Having some extra money sounds great, but more often than not, getting your hands on it is pretty hard. But what if you could earn a passive income with minimal upkeep?
No, this isn't some kind of snake oil type of situation. We're talking about done-for-you digital products that you can sell to make you a nice amount of money without turning into a full-time job.
Selling digital products is already a fantastic way to earn some extra cash. Done-for-you digital products with resell rights are a step up from that, as there's already consistent demand for these products. But what are your best options? Let's dive in and check them out.
What are Done-For-You Digital Products?
Done-for-you digital products…what even are they? The name is a bit of a mouthful, but behind it lies a solid business idea.
These types of products are different from regular digital products in that the core content has already been designed by an expert—in this case, you. You make products and then decide on resell rights and market them to people who want to customize and resell them.
Done-for-you digital products are an efficient way to get things out there and start selling, which is why there is a growing demand for them. Some of their key features include:
- Pre-made content
- Easily customizable templates
- Resell rights already in place
- Applies to various digital products, from ebooks to planners and courses
Once you've created some products for this purpose, you can sell them on platforms like Whop or Etsy. Many sellers choose to sell huge bundles of digital products, but more targeted, niche bundles tend to fetch higher prices.
Making these products yourself and then selling them is a solid way to make money when you already have a job. You can work on your projects when you have the time, then put up your done-for-you goodies and wait. You won't have to do anything much to them once they're listed—your customers will handle all the future customization for themselves.
While we do stress that they are easy to create, it’s still very important to ask yourself certain questions. For example, which product is right for you? And what’s the right way to sell it?
Below, we'll walk you through the best done-for-you digital products to sell, and then tell you all about how to do it.
The 15 Best Done-For-You Digital Products to Sell
So, you’ve decided to take the (pretty straightforward) leap into selling done-for-you digital products. But the options are so varied it can be difficult to know where to begin.
What are people most interested in right now? Here are our top picks with some more specific ideas for each.
1. Ebooks
If you have a talent for writing, you could make a bank selling ebooks to people who don't want to write them themselves. And boy, are ebooks a lucrative market to break into. Revenue has exploded in recent years and is projected to increase a further $1.1 billion by 2029, reaching a new market peak.
Ebooks are among the most popular done-for-you digital products. Topics span marketing, ecommerce, mental health, social media, dropshipping, the stock market, and just about anything else. You can sell these in bundles with other digital products or as standalone packs of ebooks.
Remember that you might have higher profit margins if you just sell the ebooks with no resell rights, but of course, you'll need to spend a lot more time on them if you go down that route.
Here are a few more specific examples that are especially popular in done-for-you digital products.
Travel guides
Selling travel guides is something that pretty much never goes out of style. The pandemic was a rough time for the travel industry, but now, it's bouncing back in full force, and people want to know where to go and what to do.
Selling travel guide ebooks could help your customers (and their customers) plan their dream adventures, with advice included on how to:
- Save money
- Plan itineraries
- Use different modes of transport (such as trains and motorhomes)
- Find the best types of accommodation (from hotels to campsites)
- Check out interesting restaurants and sights
- Stay safe
- Find the best hiking trails
- Travel with kids, pets, or special accommodations
One advantage of this genre is how customizable it is for different modes of traveling and different locations around the world!
Wellness guides
In a single year, an incredible $5.61 trillion is invested in the health and wellness industry. This growth is projected to continue, as people are always looking for daily solutions.
Your ebook could provide advice on dieting and tips on how to lose weight, but there's more to wellness than just eating healthy. Ebooks on mental health, work-life balance, spirituality, productivity, and maintaining healthy habits all fall under this umbrella.
Fitness guides
A good idea with fitness guides—or any guides—is to niche down and get specific. Having some guides for the general audience is great, but if you can provide something that not many other sellers can do, that's even better.
Look into things like pre- or post-natal fitness, hot yoga, HIIT, climbing tips, and more to appeal to audiences who are willing to spend money on reliable information related to their interests and situations. You can also include macro calculators or nutrition tips.
Cryptocurrency and stocks trading guides
This is another booming industry. Traders are hungry for tips on investing strategies, budgeting, and forecasts, so an ebook can offer a ready-made guide on how to maximize success in trading. It can be designed for beginners or more experienced traders.
Updates in this area are frequent, and there's almost no such thing as an evergreen product when it comes to crypto and stocks. Be prepared to either periodically update your books or try to talk about the foundations to make them as relevant as possible.
2. Logos and branding kits
Finding your own unique brand is hard, which is why there's money to be made from huge packs of various logos and branding elements. After all, selling branding templates to businesses can save them the hassle of hiring someone to design these things.
You don't even need to be a graphic designer. All you need is Canva or another free software and a bit of creativity. Some businesses might need a sleek and subtle aesthetic, others might need one that bursts with eye-catching color; the more boxes you can tick, the better.
3. Notion templates
Let's be honest… Notion is great. But, setting it up from scratch is really annoying, and many people and businesses might be willing to pay you a hefty sum just to get a Notion template that does the job for them.
Notion templates of the done-for-you digital product variety span across things like all sorts of planners and journals to various trackers and dashboards. Once you go through the ordeal of making them, your customers can later customize them for specific uses and sell them again.
4. Newsletters
Newsletters are among the best ways to reach people, be they customers or subscribers, and some platforms are seeing a lot of growth in subscriber counts right now. However, writing a newsletter that actually gets read is no easy feat.
If you have some basic copywriting skills (or a few hours to spend on practice), you can create done-for-you email templates and newsletters to streamline this time-consuming process. What’s more, they can be customized to match a wide variety of purposes and industries. Here are a few for you to consider:
Marketing newsletters
Most businesses use email templates to grow their customer bases or to keep in touch with existing ones. These newsletters provide eye-catching updates about current sales or new products available. Abandoned cart email templates are also popular.
In-house business updates
These newsletters are what companies send to their employees to update them on developments within their business or the industry they work in.
Some businesses may be happy to pay for having these ready-made instead of having to power up ChatGPT and do it themselves. However, since that is an option, you should customize your newsletters to match specific industries and make them higher quality than what AI can provide.
Nonprofit newsletters
It’s not only businesses that look to share information about the work they’re doing—nonprofits need to update followers too. Newsletter templates can spread awareness about a particular issue, raise more funding, or celebrate donors and charity workers.
5. Discord server templates
Creating online communities is an effective way to bring people together for a shared purpose. It may be as simple as a place for people to talk, share expert tips, or even learn a new skill as a group.
These days, most people converge either on Discord or on Telegram for communities such as this. The catch is that if you're not too familiar with either, setting up a community by yourself can be quite a hassle. This is where templates come in.
You can create templates for every type of server and sell them in themed bundles. For instance, make a batch of gaming Discord templates and customize them to match various games. Don't forget to spruce them up with some of the best ideas for your Discord server.
6. Website templates
Designing websites is a task that both companies and people rarely have time for, so why not give them a helping hand? Pre-made website templates are a valuable jumpstart for anyone who wants a website but doesn't want to spend hours poring over programming tutorials (or paying a web designer).
Done-for-you website templates can be customized for many platforms, including:
- Canva
- Figma
- WordPress
- Wix
- Squarespace
Apart from the above, you can also sell web design templates with things like logos and other visual elements. Those are often made in Canva. Meanwhile, Figma templates come in handy for the UI/UX side of things.
7. Articles and blog posts
It's no secret that one of the keys to SEO lies in organic traffic and sharing helpful, relevant content. By selling done-for-you bundles of articles and blog posts, you can help others run successful websites and get paid for them.
We live in an era of ChatGPT and similar large language models, so people who want to run blogs and websites at a low cost already migrated toward using AI for penning their posts. However, with Google and other search engines continuously prioritizing human-made content, PLR blog posts can be a good solution for both you and the buyer.
Even if you choose to use AI to make these in bulk, edit them to make them as human as possible. Go the extra mile with some customization, tools like AI checkers (be wary of false positives!), and Copyscape to check for plagiarism. If you can provide cheap, but valuable content, you're bound to find buyers.
8. Journals and planners
While some of us used to keep a physical journal in our angsty teenage years, these days, journaling is often an online affair. After all, it's nice to always be able to access your planner on any device.
Journals and planners also happen to be among the most common done-for-you digital products to resell. You can sell them in huge bundles spanning many different niches or in smaller, themed bundles, such as ADHD journals or weight loss planners.
Need ideas for journals and planners to resell? Consider the below options!
Mental health journals
Mental health journals can offer a valuable support system to users, including:
- Mindfulness techniques
- Art therapy prompts
- Meditation guides
- Gratitude diaries
The level of personal engagement in this type of product means it can be hugely significant in people’s lives. Moreover, there's a demand for creative, beautiful designs that go well with this type of journal.
Travel planners
Digital travel planners can help people curate their dream trip, with templates for:
- Travel routes
- Budgeting
- Itineraries
- Packing lists
You can sell done-for-you travel planners for specific locations or those that can apply to any destination.
Business and finance planner
Managing your own business, or even just your own finances, can be complex and overwhelming. Planners in this niche are often a hit, but you'll need to go beyond and customize them to specific needs.
Templates in the business planning category can include:
- Daily, weekly, and monthly planners
- To-do lists
- Budgets
- Reminders
- Goals
- Vision boards
For financial planning, a done-for-you digital product can quickly provide help for managing savings and debts—and let's not forget all those pesky subscription fees from streaming services.
9. Stock music tracks
Sound clips, instrumental songs, and jingles are readily available online, but buying them one at a time racks up quite an expense. Instead, some content creators and businesses may prefer to buy bundles of stock audio clips and use them for their own purposes. This is where you come in.
You can create bundles of audio tracks and loops and offer your buyers resell rights. Some will buy them to resell, but many might just buy from you directly for their own content needs.
10. Faceless reels
The term "faceless reels" refers to video content where the creator's face is never shown. They're focused on objects, environments, or non-identifiable elements such as hands or silhouettes. These are used on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube to post videos without ever needing to get on camera.
These reels are more popular than one might think. Many have the urge to join the creator economy and start posting videos, but they also don’t want to be the face or voice of the operation. In addition, lots of content creators find the idea of designing reels from scratch too complicated.
Good thing that you can help, eh? You can sell a wide range of ready-to-use content, such as aesthetic designs and stock video footage, to help creators create the right look and feel for their reels.
11. Courses
In terms of offering value and commanding high prices, online courses are flying high as a done-for-you digital product. On the whole, the e-learning market has had a growth rate of 900% since 2000 and is projected to surpass a trillion dollars by 2030. That's a pretty sweet pie to try and take a slice out of.
As with eBooks, there are so many niche done-for-you course options, with pre-made educational formats. Courses have another thing in common with ebooks—you'll get much higher profit margins selling them directly to customers through Whop.
No matter what you choose to do, here are a few online course ideas that are hugely profitable:
Language courses
Over 1.5 billion people are looking to learn a new language, and many of them may be tired of being haunted by a little owl telling them that it's time to do their daily lesson. This is where you come in.
Your course templates can be tailored to beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels of difficulty. Language courses are fairly evergreen, which means that your upfront time investment should pay off over time and keep making you money as long as you keep up your marketing efforts.
Finance and money-making courses
The topic of finance is as vast as it is volatile. What's more, many people want to learn about things like day trading equities, long-term investing, or the best ETFs to buy. The catch here is that you'll need to go through each done-for-you course and update it frequently as the market changes.
Some more evergreen topics related to finance (which will still require some management and customization) include:
- Personal finance
- Wealth management
- Insurance
- Taxation
For those looking to increase their money, courses could focus on:
- Investment
- Sales
- Trading
- Affiliate marketing
Other options
There really is an endless amount of potential done-for-you courses. Some others include:
- Programming and IT
- Video editing
- Cooking
- Knitting and sewing
- Yoga
- Personal fitness
- Cryptocurrency
- Dropshipping
- Ecommerce
- Social media
12. Lead magnets
Lead magnets aren't too different from those free little tasters you can sometimes get at the grocery store. They're essentially freebies offered by businesses to potential customers to get them interested in their full catalog.
When you browse various websites for done-for-you digital products, you'll run into many bundles of lead magnets. In such bundles, you'll usually find various guides, articles, workbooks, templates, or courses.
Various niches under the digital marketing and SaaS umbrella are often a good pick for these. Try to think of the type of businesses that might want to provide free content as a way to get more sales.
13. Coloring books and bookmarks
Coloring isn't just for kids anymore (although they sure do love it too). Coloring books, bookmarks, and DIY scrapbooking elements are super popular right now, and they're among the best digital products to sell. Making them requires a bit of artsy know-how, though, but there are lots of tutorials that can help you find your footing.
The good thing about this type of product is that you can bundle and re-bundle them over and over to make themed coloring sets for kids and their parents alike. You can also combine them with things like affirmations, little quizzes, or weekly planners.
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14. Prints and designs
So, those graphic design skills we talked about earlier… If you want to put them to really good use, selling print, stock photo, and design bundles can be hugely profitable.
The possibilities for bundles like this are endless, which means you don't need to create thousands of fresh designs. Instead, recolor and update your prints as needed for each bundle and enjoy getting sales from various listings.
15. Resume templates
The job hunt is draining, and having to write resume after resume can truly be soul-crushing—which is exactly why such templates are so evergreen. They're also not going anywhere. Until recruiters come up with some other way of testing people, resume and cover letter templates will stay relevant.
Done-for-you resume templates can easily be made in Canva. Customizing the design for all types of jobs is a good idea, such as making clean templates alongside more creative ones.
You can, but don't have to, go the extra mile and fill out these resume templates for various jobs. Making cover letter templates is a good idea, too.
How to Sell Done-For-You Digital Products
Are you eager to start making your own done-for-you digital products with resell rights? You're almost all set. Let's go over every step of the way so that you can set yourself up for 100% success.
Choose and make your products
Depending on what you do, this first step might be one of the most fun in your journey! The order of the day is to pick the products that you want to make, and then go about making them.
Seeing as you'll be making a lot of products and selling them in bulk to resellers, it's important to scope out the competition before you sink any time into this.
Go through various marketplaces where done-for-you digital products are being sold and see what's currently trending. You can even go the extra mile and use tools like Google Trends, Ahrefs, SEMrush, and Ubersuggest.
For many of these products, this won't be a one-day sort of job. Sure, you can use AI to make money and help you create digital products in bulk, but you'll still likely need to make some tweaks to achieve a good end result.
The good thing about this type of product is that you can make them at scale relatively easily once you work out all the specifics of the first few. For example, there's not much work in transforming a fitness tracker into a financial tracker. Once you have the foundation, building on it is a lot easier to do.
Which resell rights do you want to use?
Deciding on the resell rights is an important choice. As you're the creator of all these files, the copyright can be traced back to you. If you were selling them to end users, resell rights wouldn't be much of a concern. But, as you're targeting resellers and companies, they'll need to know the extent to which they can alter and sell your products later.
Done-for-you products come in three variants:
- Products with resell rights (RR): The buyer can sell them again; their customers cannot.
- Products with master resell rights (MRR): Both the buyer and their customer can resell the product.
- Products with private label rights (PLR): The buyer can modify and customize these and then resell them under their own brand. This is by far the most common and profitable type of done-for-you product.
Once you do some digging, you'll find that PLR products are, by far, the most common in online marketplaces. Buyers appreciate the ability to customize the product and make it their own while using your base to save time.
Set your prices
Okay, we lied—kind of. This step might be just as exciting as the process of creating your products because this will determine how much money will start rolling into your bank account shortly.
Before you can sit back and start counting your revenue, you'll need to get back to your market research. Pricing digital products is tricky. For starters, you might have a hard time finding one-for-one comparisons to your competitors. With some people selling bundles of 20,000 products for pennies and others selling curated sets of five for $100 and up, it's very much situational.
You also need to think about how you want to bundle and sell your products. You can sell smaller bundles or go for bulk; the latter tends to work especially well in the case of design and graphic assets. Some sellers just bundle everything together into one unrelated package of PLR goodness and let the buyer figure it out for themselves.
Given the nature of this type of product, consider the following when setting your prices:
- The price per file across various competitors
- The price per bundle
- Bundle types and sizes
Don't sell yourself short—you deserve to be paid fairly for your time! On the other hand, remember that your products can likely keep on selling for months on end, generating passive income, so a slightly lower price might still pay off.
Pick the perfect platform
A quick Google search will show you the popularity of done-for-you digital products, especially those of the PLR variety. Aside from online marketplaces like Whop, you'll find bundles of PLR products all over the internet, with several websites dedicated entirely to selling such products.
As a new seller, you're better off listing your products on an already established platform as opposed to setting up your own website. Not only is it an unnecessary expense at this point, but also you'll limit the amount of organic traffic your products will get. A new website is much less likely to have lots of visitors than an existing marketplace.
When choosing the right platform, take into account things such as:
- Payment methods
- Payment options, including subscriptions and flat fees
- The ability to create many listings and how much it costs. For instance, Etsy has a listing fee, which means you'll need to pay upfront without knowing whether your products will sell
The two of the most popular destinations for selling done-for-you digital products are Whop and Etsy.
Market your products
With your products listed and ready, your next step is to look into some marketing options. When selling through various marketplaces, your best bet is to lean into SEO and ecommerce strategies.
The amount of traffic your products may get through things like social media or paid ads may not always be substantial. Most people don't buy PLR products just because they stumbled upon them, after all. If you optimize your listings, however, your products will be much easier to spot by people who are already looking for them, and that guarantees much higher chances of scoring a sale.
Here are some things you can do:
- Optimize your product listings and titles with relevant keywords and clear descriptions
- List the types of products included in your bundles and clarify how many of them are included
- Use bullet points for readability
- Include plenty of images and videos where applicable
- Encourage your customers to leave reviews
Build up many streams of passive income
Do you know what the best thing about selling done-for-you digital products with resell rights is?
It's that once your products are out there, they'll keep making you money for as long as you leave them up. Outside of some highly specific niches, no one will expect you to update these files. They're mostly evergreen, and the customization falls to your buyers.
You can start out small and slowly build your way up. With just one listing up, your income will be on the smaller side, but those products will already be there, earning you money while you work on the next ones. Before you know it, you'll have money coming in on a regular basis without needing to do anything else about it.
Where is the Best Place to Sell Digital Products?
You've got your product ideas. You've got your strategies. You're all set.
There's just one more thing: where do those products go to guarantee the highest success rates?
As we mentioned previously, using an online marketplace is the easiest, most secure, and most cost-effective way to sell done-for-you digital products. It saves you the hassle of having to set up your own website, deal with email deliveries and downloadables, and spend money on advertising.
As far as marketplaces go, we'll be honest with you—you will find a lot of these PLR products on Etsy. This is mainly because many such products are on the artsy side, and that fits Etsy's business model to a T.
However, if you're trying to maximize your profits and make as much money as you can, selling on Etsy is not the best option for you. Selling through Whop is, and opens up so many more avenues for earning an income.
Sell Digital Products with Whop and Start Earning Passive Income Today
Whop is a leading platform for selling digital products that is so simple to use. Selling done-for-you digital products means you'll be reaping the rewards later, but we know that getting started is the tricky part.
That's why Whop is as hassle-free as can be—so you can focus on the more important things.
With Whop, the entire process of delivering your digital products is automated, and you can list as many as you want. Whop won't charge you extra just because you have a lot of different listings, which is a staple in PLR products. All you need to do is set up your own whop hub—this takes just a few minutes—and start selling.
What's more, with Whop you can target much higher profit margins by targeting consumers instead of resellers. Those ebooks, courses, newsletters, or Discord templates you spent time creating? You can sell them not just as PLR products but also as downloadables to be used.
The sooner you start, the sooner you can start earning, and Whop is ready to match your pace every step of the way. Start selling digital products and earn passive income with Whop today.
