5 Popular Digital Products That Bloggers Can Sell

Most people start blogging with the idea of making money.

And Google AdSense and affiliate marketing are two of the most common and popular ways of monetizing blogs.

But the problem is that both these ways can take a lot of time before they actually start generating good money. Therefore many bloggers find alternative ways of making money online. A very good way of doing that is to sell your own digital products.

The best thing about selling digital goods on your website is that it’s cost-effective and you can have great profits too. Because unlike selling physical products, you don’t have to invest in the packaging or shipping of your goods in the case of digital items.

You just need to invest in creating your products, and you’re all set to start selling it and making money by letting people download it from your website.

Not sure what to sell? Here a few good ideas that you can steal.

1. Online Courses

Online courses have recently gained huge popularity. People love learning new things and online courses give them a new learning opportunity right from the comforts of their homes.

Most people prefer learning things online because of two reasons. Firstly, it’s easily accessible. Secondly, it’s cost-effective. Also, it’s easier for working professionals to attend these courses at their own convenient time.

Your courses don’t have to be anything related to academics. It can be about gardening, cooking, blogging, knitting, language courses, or anything that’s related to your blog. If you have a blog on mutual funds, you can create a course related to that too.

You can then use the same course to lead your customers to other products on your blog. You can charge for your course on a subscription basis or a one-time basis, depending on your preference. You can even offer the course for free and then charge for the certificate if you want.

If you’re not sure how to create an online course, don’t worry.

Products like MemberPress can make it easy for you to create a course without any coding. And with this plugin in hand, you can have your online course ready with just a few clicks.

It lets you build your courses visually with modern styling. Using its course addon, you can have a simple menu item where you can access all of your courses. It also lets you add new courses and edit existing ones easily. With a lot more features, MemberPress is one of the best plugins to create your online courses.

2. eBooks

If you think eBooks aren’t worth selling on your blog, pause for a while and think about the blockbuster sci-fi film The Martian starring Matt Damon. This story was actually from a self-published novel by Andy Weir, that was sold on Amazon Kindle for 99 cents a copy. Soon it became a best-seller, and Hollywood took notice. The rest is known already.

If you, too, have a compelling story, why not be the next Andy Weir. Jokes aside, eBooks can truly be an amazing digital product that can help bloggers make good money.

eBooks sell for a number of reasons. Firstly, unlike physical books, people can read their eBooks on their mobile phones. This means it can be easily carried anywhere they go. Also, it’s easily accessible, and the content is easily shareable too.

These reasons are strong enough to convince your audience to buy your eBook provided you have helpful content in it for your readers.

3. Cheatsheets


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Cheatsheets are another amazing digital product that you can start selling on your blog. They are extremely popular amongst marketers because they make sure you never miss a step when you’re working on a task. It helps improve efficiency and boosts productivity too.

Most digital marketers or even other professionals love using cheatsheets because of how time-effective they are.

But it’s not important that your cheatsheet is related to marketing only. It can be about other things, too, like gardening, painting, makeup, or anything you can think of.

You can create a cheatsheet for content ideas for blog posts, ideal character count for various marketing platforms, blogger outreach checklist, etc. You can also create one for SEO, inbound marketing, or anything complementing your blog niche.

4. Infographics

The human brain processes visual content much better than written content. So by including infographics and images, you can improve the effectiveness of your content to a great extent.

It will not only make your content more processable but will also make it more engaging for your audience.


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But not everyone can create good infographics that look professional. If you’re someone who can create neat and efficient infographics, then why not use them to make some money.

Bloggers and marketers are constantly in search of good infographics for their blogs and websites. And because they aren’t that great at creating them, most of them won’t mind buying some great infographics.

5. Audiobooks

Just like eBooks, audiobooks are gaining huge popularity amongst its users. People can listen to them on their iPods or mobile devices while they are traveling, working out, or simply resting.

And just like eBooks, audiobooks are easy to carry and store. Besides, listening to audiobooks has great benefits. It improves people’s reading speed, helps learn correct pronunciations, expands vocabulary, fluency, and a lot more.

That’s the reason why more and more people are buying audiobooks over physical books in recent times.

If you can create audio files, why not create an audiobook and sell it on your blog? You can choose any topic that you’re good at. Just make sure it helps people learn something new and helps them solve their problems. If you can do that, selling your book won’t take much time.

Since you’re selling your digital products online, you can reach out to a wider audience without worrying about any barrier. Also, digital products never go out of stock. You can simply create your products once and resell them over and over again.

You don’t have to worry about their packaging or delivery because of how easy it is to manage, sell, and deliver them. More than that, it’s the way to the future.

The internet is a growing market. And with the advancing technology, the popularity of digital products is increasing too. So why not use it to your advantage to make some money. By selling your digital products now, you can stay ahead of the competition that’s probably going to be cutthroat very soon in the digital world.

Syed Balkhi is an award-winning entrepreneur and online marketing expert. He is the co-founder of OptinMonster, WPBeginner, MonsterInsights, and WPForms.

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