There are tons of pre-made planners out there. I would like to share the pros and cons of pre-made planner templates and how to choose the right pre-made planner templates.
Whether a new business owner or digital products creator, deciding what products you want to create can be a struggle and overwhelming.
It can be digital planners, printables, digital stickers, or physical planners. You need to figure out how to set up an online shop(Woocommerce, Etsy, or Shopify), and market yourself. Also, you will need to package your products and launch and so on.
Is this pretty overwhelming, right?
I have been there since I passed in the first year of my business. And I started thinking about the best way to build my business. You can find out in the post how I could start making digital products in my first business year.
As working graphic design industry, I thought making digital products can be easily achieved similar to my main work. But I was wrong! It was more stressful and not having enough time to focus on my side hustle business. So I decided to find mentors who can teach and inspire me in the second year. I have learned from them how to successfully do the same thing without overwhelming it.
That’s why most small business owners continually learn and adapt the new trend and skills.
What I have learned from my mentors is to make a new direction as businesses pivot.
The new way of approaching a digital stationery business
In the third year of my business, I have put together to create pre-made templates and guides into my business roadmap what I did and what I learned.
As you notice in my blog posts, I have shared either starting from scratch and learning how to do everything yourself or using pre-made templates that come with a commercial license that you can edit and resell as your own.
Now, I am going to dive into the pros and cons of pre-made planner templates and commercial-use graphics. So you can make a decision about which is best for your digital planner business.
What is the pre-made planner template?
Pre-made planner templates are designed for basic design and function in the digital planner with the keynote app. This allows you to tweak and add your own brand theme to create products to sell.
I understand some people say “I don’t have graphic design skills” or I am not an expert”. Don’t give up on your dream goals. However, if you don’t have graphic design skills, the pre-made planner templates are commercially licensed, predesigned planners. You can personalize planners, journals, and notebook products that you can edit and tweak before you list them for sale in your shop.
When you have a pre-made template, you can have a product ready to sell in just a few days.
Pre-made planner template is easy to use and saves time. You only need to change to your brand color and font to make your own personalized digital planner.
Also if you want to customize a pre-made planner template for your specific niche, you can re-arrange each page layout related to your specific niche or add in page layouts that your niche may also find helpful to use.
Our Editable DIY digital planner template kits for commercial use are a great example of a pre-made realistic dashboard-style digital planner. All pre-made planner templates have an element kit template and drag-and-drop PNG elements along with a pre-linked master keynote template.
Is the pre-made planner perfect for you?
As you are a small business owner, you may hear about a B2C (business-to-consumer) business model. It is the one of trends nowadays. This model is that you’re selling products directly to the people who want to use them.
Most pre-made templates include a commercial license. So you’re allowed to sell the products you create that are based on the template you purchased.
With the commercial license, you can customize the pre-made planner template and add your brand color, then sell it as a product, such as a journal, planner, notebook, etc.
However, there are restrictions on terms and conditions. You may not be allowed to re-sell the template as it is. Please ensure that you read licensing terms and conditions before you use them for your safety.
So the pre-made templates are perfect for you if you have a tight deadline on your projects. It can save tons of time.
Also, if you don’t have graphic design skills or are not confident yet, a pre-made planner template or clipart for digital stickers is the perfect option.
Bonus tips!- I am sharing design tips and “how to” tutorials to help save time and effort on our blog and Arisu Creator Club posts.
Pros and Cons of using pre-made planner templates
Pros of using templates
Saves time and launches your products fast.
You will be confident in your planner products which are full-functioned.
More focus on high-priority work, rather than spending time on blank page design for a long time.
Using templates for all your products makes your brand authentic and looks professional
Invest in the template and you can make variations of product collections.
Cons of using templates
Compare to starting from scratch, you may have a little freedom of the design.
It needs an investment to purchase the templates. Generally, commercial use templates are higher priced than personal use.
If you are looking for a specific match of niche, you may not find the template that you want.
Templates are digital products, so not allowed refund when you don’t like them.
How to choose the right template
Pre-made template related to your niche
If you decide to use a pre-made planner template, for your brand products, you need to consider your target audience.
As you have been searching for digital planner templates, most template designers categorize their design templates by the audience’s use. For example, template kits for busy mom planners, business owner planner templates, finance templates, etc.
So you can identify your niche’s needs and the purpose of your business. So you can stay focused on your mission. As a result, you will position in the digital planner creator industry.
Consider your budget for product material costs
Once you have chosen your target audience, you can start browsing templates. You can find on marketplaces like Etsy, Creative Market, DeiginCut, or our shop to choose a template perfect for your needs and budget.
There are many templates that come with some video courses that can be expensive. There are pros and cons to buying a course. If you are confident about the design program and structure of hyperlinks, I personally recommend that you purchase a template without courses. It can save unnecessary costs.
However, if you are not confident, purchasing a template with a course can save time a lot.
In my experience, I purchase the course for Photoshop when I learn about Photoshop software. It was a high investment at the time, but it helped me save time to figure out the software works and a lot of fast learning progress. To be honest I never regret investing in the high price of PS courses. That’s why I can produce my template products that have more comparability with other design programs.
Choosing the right tools for your Business
When starting a digital stationery business, you can start from scratch or use templates to customize. The important facts are your decision to make more productivity. You might need the pre-made planner templates or commercial use clipart or graphics. So you don’t need to do it all on your own.
You can invest in a resource that will grow your skills and business strategies.
If you want to get started by using some free resources, our blog and freebie vault are useful. Take a look at some of our best blog posts linked below for help with various areas of your business.
If you are looking for commercial use graphics and clipart to add to your planner, Arisu Creator Club digital graphic magazine is the perfect match for you.
You can visit our shop to find the theme of the magazine or simply join our creator club membership subscription to receive a magazine in your inbox every month.
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