How to Make Money by Selling Canva Templates

Canva is a free-to-use graphic designing tool for beginners as well as advanced graphic designers. Canva makes designing so simple and quick that can be better than Photoshop.

Getting Started: Make Money by Selling Canva Templates

You can use Canva’s existing templates to create your own templates. You don’t have to be super creative, you don’t require prior design skills, all you need is to shuffle elements, add new elements, change color and fonts, etc.

Canva offers a lot of elements to make really good templates. You have all tools in one place. The drag and drop feature makes it very good for beginners as well as advanced designers.

You can create one template and from that template you can create multiple templates just by changing the color palette, font style, adding various elements, etc.

Step-By-Step Process: Make Money by Selling Canva Templates

Creating Templates on Canva

Choose your template idea as your starting point.  Canva offers various templates such as posters, flyers, banners, social media posts, etc. Choose the template that you are familiar with. For example, if you are a YouTuber choose a template that will be appropriate for a Youtube thumbnail. If you use Pinterest, choose the template that goes well with Pinterest. If you are doing Instagram stories, choose the templates that are fit for Instagram stories.

Selling Canva Template on Etsy

Once your work is complete, you can start selling on the marketplace. I recommend Etsy. If you do not already have an audience, you will find an audience waiting for your product on Etsy. It is a very popular platform for digital products sellers.

Before you can list your template, do some research and try to find what people are searching on Etsy. For instance, if you have created an Instagram, template, check how many people are searching for Instagram templates on Etsy. How many people are engaging on the listing that matches your search queries? This will help you know whether the product you have created has demand or not

Check your competitor by checking the listing, and the reviews for the product. Take note of everything related to the listing such as the price of the product, number of sales, etc.

New sellers might find the market to be very competitive. However, you can stand out from the competition by offering better products. For example, you can resize your template and shift elements, and create a different template. If you are trying to sell an Instagram feed template, you can resize it into an Instagram story template.

You can create a bundle, for instance, you can give Youtube thumbnail template along with Instagram feed templates and Instagram stories templates.  

How to sell when you have zero reviews on your shop?

Here is a simple answer

Run a grand opening sales, offer huge discount. If you have the budget, run ads. Your listing will gain visibility quickly.

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