Are you wondering how to start making a digital planner? As a side hustle or in your business, you might have a big dream about selling products people love.
So I would like to share how I walk along the digital stationery business and some tips and information.
As you know me for a while, I have been in the graphic design industry for a long. But actually started my own business to sell my digital planners and templates for 3 years.
As you all think about running your own dream business, it can be stopping for some reasons.
I personally recommended, stop thinking too much. And take little action steps to waste time. If you want to start a business, action steps are always followed. That’s why I was starting to get into the online business. Of course, I started it as a side hustle business in the first year.
For more information about the side hustle business, you can find out information here. “how to start an online business as a side hustle”
Exports about online businesses out there. But I love to share my tips and my experience with digital planner product business with you. Because my community members are just starting to open a digital planner shop or start making their own digital products. I understand what you are struggling with.
Do you know what is the most common way to make a digital planner to sell?
From scratch to make a digital planner.
start making a digital planner in Keynote
Start from it on your own digital planner.
What does it mean? It means that it’s getting started without the help of a template or design service.
In the first year of my digital planner business, I made a lower financial investment. But I needed more effort and time to create my products. such as finding my target audience, designing planners, structuring functions, testing, packaging, etc.
Starting from scratch means you will do everything on your own. You’ll I needed to identify an audience for your product, and brainstorm ideas. And you need to turn your ideas into a digital planner concept. And then make your digital planner collections, test them, then listing them for sale.
I know it seems like a lot of work and time spent. However, it can be very rewarding work for you. If you’re able to commit hours each week to building your business, starting from scratch can be rewarding. You will allow to make all your own decisions and completely customize every aspect of your digital products. So your creation is a truly unique experience for clients.
Is this way a perfect match for you?
If you want to create your own digital products, this is a good option for the roadmap of your business. Starting from scratch instead of using a template or design service, allows you to make your own signature planners.
If you want to take things slowly by learning, this way is perfect. You will love how to use a design program and create your own planners. Then market and launch them all by yourself, then starting from scratch makes it more rewarding.
How to start making a digital planner.
Identify your audience.
Whether you’re starting from scratch, Identifying your audience is the first action you need to take.
Identifying your audience means you know your niche. You know what your audience struggles with, what they’re dealing with, and what kind of planner is going to work best for their lifestyle and work.
Be informative.
While you are making digital planner products to sell, take time to share your information with the public. Like blog posts, and social media content to share recommended resources, tips, and tricks to help them with their problems.
Idea sketch for your digital planner products
It’s time to get down to business!
Brainstorming your product idea onto paper or the idea sketch workbook file. This workbook is in our freebie vault that you can download at any time.
This rough draft of your ideas will help you identify what sections you want to include, and what page layouts will be. you can figure out the best fit for your ideas. And approximately how long you want your planner to be.
Make sure that this idea will work with the lifestyle of your clients as well as your lifestyle, such as daily routine trackers, habits, and goals progress checklists.
Putting into your design Program.
Now you need to put your ideas into your masterpiece using your design program. So first, you work out what you want to do on paper, and what section of planner pages to add to your planner. Also, please ensure that it is time to do actual work. Don’t spend too much time on details.
There are many useful programs, but I recommend using Apple Keynote if you are using Mac and it is a free program for Mac users.
Here are some bonus tips! – To save time for your digital planner, make a master template, and then you can copy and paste as many pages as possible and edit the layout. So you don’t have to keep re-creating shapes from scratch.
You might be overwhelmed by adding graphics, or hyperlinks but as you gain experience designing digital planners, you’ll get more familiar with the design program and smooth out your own signature process for creating digital products.
For more details on how to create a digital planner in the keynote, please find out the tutorial here.
As you can see, the tutorial post will help you how to make your digital planner from scratch and export it, and how to test your products.
Prepare your digital planner to launch
You have done most of the hard work. Now you want to make your product listing images, so your products stand out from the crowds.
If you are using Photoshop, you can create a product listing mockup template to use whenever you create your products.
If you don’t know how to use Photoshop, you can use Canva to create your product listing. So we have an Etsy product listing Canva template on our Arisu Creator Culb membership site. As a member, you can download it and save it to your Canva project folder to use whenever you want.
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In my experience, Canva is the easiest-to-use app and has a free and a pro version. You can use our Canva mockup template in its free version.
Pros and Cons of starting to create a digital planner from scratch.
There are right or wrong ways to create a digital planner to sell. So whichever you are comfortable with and having fun with it is the best way. For many beginners like I was started 3 years ago, using Keynote to make digital products are the most common way and easy approach to starting a business.
Here are the Pros and Cons to start from scratch.
Pros of making digital planners on your own
Allows you more room to expand and grow your business in the future.
Gives you the complete design freedom to do whatever you want.
Having unique products on the marketplace.
Cons of making digital planners on your own
Taking more time to design a planner without the use of a template.
Investing more time and money to learn more design programs, before making profits.
Spending a lot of time on tedious tasks like testing the links in your planner and building hyperlinks between sections and your product.
Therefore, so far I have explained how to create a digital planner to sell without done-for-you templates. I have been this way since I started the digital products business in the first year. Now there is a lot of progress and turning in the other direction which has been a business pivoting a lot as followed trends.
You may find out the pros and cons of using a pre-made template here.
As a business owner, pivoting is essential to growth and I will explain about creating your own digital planner unique using a pre-made template.
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