In this video, I'll show you the best platforms you can use to sell digital products online.
And on some of these platforms, you'll be able to start selling your products
completely for free. You heared that right! You can totally start
an online business and sell your digital products with zero upfront investment!
Hi! I'm Anastasia of anastasiablogger.com and on this channel, I share my online business tips
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Now look here, let's say this is you. An adorable baby girl.
Sorry if you are not a girl, but for the sake of a consistent story, I'll address
you like a girl in this video. So you are a girl making your first baby steps in online business.
1. Koji
The first tool you can use to sell your digital downloads
would be the best for someone who is really starting from zero. You don't have a website,
you don't know how to build sales pages and sales funnels. You don't need all of this yet.
Let's help you make your first money before you dive deep into learning all this advanced stuff.
If you have some audience on your social media platforms but don't have your website,
you definitely should start selling your digital products with Koji's app Sell Downloadable Files.
Here is how it will work in a couple of words. You will create a Koji profile,
and then add your Koji link to any of your social media platforms.
It could be your link in bio on Intagram or Pinterest.
When you have your Koji account, you can just open this page withkoji.com and you'll see here
this button App Store. Let's open the store and look for these sections Monetization and
then Instant Storefronts. That's where you will find the app Sell Downloadable Files.
With this app, you can start selling digital products, art, templates, code,
3D models, all kinds of music, digital instruments, fonts, and so much more.
For full disclosure, you should know that Koji is a sponsor of this video - but I also
use it as my own link in bio, it’s probably the best link in bio for selling digital products.
In my case, I use another Koji App called Sell eBooks and PDFs which is more appropriate for
selling specifically eBooks. Again, to find any apps let's go back to the main page and then click
on App Store button, head to Instant Storefronts and you'll find the app Sell eBooks and PDFs.
To receive the payments, you'll need to connect your Koji profile with a Stripe
account and this will allow you to process the payments through credit and debit cards.
By the way, I just showed you a couple of apps but if you head over to the Koji App Store
and have a better look at this section, you might also find other apps that could work
better for you. For example, the app Name your price allows your supporters to get
your downloadable files and in this case they can decide how much to pay for them.
And if you don't have digital products to sell but you can provide some services
and deliver them digitally as well, then you could use the app Sell a Service.
Just to give you a few ideas here or what you could sell. If you’re an influencer (of any kind),
clients can pay for a full post on Instagram,
a single tweet, or even just a 10-second shoutout in your next video.
Why I think Koji could be the easiest way to start for a beginner is because
There is no monthly fee, you only pay a small commission per sale, in most cases,
creators get to keep 85-95% of their revenue made through Koji. No monthly fees means that
you do not pay anything unless you sell something through the platform.
You don't need to have your own website and domain to start selling your digital
products - and that's again fewer expenses and a faster way to start.
Koji's interface is very simple and you can even set this entire profile on your phone.
If you want to get some free promotion for your digital products,
create your free account with Koji using the link is in the description below.
Get started and create a profile today and share what you've created in the
comments below! I can't wait to see all of your Koji links and digital products!
— Now you are a toddler, ok?
You are bored of all of your barbies and want to play with more tricky toys like a shopping
cart or maybe even build an online store on your own domain name. Hey, did you hit that
like button already? I'm trying hard here to add a little fun to this video, I think a quick click
on the like button wouldn't hurt anyone, would it? Ok, I'll give you a few more seconds :) Done it?
Alright, alright, getting back to you toddler girl. You want something more advanced but you
don't want things that are too complicated. After all, you are still just a toddler!
2. Payhip Then Payhip is
a good choice for you at this stage. Payhip is another platform where you
can sell digital products such as ebooks, courses, software, design assets, music,
and more. You can use Payhip to host your products and in this case, you won't even
need to have your own website. But if you have one, you can also embed the checkout or
shopping cart page to your blog or social media! Payhip has a forever free plan available and no
features will be locked away behind higher plans. The only difference between the paid plan and the
free plan is the size of the commission per sale. On the free plan, you'll pay a 5% commission,
in lower monthly plan lowers your commission to 2% and then if your sales volume is high enough,
you might want to switch to the third plan where you have 0 commission per
sale but there is a fixed fee of $99/mo. By the way, you can also sell physical products
and memberships or subscription-based products. And quite recently Payhip also added other types
of products - you can now also sell online courses and even coaching services through this platform.
One of the benefits Payhip is that you can build an entire online store on this platform
and even use your custom domain for it. I also found it interesting that you can add a Blog
section and post some content related to your products right here inside Payhip's interface.
To be completely honest with you, all the features that you get in Payhip are made with
very basic settings. On one hand side, it's an advantage because as a beginner you will find it
easy to setup your product pages. All you need to do is upload a product file, an image representing
your product, a short title and description and that's pretty much all you can do. It's not a
complete page builder where you can create and design a proper landing page for your product.
So if you are looking for something very basic and quick to set it up in a few minutes,
if you have a warm audience that trusts you and you don't need to convince them to buy
your products using a long-format sales page, then Payhip will work just fine for your goals.
— Hey, remember how old you were last time?
Congratulations, you are a pre-schooler now! Looks like you can already pronounce some long words
like print-on-demand, can't you? 3. Sellfy
Well my friend, then maybe you should have a better look at Sellfy.
Sellfy is also on my list of the best platforms to start selling your digital products.
The platform is simple and affordable, and they even have a print-on-demand feature
that lets you offer shirts, hoodies, hats, and mugs for special cases. The platform also lets
you start building your own digital store in just 5 minutes. You can insert your logo, organize the
layout, and even connect your domain name. You can start selling all types of digital
products on Sellfy for free including eBooks, memberships, music, art, and many more.
The interesting part about Sellfy is that they have a free plan where you can host up
to 10 products, and there is a 0 commission on your sales even on the free plan. On top of it,
you can sell not only digital products but also physical products and print-on-demand.
Sellfy offers a special 15 percent discount to my audience. It works on their monthly plans by using
the coupon code anastasia at the checkout. I will give you all the links to the tools reviewed today
in the description below his video. —
Oh wow, I can't recognize you! Is that you, that teenager on a skateboard? Or
maybe you are a Tiktoker teen? Or what actually do teenagers enjoy these days?
Let me know in the comments below, maybe you have a teenager in the family and you know better :)
Looks like you've grown up enough now to teach others, didn't you?
4. Thinkific (for online courses)
So if your digital products are not some printable files,
or eBooks but online courses with video lessons, in that case, you should look at Thinkific. It's
the platform that I personally use for hosting my own online courses.
What you will definitely like about Thinkific is their free plan that gives you
almost the same functionality as their paid plans.
With Thinkific, you can simply drag-and-drop elements on their course builder - no coding
skills required. You can also add photos, videos, and music to make
learning much more fun for your students. With Thinkific you get access to free video hosting
which could cost you over a $100/mo if you paid for it on a separate dedicated platform.
Thinkific allows you to sell two types of courses - one is when users get access to the entire
course instantly, and another is called dripped course when they unlock access to
the next lesson over time. For example, once a day, once a week and so on.
I've been using Thinkfic for about 3 years now and can only tell you one thing.
With so much variety of different software solutions for selling online courses on the
market, it's quite common for people to jump from one tool to another. But
I'm staying with Thinkific because for the medium-priced plan that I use all this time,
I am getting a very stable solution with very little downtime, and a great support team. These
small things you can only find out about a company after using them for a long time,
so I am happy to share with you honestly my experience with Thinkific. You can use the
link anastasiablogger.com/thinkific to start with them on the free plan.
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I see you are a serious business lady now :) Let's see which platform you can use to create
an entire online business in one place. 5. Kartra - an All-in-One platform
The next platform I wanted to cover is different from the previous ones because it has the biggest
complexity of tools and features included in one package. I definitely can call it an all-in-one
platform because it includes options like: Customizable course websites
Optimized sales pages Membership sites
Includes funnel building Affiliate management
Email Marketing automation Kartra is used by a wide
range of online businesses, many of which sell online courses, videos,
or other items that require membership management, lead collection, and payment processing functions.
With Kartra‘s Starter Plan, you can store up to 2,500 leads, send 15,000 emails, sell 20 products,
and build 2 membership sites. With only their Starter Plan, you can already store
up to 2,500 leads, and send 15,000 emails. From the first look, it might seem like
Kartra is a more pricy solution compared to say Thinkfic but you need to realize that with Kartra,
you don’t need to pay for a separate email provider like Convertkit.
And you can build your sales pages and the entire funnel right here, inside Kartra.
I have a friend who runs her store with several digital products on Kartra
and she never needed to pay for a separate email provider as she has all email automations
set inside Kartra. You can also set up your own affiliate program in Kartra.
So if you are looking for a way to manage your entire funnel in one place,
Kartra could be the way to go! Check out the link to Kartra and all the other platforms
I mentioned today in the description below. If you are trying to start an online business
selling digital products today, watch my video about the strategies I use to drive
thousands of leads and pageviews for free from the Pinterest platform to my websites. This video
covers the most up-to-date strategies that work on Pinterest this year, and it was already watched
over 11k times in the last few months. If you have never used Pinterest as a free traffic source,
you might be missing out on a huge opportunity. So I'll leave you a link to this video up there
and a couple of other videos that I manually picked for you. See you in the next one!