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Before we delve into these digital product ideas, keep in mind that the best digital products are ones which solve a specific problem for your audience or help them to achieve a goal.
So try to spend a few minutes getting into the mind of your ideal reader and understanding what you can help them with. If you’re not sure, take to social media and ask!
Also, think back over your journey to where you are now.
For example, if you blog about solo travel, think about how you felt before you planned your first trip. What worried you? What held you back? Was it finances? Confidence? Misconceptions? Security?
If you blog about parenting twins, how did you feel when you found out you were expecting twins? What did you find hard during that first few years?
Once you understand your ideal reader avatar, selling the right digital product idea will be much easier.
It’s also worth keeping in mind that the sorts of digital product ideas which can be priced a little higher include anything which
- Helps someone financially
- Helps improve someone’s health
- Helps improve someone’s relationships
Health, wealth and relationships are considered the ‘big 3’ in terms of pricing products as people will generally be willing to spend more to achieve improvements in those areas of their lives.
Okay, let’s get started with some more ideas for digital products that you can create in a few hours…
#1 – A Planner
Planners are great digital product ideas for virtually any niche because they help people to achieve goals and complete projects. There’s something about writing down your goal inside a planner which makes it much more likely to happen.
Examples: garden planner, new baby planner, RTW trip planner, home renovation planner, meal planner…
You can create a printable planner very quickly inside a design tool like Canva. You can either download it in PDF form and make it a printable planner or you can make it fillable digitally using a free tool like PDF Escape.
Your other option is that you create a digital planner using a free organization tool like Airtable. No design skills are required.
Before you create your planner, spend some time looking at similar planners on Etsy to see what sort of pages they include. Ask yourself if there is anything missing which you could add to yours.
You might also want to narrow your niche slightly. Look at the ‘big 3’ topics and see if you can link back to any of those.
For example, a new baby planner could become a ‘baby on a budget planner’
The meal planner could be a ‘healthy gut meal planner for people with intolerances.’
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#2 – A Journal
Journals can be popular in virtually every niche where someone is working towards a goal or completing a project.
They are nice to reflect on later down the road but they can also help to keep people accountable at the time.
Journals are super easy to create using Canva. All you need to do is think of some prompts to get your customers reflecting effectively.
If you use a pre-done template and adapt it to your niche, you are probably talking about 30 minutes of work – or less!
You are a little limited by how much you can charge for journals but considering they’ll take you like, a few minutes to create, I certainly wouldn’t let that stop you!
Pro Tip | To create a 3D mockup image of your journal, planner, workbook or ebook, using Adazing. You get one type of mockup for free but you can create as many versions of that style as you like! You just upload a screenshot of your front page and they’ll do the rest!
#3 – A Database.
This one might not work for every niche but can be a quick one to create and can be very appealing to the right audience.
If you have collated a list that you know people would pay money to get their hands on then that’s the perfect content to create a database with.
For example, if you have a blog about getting work in the fashion industry, you could create a database of companies that offer fashion internships and details on how to apply.
Perhaps you are in the sustainability niche and could create a database of sustainable product swaps and where to purchase them?
You could use any spreadsheet tool to create this. I’d recommend Airtable (because it offers so much more than simple spreadsheets) but a tool like Google Sheets or Excel could work too.
If you have a spreadsheet created for your own use then you could have this ready to sell in minutes! If not, it might take you a few hours to put together, max.
#4 – A Template
Just like you are short of time, so is everyone else. This is why templates can be so appealing because they not only help someone to create something better than they would manage themselves but they also make the project much faster! This makes them great digital product ideas!
So if you are creative and have some design skills, consider creating templates.
You can create Canva templates but keep in mind that to sell a template that someone can use and edit requires you to have Canva Pro. You can get a free 30-day Canva Pro trial here.
For example, you could create Canva templates to create wedding invites if you are in the wedding niche. Or if you are in the business niche, it could be a CV template.
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#5 – Lightroom Presets
Are you good at editing photos? In which case, save your Lightroom presets and then sell them. This is particularly lucrative if you have a large Instagram following who may want to imitate your photography style.
If you sell bundles of Lightroom presets, you can charge a significant amount. Usually between $30-100 though I’d say the sweet spot is <$50.
Chances are you already have these presets saved for your own use? In which case, consider spending an hour or two creating a tutorial to go with them as a bonus which will increase the value. A screen share video is easy to create using a tool like Vimeo. I use the free version to be able to download videos.
Whilst Lightroom might seem an obvious choice for photography bloggers to create, they can also be used in other niches. For example, travel bloggers can sell presets for types of locations e.g. beaches or mountains. Family photographers could be successful selling newborn photo presets.
So hopefully you are now convinced that you DO have time to create a digital product?!
You do of course have to factor in creating a sales page but luckily for you, I have templates for that too.
I did consider adding an ebook to this list of digital product ideas. Because you can use the content you already have from old blog posts or draft posts that never got published then add a little extra content to freshen it up and tadah – you have an ebook!
Realistically, I think an ebook will take longer than an afternoon to write (which is why it didn’t make the list) but you certainly could create something in a day or two.
Again, you may want to consider using a template so you can get a professional finish in a fraction of the time. All you need to do is focus on writing the content.
Ebooks work for every single niche. In terms of pricing, if you have an ebook featuring one of the ‘big 3’ we talked about earlier (health, wealth & relationships) you can charge a little more. Possibly up to around $50. Anything else and you should probably cap your price below $15.
