How To Make Money Selling Digital Products (Step-by-Step Tutorial)

digital products the best thing you can sell period in this video I'm going to show you exactly how to make money selling your own digital products I've spent Years Learning and building my own digital products business making hundreds of thousands of dollars and I'll show you everything I know this will be a stepbystep tutorial covering everything you need and we'll break it down by chapters this is the only video you'll ever need and by the end you'll have the blueprint we'll cover what digital products are profitable niches and types how to create them easily using

AI the best tools to use placing them for sale on your website how to actually get sales and more this video will teach you more in about 25 minutes than most paid courses out there and it's completely free this is the most up-to-date video about digital products on YouTube and yeah let's get started so the first thing that we should talk about is what actually is a digital product well a digital product is essentially a product you can sell but instead of it being a physical product like this phone or this drink right here it's

something that exists and is delivered electronically so instead of having to you know actually build a product like this you can sell something that costs almost nothing for fulfillment and that's going to be things like PDFs courses memberships digital planners templates ebooks and so on now the great thing is that literally anyone can create a digital product it costs almost nothing to start that's really why it is one of the best things you can actually start selling in 20125 and Beyond it's sort of what they mean when people say making money online is on easy

mode right now and it is because of digital products so we sort of talked about the difference between physical and digital products but let's really compare them first is the cost to build the cost to build a digital product is almost nothing you can use software like canva K typ set to make you really great looking PDFs and things and those are basically free to maybe $230 a month on the other hand physical products this can take literally thousands of dollars to build your first product and the risk is a lot higher because you don't

know if it's going to sell and if you order a lot of a product and it doesn't sell well you're going to lose money the other main difference is the cost to fulfill so obviously with digital products all you sort of need to do is email them the access code or the PDF file or the PNG file whatever it is and so fulfillment is essentially zero whereas of course with physical products you need to actually ship it out you need to handle all the logistics for you know UPS FedEx whatever it is and those are

just two reasons why digital products in my opinion are so much better for beginners to sell complex fulfillment kills so many new physical product businesses that for me I just don't think it's worth it for most people to try to do that if anything just start with digital products so you can learn how everything works and then migrate over to physical products if you really want to do that later on so for me I've sold multiple courses I have a bunch of free our as well I also create a ton of PDFs and templates that

I give out for free right now but if I wanted to I could probably sell them for you guys watching this there is literally an unlimited amount of things you can do with digital products so I just really want to emphasize how insane this type of business model can be there are tons and tons of people making hundreds of thousands of dollars per month doing just this so now to brainstorm some of the different things that you guys can sell essentially it comes down to selling some type of knowledge and the great thing is that

knowledge is everywhere these days you might be thinking okay I can sell something but what if people can go out there and get it for free well yeah all the information in the world is on the web for free the thing is if you package it differently and have an audience that you can actually sell to then this can be a recipe for success and you also might be wondering okay I don't currently have an audience how am I going to actually get sales for my product we'll talk about this in depth later on but

it is completely doable you do not need a big audience instead you can actually have zero audience you can just simply run ads but for most people I think building a small audience is the way to go but yeah we'll talk more about that later on this video so in terms of PDFs there are so many things you can sell you can sell guides on certain industries niches whatever it is literally take the words how to and then end that sentence with something and that can be a PDF there's also courses of course so you

can literally Teach the World any type of thing for example I had a YouTube course teaching people how to start a YouTube channel it's very very likely that you have a skill that you think a lot of people might know but actually they don't and a lot of people are willing to pay for a place to have all this information that's why having a course can be such a great thing the types of courses you can create are infinite so I just encourage you to take out a piece of paper write some ideas down on

things that you like or you are good at and see if you can turn that into some type of course digital planners and templates are another great thing you can create that are pretty easy to make but can actually offer a lot of value to the person that buys it for example some type of daily accountability template you could sell this to people it can help them be a lot more productive in their life and if you sell this at let's say $10 each to ,000 people that's already $10,000 of almost pure profit you can

also have a membership site so this is going to be some type of community that can be paid or free you can have a free community and then just sell your audience inside that Community that's what a lot of people do or you can have some sort of monthly access fee to join that Community we started mentioned templates already but something like a budgeting template that's a really easy one for the finance sector and yeah if you guys just look up what are the best digital products to sell it's going to give you a huge

list we'll put some on the screen right now just so you guys can see but it really is unlimited right you also have ebooks so you can actually write an entire ebook you can use chat GPD to help you write this book and you can sell that as a PDF file I will say though it is very important that you guys stick to one particular Niche don't try to create a business selling all types of digital products especially if they're in different types of Industries that's not going to work and so I definitely want to

emphasize that point stick to one Niche so once you have an idea in mind for what type of digital product you want to sell let's start by building your website because you're going to need a place to actually sell it now there are tons and tons of choices out there I've used pretty much every single platform that there is but I think the most affordable and easiest one to actually get started with is going to be making a website using hostinger they have an AI website builder that allows you to build a website in just

minutes it looks fantastic super professional and it costs like $3 or $4 per month if you guys use my link Down Below in just a second I'll show you exactly how to build this website and how to actually list your product for for sale there are other ways of building an online store like with Shopify but those cost like $30 $40 per month so yeah if you want to save some money I think hostinger is the way to do it so if you click on the link down below it's going to take you to this

exact landing page this is where you're going to get the best deal on hostinger available and I'll also show you how to use code Charlie chain to get an additional 10% off at checkout so what we're going to do is come here and click Start now and they have three different plans the premium the business and the cloud startup for all you guys I think the business plan is going to be the best for this particular use the reason is because it gives you e-commerce functionality so we're actually going to build a store and also

one single plan allows you to build up to 100 different websites so you can build literally as many websites as you want and also yeah I personally use hostinger for all of my websites and I just love them so I am absolutely happy recommending them you also get a free domain which is really nice you do need to have that so I'm going to click on choose plan for business you're going to select how many months you want for this plan definitely do not do one because that's super super expensive doesn't make any sense do

at least 12 and I actually recommend logging in this price for at least 24 months because it does jump up after that so I'm going to go ahead and select that see it's about $4 per month which is amazing and then what you're going to do is come here to have a coupon code and you'll enter in Charlie Chang that's just my name click apply it's going to save you even more money now we'll click on continue here it's going to have you create an account and then finish the checkout process now once you get

that set up you're going to go to your hosting your dashboard and that's where we're going to use AI to create our website for us now you have the option of going through this and clicking create a website you essentially just need to put your brand name and your description or you can also use their pre-made templates now I'm going to show you how to do this using AI cuz we do want to save some time so there we have it Charlie Creator Consulting I help creators monetize their following I sell digital products that teach

people how to monetize Their audience it's automatically going to suggest an online store so we're going to leave this selected that way we can actually sell our products and we'll click on create a website cool so now it's created a first draft of our website basically what you can do is change the color palette right here you can look through this if you want to redo it and have it created again you can always click on this right here but I think this looks good I'm just going to go ahead and click continue once you

do that you'll see here we can set up our store to actually input our products that we're going to sell we'll do that later after I show you how to make a digital product but at any time we can come here to edit website and this is basically going to take us to the hosting your website builder this is a very easy way to actually edit and build your website so essentially everything that you want to change you can just double click on it so for example if I want to change this text I can

very easily do that I can change this text as well we can use the AI writer to help us write different things to save us some time we can also change the formatting of this text we can change the button by clicking edit button we can change all these General things we can change the style and also add an animation if we want this picture right here for the hero Banner we can definitely change this so click edit section we can replace this image you can even use AI to help you create images or upload

your own hostinger also has a ton of free images you can use as well just for now I'm going to leave this as is cuz I don't want to waste too much time on this yeah essentially go through this look at the different sections if there's any section you don't want you can always click on this trash can button right here and it's going to delete it if I want to undo that I'll just use apple Z or contrl Z to undo it we can move sections around as well by using this or this we

can duplicate them we can generate different images of course and we can also add sections too so let's say we want to add a section let's say we want an About Me section so I'll come here to about they have all these professionally made templates let's go ahead and do something like this one so I'll click on this it's going to insert that here and of course we will change up the text with our own text you can see that they pre-populated this page with client feedback which is definitely good to have yeah super super

cool you can see it saves you so much time I don't think it makes any sense to not build a website without Ai and then once you are ready you're going to connect your domain so that's going to be that free domain that you get by sending up for a plan and then clicking go live once you click on that your website is going to be live for other people to go to and now you can you know send it to people you can see on the left here there are tons and tons of AI

tools so we can use these tools to write a bunch of the copy that is on our website if you want to manage your different pages you'll come here and click on this button this is going to be your main navigation which shows up over here we can create new pages if we want we can delete existing pages and then if you want to customize your store you'll click on this button right here and we can basically go through these steps but I'll do that in just a second now of course when it comes to

selling digital products your website is important how you sell is important but of course we need a digital product to sell so I'm going to show you really quickly how you can start building your digital product really easily I'll show you a couple different ways to do it so first is going to be with canva you definitely have heard of canva it's a freeo use website that you can use to design any type of PDFs or documents they do have paid plans as well which get you more premium features but it is not necessary for

example this is a PDF that we made for one of our businesses it's super super easy to use you basically just click on this plus create a design we can go ahead and select through all these different templates you can also do a custom siiz document as well so yeah this is a content-led SEO Playbook that we made it's about 203 pages and with Cana it's it's super super easy it's basically drag and drop and so with any text you can easily edit this create new text if I want to add more text here I'll

just come here to text click add a text box and we can write test text right here if you want to drag it around we can easily do that and then if you want to delete it you can click on this trash can button we can also insert any elements too so this is a really powerful part of canva you can search for different things so let's say we want to put in a box you have all these things right here anytime you see this thing it means you need a Pro Plan to use it

so just FYI but any shape let's say I want to put this in here I'm just going to drag it here and Bam I can change the dimensions I can write text inside of it and yeah that's basically canva you can also insert Graphics you can insert different frames different photos different videos we can also upload our own stuff directly to canva and insert that in here so let's say I want to put in this LinkedIn logo I can do that resize it and put it right here so yeah if you're making PDFs this is

a great way to do it another alternative is k. it's more of like a AI backed PDF and Graphics designer I've used it as well it's really really good but it does cost some money and the most important thing is that you actually give value to your audience within your digital product right if you are charging some amount of money no matter how much it is you do want to give some type of value and like I said earlier a lot of this information it's going to be able to be found online for free somewhere

but what you're doing is you're compiling it all in one spot you're putting some trust behind it because it's a pay product so just keep that in mind when you are building out your digital products this might seem really complex at first or really long but you don't need to make a PDF that is this long at first it can be a lot more simple it can simply be a template it can be a planner it can be something that is not as you know information rich but only you know what's best for you and

your audience so just do some brainstorming before you actually start creating once you're done creating it what you're going to do is click on a share right here we're going to click download and then we're going to basically basically export it as whatever is best so likely if you're doing a PDF it's going to be PDF print you'll select how you want all this stuff which pages to actually render out and then you'll click on download let's go ahead and do that here and click download and once that's done it's going to download directly to

the computer now if you're making an ebook a really great way to do that is with typeset I'll have a link down below to typeset as well this does cost money but it can save you a ton of time especially if you're making a ton of presentations or ebooks because essentially what you do is you are going to paste a bunch of text into this section right here and it's going to use AI to build this for us so as you can see that literally took like 2 seconds this is actually a pretty solid looking

ebook at least the foundations of it and then what we can do is basically add in different photos we can change the formatting too if we want but I think this looks great and yeah that literally took me like 2 seconds anytime you want to insert media for example on this page right here we can click on this button we can drag and drop different images we can search for something so let's say partnership click on search these are all going to be free photos that we can use on unsplash all right these might not

be the best images but let's go ahead and just select something like this look add one image and it's going to you know use AI to put it in you can always change how it looks here but I think that looks fine and once you are done with this you're basically going to come here we'll click on preview so I'm going to look through this looks pretty good and now we'll click on export right here we'll select PDF portrait okay good and click export selected as you know this is a very small subset of the

types of products we can make it goes well beyond just making PDFs there are so many other types of digital products but I just wanted to show you guys really quickly how easy it is to make especially with all these AI tools these days it is just absolutely amazing so now we're going to go back to our website and I'm going to show you how to add this PDF we just made to our websites this way we can start selling it right away so going back to the website builder we're going to manage our store

that's this button right here and I basically just recommend going through this checklist so we'll click on add a product we're going to select digital products since that's what we are selling now the first section is going to be media this is going to be what's shown on the actual page so I've gone ahead and screenshotted our cover page so I'm going to you know open that here that's basically going to be like a little preview of our PDF next we're going to name it so we're going to say SEO content strategy Playbook we can

have a description here I'm just going to use the AI writer real quick SEO content strategy Playbook Okay click generate text that looks okay for now we're going to select the pricing so let's say we want to sell it for $10 you can also select free here if you want to do that there's lots of options we can have we can add additional info sections I'm just going to leave those blank for now let's go ahead and select this for categories and here is where we're going to actually upload the files so we'll go ahead

and click on this we'll go to our actual PDF and it says customers will receive an email with a link to download this digital product you can have this link available for X hours X days let's set it at 7 days for now and once that's uploaded we'll click on Save right here and sweet our new product has been added to our catalog of products as you can see they pre-populated with a bunch of other ones just based on what we wrote and anytime you can always come here and click delete go ahead and do

that for one of them if we go back to store setup we want to set up a payment method so what you'll probably want to do is set up Paypal or stripe these are probably the most common ones I'd probably recommend using stripe and this might look a little bit different depending on what country you are in but yeah strip allows you to accept credit card payments so you can basically click on connect set up your account and do all that you also want to update your company information and then you also want to review

your shipping options although for digital products that's not really going to be too applicable so don't worry too much about that however just know that if you do want to sell physical products at some point you can absolutely do that using hostinger there's a lot of other features too for example you can set discounts we can basically create discount codes that we can give to people you you can also book appointments directly through this hosting or website for example if you're doing 1hour consulting sessions you can absolutely sell that here and yeah that's essentially how

you build your store to sell your product now as you can see if we go to our websites we'll click on shop we will see the different products we'll click on the one that we just uploaded and then people can come here click add to bag and they can go ahead and go through the checkout process and yeah that's basically how you can sell the product on your website great thing is that there's no shipping or anything like that after it's it's just an automated email super super amazing so now let's talk a little bit

about how you can actually get sales for your digital products I've showed you how to create your digital product and how to also create your website but I haven't showed you really how to get traffic to your website so that you can actually start seeing some sales now the first thing I will say is that you do not need a big audience this is a huge misconception that most people have they think you need millions and millions of views to make sales but the truth is you do not all you need is high intent traffic

and the way that we actually get high content traffic is pretty simple we're going to basically do this on a bunch of different platforms so you're going to use Pinterest you're going to use YouTube You're Going to use Instagram and you're going to use Tik Tok basically the best way to do it is to create pretty simple short form content that offers value to your audience and that's going to build up a lot of trust and once you can build trust then you can have your websit in your profile they can go to that website

and they can actually buy your product the great thing about this and the real beauty of it is that the people that are seeing your content they are super super interested in whatever Niche you are teaching so for example if you are in the finance Niche right and you make a lot of short firm content teaching people you know these are stocks that I'm buying this is how you invest in a Roth IRA this is how you create a 401k whatever it is those types of people that actually follow you and and consume your content

they are super super primed and they also have that interest they want to learn finance and so when you create your own digital products that relate to that Niche it is an absolute Rockstar parent within your content you can do call to action saying hey if you want to learn more about this particular thing I have this product check it out it's at my store linked in my bio also a really great thing about this is that you can create your video once and then post it on all of these platforms that's how you become

omnipresent you really want to maximize the reach and be as efficient as possible so create one piece of content repurpose it over all these different platforms that's going to maximize the amount of views you can get I going to show you an example of a couple creators that are absolutely crushing it doing this exact content strategy so the first one is minol Lee if you look at his reals you can see they perform really well and basically his Niche is teaching people how to make content so he does a lot of content just like this

and if we look at his actual bio we can see he has his content Academy linked in his profile so if you click on that this takes you to his website where he's selling his community and course another person that's absolutely crushing it is Nana so basically if you go to her Instagram you can see a lot of her reels are also teaching people how to create content so stuff like this you can see she has a very distinct short form video style and if you go to her bio you can see she's using stand

store which is also great and she has all of her digital products listed here you can also see something similar on my own Instagram so I do a ton of content and then on my profile if you go to the links you can see I have a resources page this is built and hosted in hostinger so you can build something like this as well it has a bunch of different links that you know some of them are digital products some of them are links to Affiliates but that's basically my short form strategy as you create

more and more content that is in your Niche you're going to start building an audience and this really does take a ton of consistency it is not a fast game you guys you cannot expect to all of a sudden just post and get tons and tons of new followers and Views unfortunately that's just not how it works it just takes a lot of consistency over a good amount of time here's another fantastic page they basically teach you how to use notion to be super organized so all their content is you know howto content about notion

and then if you click on their link here takes you to their website where they sell their templates and their digital products so I'm pretty sure this business is absolutely crushing it and you can see you can get a very very specific this is notion so it's a very specific software platform website that people use and there's so many people just absolutely crushing it with notion templates right now so just wanted to show you guys some examples of what other people are doing and you can see it's basically follows this formula create content on these

platforms giving value to your audience and making sure you only give value to a particular subset of people and then having a digital product that you can sell to them that is the winning formula if you do not want to be on video that's totally okay you can do this exact content strategy without showing your face so you can literally just show your screen or whatever doing something giving some type of value in your Niche and you don't need to have a face if you really don't want to do social media that's also okay although

it's going to make it a lot more challenging just to be honest but you can just create a website so you can create a website just using hostinger instead of making short form videos you can do articles there there teaching people things that's just another way to give value to your audience and then having some type of related digital product to sell them now this strategy just having a website of course is not as good as doing social media because it's a lot harder for you to get your website out there without social media so

I'd say if you can that's what I would do I would do social media I would make videos I would post different pins on Pinterest cuz that's also another platform that you know not that many people use right now so there's not that much competition out there pretty simple overall strategy the concept is not too hard to grasp as you saw but the hard part is just being consistent with it and doing it for a while again I do want to say although digital products are probably the best thing you can sell right now it

still is a business and it does take some time and consistency for you to see results so if you want to start this don't get flustered if you aren't making sales right away that's completely normal and actually your first few products they might not do that well that's totally okay as an entrepreneur I have failed so many businesses I failed so many different projects and it's just normal it's part of the game the best thing though is that you guys are watching this video you're here to learn and you're going to take these lessons you're

going to build your product you're going to sell it and so even if you fail it is fine you can just create a new digital product try a new way of marketing it try a new content strategy whatever it is just keep doing this until one of them hits and I guarantee you if you do this consistently for a long time something will hit yeah just want to emphasize again I think digital products are amazing they're one of the best businesses that you can possibly start in 2025 and Beyond and this is the exact strategy

that I would take if I were to build another digital product right now hopefully you got some value from this video I know we covered a lot of different things so if you want to re-watch it that's totally cool maybe take out a notebook take some notes but the most important thing you guys is just taking action I really encourage you go build your website start building your digital product figure out what type of Niche you want to get into where you can offer value to people and yeah just follow the pretty simple blueprint that

we talked about in this video I'm positive that hundreds or even thousands of you watching this video will be able to create a successful digital product and sell it if you got any value from this video make sure to hit that like button and also subscribe for more content just like this I do a ton of content about entrepreneurship investing finances all stuff to help you live a more financially successful life anyway thank you so much for your time again and I'll see you in the next video peace [Music] oh