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If at first you don’t succeed, try digital. Robert McEwen on his e-book

Creators can upload an e-book to sell with just about any content and following. Downloadable e-books are one of the most versatile digital products and applicable to any industry. We’ve seen tons—vrom how-to guides, poems, fiction, e-zines (digital magazines), sheet music, and many more. Aspiring writer Robert McEwen shares how publishing his children’s story book as a downloadable digital product has been game changing. 

From 100’s of hardback books… 

Beginning his writing hustle and publishing his first ever story book for children in 2014, Robert felt inspired by the virtues and life lessons he teaches his son—such as honor and courage. He printed several hundred and hosted several readings at children’s book shops, selling copies and spreading the word. Although this was an enriching experience, Robert found it challenging to reach communities further than his hometown. Plus, printing and publishing a book is a huge investment, with financial risk involved. 

To unlimited digital e-books

Robert needed to rethink his approach and explore other avenues. With the introduction of digital products on Teespring, Robert saw his chance. Distributing his children’s book by sharing a simple URL on social media meant no risk, no expense and allows him to spread the word worldwide. Plus, he benefits from high profits with zero expenses incurred, and freedom to release more e-books which are easily accessible with instant delivery to all fans (or readers). Creating his e-book digitally also opened up the opportunity to collaborate with illustrators worldwide to work on the cartoon-like imagery, complimenting his writing and enhancing the product. Young Spartacus: Virtues Of a Warrior is compatible with a kindle, a tablet, and mobile device and accessible to all readers easily and quickly.

For writers and authors, selling downloadable e-books makes for an incredibly innovative way to test and experiment with their work. By sharing online, creators can very simply gage their popularity, measure engagement, track sales, and get fast feedback. Start by arranging your content into .pdf or .jpeg format, test it out on your devices, then upload it to the Digital Launcher. Designing a book cover and selecting a few sneak-peek pages is also a good idea for your product preview images shown on your digital listing.

Digitally publish (upload to the digital launcher 😉) your e-book ready to start sharing in 2021 and head to Robert’s store to check it out.

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Holidays from home: keeping cosy and digital

As we near the end of an unusual year, creators aim to wrap up 2020 on a positive, united note with their communities—what’s more, it’s all happening from home. With thousands supporting their favorite creators throughout unpredictable times, product sales have kept many afloat throughout the year.

Now, we’re coming through with the top trending products (both physical and digital). Check out our HOLIDAYS FROM HOME inspo collection. We’re turning everything traditional about the holidays on its head, celebrating one message: Merry Weirdmass ✨

Trend to get ‘all over’—Comfort is key. 

We’re forecasting cosiness and comfort this year for fans worldwide over the holiday season. Spotted our brand new drinkware products in the video? Keep your eyes peeled, they’re coming soon for all creators to create and sell. 

Go for head-to-toe all-over-prints (AOP) and create something a little different for fans. Bundle coordinating products together in your listings and jump on AOP sweatshirts and *new* AOP joggers. Imagine Christmas jumpers with a twist—get trippy with your patterns using loosely themed Christmas symbols in your designs and color palettes. Tie in accessories such as cool socks, fanny packs, and face masks. 

Trending products to launch this holiday season

  • AOP Joggers 
  • AOP sweatshirts
  • Socks 
  • AOP leggings
  • Fanny packs 
  • Face masks

Promote your new “out there” pieces by planning content to post on social platforms, celebrating a sense of individuality and weirdness your entire community can wear together. You’ll need to keep shipping cut off dates in mind, however, the beauty of your unique all-over print designs is they can be worn all year round. Continue pushing them into the New Year!

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Downloadable, digital entertainment

Digital products can be created and offered to your community beyond shipping cut off dates for instant delivery right up until Christmas. Communities will jump straight onto festive themed products, helping them enjoy the holiday season with family and friends within the comfort of their homes. Allow followers get into the holiday spirit on their social media feed by offering photo filters to apply to their images. Launch audio digital products like ‘Christmassy’ ringtones or limited edition holiday themed downloadable music tracks to play in the background during festivities. Upload festive wallpapers applicable to all devices too for fans to enjoy daily.

Head to the Digital Launcher to start uploading your content to sell now.

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Digital products–for all industries, creators, and communities

With our Digital Launcher accessible for all creators, everyone can hop on the digital hype. 

The ability to offer downloadable files give give creators the chance to revolutionize your fans e-commerce experience. On top of the countless benefits of digital products—the biggest plus is how adaptable digital products are for all types of communities.

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It doesn’t matter what your industry is, the social media platforms you use, or who your followers are. Digital products and their limitless options open up the opportunity for any type of creator to upload awesome content and start winning. Find a few of many digital products launched already by a range of different creators.

Beauty, fashion and lifestyle 

Many influencers are already experts when it comes to self promotion and product marketing around beauty and fashion. The influencer creator often holds a close relationship with fans by sharing more personal lifestyle content. Followers often become a strong support network when it comes to merch. Digital products are perfectly suited to this industry, allowing creators to offer valuable downloadable content as an extension of their social media feed. 

Firstly, photo filters are a great obvious choice. Check out Bailey Dedrick’s. Fashion photographer Bonnie Rzm creates swimwear pose guides and digital content planners. Sadie Aldis has launched a set of iOs widgets inspired by her favourite color palette to apply to fan’s iphones, and Geek out of water dropped a PDF face chart for followers to plan their makeup looks.

Examples of digital products for influencers
  • Photo filters/Lightroom presets
  • Digital Planners (weekly planners, to do lists, outfit planners, and more)
  • E-books
  • Guides (photo poses, make up, style, social media, routines)

Illustration and animation 

Digital products are an amazing way for creatives and designers (at all skill levels) to share their talents and knowledge with fans. Uploading digital content is also a brilliant way to allow communities to enjoy artwork work with a simple download. For example, upload a printable poster to the Digital Launcher, or transform your creations into digital wallpapers suitable for all devices like The Flat Type. Apply your illustrations and animations to a digital calendar like Simon’s Cat or create coloring sheets like Tofu Chan by removing the color from your drawings. MasakoX offers super cool downloadable e-comics. Get inspired by checking out our blog on digital products for all creatives.

Examples of digital products for creatives
  • E-book tutorials and guides
  • E-comics
  • Coloring pages & books
  • Wallpapers
  • Virtual backgrounds
  • Printable posters

Health & fitness

A variety of creators promote healthy lifestyles and share their fitness journeys with followers through sharing engaging, inspiring content. Uploading digital products to sell is an ideal way to help motivate fans to better themselves as well. A Healthy Alternative created an e-book designed to guide followers on a holistic wellness journey. Other creators have provided e-books like this Fitness For Creators workout guide for beginners, and Mrs Space Cadet created a digital planner for her community to plan their fitness schedules. Hench Herbivore shares secrets with the intention of providing a complete guide to a vegan diet where protein is concerned using a downloadable e-book.

Digital products for health and fitness creators
  • Meal planners
  • Recipes 
  • Workout planners 
  • Workout guides
  • E-books

Crafty digital DIY’s

DIY style content educating fans is certainly popular in 2020. Fans are staying indoors finding new ways to get creative and learn new skills. Uploading digital content is a great way to take advantage of this trend. Transfer your quirky hacks and unique processes and skills into e-books–The Outsider shares a pop up cabin “how-to”, Bhooked crafts several guides for knitting and crochet projects. Shifty Thrifting sells decorative cross stitch patterns for fans to display and followers can color in Leopard Gecko Talk’s illustration coloring books ready for a splash of digital color.

Examples of DIY digital products
  • DIY guides
  • E-book DIY guides and “how to’s”
  • Patterns (cross stitch, sewing, knitting)
  • Coloring pages

Entertaining followers

Following on from DIY genius’s above–you can turn just about any kind of content into a downloadable asset to keep your followers occupied. All you need is to know their interests and tailor it to the kind of material they love to see and hear about on your social media. Consider using audio files to create ringtones to use on devices as well as music tracks to download and listen to if you’re in the music industry, like Bootsy Collins. Other examples include Bin of Trash teaching fans how to draw like them with their How to Chibi e-book and Lulaboo Cooking Show has brought out a Mexican style recipe e-book. Pungence released the e-book story of Mystery of the Magic Toilet and followers can apply Cartoon Connect’s virtual background to their video calls.

Digital products for fan’s entertainment
  • E-books
  • E-comics
  • Sound effects
  • Coloring pages & book
  • Printable posters

Anyone can sell digital products with monumental success. Now’s the time–be first in your industry to offer them to your community. Get acquainted with the Digital Launcher and start uploading your content below, ready to share with your community (like Bonnie Rzm 😉) 

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The digital product design tool vault

Find mock-up templates for your listings, as well as design tools helping you to create digital products from scratch, with no design experience needed.

We’ve teamed up with Placeit to offer you 20% off your subscription, giving you unlimited access to high quality mock-up templates for showcasing your digital products. Your Placeit subscription also gives you access to their digital product design tools. 

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Free templates to create digital products

Find a variety of helpful (completely free) designs below on Placeit that allow you to pick designs and customize them to sell. Use the links below to create these digital products without using any software.

Free mockup templates for listing pages

Creating a collection of effective mock-up images is a powerful tool for providing high quality imagery to show your digital product in action, demonstrate its usability, and showcase your amazing designs. If you don’t have a subscription yet for Placeit, find freebies by clicking the images below.

Free poster templates
Free macbook templates
Free phone templates
Free tablet templates

Photo filters and image presets 

  • Consider utilizing image collaging apps such as Canva or Layout
  • Provide product preview images that show the ‘before and after’, so your fans will know what to expect
  • Show collages of the filter applied to your own images 

Ebook 

  • Feature a preview image of your book cover to generate interest for the valuable content inside 
  • Select a few pages of your book and drop them into an image to make it clear that your product is to be used on certain devices such as an ipad (and is an ebook, not a physical paper book)
  • As well as the templates linked below (access by clicking the images), try out these free tablet mock-up templates.

Digital planner 

  • Showcase the planner’s design for buyers to see the planner in action and understand it’s usability
  • If there are stickers included in the digital planner, don’t forget to show them off
  • Use “in action” pictures (like a person holding a tablet or ipad) using the planner 
  • Try the Placeit templates we’ve collected below for digital planners or check out these free ipad templates. (access by clicking the images)

Wallpaper 

  • Your wallpaper designs on several devices to promote value for money
  • Show your full bundle of designs if you have several ready to sell
  • Show your wallpapers in real life situations, like working-from-home desktop setups 
  • On Placeit, you’re able to adjust the background color of your preview image and also add branding such as your logo. Give the mockup templates linked below a go or check out free templates showing phones, desktops and tablets. (access by clicking the images)

Printable posters 

  • Select mock-up Images that show that the poster is printable and that it doesn’t come framed
  • Show your image printed in a variation of different sizes
  • It’s a good idea to use mock-up templates that show your poster in an interior setting so users can imagine it in their own space. Having recognizable objects or people next to your poster will show the scale effectively.
  • Take a look at the mock-up templates below or drop your poster designs into these free poster templates. (access by clicking the images)

Coloring books

  • Showcase a book cover that summarizes your coloring book or collection of sheets
  • Feature your favourite pages 
  • Preview your coloring book pages both colored and empty so users know what to expect when they download. Use the templates linked below or use these free tablet templates. (access by clicking the images)

Once you have your mock-ups sorted, head to the Digital Launcher to start uploading your digital product files and preview images ready to sell and begin by preparing your digital products and content for upload.

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Promoting digital products with Bonnie Rzm

Fashion photographer and influencer Bonne Rzm shapes her brand around empowering others through her content.

Keep reading to learn more about how she’s revolutionized her merch offering by incorporating digital products, the concepts behind them, promotional tips and digital product design inspiration.

Engaging her content-creating community 

Understanding what engages her fan base, Bonnie’s digital product designs are carefully aligned with events going on in her ‘Shutterbug’ community. 

  • Recently launching a Swimwear poses guide, buyers download her e-book for a step-by-step guide to taking photos during the Summer season
  • The Digital Launcher is so streamlined, it allows Bonnie time to focus on the design of her products, developing her brand, and creating effective promo content.
  • By transferring her content to downloadable resources, Bonnie’s monetizing her knowledge, services and branded visuals.

Sharing product preview images

Since releasing her first Vibin Lightroom presets and featuring them on her instagram, she’s released others based on their success. Posting ‘before and after’ images demonstrates their effectiveness and by using call to action techniques like “tap to edit” and “swipe up to buy”, she’s able to catch the interest of her audience quickly.

Displaying her Vibin wallpapers in the background of her selfies elevates her promotion and incentivizes the bundle as well as adding extra designs monthly. The key to Bonnie’s products is that her designs are versatile enough to reuse across several digital products. Check out her Shutterbug digital planner too–a helpful tool to use on a tablet for planning social media content.

Increasing traffic to her store 

Another key traffic driver to Bonnie’s Teespring storefront is linking to Facebook and Instagram platforms. Using the Instagram shopping feature allows her to link to specific digital products within her posts. Discoverability of her digital products is made effortless, the path to her storefront is simplified.

To summarize, follow Bonnie’s 3 promotional best practices and you’re winning: 

  1. Use preview images of your digital products to show how buyer can use them after downloading.
  2. Direct users from your social media platforms to your store by linking your Teespring store and using calls to actions
  3. Align followers when crafting your digital products and tailor your promotional content to grab their attention. 

Check out Bonnie’s store or visit her Instagram and TikTok to see her promotional content in action.

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How to: digital Halloween at home

Halloween in 2020 is shaping up to be a low-key, indoors affair. With the dawn of digital products on Teespring, creators can use Halloween as the opportune time to help their fans celebrate safely without shipping to consider. Keep reading for top trending digital home-friendly Halloween ideas 🌒

Create photo filters with a creepy vibe

Preset photo filters are huge right now and are sought after by followers globally on social media. Provide your unique custom photo filters with fans so they can apply your Halloween aesthetic to their images. We created a Pumpkin pie Lightroom filter to try out for inspiration. Get started with your own by playing with the contrast and brightness, ramping up the fade and grain, and adding orange tones! 🍂 Learn more about photo filters in our full guide.

Get fans’ mobile devices Halloween-ready 

Consider sharing mobile friendly products for fans to personalize their cell phones and set the mood for Halloween this year. iOS widgets are easy and fun for fans to apply to their iPhone. Be sure to explain clearly how your widgets can be applied after download using your product description. Learn more about this clever product from Techdaily. 

While you’re preparing your downloadable file of widgets, think about adding another buying incentive like wallpapers to your listings using your current designs. Make sure bonus products like this are added to the rest of your files by packaging them together in a .zip folder and uploading them to the Digital Launcher.

Share spooky story e-books

Allow fans to download an e-book and read a scary story at the click of a button. Dark side writers have turned their love of spooking their community with scary stories and poems into an e-book they created on Canva. They also read stories aloud on their YouTube channel. Take a peep if you dare… 😏 You can also consider uploading your e-book creations as audio files for those who prefer to listen rather than read.

Scary stories not your thing? Offer Halloween themed e-books tailored to the content you create and your communities interests. Here’s a few ideas: 

  • Share your best pumpkin recipes or trick or treat goodies for fans to enjoy at home
  • A Halloween preparation check-list
  • Create crafty Halloween ideas for home decor such as cross stitch or knitting pattern printable sheets.
  • Frightening makeup tutorials to show off to friends and family on Zoom calls
  • Create an educational piece such as a guide to the moon phases.

Printable posters: on-trend decorative solutions 

Great digital products to offer this year also include printable home decorations. Check out our Halloween printable home decor Pinterest board for inspo. This year the trend is: 

  • It’s all about retro illustrations, graphic designs, and typography. This kind of on-trend imagery can stay up on the walls all year long. Fans will love designs inspired by vintage posters, music, events and traditional horror movies
  • Get quirky with your designs using clipart of quirky characters, motifs and patterns. Have fun with your designs and make your Halloween products lighthearted
  • Mystical themes such as tarot cards, healing crystals, spices and herbs, and crystal balls are popular themes this year.

Shout (or scream) about it on social media

Once you’ve got your Halloween digital products ready to go, think about fun and engaging ways you can craft the perfect promotional material to start making noise on social media platforms. Head to Placeit or Canva to start applying your designs to their brilliant Halloween themed social media post templates. Contemplate introducing fun ideas to increase engagement with your followers such as sharing your instagram story template for them to apply to their posts too. 

Set up a promo code the Friday before Halloween to provide an incentive for your fans to get prepared with Halloween by purchasing your digital products! Share a discount code such as PUMPKIN20 on social media and offer 10% off. Consider bundling an extra bonus product in your digital product listing such as a wallpaper.

Now you’ve got all the inspo you need to kill it this Halloween with digital products, head straight to the Digital Launcher to start uploading your designs.

Everyone now has access capability to take their merch digital and begin turning their content into downloadable products. Begin by preparing your digital products for upload and sharing right away. 

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Be the first to join the digital revolution with Teespring

Digital products are non-physical assets sold by means of a downloadable link online, they can be anything from a e-service, e-book, digital event, printable product, and much more! Now everyone’s got access to the Digital Launcher, enter the world of digital products and monetize your content, digitizing your merch line. Allow your community to purchase and download any product imaginable—from photo filters to audio files, wallpapers to e-comics. 

Taking your merch game digital

As a content creator, you’ve got everything you need. It’s never been easier to tailor your digital products to your community by transforming your creative content into downloadable products. Share knowledge and skills with e-books, transfer illustrations and images into wallpapers, podcasts into audiobooks, or share your presets and filters for fans to apply to their photos.

Discover endless possibilities for your content 

The beauty of digital products for creators (like you) is that they’re an easy way to provide a constant stream of digital creations to your fans with minimal effort and low maintenance. Digital product files are accessible to anyone across the globe.

Here’s why you should take this opportunity to build on your brand using digital products and revolutionize your fans’ commerce experience. 

  • Worldwide availability. There’s no shipping or logistics to consider. It’s as easy as uploading your content. 
  • Higher profit margins allow you to upload digital products for your community for free, while you set the profit.
  • Tap into a world of unlimited options. Digital products are limitless. Almost every type of creative content can be applied to a product no matter what kind of industry your content and community fit into. This is the perfect opportunity for you to try new things, offer your fans new skills, knowledge and share your creations. Easy peasy. 
  • Be the one of the first to start uploading and reach digitally-savvy audiences just waiting for your innovative digital products.

Everyone now has access capability to take their merch digital and begin turning their content into downloadable products. In the meantime, begin by preparing your digital product to upload and start selling–begin by learning about launching your first digital product. 

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