Passive Income Selling Digital Printables Online
Trigger your youth’s love for Art Class and capitalize on it in your adulting life!
Trigger your youth’s love for Art Class and capitalize on it in your adulting life.
Let’s dive in!
What in the Digital World are Prints?
First things first, what ARE digital printables?
Simply put, these are designs you create digitally and sell for customers to print out.
Essentially, it is anything you could design for Print on Demand, but instead of selling the physical item, you sell just the art, in digital form.
This saves you some of the headaches associated with Print on Demand, like customer returns. Just like Print on Demand, you have basically no overhead, and your product is digital.
Ranging from creative art prints to wedding invitations, wall calendars to business planning templates, home organization labels to teaching resources. You are creating stationary, or art, or both.
Sticker designs and logos are also very popular.
The digital realm is your canvas, so frolic freely!
Choose your platform.
Will you be using your own website?
Or something like Etsy, or Ebay?
Etsy and Ebay are two very popular marketplaces. It may be easier when you get started to drive sales through a platform that already has many users.
You will definitely have competition, but that is not always a bad thing.
Take a look at their stores.
What are the most popular sellers?
What do you have, that they do not?
Try to set yourself apart, while at the same time noting what is selling, and be willing to test different designs.
The Passive Income Fantasia: Myth or Reality?
Good news, skeptic friends!
Passive income is indeed a thing. No hocus pocus here, just hard work upfront and the dividends paid by having something of value that can be sold over and over again.
The hard work is in finding your customers, and finding the right designs that sell frequently. In the digital printables realm, design and design again until you find the big sellers.
And now, with modern AI and automation tools, you can crank out many designs quickly, even if you aren’t an artist!
Don’t be afraid to use AI to create cool designs.
A Fool-Proof, Step-by-Step Guide to Your Printable Empire
1. Start by Picking a Niche
You want your work to resonate with a certain audience. Whether it be melancholic poetry posters, jazzy event invitations, or intricate adult coloring pages, find your muse and chase it down. Hobbyists, professionals, crafty moms, pensive dads — there’s an audience for every designer’s taste and style.
2. Hone Your Design Skills: No One Said it Would be Easy, but it Will be Worth it
There are plenty of free graphic design toolkits you can start off with — Canva, if you’re on first name terms with creativity and simplicity; GIMP, if you’re not too bothered about initial complexities. Master the pixels, respect the layers and major in the gradients. Tutorials? There’s a universe of them online. Watch, learn, execute, repeat.
3. If you aren’t a graphic artist, and not happy with your resuts, use AI to generate graphics.
You’re not an artist? Good news. Now you don’t have to be. And you don’t even have to hire one, unless you just want to. Try using some of the internets best AI tools to generate your images. This can be using OpenAI, or even generators like Fotor. Lots of software has image generators built in now too, so if you already have graphic software, check to make sure they didn’t add AI generated images in a recent update. They may have!
4. Set Up Shop: Know the Market, Know Your Worth
Choose an online platform that reverberates with your audience. Etsy is a popular e-commerce hub for anything crafty and creative. Alternatively, go solo, design your website, and strategize your SEO game. Pricing? Make it fair, make it appealing. Consider the time spent, creativity expended and the customer’s perceived value.
5. Market Like a Maverick: A Field of Dreams Approach Might Not Cut It
“When you build it, they will come” doesn’t always work, so shout from the digital rooftops. Utilize social media, blogging, significant others (kidding, maybe) and anything that gets the eyes on your shop. Sell with authenticity and charm.
6. Customer-Designer Love Affair: The Financially Rewarding Kind
Finally, remember — business isn’t always about transactions. Build meaningful relationships with your customers. Be responsive to concerns and queries, revamp designs if constructive criticism paves the way, and remember to appreciate the love and support. Happy customers create more business.
Wrap Up: A Kaleidoscope of Creativity and Cash
So there you have it — a bulletproof idea springboard to generate passive income by selling digital printables online.
Remember, every online empire starts with a single click — may this blog post inspire yours.
Happy designing, friends!
Thank you for reading!
Until next time….
Onward and Upward Everybody!
-Chris
Automated Income Lifesyle w/ Chris Morton
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