more than your other platforms, they will also migrate your data from the other platforms for free. Podia also offers its own simple website builder and email marketing, however, Podia costs a little more than it’s competitors platforms. If you’re considering Podia, you should already have a pretty good selling, profitable item before migrating to Podia.

7.Diggii

Diggii is another digital marketplace where you can sell buy or auction anything in digital format. It was a platform created during the pandemic which focuses on doing all things digital such as buying and selling products and communicating. It’s platform consists of both a marketplace & social network integrated into one interface.

8.Creative Market

Creative Market is a web platform for creative entrepreneurs to bring their great ideas to life ranging from photo’s, graphics, templates, themes, fonts, add-ons, or 3D products and sell them for a profit.

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9.Fast Spring

FastSpring is a full-service eCommerce partner committed to democratizing the software industry with innovative technology and eCommerce expertise. It is the perfect tool for those looking to selling digital products, apps, and software on their website.

Every one of these platforms can help you achieve your goal of discovering how to create, promote, and sell digital products.

Now, keep in mind, you can sell or market your products/posts on as many of these as you would like. The sky is the limit!

Take it one step at a time, and pick the sites or platforms that will best compliment your niche.

In addition to using already build platforms to sell your products, you can also build a website of your own.

Building your own website does have its benefits, mainly, because the store is your own.

To view all of the pros and cons, information on Web Hosts, Building Platforms, and Domains, check out our post on Website Building 101.

You’ll also want to look into advertising with social media to help expand your reach and bring people to purchase your products.

One tip on showcasing your products on social media is to use a website such as PlaceIt.

With PlaceIt, you can see what your design will look like on thousands of different templates.

Marketing your designs has never been easier with the tools this website has.

What’s more, they also include videos and models you can use to showcase your designs.

Hopefully, you now have a pretty good grasp of how to create, promote, and sell digital products. You are well on your way to an exciting journey of making money online.