Have you been told that in order to make money online you need to start a website of some type? While there are ways to make money from your own website, it’s not actually necessary. You can earn money selling digital products online through social media without ever setting up a website!
Where to Sell without a Website
All the top social media platforms today have options to sell directly from your account without having to link out to a separate website. You can sell through:
- TikTok
- YouTube
TikTok Shop is also a great option, but there are more limitations to what you can sell on their platform. For example, you can’t sell digital products through TikTok Shop. You can still set up a shop for a lot of physical products, which can be highly profitable, but you will have to pay more attention to what you want to sell and how compatible it is with TikTok Shop’s requirements.
While each of the social media platforms listed above may have its own requirements for sellers, it’s worth looking into each to see which one might work best for you.
These 4 companies represent billions of views per month, with the potential to reach an enormous audience you would never encounter otherwise. Why start a website from scratch when you could do it all through your social media account instead?
With all that in mind, here are 10 digital products that work perfectly for selling on social media (in no particular order).
Templates
There are lots of people out there who need help with design. You can snag anyone from a business owner looking for an infographic template to a maid of honor looking for snazzy invites to send out for the bachelorette party.
If you have the skills, you can make graphic templates of your own to sell to your audience. Even if you can’t do your own designs, hire a designer from a site like Upwork and pay them to create designs you can resell to your audience.
Upwork – Hire Freelancers
Find freelancers to create incredible designs for you to sell on social media.
Templates are a powerful way to earn on social media, since they can easily be customized to fit the needs of anyone who buys them. Show off the diversity of each template and how someone can use it for their own success.
Ebooks
Ebooks are some of the best-selling digital products around. Since you can sell each book any number of times without worrying about printing, they’re a low-cost option that’s infinitely scalable.
The best part about selling ebooks is that you don’t even need to write them yourself! Go to a PLR marketplace, find ebooks you want to sell, purchase a license to resell them, and then you’re ready to go.
PLR Hustle is a good place to start. The company has a wide variety of ebooks on different topics, including how to start your own business, fix your credit, or manage your time.
PLR Hustle Ebooks
Ebooks with PLR agreements you can purchase to resell to your audience.
How to Make Passive Income with Airbnb
How to Start Your Own Profitable Online Clothing Boutique
Gluten Free Diet BasicsEbooks sell well on social media, especially if you get your target market right. Knowledge is power. When you can provide your audience with the right knowledge at the right moment, you can both make a sale and build long-lasting trust with your audience.
POD Products
While print-on-demand (POD) products can be physical, they’re entirely digital for you as the seller. You can advertise digital designs on all kinds of different products, which will be automatically printed off and sent to the customer whenever they place an order.
With POD products you have a lot of options on what to sell. You can create your own designs, pay a designer, or purchase pre-made designs to put on your chosen products.
As for your audience, you can target any group of people with shared interests. This could mean targeting a specific niche like a hobby or focusing on a specific type of person to buy. Your goal with POD products is to tap into a large enough market to create a sustainable customer base without trying to out-compete huge brands with a more general focus.
Digital Art
If you’d prefer not to delve into POD products, you can sell digital artwork and designs by themselves for others to use as they wish. Digital art can be anything from practical design elements like vectors or icons to aesthetic artwork.
Artwork like wallpapers, stock images, coloring pages, and printables can all make great products people are willing to pay for. Make sure you match whatever digital art you’re selling to the type of content you want to make on social media.
Social Media Filters
What’s better than selling something that your customers can use immediately? Social media filters work well as digital products, especially on platforms like TikTok or Instagram where people can turn around and use those filters right away for their own content.
Filters can be anything from fun, interesting filters for entertainment or visually stunning, artistic filters. Use your imagination and come up with something you can market well to your audience!
Graphics
Unique graphics are always in demand, especially for anyone working online! You can create simple graphics that people can use for their own businesses or to reach their own audiences.
For graphics, you can sell anything from creative fonts to stream overlays, banners, and simple elements to use around social media. It’s a great way to earn some steady income by empowering your audience to express themselves.
Courses
Got something to share with others? Sell a course to teach valuable skills to your audience! You can sell video courses through social media, making content related to the course and giving people a taste of what they can expect to learn. Start with a single course, then add others if you can find complementary courses that work well together.
Courses can also be resold if you don’t have the time or ability to make them for yourself. You can purchase the rights to courses created by others to resell on your own, making it an effortless product that you just have to market to your audience.
If you can position yourself in the right niche, courses can make a great high ticket sales product as well. You can make a lot more with fewer sales if you can position your account to reach the right audience.
How-to Guides
In a similar move to selling courses, you can sell how-to guides that give actionable steps for people to follow and achieve a set outcome. How-to guides don’t have to be long and drawn-out, as long as they clearly deliver on the title promise.
The work of creating how-to guides can be outsourced to freelancers if you don’t want to do it yourself. Make sure you give specific guidance to your freelancers so they can create the exact guide you’re looking to sell to your audience.
What kind of how-to guides do well online? Look for a less competitive niche that’s based around a teachable skill. Since guides can be highly specific, you can base them on needs your audience has expressed or on unfulfilled requests people have made on platforms like Reddit.
Stock Media (Images, Videos)
Stock imagery is an important part of making content today. People from all walks of life use stock imagery, both videos and pictures, to create websites, social media content, and more. While there are some free stock media sources, many people would prefer to pay for stock imagery to avoid any issues with copyright or repetitiveness.
High-quality photos, generic graphics, and vectors are all useful elements to sell to your audience. You can sell them in package deals or individually, depending on what your audience wants.
Stock videos also work well for social media sales, since people need good visual content to put in the background of voiceover videos. The best stock videos are those that are either general enough to fit a multitude of situations or narrowly suited to a specific niche.
Stock media can be incredibly niche, helping you build yourself up as an authority in that niche, or it can be general. Either way, it’s a great opportunity for you!
Audio
Just like stock videos or images, audio sound clips and music can be great digital products to sell through social media! If you can make original audio, or hire someone to make original audio, you can reach a market of people who need to use copyright-safe sounds for themselves.
Which digital products do you think you could sell from your social media accounts? Mix and match until you find the right combination to earn a solid income straight from social media!
