As most businesses are closed, it is best to move online as online businesses don't really require any face-to-face communication. All you have to do is post the product you’re selling on a website or on social media and tadaa, you have customers.
Thank God for the internet, am I right? With the internet, everything is now online which means there are tons of digital products that can also be sold.
Digital products are, I would say, easier to sell compared to actual products. They are intangible assets or pieces of media that can be sold and distributed repeatedly online without the need to replenish inventory. These products often come in the form of downloadable or streamable digital files, such as MP3s, PDFs, videos, plug-ins, and templates.
There are no shipping charges, no inventory and your products will be delivered immediately!
Here are some of the best digital products to sell online:
1. Printables
If you are really good at creating cute or pretty designs, then you should start designing printables like agendas, schedules, artwork, scrapbooking/journaling assets, planners, business cards, or even printables for kids like games, puzzles or even something as simple as ABC flashcards or colouring books.
On the other hand, if you’re good at writing then maybe you could create some document templates for people who aren’t really got at that. Maybe you can start by making resumes for people and then expand to more stuff.
2. Social Media Posts Templates
People love making their social media posts and stories look good. While some of us are naturally artistically gifted, the rest of us aren’t. So, most of the time, the rest of us will go hunting for templates online.
So, if you’re one of these gifted people then do the rest of us a huge favour and start creating pretty templates for us to post on social media. Some of us may have lied on our resume saying that we can create social media content, so your services will come in handy for us at work.
3. Photography
You and I both know that I did not take that photo on my own, I got it online. So, if you are an amateur or even professional photographer with SD cards full of photos you took for fun, then this is a sign from the universe, you need to start selling them.
Many sites such as iStockphoto, buy images from people just like you. If you don’t want to just sell your photos digitally then you could always step out of the digital box and print out your photos on canvases or t-shirts and sell them that way.
4. Photo Editing Presets
Also, quite related to photography, selling presets mean that you sell like customized Lightroom or Photoshop or VSCO filters for people to apply to their photos.
All you have to do is experiment a little on one of your photos with one of these apps until your photo looks really good, the save that edit, give it a cool name and you can sell that filter. Super simple!
Here is a short guide you can follow.
5. Digital Templates
Anyone with a computer can now pretend to be a graphic designer or some sort, the smart ones even sell some of their services online to various businesses. So, if you know a little but about designing a logo or designing some phone wallpapers then you should definitely sell them.
Besides logos and phone wallpapers you could also sell stickers, fonts, illustrations, infographic designs, animations and so on.
6. Music
So, to do this you have to know how to play at least one musical instrument la, of course. Then all you need to do is just maybe create intros for videos or even some background music and sell them online.
If you prefer to create actual songs with lyrics and so on then go ahead, get your band together and sing your hearts out.
7. Video Editing
As video content is in high demand at the moment with all the new and rising TikTokers and Youtubers, anyone who is comfortable with video editing will definitely do well. Look out for ads online looking for video editors and apply as much as you can!
If you don’t like editing long videos for others then how about creating video intros, stock videos or even making short professionally edited videos for birthday parties or weddings.
