How to Sell Digital Products Directly From Your Blog?

Digital Products

We heard about the physical products but did you know people get rich by selling digital products. In digital products you will be selling software, mobile applications, online tools, courses, e-Books and other important resources according to your blog niche. But doing this is not easy it requires a good organic traffic.

In this guide we will tell you some strategies by using them you can easily sell digital products from your website. Don't just depend on Google AdSense revenue you can earn money from different sources if you have a good traffic on your website. But for this make sure you have niche in which digital products are included.

Steps to sell digital products from blog website

1. Choose Your Digital Product
2. Create and Package the Product
3. Set Up E-commerce Functionality
4. Optimize Your Sales Page
5. Promote Your Product
6. Track, Improve and Upsell

1. Choose Your Digital Product

The first and most important part is to choose the right product which is according to your blog niche. Don't do the mistakes like if you have blogging website related to car or vehicle's and you are selling digital marketing products. Choose products according to your category and this includes:

• eBooks
• Templates
• Courses
• Printables
• Software
• Stock photos
• Audio files

Now it depends on you how you can choose your products. If you are facing any issue with finding the product contact us and we will help you. Find the product which have a high demand and people need it.

2. Create and Package the Product

The product which you are selling is your own product don't copy from any other sources. Make it with your own efforts and knowledge which actually help people. That's how you can build a trust and your customers become your regular buyers. To create the digital product you need to use AI tools and editing software which help you.

Add logo and branding to the digital product so it creates a brand. Whenever your product will be shared to someone they will see the owner details. You can also help from other sources to create these products. Also if you don't want to create your own product and sell other people's product then the best option is to do affiliate marketing. On which you get commission on selling their products.

3. Set Up E-commerce Functionality

By selling digital products easily from your website you need to use WordPress. As many people are using WordPress for blogging, So we will guide you about it. In WordPress you get WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads plugins which help you setup all the functions in just one click. Plugins you can used for this:

• WooCommerce
• Easy Digital Downloads (EDD)
• MemberPress
• BigCommerce for WordPress
• Ecwid Ecommerce Shopping Cart

Add these plugins and setup your payment methods. Then you just need to setup your product, add the titles, description and prices. Upload your digital product so whenever someone purchase that product it automatically downloaded when they pay you. 

4. Optimize Your Sales Page

Whenever someone purchases anything online they first see the title of product, its description and also the customer reviews along with the price of product. You need to add the proper description about that product includes all the benefits. Add some images which give a clear idea to users how their product look like. 

In the last make sure to add the FAQs, and be honest in it add all the possible questions which buyer have in their minds. If you are able to add discounts on the prices make sure to add some discounts it chances to increase your sale. Use normal colors in the sales page which attracts the user.

5. Promote Your Product

Now the best part of blogging is if you have a good traffic on your website you don't need to do promotion of the products. Just simple write the blog post related to that product and add the call to action (CTA) button to buy now. When your audience read that blog post they get information about product and it help your product to sold easily.

Add the Email newsletter in your website, so if your audience subscribe it they get informed whenever you upload a new product. Add the link of that product in other related blog post of your website. Add the link in the bottom of the post, so it did not effect the user experience.

You can also use social media for promotion of your product if you really want to grow your audience. But that is a difficult process because in this field you need to build trust in your audience so they can easily buy products from you.

6. Track, Improve and Upsell

If you are not getting feedback and reviews from the users your business will never grow. Monitor your product performance who buys it, which category people are buying it . Then you can create more better products according to their interests. Add the feedback form in your sales page so user add their feedback. If they give you poor feedback then improve the changes. 

The best part of selling digital products is you never run out of stocks. No matter how many times people download the product it never finished the inventory. Make a product much better from different people reviews and sell it easily.

Important Points to Focus On

1. When you get thousands of monthly traffic then try to sell digital products.
2. Provide original and quality of content in product.
3. Add the honest reviews in the sales page.
4. Show feedback of buyers to other users.
5. Add same niche product according to your blog website.
6. Focus on getting more traffic not sales.

Conclusion

Overall, digital products is the best passive income idea if your website have much visitors who are interested in buying that product. Use WordPress plugins which help you because without using the plugins it is difficult to sell the product. Because user need to trust on your website.

At first you need to build trust because people are going to purchase directly online payment. There is no cash on delivery method so they hardly trust you. For this use trusted payment methods and whenever someone purchases a product make sure to take review from them.