How to Create and Sell Notion Templates: A Developer's Guide

Introduction

The selling and buying of digital assets are increasing with time. It will be more popular in the coming future. When talking about digital assets, people think of NFTs but there are a lot of other digital assets too.

One of them is the Notion Template. Notion from its launch has been a symbol of productivity. You can create a workflow that works for you. Notion with the integration of different templates has become more powerful. I use Blog Tracker, and Finance Tracker notion templates. The selling of notion templates has also been on the rise with the tool as more and more people are using Notion. With features like AI writing coming to Notion, it will become more powerful. It is one of the best times to start selling notion templates.

So, today I am going to guide you on creating and selling notion templates online. Apart from the general guide to the notion template, it is written with developers in mind. So, that you can create a passive income source by selling digital products.

We will look into the following topics:

• Finding topics for the Notion template
• Creating a Notion template
• Getting Initial Feedback
• Publishing and Launching
• Marketing
• Maintaining and Update the template

Let’s get started.

Finding Topics to Sell Notion Template

The first step is always challenging. If you figure out the first step then the rest of the journey will be a lot easier. In the selling notion template, it's the topic on which you want to create your template. The answer to such a question is simple you create what you are passionate about, and what you know. This is so simple that you won't find any topics or will create something that is generally available. We need a better understanding of this. So, let’s look into some methods that will help you in finding topics:

• Find a niche: Don’t go for general topics, find a niche to create. For instance, I write a technical blog that is general to most developers. But my first notion template was for Web Developers specific. This will lower your audience but impact the right kind of people with a good chance of converting.

• Notionable: Topics need to be notionable that is you can build that in notion. For instance, a page with information can be made in PDF ebooks as it won’t use many features of Notion. While something that uses the notion’s key features will be a better option.

• Inspiration: You can explore the notion templates for getting inspiration. You can look into some of that to find things that are missing or lacking. You can add those features to your templates. This can be your selling point such as the Finance Tracker with different table views.

• Do what you like: Yeah, I am saying this as your knowledge and passion will create a better notion template. In the end, if you love doing what you do then there is more chance that it will be a better product.

Creating Notion Template and Getting Initial Feedback

Once you put a lock on the topics then it will be time for creating the notion template. As I said, try to add key features of the notion in your template. If you don’t know how notion works then I recommend you to watch Notion App: Full Notion Tutorial for Beginners! [A-Z Guide] Youtube guide by Carter Surach on his Youtube channel, Productive Dude.

Once you created your notion template, the first step is to get initial feedback. We love the product that we create and sometimes overlook the detailing that is required. So, having a second look is essential. You can ask your friends, family or colleagues for it. You can also DM someone for feedback that uses Notion or knows about it. After getting feedback, as usual work on it and improve it. You don’t have to be in a loop for asking for feedback and working on it. A maximum of 2 times will be enough as you can also work on it after launch. After building a satisfying draft, it would be time to launch the product.

Launching the Notion Template for Selling

Before launching the product, you should create a video or article explaining the template. It will also serve as a demo of your product. Now about launching, If you have your website then it will be a good place to launch. But at the same time, you have to implement the landing page, payment, review, and product delivery features. You can also launch your product on other platforms that will take care of everything but they take a small chunk of your payment.

There are platforms like GumRoad and Prototion that will help you in launching and selling the product. But they have a high percentage for commission, 20% for Prototion, and 10% for GumRoad. You can use other products such as Whop.com to sell the notion template. The commission fee is quite low when compared to others. You can check the below screenshot for the fee structure.

They have users who are curious about some awesome Notion templates. If you are interested in selling on Whop then read the Selling Notion Templates On Whop guide for launching it on Whop.

Marketing

It is an important step for getting sales of your notion template. If you have a social media audience use that by offering initial discounts. Creating content around the notion template is a good idea. You can write a blog about it. If it's related to developers then I would suggest writing blog articles about it on dev.to and Hashnode. Using my blog, I was able to generate more than 700 sales of my last notion template. You can also create a video to discuss the notion templates and mention your template. For instance, X number of notion templates for Web Developers. In this, you can mention your template at the beginning.

Reddit and Quora spaces are also good options to post about your notion template. Make sure to read their content guideline before posting.

Updating and Maintaining the Notion Template

Once you have some customers then reach out to them for feedback. This feedback will help you in improving your template as well as be helpful in marketing. You can use their positive reviews to market your product on social media. With their constructive feedback, you can work on the template to improve it.

Once in a while, you should update the template to support new features of the notion.

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Conclusion

We have discussed the topics that are essential while selling notion templates. Selling of notion template is straightforward or there is a framework that will surely give a guarantee of sales. Mostly it is trial and error. Blog articles work for me but Twitter doesn’t. So, finding out what best suits you is what you get by selling your first notion template. I have provided you with a guideline that you can follow to speed up the process with different ideas.

I hope that the article has served its purpose of helping you in creating and selling a notion template. Thanks for reading the article.