How to Create & Sell Digital Products Fast Using Free Tools

If your online income through KDP or other streams feels slow, I have something that might change everything for you. You're already creating digital products, but what I'm about to show you is faster, easier, and you can sell these without paying for expensive tools or showing your face.

By the end of this guide, you'll know exactly which digital products are selling right now, how to make them in minutes using free tools, and where to sell them without spending money on ads.

Let me show you what's actually selling today. You can create these digital products in minutes - not hours or days - and you can customize one template to create multiple products for different niches or topics.

Here's the complete process that takes you from having an idea to making money while you sleep.

If you're selling to everyone, you're selling to no one. This is the most important step, so don't skip it.

Ask yourself these critical questions:

• What problems have I overcome that others are still struggling with?

• What could I talk about forever without getting bored?

• What comes easily to me that others find difficult?

• Who would benefit from skills I have or lessons I've learned?

• What ultra-specific problem could I solve for someone?

These questions will reveal your niche. You can even use ChatGPT to help you brainstorm by inputting these questions and your background.

Just make sure it's something you genuinely enjoy. And here's the secret: you don't need to be an expert. You just have to be one step ahead of your dream client. Usually, your dream client is a past version of yourself.

The more painful the problem is for your target customer, the more it pays. Focus on solving one powerful pain point rather than trying to help everyone with everything.

Let me show you why I rarely create digital products from scratch, unless I really have to.

Let's say you want to create a planner with links. Think about what creating a planner from scratch would involve: researching layout designs, learning design software, choosing fonts that work together, creating a cohesive color scheme, designing each page individually, ensuring consistency across 50+ pages, troubleshooting technical issues...

You'd easily spend 10-20 hours (or more) just to create ONE planner. And if you're not a designer, it probably won't look professional enough to sell. Even me, that I am a designer, still like to get a head start by using templates!

That's why I use done-for-you templates with PLR (Private Label Rights) and MRR (Master Resell Rights).

What are PLR & MRR Templates?

These are licensing types that give you special permissions (rights) to use and profit from digital products created by someone else.

PLR (Private Label Rights) allows you to customize templates and claim them as your own. You can change colors, text, images, and branding... essentially rebrand the entire product. You can then sell it as your own creation without crediting the original creator. They can't, however, be sold without significant modification.

MRR (Master Resell Rights) allows you to resell templates exactly as they are OR with your own customizations. The key difference is you can also pass along the resell rights to your customers, meaning they can resell the product too. This creates additional value for buyers.

Both types save you countless hours of creation time and you'll find them in the Digital Income Kit. Instead of starting from scratch, you can customize professional templates in minutes and start selling immediately.

You get professionally designed products without needing design skills, and you can create multiple variations for different niches and topics very quickly.

Creating a Planner in Minutes

You can create your digital products on Canva, which is a FREE tool. It has a premium paid version, but you don't need it to create PDF digital products.

And instead of creating a planner from scratch, all I had to do was this:

I opened a done-for-you planner template in Canva, that I grabbed from my Digital Income Kit. This particular template was very girly with pink colors and feminine fonts, but I wanted to customize it for a more masculine audience.

Here's what I did in less than 5 minutes using Canva:

• Changed the background image: Elements → Photos → selected a more masculine image

• Updated the font: Clicked on the text, selected a bolder font, chose "Change All" so it updated everywhere throughout the planner

• Adjusted the colors: Selected the pink elements, chose a brown/neutral color, clicked "Change All"

• Checked all pages: Quickly went through each page to ensure changes applied correctly

That's it. The entire planner transformed from girly to masculine and professional in less than 5 minutes. No design degree required. No hours of work. No frustration.

Want to see this process in action?

Watch my video tutorial where I show you on-screen exactly how I do this step-by-step in Canva.

This is the power of having done-for-you templates. You're not starting from scratch. You're not figuring out design principles. You're not spending days creating something that might not even sell.

You're customizing proven templates in minutes and creating products fast.

You can use most templates "as is" with just a few tweaks, completely rebrand them for any niche, or use the design structure and change all the content to any topic you wish. This is the advantage that PLR & MRR templates offer you.

Creating a Lead Magnet with the help of AI

Lead magnets are freebies you give away to build your email list. This is how you grow an audience that actually buys from you - you give value for free, capture their email, and then market your paid products to them.

For this example, I'm creating a "Newborn Hospital Bag Checklist" for new parents, by using a lead magnet template that I also grabbed from my Digital Income Kit:

• Ask ChatGPT for content: "Create a comprehensive checklist for a newborn hospital bag"

• Open your template in Canva: Start with a freebie template structure

• Update the title: Change it to your specific topic

• Replace the image: Elements → Photos → search "baby background" → drag and drop

• Adjust transparency: Make the background image subtle so text remains readable

• Update colors: Choose colors that match your brand or niche

• Paste ChatGPT content: Copy the checklist items from ChatGPT and paste into your template

• Fine-tune formatting: Adjust font sizes, spacing, and ensure everything looks polished

• Delete unnecessary pages: Remove template pages you don't need

• Download as PDF: Click Share → Download → PDF Standard

Want to see this process in action?

Watch my video tutorial where I show you on-screen exactly how I do this step-by-step in Canva.

Boom! Now you have a professional lead magnet for your audience that builds your email list and leads to sales.

The entire process took 5 minutes, including the ChatGPT research.

That's how fast you can create valuable digital products when you have the right systems in place.

You've created your digital product in minutes. Now how do you sell it without spending money on ads? Let me give you powerful options ranked from completely free to very affordable.

This is my top recommendation if you want to sell digital products without paying a single cent.

Systeme IO allows you to:

• Build sales pages and sales funnels

• Collect payments without commission fees

• Send unlimited emails daily to up to 2,000 subscribers (then only $17/month)

• Host your digital products and deliver them automatically

• Track your sales and customer data

You don't even need to provide credit card information to get started. It's truly free forever for the basic plan.

In my Digital Income Kit I have a done-for-you sales funnel that installs in one click, and can be customized in minutes. This eliminates the technical overwhelm and gets your sales funnel set up to start selling fast.

Forget Kajabi at $199/month. Forget Samcart. Forget Stan Store. You have everything you need in Systeme IO.

Systeme IO is best for: Promoting one or a few digital products at a time.

Many successful digital product sellers recommend selling one product to start, especially Maria Wendt, who I deeply admire!

One niche. One product. One funnel. One year. That's her path to making your first $1,000,000 online.

Also, focusing on one product helps you launch really fast because you can create it in minutes, or a few hours, instead of days or weeks.

If you want to launch a full online store with many digital products, Shopify is your answer.

They have an AI store builder that gets your store up and running in minutes.

With my link, you get three months for only $1. This is perfect for testing, scaling, and getting profitable before paying full price - which is still very affordable.

Want something even cheaper than Shopify?

Hostinger lets you build a complete online store for only $2 to $3 per month.

They currently have a massive sale, making it one of the most affordable ways to sell digital products online. The platform is very beginner-friendly and you can have your store live in minutes thanks to their AI Builder.

Create your digital products on Canva and market them on Etsy, which is an established marketplace with millions of buyers already browsing for products.

The advantage: You don't need to drive traffic to your products. Etsy's existing audience is actively searching and ready to buy. You just need to create optimized listings.

But here's the challenge most people face with Etsy: creating compelling listings from scratch is time-consuming.

You need eye-catching images, professional shop headers, product mockups, PDF files formatted correctly for delivery, descriptions that convert, tags that rank... it's a lot.

That's why I include done-for-you Etsy listing templates in the Digital Income Kit. You get everything you need to create professional listings without being a designer and without the hassle of putting the whole listing together from scratch.

The templates include listing images, shop header graphics, and all the formatting elements that make your products look professional and trustworthy.

I must say though, Etsy is not my favorite option because there's significant competition. But if you do things right with optimized listings, and don't want to build a social media audience to market your products, it's your best bet.

This is the million-dollar question: how do you get people to buy if you don't want to sell on a marketplace like Etsy and you don't want to spend money on ads?

The answer: build an online presence through social media.

And yes, this can be completely faceless if you prefer.

You don't need years or a large audience to get sales. The fastest proven way to sell digital products online is through Instagram and TikTok (and also Pinterest!). You place the link to your sales funnel or to your store in your bio.

Why these platforms work

• It only takes a few minutes to create short-form content

• You can use the same post for both platforms

• You can build a massive audience in 30-60 days

• You can start getting sales in less than two weeks with consistent posting

The key is consistency and a well defined niche. Post daily and you'll see momentum (and followers) build quickly.

No idea what to post?

This is where most people get stuck and give up. That's why the Digital Income Kit includes done-for-you content templates: reels, stories, carousels, and square posts that are ready to use. Just edit them quickly in Canva, add your caption, and you're done.

It also includes AI prompts for social media content ideas, and complete done for you posting sequences for several days or weeks, that work for many niches. No staring at a blank screen wondering what to create. No creative burnout.

Just remember that your posts should:

• Solve one specific problem your audience has

• Show the transformation your product provides

• Educate your niche about common mistakes

• Share your personal journey and lessons learned

• Demonstrate how to use your products

No time to post every day?

Use Metricool to schedule and repurpose content. Upload a week's (or even a month's!) worth of posts in one sitting and schedule them to both Instagram and TikTok simultaneously. You now have 29 days left in the month to relax. I use Metricool's free plan to repurpose and schedule content for Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, Pinterest and more!

Need to interact with potential buyers but don't have time?

Use Manychat to completely automate conversations and send them your product link when they comment specific keywords. This automation works 24/7 even while you sleep.

No idea how to create an automation for Manychat?

No worries! I include several done-for-you Manychat automations in the Digital Income Kit so you don't have to build them from scratch.

You can also build an audience on YouTube, but it takes more time and creating long-form videos is more work. However, YouTube videos continue driving traffic for years, making it very valuable for long-term growth.

And yes, YouTube can be completely faceless too using screen recordings, voiceovers, or stock footage. If you're interested in learning more, the ( includes guides on how to become a content creator, faceless or not, even on Youtube!

Let me recap the entire path from creating your digital product to making your first sale:

That's the complete system! It's simpler than you think, but it does require taking action.

Before you launch, remember these non-negotiables:

Quality is KING: If you offer poor designs, low aesthetic appeal, or superficial information, you won't get repeat customers. Invest time in making your products genuinely valuable.

Solve real problems: Don't create products you think are cool. Create products that solve painful problems your target audience actually has.

Build your email list: Lead magnets aren't optional - they're essential for long-term success. Your email list is your most valuable asset.

Stay consistent: Posting once won't work. Commit to daily content for at least 60 days to build momentum.

Focus before expanding: Master one product and one niche before creating 50 different products. Depth beats width when you're starting.

The digital products market is projected to reach $26 trillion by 2034. This isn't a trend - it's a fundamental shift in how people buy educational content, tools, and resources.

You don't need to be an expert. You don't need expensive tools. You don't need to show your face.

You just need to solve real problems for real people and use the systems I've outlined in this guide.

The templates, tools, and platforms exist right now to help you launch in days, not months. And I guide you and provide everything for you in the Digital Income Kit.

The only question is: will you take action?

Your digital products business can provide the time freedom and financial security you've been dreaming about. It's allowed me to travel with my children and build a life on my terms. The same opportunity is available to you right now.

Start with one product. One niche. One sales funnel.

Give yourself permission to begin imperfectly and improve as you go. Your first sale will prove this works, and momentum will build from there.

I believe in you. Now go create something valuable and change your financial future.