How To Make money By Selling Digital Products Online

This post would teach you to make money by selling digital products online so that you could make a profitable online income with it.

The internet has real earning opportunities, and several people are making a six-figure income with legitimate online jobs. I would say that a person needs passion and particular skills to make money online. Yes, small knowledgeable persons could make only a few cents even they work round the clock.Β 

I am not discouraging you in earning online money, but I suggest you to develop your specific skills to make huge cash.

Make Money by Selling Digital Products

Selling digital products online is the best work at home opportunity, and even large corporations are looking for the designers and developers to create and market the digital products.

So could you make a profitable online income by developing your skills related to this field. Let me start explaining the process of earning money with digital products with essential details.

What Is AΒ Digital Product?

A digital product is an imperceptible product so that you cannot touch or hold it. Software, apps, ebooks, videos, photos and tutorials are some best-selling digital products. If you created these types of products one time, you could sell at several times.

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If you have adequate familiarity with a particular area, you could show your proficiency through an Ebook. Having immense knowledge in teaching or training classes might let you generate concise tutorials, and if you’re software professional, you could build apps and software. But before creating and selling the digital products, have these necessities in mind.

1. Need/demand your digital product.

2. Ways to reach the targeted audience.

3. Tools to create the digital products.

4. Various marketing methods.

Benefits of Selling Digital Products

Selling digital products has a lot of advantages like

1. Cheap and easy to create.

2. Instant delivery without stocking and shipping process.

3. Less competition for good profit.

4. Run as an automated business.

5. Possible to get worldwide customers.

Helpful Tools To Create Digital Products

Some handy tools to develop the digital products are

1. Google docs to build document-based products like e-courses.

2. Camtasia to create tutorials and videos of your screen.

3. WordPress and Bluehost to create the sales page and web hosting for it.

4. Dropbox to upload video/audio content to share and access from anywhere.

5. Mailchimp to make your email course.

6. Pixabay to get free graphics to your product.

7. PicMonkey/Pixlr for editing the images.

8. Buddypress to integrate your WordPress site with social networks.

I hope, now you acquired some basic information about digital products and benefits of selling them.

How To Sell Digital Products Online?

There are two distinct methods with which you could sell digital goods online.

1. Selling Individually

Selling digital products individually by creating an online shop with a payment option is a respectable technique but efforts to be taken to get the profitable sales. For this, you have to figure out the sales process by consolidating requisites in one place.

Begin the selling process

To start the sale process,

* Create a sales page by adding relevant headline and some text to inspire the visitors. Include attractive graphics and references to it.

* After finish creating the sales page, choose any of the following services to deliver your digital product and to collect payment.

1. Payloadz

2. Sellfy

3. E-junkie

4. Pulleyapp

* Add β€œBuy now” button on your sales page by getting a code from the selected service to redirect the buyers to know your payment options and to deliver the product. Once you’ve done creating the landing page, promote your digital products to reach a wider audience.

Best Ways To Promote Your Digital Products

To reach maximum visitors, it is good to promote your digital product through various ways. If no one knows about your online product, then who’ll buy it?

So, the interested audience requires to be targeted in digital product selling, and your marketing efforts will need to attract them as they unaware of your products. Some worthy places to promote your product are

Social Networks

Build profile on various social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+, interact with others and make them follow you by giving exact reasons. Form a community and don’t use the social platforms purely for marketing.

Facebook and PPC Advertising

With Facebook advertising, you could reach the interested people in your offering. Having an optimized launch campaign and doing keyword research would let you get quality visitors through PPC advertising.

Industry-relevant websites

As the bloggers and marketers are approaching the marketplace to buy advertisements, you can use Buysellads to advertise your ads to fascinate more visitors. It improves your branding and credibility in selling the digital products.

Reach Relevant Blogs

If your digital product exactly matches with the audience of some particular blogs, you may reach them to get featured through their blog post. In another way, send a free copy of your digital product to the blog owners to try and ask them to review about the same to capture the attention of like-minded people.

Get Affiliates

Your digital product with enough details could be enlisted in the affiliate network websites like Clickbank and let the affiliates do marketing for your product.

Build Brand Name

If you deeply look into the successful digital products, they have a brand name behind them. So it is important to create trust and authority within the industry to make lucrative sales of your digital goods. The more you gain reliability for your worthy product, the more buyers you’ll get.

2. Using Marketplaces

An alternative method of selling digital downloads is to enlist them in Envato’s sites. As these marketplaces have the broad base of daily visiting consumers, you don’t have to take much effort to market your product.

It is the primary benefit of using the marketplace to sell digital products, and you could reach a wider audience here. But the major downside of using these markets is that you need to give up a significant part of your income to them.

Both methods haveΒ its own pros and cons and it is virtuous to choose the best suitable method to sell your digital products conveniently.

Conclusion

Creating own digital products and selling them on the internet is an ideal online money making opportunity. But effective internet marketing techniques need to be followed to get endless sales. So, before launching your digital product, it would be good to set up some healthy marketing methods to turn it as a profitable product.

Even if you’re not a talented developer of digital goods, there are so many resources on the internet which would help you to shape your skills. As I decided to get into the Affiliate marketing deeply, I am focusing my learning about digital products and this pushed me to write this blog post.

What is your opinion on making money by selling digital products? Do you have any previous experience in selling products online? Share your views through comments.Β 


38 thoughts on “How To Make money By Selling Digital Products Online”

  1. Hi Nirmala
    Great post with wonderful tips.
    Just add another platform to sell your digital products; selz dot com.
    Once again thanks a lot for sharing such awesome post.
    Stay blessed.

  2. Thanks for sharing, these websites are new to me. however, i think you missed amazon kindle allow to publish own eBook

  3. Thanks for mentioning me Nirmala but I am definitely not a great in this field.

    Contrary to your point #3 (3. Less competition with good profit.), this is a highly competitive field and the profit is really big.

    I have been tasting some success as an infopreneur and I immensely like this internet business. I develop my own info products and sell individually and I also buy and sell info products. I join as an affiliate of lucrative affiliate network sites and sell info products for up to 100% commission.

    Nirmala has covered most of the points to become an infopreneur. Some of the resources she mentioned are not known to majority of the newbie online entrepreneurs. You should thank for that.

    The money in this field is very good but one must try it out for a few years to earn the experience without which, it is not possible to see the first American dollar.

    1. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, point of views and appreciation Badri Sir πŸ™‚

      Saying “Am not definitely great” shows your gentleness but I would say that you’ve explained me the concepts of selling digital products online well through phone πŸ™‚

      You’re my great resource sir, need your support and guidance forever πŸ˜›

  4. There is another option, I mean lots of options. You can sell digital products or furnitures online. But I guess, digital is the most search since it is not just for communication, thorough text messages, but you can use this as a help in your marketing business using applications and downloading eBooks and a lot more.

    Nice share!

    Your post has been shared on Kingged.com, IM social bookmarking site, enabling me to find this good piece.

    1. First I wanna thank you for leaving your good comment Metz and am happy to know that my post got shared on Kingged.com.

      Am getting visitors from this social bookmarking sites and am trying to spend some quality time over there.

      Yeah, there are lot of ways with which your could sell your own digital products online.

      Keep leaving your worthy comments here πŸ˜€

  5. A comprehensive guide about selling digital products online. For many, digital products creation and their marketing is like rocket science for many people.

    Thankfully, this post has demystified the process, and I am sure many would now consider the selling of digital products to make money online.

    One of the takeaways of this post is that listing of tools that would help to create digital products.

    I have left this comment in the content syndicatioon and social bookmarking website for Internet marketers – kingged.com where this post was shared.

    Sunday – kingged.com contributor

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    1. I am pleased with your comment and many thanks for sharing my post in remarkable places, am driving visitors from there πŸ˜›

      Also, thanks for your appreciation for this post. I have been learning so many stuffs to do something on my own and I shared what I’ve learned πŸ™‚

      Seriously am looking to spend some quality time in Kingged.com to read the blog posts listed there, will start doing it soon.

      Thank you so much for commenting with care Sunday, keep visiting here to share your thoughts for my readers πŸ™‚

  6. Indeed selling digital products will surely get lot of profits. I’ve been thinking to create more products in future. Also selling affiliate digital products are also good idea.

    Thanks

  7. Hello Mam,

    first time i visit here and feel pleasant. I was unaware from this way of online earning.
    Thanks for the information and keep sharing such kind of creative articles for us.

  8. This is quite interesting article Nirmala mam
    Another method of online making money.
    I just love this method.
    Thank you πŸ™‚

  9. Great post Nirmala. You have mentioned all the possible ways to sell digital products. I was just browsing evanto’s site “themeforest” as I wanted to purchase a theme for one of my friend’s blog. Very nice site that is. Thanks for the post Nirmala.

  10. Good post Nirmala, Selling digital products online is promoting and profitable and the marketplaces you have mentioned make the work easier for sellers.

  11. As i read this article, i find it very informative. it is a nice one because it deals with an interesting ideas and information. I like it so much as from the first time i read it, the information that are used here attracted me a lot. They take my attention from the first look, so thanks so much for sharing with us this great topic in this great website. You are doing a great work here. I must say you’ve done a wonderful job by sharing your article with us. It took more time for me to read it fully, But it’s worth it Really.

  12. Hello,

    The first benefit of selling digital products is not need any physical delivery and hence every can be done at computer screen only. We can earn lot of money if the product is digital.

    Thanks

  13. Yeah, you are taking about traditional selling method and I’ve listed the ways to sell digital products online.

    Am happy that you’ve learned a new stuff through my blog post, keep visiting here πŸ™‚

  14. It s an awesome article covering all most all detail. In my opinion people should concentrate more on affiliate program then adsense. Because affiliate program can pay more.
    and if we talk about digital product, in these days there is trend of buying books and software etc, With little effort and effective marketing techniques we can earn a lot.

  15. Selling digital products is always a great idea but these get sold only if they have a great and exceptional quality as there are numerous options available online.

  16. You can sell the product effectively if you have the plan expertise well in real market and that will help to get your product overseas with Internet and great tools you listed here. πŸ˜€

  17. Hey Nirmala !

    Good one ! Yes, we can make lot of $$$ digitally . Also, digital products are of great value and it is easy to make money putting some pure effort. Thanks for sharing these cool tips πŸ™‚

    And yes, Digihawker is indeed an awesome ebook guide on digital marketing. Strongly recommended ! πŸ™‚

    Take a look my review about it : http://bit.ly/1hyjWCh

  18. Hi Nirmala,

    This was a great post that covered everything that someone needs from start to finish. The tools you laid out are also some of our favorites, and the number of tools available are growing everyday.

  19. Thank you for a consistent article. To my mind is really a good opportunity for the young and promising starts up to enter the business world if they lack funding themselves

  20. Previously I was using ebay to sell products online to make some buck, but will definitely go to try the site which you have mentioned in the article πŸ˜€

    Thanks for this amazing article

  21. I am gonna to start earning money at home by selling digital products online…I am unaware of this type of work…Thanks for your great post….

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