How To Make Money with Digital Products on Your Blog

One of the easiest ways to make money with a blog is through selling digital products. If properly done, you can begin to earn up to six figure income pretty quickly. You will only invest time and effort in creating the blog and digital products. You will not incur manufacturing costs, shipping fee or having to worry about inventory.

The following steps will show you how to go about create digital products and selling through your blog.

1. Develop the mind of a Digital Product Creator

It is important to understand what creating and selling digital products entail from the very beginning or you may never achieve success.

The first thing you need to have is self-confidence. You need to be confident in your knowledge, skill and experience before sharing it out for others to put to use. Then you need trust that people will willing pay for what you have to offer and they certainly will because people want stuff that offer value that free things that contain nothing.

Free information like most free things are not fully valued and thus not taken seriously. But when people pay for it, they naturally value it more and pay attention to it.

So as not to create doubt and be more confident, it would be better yo choose a niche you know very well, then create digital products that meet a certain burning need.

2. Choose Your Niche or Industry

Your niche or industry will determine what to write on and what products you can sell. Not only that, it will also influence the size of your market and audience profile.

Make sure your chosen field is one you are familiar with and curious to learn about. That way you will be offering something you like and know about. Also, the niche has to be a profitable one otherwise it will all be a waste of time and effort. Some great niches include health, relationships, personal finance, self-improvement, making money online, environment and many other ones.

3. Build Your Story

The internet throws up the opportunity for us to be whoever we want to be but in this business, the best advice you would get is to be yourself and stay true to it. Don’t invent a personality that you would not be able to live up to and never base your business on lies because it would ruin your self-confidence and come back to hurt you in the future.

Make your stories honest as possible. People might begin to be skeptical if your story sounds too good to be true or if you don’t want to show your face or share your name. Be proud of yourself and people will be glad to deal with you.

4. Build Relationships

A great part of selling digital products online involves earning the buyer’s trust. As a digital product seller asking for your readers’ money, it is very crucial that they see you trustworthy.

You need to show that you know your game and live up to all your promises. They want to be assured that your digital product will answer their questions and fulfill their expectations. To do this, you will need to post helpful information free on your blog.

5. Build an Email List

There’s power in the list! You can build an email list of readers who by now trust you or engage with your content. Encourage them to sign up for more helpful content or throw in some freebies to get them to sign up. With their emails, you can always keep in touch with them about new products or any new information that you want to share or sell.

6. Spruce Up Your Blog

To start a blog is easy, but to build it to look professional and convincing enough for Google to rank it higher in SERPs and drawing in more traffic and engagement is the hard work.

Posting helpful and original information on your blog consistently would convince readers and Google that you are authentic. Knowing that this is how to get Google, you need to give them what they want which includes using keywords strategically, backlinking, providing readable content and so on.

7. Get Ideas for Your Digital Products

Now that you’ve are selling digital products through your blog. It makes sense to start getting more ideas for the products themselves. If you want your products to sell faster, then they need to answer immediate needs, to help buyers.

You can make a guess or research on the kind of product that can do that and hope your audience will need them and pay for them, or you can just ask your audience  directly what they need.

8. Choose the Digital Products You Wish to Create

Having determined the needs your digital products meet, the next thing is to figure how to answer those needs. You can create any of the following digital products depending on your skills and experience. They include:

  1. Ebooks

  2. Videos

  3. Audio

  4. Photos

  5. Software

  6. Graphics

  7. Courses

  8. Apps

  9. Services

  10. Reports

In deciding on any of these, keep in mind that internet users of today are drawn to visuals that anything else. So if you create an ebook, ensure you have lots of photos, graphics and illustrations, but do not overdo it.

Creating and selling digital products can be challenging for the first time. You might think you will fail but truthfully digital products are not that hard to create and sell. If you put in the hard work and dedication, you will soon begin to generate serious money from selling digital products on your blog.