One way to make money from your blog or existing blogs is by creating digital products. This post gives you five ideas for products that are easy to create and can fit the theme of pretty much any blog. Here are my five digital product ideas for bloggers.

Creating digital products to sell on your blog might seem overwhelming to begin with, but it doesn’t have to be.

There are loads of options for digital products that require little to no design skills. All you need to do is take the information you have on your blog and make it look pretty. You can do this using a design program such as Canva, which is full of design templates and colour palettes.

You don’t even need to Pro version of Canva to be able to do this, so there’s no need to spend any money when creating your digital product.

What Is A Digital Product?

A digital product usually (but not always) comes in the form of a printable or downloadable. For bloggers who want to sell digital products, that could be anything from a meal planner to a full digital course on how to blog.

There are other options too, such as ebooks.

5 Digital Product Ideas For Bloggers

Need some ideas to get you started? Here are five digital product ideas for bloggers that will work with your blog, no matter what your niche is or how long you’ve been blogging for.

Digital Product Ideas: Meal plans and shopping lists

If you blog about food and love creating recipes, selling meal plans is a great way to add an extra income stream to your online business.

You could choose to give a sample meal plan as a freebie or an opt-in to get your existing readers on and social media your email list.

Next, you can send out an email newsletter each week mentioning your amazing meal plans and how much time and money they are saving everyone who has signed up for them. Back this up with testimonials from existing customers.

Google Docs is one place you could create your meal plans or if you want to be more creative you can design them in Canva. Canva has loads of templates that can be used to create meal plans, grocery lists, shopping lists and much, much more.

To get ideas for what to put in your meal plans, use Google Analytics to take a look at your most popular posts. Do people love your slow cooker recipes? Then create a slow cooker meal plan! Do you have lots of slimming world content – make a meal plan for those on a slimming world diet.

The more you cater to what people already love, the more likely they will be to buy your product.

If you have a Facebook group, you could ask your readers exactly what they’re looking for in a meal plan. This could also give you the opportunity to scale up your business, adding bundles of meal plans with a discount, or offering weekly or monthly subscriptions.

Cheat sheets and PDFs.

Everyone loves PDFs! Whether it’s a cheat sheet about frugal living, cooking times for the instant pot or something else entirely, these do really well on Pinterest.

The best way to start with this one is to find some of your most popular posts using Google Analytics. Setting the time frame to a year allows you to see any trends or patterns and then use this to plan cheat sheets and other digital products.

Once you’ve found your top ten posts, are there any that match up?

If you have posts that are in the same category, you may be able to create a cheat sheet that you use as an opt-in for multiple posts saving you time and effort.

When people start opting into your mailing list for the freebie product, then you can start to upsell via email newsletters. Think about different times of year and what people need help with during that season. Upsell again with bundles for a discounted price or additional free products such as buy two get one free.

Digital Product Ideas For Bloggers: Monthly Membership

Could you create a montly membership for your blog? If you’re a freelancer then there’s nothing better then having money coming in consitiently each month.

There are lots of diffrent ways to approach creating a monthly membership for your blog. The main things to consider is how much value you are providing, as you want people to keep coming back each month and not cancelling the membership.

Insider information that you don’t share publicly is often the key here. This could be anything from new and exlusive recipes to group business coaching.

People will be signing up to your membership because they like you and your content so remember to keep interacting within your members and offer ways to get to know you such as Q&A sessions and exlusive video content.

PRO TIP: With a membership, you need to present, even when life gets in the way. Preparing content well ahead of time can really help with this. Or create a few extras which can be used in an emergency. If you promise exclusive content on a certain date each month, then you need to provide that.

Related Posts

How Much Do Bloggers Get Paid For Sponsored Posts

8 Ways Food Bloggers Make Money

How Do Travel Bloggers Make Money?

Mini Courses

While the idea of creating a course might sound daunting, it really desn’t have to be.

There might be lots of things that you have a vast knowledge on without even realising it. And there are plenty of people that would pay for to share that knowledge with them, especially if you are sucesful in your chosen are.

Once again you could take a look at your top posts for inspiration. You could also use your own experience, for example, if youve had a book published you could run a mini course about that. If you’re a food blogger with amazing photograpghy skills, you could create course around that.

Don’t worry if your topic has been taught before, your readers will be looking for your own unique take on things. They aren’t even paying for the information, really. They’re paying to be taught by you, becaus the like you and enjoy your style and your posts.

Try not to feel guilty about charging for your knowledge either. So many content creators spend a lot of time creating and putting information out there for free, it’s okay to charge for skills sometimes too!

Full Courses

Once you have a few mini courses under your belt, it could time to transition into a full course. This could be combination of your other courses all brought together under one umbrella or an entirely new course.

When people buy a course, they are usually looking to solve a problem or learn a skill. Take a look through your blog and social media to see how you do this for your readers and think about how this might translate into a full course.

Rememember that different people work in different ways, so your course should provide a combination of both video and audio content. You’ll also need to think about things like whether you allow lifetime acess to the course once people have purchased and how often the course will be updated.

Creating a course can be a great source of passive income, as once you’ve created it and the work is done, it can keep providing you with income for a number of years. You can also offer discounts and affiates for your course to increase sales as time goes on.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this digital prodcut ideas for blogger and that they’ve given some inspiration to start creating something for your own blog or business.