As a freelance graphic designer, I love working with clients! But there are also so many ways outside of just working with clients to monetize your creative skills! I thought I'd share a few of my favorites incase you're looking for some other options to grow your audience, increase your passive income, and make creating your full time job!
1. Selling On CreativeFabrica
My favorite platform at the moment is Creative Fabrica! I've just recently started using this one, and they make it so easy to post and promote your designs, and offer more organic reach than any other platform I have tried. Within a day of posting my products, they were receiving favorites and downloads, which is much different than other platforms where it usually takes more time to build your audience. So many creatives use this site to download assets for their creative projects, and Creative Fabrica offers a unique payment structure where you get paid monthly just for having your designs on the site, regardless of sales. You will also receive royalties on your individual product sales as well! I started off by offering one of my products (Construction Paper bundle) as a freebie, and that has helped with increasing traffic to my storefront! It's free, quick, and easy to set up a shop with Creative Fabrica, you do have to submit an application, but the process is very easy and their response time is pretty quick! If you're considering. I would definitely recommend submitting an application and giving CreativeFabrica a try!
2. Selling On CreativeMarket
One of my favorite things about CreativeMarket, is I can easily upload the same products I upload to CreativeFabrica and reach more customers through their platform! This is such a fun platform because you can create fonts, illustrations, templates and other digital assets for other graphic designers! I love that it allows me to experiment with different design styles and connect with other designers as well! You can also easily submit up to 5 of your products at a time for consideration to be included in their monthly drop! Each month the Creative Market team selects a handful of products to be included for free to their monthly subscribers! Recently, one of my products, the Hello Sunshine Font, was chosen to be included in the drop! This was great for gaining exposure increasing traffic to my store! It's a free, quick, and easy process to set up your shop with Creative Market! If you're considering it, I would definitely recommend selling your designs here!
3. Selling on RedBubble If you're more interested in selling physical products, Redbubble is my favorite Print-On-Demand platform that provides organic reach to your designs! You can easily upload your designs, choose from over 70 products to sell on, and publish! I love that you have your own storefront you can create and promote directly to your audience. Below is a look at my storefront, I love that you can easily customize your own storefront and choose which products are featured on display! I was recently chosen as a "Featured Artist" on the platform and had one of my products promoted in their weekly e-mail and on the home page! This was great for increasing visibility on the site, I'd recommend uploading high quality designs regularly to increase your chances of being featured! It's free, quick, and easy to set up a storefront. andI would definitely recommend giving it a try if you're interested in print-on-demand!
These are just a few of my current favorite ways to make passive income as a graphic designer, I love that these platforms have no monthly fees and you can easily receive royalties each month from setting up your shop and adding a few products! I've found consistency is key, and the more products you upload, the more traffic and sales you will see! Feel free to reach out (create@ashleyscottdesigns.com) if you have any questions about anything included in this post, I'm always happy to help another designer out!
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