Do you want to learn how to sell Canva templates? Looking to know how to make money selling Canva templates? You can start creating Canva templates to sell and make money
Do you want to learn how to sell Canva templates?
Looking to know how to make money selling Canva templates?
You can start creating Canva templates to sell and make money all from your home – and never have to ship a thing.
Creating Canva templates can be a great way to make extra money because you just need to create them once, and you can sell them an unlimited amount of times.
Today, I have a fun interview to share with you. I interviewed a reader of Making Sense of Cents, Maliha, on how to sell Canva templates.
Working just a few hours a week, Maliha is able to earn $2,000 each month from selling Canva templates online.
Are you wondering questions such as:
- What exactly is a Canva template? What is Canva?
- Can I sell Canva templates?
- How do I sell my designs on Canva?
- Who buys Canva templates?
- How can I learn how to make templates to sell?
- Can someone with no tech skills make a Canva template?
Today’s interview will help you get started and perhaps even introduce you to a new way to make extra income.
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How To Sell Canva Templates
1. Please give us a little background on yourself and how you got started selling Canva templates.
Everything started with my blog. A few years ago things took a turn for the unknown. I was lost and stressed out and feeling like a failure. A lot of realizations hit at once. Realizations like…
- A college degree isn’t always enough to land the dream job.
- Jobs aren’t permanent.
- Dream jobs don’t always pay enough.
- Dream jobs sometimes turn out to be not what you expected at all.
- Etc.
I won’t go into the gory details, but let’s just say that I was in a dark place. I needed to make money, so I did whatever I could. I freelanced as a web developer a skill I had taught myself back in college out of curiosity (who knew one day it’d pay my bills!). I also worked as a virtual assistant on and off. During that time, thanks to a lot of blogger clients, I was also learning about blogging, affiliate marketing, and passive income in general.
They got me thinking if I could start a blog of my own too! After all, I always loved reading, and what reader doesn’t dream of becoming a writer at least once in their life? So, in June of 2018, my blog — The Side Blogger was born.
At first, I spent an obscene amount of time trying to create fancy graphics for my blog and social channels with Photoshop and InDesign. It was a rather tedious business. My background is in engineering. And while I have always had a great appreciation for visual design, learning Photoshop or InDesign was a whole different ballgame. But then, thanks to some virtual assistant friends of mine, I found Canva — the online graphic design app.
At first, I fell in love with the app for its ease of use. But it was just so damn fun that soon I was designing graphics just for the heck of it. Really, I was treating it as a stress-relief mechanism. I must have been doing something right because one day, totally out of the blue, I got an email from Canva.
We love your work and would love to have you on board as a Canva Certified Creative and brand ambassador! — I paraphrased but that was essentially the message.
Needless to say that I was ecstatic.
As I kept designing more and more graphics with Canva for my blog, I started getting emails from random readers inquiring about my graphic design services.
That, along with the fact that one of my newsletter opt-in freebies — a media kit template for bloggers made with Canva — garnered a lot of attention, I knew I had an opportunity there. So, around January of 2019, I set up my first Canva template shop.
I started small. I set up a WooCommerce shop on my blog and listed my first five Canva templates. A couple of media kit templates, and some social media template bundles. A few months in I was designing templates for eBooks, workbooks, presentations, planners, and more.
I also set up shops on third-party marketplaces to generate more revenue.
A little over a year later, in 2020, I made my first $1,000 in profit! Oh, and by the way, I was doing all of this on the side!
Working no more than a few hours a week to design templates and promote my products.
2. How much do you earn monthly from selling Canva templates?
When I first set up my shop, I treated it as a hobby-hustle. I didn’t promote my products hard enough and depended solely on the blog traffic. Mind you, my blog was less than a year old at that time, and I maybe got a hundred visitors a day, if it was a good day.
And I was happy with that. I remember the day I made my first hundred bucks from selling Canva templates, and I gave myself an imaginary pat in the back, thinking I could treat myself to a fancy dinner or something.
But as more and more sales started to come in, I realized I had stumbled upon something with great potential. That’s when I decided to be serious about this business.
And now, two years after setting up my shop, I’m making $2,000+ per month on average.
Still working just a few hours a week!
3. What is a Canva template? What is Canva?
So, as I had mentioned above, Canva is an online graphic design app. It is free to use, but users can sign up for a pro account that unlocks some pretty fancy features, as well as access to millions of premium stock images and graphic elements.
A Canva template is basically designs made with Canva that can be shared with other Canva users, who can then edit and customize these designs to create something unique.
Users can change a template’s colors, images, fonts, and texts, and make it their own.
It’s a lot like Photoshop or InDesign or even Illustrator templates.
The difference is that while the Adobe products have a steep learning curve, Canva is easy to use, making it much more coveted by people who do not have the know-how of Adobe products or the time to learn how those hard-to-use programs work.
4. What do you like about creating Canva templates?
You see, I have always had a lot of love and appreciation for good design. In college, while I was getting my degree in electrical engineering (which I love, by the way), I would sometimes pour over articles on graphic design and typography. Part of the reason I had taught myself programs like Photoshop and InDesign was so I could create beautiful designs myself.
But I just never had enough time to master those platforms.
But Canva was different.
It’s like when I started using Canva, it made me look like a proficient designer even though I wasn’t. All because the platform is so easy to use. You can select different frames and shapes from their huge library of graphics resources and boom!
You can create something stunning in just minutes — tasks that would have otherwise taken HOURS if you tried doing them with Photoshop or InDesign. I’m not dissing the Adobe products here, I recognize Photoshop and Illustrator and InDesign are software far more superior than Canva. But my point is that not everyone has the time to learn those platforms, or the resources to hire a professional designer.
Canva is perfect for these people. It is perfect for me!
5. How much money can you make selling Canva templates? Can you make money selling templates? Can you make money from Canva?
If I can make over $2,000 per month on average with just about 30 templates in my shop, then the answer is yes, there’s money to be made with this business.
How much you make depends on a lot of factors such as your template quality, usability, relevancy, proper pricing, etc. It also depends on how much time you put into this business. I do this on the side and make about $2,000 per month.
If I were to spend more hours designing more products, I bet I’d make even more money!
One of the questions that I get from my new students is this — Canva already has a huge library of templates. Why would someone pay me for my templates?
The answer is yes, there’s a very good reason why people would still want to buy your templates. That’s because Canva’s template library has a lot of generic templates, and often these are one-off designs.
While they’re high-quality for sure, they’re not always targeted.
For example, let’s say that you want to serve an audience of middle school educators. You can then create specific templates aimed at middle school educators. Or, let’s say your ideal audience is comprised of coaches. Then you can design templates that will help your audience specifically.
You have a unique opportunity here to serve a specific demographic and that is what makes your templates superior to those already in Canva’s template library.
And people will pay you for these high-quality, targeted templates that will suit their interests better.
Are you interested in learning how to make Canva templates to sell?