How To Create, Market, and Sell Notion Templates

1. How to Sell Notion Templates: In this course, I'm going to teach you how to create and sell notion templates that are going to be able to provide value for your audience and make you a nice stream of income. Now a question is, why should you sell notion templates? And one of the best things about notion templates is because they are a digital product. This is scalable income, which means you create it once and as long as you have some way to continually market it, you can continually get purchases without doing any additional effort. Which means you can make a lot more money than the couple hours it took you to create that notion. Template Notion. Template also gives you a way to easily share your system in a way other than simply worksheets or videos. But it allows you to be able to teach other people how to do something within an organization system so that it's ready for them to use and they don't have to worry about setting it up. And then finally, notion templates can help your customers and help your audience to be able to save time when trying to work within notion or to be able to implement your system in an easier way. Now, any creator can sell a notion template. And specifically in this course, I am going to be talking as a creator, as somebody who is trying to develop their audience. Even though I am going to give tips on if you don't have an audience, but I'm mainly talking to creators, not people who want to get into selling notion templates simply as a way to get passive income. And I'm going to talk about why that's probably not the best idea at this stage. What this course is going to cover is how to make a notion template valuable and how you can create notion templates from what you already have. I'm going to show you examplate templates that I have sell that has made me over $1,000 And both of those templates are sold below $10 each. And then how to create your notion template to sell, we're going to go into all of how do you build out an notion template, but also we're going to talk about how do you actually get it on a site to sell and what's the mechanics behind that. And I'm going to show you how I sell my notion templates as well. I'm going to show you how to create the actual digital product that you're going to sell. And then we're going to talk about where to sell your notion template and how to market your notion template. And I think that's the key part that a lot of people are missing. Because a lot of people that talk about notion templates just tell you that oh, once you create it, people are going to buy it. But no, you really do have to market it just like anything in business. I hope that you are excited. If you are interested in selling your own notion templates or creating notion templates to sell, dive into this course. I'm really excited to get started to be able to allow you to increase this income stream for you. 2. How to Make A Valuable Notion Template: We're going to start off with how to make a valuable notion template. The reality is that the initial surge of selling notion templates is over. You can't just be able to make significant money off of creating a really simple, generic template and throwing it up on Ets. Ets is now saturated with notion templates, which is why I'm going to be really focusing more on creators. And allowing creators to create another digital product for themselves instead of just telling anyone, okay, here's a simple way to make a notion template. Examples of really generic notion templates are things like gratitude journal. I actually registered for how to create notion templates course because I thought they were going to go in really deep with the marketing and the like deep notion advanced formulas and stuff like that. And I ended up actually refunding that course because all it did was teach you how to make a generic calendar gratitude. And I think it was a budget notion template. And she was like, oh, you can just take mine and use them. And I was like, these aren't really going to sell and there's no real benefit to anyone because they're really, really, really simple notion templates. And if you go to something like S, which is what they were suggesting you sell on, there's already hundreds of them out there. You're just more noise. So things like this, things like generic task templates, calendars, planners and budget templates are all very generic. And they're just going to be one more thing. When someone searches a planner notion template, you're most likely going to be able to find a free one if you don't have something specific to yours that makes people want to buy from you. Standing out right now in notion templates, it's really about being different more than it is about being better or having the best aesthetic. It's being different and speaking to a specific crowd. So while these templates might be really easy to build and you might find a lot of people telling you, oh, just build these and throw them on Etsy and you're going to be a millionaire. I don't think that's really realistic, especially if you're somebody who's tried to dive into this and you may be like, why is my notion template not selling? And it's because it's already saturated. But there is a place to actually still make money with notion template. The most successful templates are the ones that are provide the most value. A gratitude journal. Somebody could probably put up a gratitude journal very, very quickly. Probably within five to 10 minutes, you can make one and you can sell it. But ultimately, if it only took you five to 10 minutes to do that, then it's only going to take someone else five to 10 minutes. And that's not going to be as valuable to them as it would be if it either took you longer or is actually using more of your general experience. Whether that's experienced specifically in notion or your experience in the field that you're creating that template for. How do you make a valuable template? Knowing the basics of notion is not a valuable enough skill anymore, the basics of notion to create a generic template. There are very few people who are really profiting well and they have a lot of templates, they do a lot of marketing. And they were some of the first to the scene. I think it's really hard to get there at this point. Instead, the value of a notion template comes from your unique system to solve a specific problem. So just like with any type of product, you want to be thinking about what is your customer's problem that you are going to solve. Notion templates are now just one more medium to solve that problem. Instead of focusing on them as a very, very specific product, they're just one medium. So just like a course or a worksheet or a coaching call is a medium to solve a problem. A notion template is just one of those mediums. Instead of creating a notion template, you want to create a solution to your audience problem. And then provide that solution through the medium of a notion template. So let's go through some examples here so that I can start showing you how you can do this and start coming up with some ideas as well. So I'm going to cover a few different industries here. For one, my main business is science grad school coach. It's in the scientific industry. And a problem that a lot of people have in the scientific research is being able to organize all of their research articles. There's a lot of different tools out there to be able to find research articles, but there's not great tools at organizing it yet. So what I built in my very first notion template was actually a literature organization template. And this is going to be one of the examples that I'll show you later on of how I created it. But it's a fairly simple notion template ultimately, and what you're using it has some formulas, some relations and roll ups in it. But overall, it's a fairly simple notion template. But what's important there, what's valuable there, is my system. For how I'm thinking through, how do I organize my articles, how do I relate them to the papers that I want to write? And make it easy for me to relate between the articles and how I use those articles. And so that's the solution to the problem that I'm solving. Let's go into the health and fitness industry. This is a big industry and a problem that people may have is needing quick workouts. So what you could create is a 30 day, five minute workout planner. So what you could do is you could have maybe a bulk of different workouts that they could do each 5 minutes each. And then you could have a calendar where they can drag and drop and create their own planner based off of these workouts. Another industry is entrepreneurship. So one thing could be you're unsure of what content you want to make. You could create a content organization template. And I actually have a skill share course going through step by step how to make that specific content organization template in notion as well. You can do it with your specific strategy for how to do this and create a template. So if you're already giving content on how to create content or figuring out what content to make, you're not just simply giving them a generic organization template or a generic content planner. You're going to give your specific system into it for finance. If people are unsure how to pay down their debt, you can give the budget and debt payment planner that specifically follows the system you've set up and you teach your own audience. If you're doing coding, you can work with people who are struggling to plan a coding project. And so you can make a coding project planner that will essentially allow them to be able to follow your system for how you suggest planning out your project. And then they can go ahead and organize all of that within notion we can go really out into something that's really not common. But if you're really into cross stitching, you teach content on how to cross stitch better. One issue in cross stitching is you may not have a good inventory of the different floss, which is the string you use in cross stitching. You may not have a good inventory system. And so what you might do is create an inventory system that follows your own system for how you not only organize your inventory, but maybe how you even relate it to the different projects you have as well. And then personal development is also a big field and so people are not sure of their goals or how to accomplish them, so you can create a goal roadmap. Maybe you give them an area for free response that allows them to figure out what their goals are, and then they can add their goals in. And then they can use their goals in a relation to another database to kind of plan out their goals and the tasks that they're going to do to achieve those goals. What you can see here is that we're first starting with the problem and then we're going to look at the solution and how can we implement that solution into notion template. Specifically with your unique background and experiences within that field. And with that problem, your action steps for getting started is make a list of the top five problems of your audience or your ideal audience if you haven't started making content yet or you have very small numbers of audiences. And then for each of those problems, what is your unique solution to those problems? What's the system that you teach or something like that? And start fleshing that out, because each one of those problems could each become its own notion template that you can then be known for and it's a way for you to essentially teach but in a much more simplified digital format, through a notion template that can also have impacts later on because it's not just the teaching part, but they can constantly use that notion template as a system itself. 3. Examples of Notion Templates You Can Create: So I want to walk you through the two notion templates that I currently sell. And I am planning on creating more and selling more. But these two templates have made me well over $1,000 And I sell this one currently for 795. And this one I sell for 495. So I don't sell these for a lot of money, primarily because I work with graduate students and researchers that don't make a lot of money. But I want to kind of show you this and why it's different than just like for this one. This is a task dashboard. Why is this different than when I said don't create a generic test dashboard? This is essentially because this is one specifically made for Phd students. I've already segmented this into research test, coursework task, and teaching task, because I already know that those are the main things that Phd students are going to be struggling with or are going to have as tasks. Whereas if I just made a generic task, I wouldn't be able to create these different categories. Over here here you can see my task based dashboard and I have a basic calendar here. You can also look by project here and you can see Project one, project, Project three. These are just the examples that I have in here. And then by status, so in progress, completed and not started, essentially. And then you can see I've also put in a Pomadoro timer down here for them to already have that available during their tasks. This is a daily to do list right here. So if they wanted to create a task for today, they could add in a task today. But this is automatically going to also populate with the tasks that they have on there. To do list in my quick links, I have a project dashboard. So if I go to this, you can see that this looks really similar to the task based dashboard, but these are for the individual projects. If you look at the quick links, you can go back to the task list. You can go back to the task dashboard, or you can schedule your projects. And there's even an Eisenhower Matrix for people who want to use that. That's really commonly taught in the research space is to use an Eisenhower Matrix. So there is even that there. And so when they create a project, they can schedule their project. The example of this is right here. I have the projects list. And this is filtered for anything that doesn't have a date. So they can easily drag and drop into the space to schedule it. So that would be scheduling its deadline date. And you can drag it, drop back to remove it from the schedule. So if I go back to the project based dashboard, you can also see the research projects show up here. So if you have teaching projects, research projects, and coursework projects, they're automatically split here so that you can look at one at a time instead of just seeing all of your projects. Now, each project can have its own task. So if we look at the projects database, you can see that these have tasks here and they have deadlines you can have completed or not priorities. So what's really nice is I've already set it up that in the task based dashboard, if you have a research project and you assign a task to it, it's going to show up under research tasks, even if you don't in the task list show that that is a research project. So if I go to the table here, you can see that, for example, task three is in research. But if I removed this and took it out of research, you can see task three is still showing up on this research task list because that task is related to a project that is a research project. So it actually cascades down. So it makes it really easy. You just create a project, create all your task, and this is going to fill out for you. And that daily to do list is automatically going to fill out. So if I throw task three onto here, you can see it just automatically appears up here, so you don't even have to worry about it if I empty it out. So I'm going to clear out this date here of the plan date. Now it's removed off there and it's automatically removed off the to do list. So this is overall pretty simple. The Eisenhower matrix, I'll show you that real quick. So it's basically just a board of urgent, not urgent up here and then important and not important down here. And then you can plan your task on the calendar down there as well once you have your Eisenhower matrix done. So that's overall what this task based dashboard is. It's $107.95 cent project, but it's already using my specific knowledge of what it's like to be a graduate student. The different tasks that you're going to have and the different things that you might need as well. Now, my journal article organization, this is my highest seller by far. And that is primarily because it is so field specific, right? There's where a lot of people would need tasks managers, not a lot of people need journal article managers. You can see that this has a calendar. Obviously, I like this two column set up here. This has a calendar over here where you can schedule your journals to be read. What days do you want to read them? You have a read this week. If you've scheduled something to appear on this week, it is going to show up here, then I've already set it up with these research papers and review paper templates. If you look at a research paper template, what you see is all it is is really another table. It's another database, but it already creates that relation to the literature organization templates, so that they can easily add it in there. If I go back to my journal article, all they have to do is now duplicate this, and it's automatically going to create that new column within the literature database for that new template. And that's what's really nice about this is they don't have to know how to work relations or roll ups or any of those things. All they have to do is duplicate one of these templates already and then call it their thing, and then they're good to go. I even have a grid down here where they can look at their papers by topic and year. And up here you can also look at it by red status. So did they skim? Did they just look at the figures? Did they do an in depth read or methods? Now, whenever you buy this template from my personal website, which I'll talk about later, you actually get videos to show you how to navigate all of this. And what I have done in updates to this template is I have actually given it to where you can easily integrate from other sources. Right now if you buy my template, you can easily just download from something like research rabbit and upload and it's going to fill in all the right fields. You can do the same thing with Lateral and then you can actually use a Notaro integration notion has an open API. So if you can already create a template that works with an integration of a software that most of the people in your audience will use. A lot of people will use that because they get really confused on how to integrate and how to set up databases so that the integration will work. So that's another way to be able to make your templates really valuable. These are some example templates. Now I'm going to go through creating some of the examples that I talked about earlier so that you can easily see how you can actually create some of these templates. 4. How to Convert a Worksheet Or Course into A Notion Template: I'm going to show you how you can create a notion template based off of a worksheet that you already have. This is my worksheet for one of my courses called Write Your Research Article. You can see that it's just basically a bunch of questions that they can answer. I'm going to actually walk you through how I would do this. I'm going to go through each question and decide what's the best format for each question. This is, what hypothesis did you have during your research project? This is just a blank notion page. If you don't know how to use notion at all, I'm going to quickly go through this. There's plenty of other courses that go really in depth. And then I go more in depth than the individual parts of notion in my content organization planning and my how to script your Youtube videos in notion. So if you want more in depth, but this is going to be an overall high level. So we're going to start with a overview. So I'm going to This course is right, your research article, so that's what this course is called. And this is going to be the main dashboard for this template. And I'm going to go ahead, if you click up here, you can set this to full width so that you have the full width to work with. And I'm going to start by kind of just doing this. The reason I'm doing this is because once you add in certain plug ins, you can't create the columns. So I always start with text. And then if you grab your text and drag it all the way over to the right, what you're going to see is that this blue bar appears. And the reason you want that is because when you drop it, that means it's now added a new column and you can always move this column over. What I like is to always have a quick link section over here. What's the purpose of this quick link section? It's really just if I want to give them links back to my course, I can do that if I want to give them links to different software or to different areas within this notion template, it's an easy way for me to do it. So I like to go ahead and have that section there. For almost all of my notion templates I have that. So I'm going to select a heading two and then clicking these 6 bars, I can also give this a color. So you have the color of the text here and you have the background color. So I'm going to go ahead and give it a blue background. So now we have a little bit of style link here. So what I'm going to do is since this is one worksheet within many different worksheets for this course, in write your research article, I'm going to go and I'm going to go ahead and give this a title and I'm going to turn into a heading one. My heading one. I'm going to go ahead and say worksheets and you can give your different name. Or if this is your only worksheet, I'm going to show how you would do that in a second. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and turn this into a toggle heading one. So now it goes up and down basically. And let's go ahead and give this a background color as well. Let's just give it gray. There we go. So now we're going to start with our first worksheet. And our first worksheet is Create your research story. Right now, this is just text. And if you wanted a free response question, great. But we want this to actually be a worksheet. So what I'm going to do is click these six dots over here. And I'm going to say turn into and click Page. Now this is a link to it page. When I click on it, it's now opened up a new empty page for me. What we can do is we can add a little icon. I'm going to see if there's like a story icon. Let's go with like, oh maybe. Let's go with icon story. Let's try book. Yeah, let's do that. And we can make it different colors. I'm just going to make it gray. So now if we go back to the original one, you can see there's now that book icon right next to this. So we're going to go in here, and now we're going to start with our page. So I'm just going to press Enter for an empty space to start creating. And I can come in here and I can say, okay, step one. So I'm going to go ahead and do a header. So I'm going to say one oh one and we're going to identify hypothesis and conclusions. I'm going to go ahead and make that a toggle header two. That way as they move through the different sections, this is really easy for them to just toggle it up and down and be able to move. We're going to do toggle heading one. Now we're going to start entering in here. The first thing is, what hypotheses did you have during your research? Now, I could just write this question. I'm going to say one. What H did you have during your research? I could just leave some space, then I could do two, They could say, we hypothesized. That teenagers would spend longer on Twitter than adults or something like that. That's a hypothesis. So they could just on and on and on. That's a good idea. But one question I have is, am I using these hypotheses anywhere else? So here you have. What hypothesis did you have and what conclusions did you have? Usually if you have a hypothesis, it leads to a conclusion. What I'm instead going to do is, instead of doing this, so I'm going to do Tab and I'm going to do data. And so this is going to allow me to pull in a database, whatever I want. I want it to be an line. What I'm going to do is create a list view. This may be a little bit interesting why I am doing a database. This is because essentially I don't want this to just be text. I want them to be able to interact with this text later on. It's going to ask me to select a data source. I'm simply going to create a new database, and this is going to be hypotheses and conclusions. And I'm just going to say it's going to be a new database. This is now a new database here. It just automatically created some. So I'm going to delete out a couple of these things. So what hypotheses do you have? All they have to do now is click New and then type in the hypothesis. We hypothesized that teenagers would spend more time than adults on Twitter. It's almost equivalently the same amount of work for them to do this as it is for them to just write it out. But now we can use this later on. And I'm going to show you one way that we're going to use this. The next question in my worksheet is, what conclusions have you identified from your research projects? I'm going to say what conclusions have you identified from your research project? Okay, so we have a hypothesis here, so they can put in their hypothesis here. Now, what conclusions have you identified from your research project? What we actually want here is to create a space for the different conclusions that they've done. But we also want to encourage them to do this for hypothesis. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to split this into two questions. What conclusions have you identified from your hypothesis? Now what I'm going to do is do data, we're going to do a table view, and we're going to link it to hypothesis. Then what we're going to do is add a property in here and what I want to add is a relation link to database. I think I have to create the database first. Yeah, we're going to come under Quick links. We're going to go out to write your research article. We're going to come under quick links. And I'm just going to do conclusions that this is easy. We're going to turn this into a page on this page, this is just going to be a table. This is going to be conclusion, New Database Conclusion. I'm just going to rename this from name to conclusion. I'm going to go ahead and add that relation to hypothesis. This is related to hypotheses and we want to show it on hypotheses as conclusion here. That's the relationship between these and there's no limit, we're going to add relation. You can see hypotheses are here. Now I can come back into this guy and in hypothesis here, we're going to add in the property of this conclusion. And it created conclusion one because there was already a conclusion in this database. But I can fix that later on. I'm just going to put conclusions there to make it look a little bit nicer. So now we are going to want to show that property. When they come in here, they can say, okay, yeah, for this hypothesis, we found that teenagers spend 20% more time on Twitter than adults. So that's the conclusion, and that's created that conclusion there. So now we're going to do, the third thing is what additional conclusions have you identified in here? We're going to do another database, and we're just going to add a list view, and we're going to link this to that conclusions instead of hypothesis. We're going to do a new empty view, make it a list view, we're going to hide that name. And we're going to click Done. They give you three untitled every time you create one of these databases. So I'm just going to delete those out. Now you can see that from our hypotheses we were able to add in conclusions. And then we're giving them room to add additional conclusions down here that maybe didn't come from that hypothesis. Now, while this still feels like a worksheet, we don't have to say for each hypothesis generate a conclusion because we are giving them the list here. All they need to do is start filling in this tab over here. If you come into this part, create your figures. We want to go all the way out of this toggled space. We can make sure that we are out by toggling up and making sure we're outside of that we're going to do to create your figures and I'm going to go ahead and make this one also a toggle heading one. So now we're going to drop blocks inside. The first question we have is for each hypothesis and or conclusion, what is the best way to illustrate them? I'm going to say because we've already done hypotheses to conclusion, I'm going to say for each conclusion below, describe the best way to visually illustrate the conclusion. Now all I'm doing again, is bringing in that same data so they don't have to rewrite the conclusion again. I'm going to bring in this table view, and I could even do one a little bit better. So I could actually create something like a board view or something like that and give them the examples. I'm going to do this in a table view real quick, I'm going to do conclusion then I'm going to add a property. I'm going to add a property and I'm going to say illustration type. And I'm going to turn that into a select field. And I can go ahead and give them the options here. So I could say scatter plot. I could say like line graph so that they don't have to keep thinking of what are the options. Again, this is how I'm creating value in this bar graph. And like I could keep adding more and more of the illustration type. And then I'm also going to put in an illustration description, and this is just going to be a text field that they can have. In this, I'm going to only show the properties that I need, so I'm going to turn off tags, I'm going to turn off hypotheses. Now for each conclusion, they're just going through and writing the illustration type and the illustration description. For this then if I go down, this is now organize your figures. Which figures will fit together well in a single figure panel? Then what I could do is create the database figure panels and then they can drag and drop the conclusions together. This is overall a pretty good description of how you can start creating these worksheets that are smally notion to blitz and if you have a whole course you can bundle them together in your notion for your course as well. 5. Coding Planner Example: So I'm going to give you two more examples of templates, at least the basics of it, so you can understand how to create these within notion. This first one is going to be a coding project planning template. So the solution we're trying to solve is that coders don't really know how to plan out their projects to be able to effectively complete a project. So we're going to create a template that allows them to easily go through and plan out their projects. And this is essentially the system we're going to be following. So we're going to start with a problem. I'm just coming to a very blank notion page. And I'm not going to go into as much aesthetics again. I have other courses on that, but in this one I really just want to show you how to get this generally starting to get fleshed out. I'm going to call this my coding planning project, or template. And I'm going to press Enter. This is again, starting with that blank page. And I'm going to go ahead and come up here and click the full width so we can get this into the full width. Now what I want to do is have the steps for how they're going to plan their project. I'm going to go ahead and click these three dots and say turn into two columns. This is now the quicker way of what I showed you how to do in the last one. And I'm going to pull this over eventually. What's going to sit over here is a calendar for their project. What's going to be over here is the steps we're going to take them through to be able to create that calendar. I'm going to have a start here. I'm going to go ahead and make that a heading one. Just a heading one. I'm going to do a one define your project. If we go through, just looking at this, the first thing we're going to do is define your project. Then we're going to define the features. We're going to define features of project. And then we're going to prioritize the features. So I'm going to leave that within the features. So I'm just going to do this real quick and just say project features. And then we're going to define the steps. So we're going to do project step, then this is going to be a part of that project step. And then finally, we're going to create a project timeline in four steps. Essentially, we are going to generate a calendar with all the information that they're going to need to be able to easily be able to do their coding project. So now what I'm going to do is convert each of these into a page so that we can get started kind of with all of this stuff. And again, I'm just creating this as we're going through it. I haven't pre created this just to show you how you can take a general system and convert it into a template. The first thing we're going to do is define your project. So the first thing I'm going to write is, what is the problem that your project solves? And how is it solving the problem, right? Your answer in the sync block below. So what we're going to do first is add in a sync block. If we press forward, we can go to sync, and if you scroll down, there's this sync block. What this means is that when they write in here, we can automatically display this in other places. We can hit this copy and sync. Now if we come back here, maybe we want to remind them your projects mission. We're going to make this a toggle heading real quick, turn into toggle heading one. I'm going to just control V and paste that block inside. Now if they come in here and say click in here and they're going to say, we are solving the problem of not knowing how to correctly plan your project timeline by creating a four step solution. That's just very quickly. And now if I jump back, you can see that's automatically appearing here so that it's always syncing up. So if they go and change their projects missions in here, they're going to be able to have that update here. So that's why we're doing a sync block there. And I'm going to go ahead and remove this because obviously you wouldn't want to leave anything left into it. This is all I'm going to have in this defined project. Maybe you would have a more specific definition. I could also have like, what is your software or what is your project title? And I could even do another sync block in here. Just add in a sync block and I'm going to go ahead and make this an H one, so that's already really big. And then I can copy and sync this as well. I'm just going to move this up and paste it in here. Now when they come in here and say, define your project, let's call my project a coding planner. Now when I come back, I automatically get coding planner. So now we're starting to fill out this kind of information based off of what we're putting in here. So now we're going to jump into like the actual part of this that's helping them create their features. I'm going to press Enter, and the first thing that I need them to do is really add all the features you can think of that your project might entail below. And I'm going to add in a list in here. I'm going to create a list view. And this is going to be a new view, and I'm going to call it project features. Create a new database, it automatically creates these. I'm just going to delete them out and I'm going to go ahead and hide. If I go into layout, I'm going to hide the database title. All they have to do is come in here and start adding in the features. Now if someone knows notion and wants to separate out their features into different sections or something like that, they could be able to come in here and do that as well. But this is basically just adding in all the features. The next thing we're going to do is to ask them to put in the priority of the features. Now we're going to say move your features into the correct columns based on their priority of your projects mission. What I'm going to do here is I'm actually going to input in a toggle heading just so that they can have something that they can easily refer to. So I'm going to put in a toggle heading three. I'm going to call it project mission. Then I'm going to go back to the defined project. Copy this block and drop it in there. That way they have it. If they want to remember it, it's already in there for them. Now, let me change this to yeah, the priority of your projects. We're going to just add in a table or a board. We're going to do a board view for this. Yep. We're going to do a board view. We're going to take in that same project features and we're going to do a new empty view. And this is going to be a board. This is going to be a prioritization board. Remove that database title. Now what we need to do is add in the property of the priority. We can add in priority new property. This is, we're going to do a Select. We're going to add in highest priority. This is an MVP, Minimum viable product, Medium priority, and low. This is nice to have. Now we can go to Layout, and we are going to hit Group By, And we are going to group by priority. Now you can see we have highest low, and I'm going to move this so that it's medium and then low. And then I'm going to move no priority over here, that it will show everything that has no priority. Basically, if you add a list view in here, we're going to say that this needs to have a features database. And then a new one can be a timeline feature or something like that. Now and here they can just move this, that's a highest priority, and maybe that's a medium priority, Something like that. So this now allows us to be able to specifically say, okay, now only do your highest priority first and stuff like that. When we move on into our next things, then that's all we need for now. And I'm going to go ahead and I don't think I did this on the other one, but with this one, I do want it to be the full width, That way this is nice and wide. We can come out here. Now. We're going to go into Project Steps. I'm just going to press Enter. I'm also going to let this become full width. We're going to do each of your highest priority features below, add the steps that it will take to complete the feature. For this, I'm going to drop down a little bit because we're going to use this later and I'm going to add in a table view. This is because I want to create this database, new database, project steps. And I'm just going to have a name in here for now. So you have a couple untitled here in here. I'm going to go ahead and drop in. Go to Properties and I want a new property that is a relation so that it maps back on to the project features. We are going to show this on project features as just steps and I'm going to add relation. Now we can see the project feature that's related to. Then in here we're going to do a table view. And we're going to have it be the project features. We're going to do a table view just so that's a little bit clearer. And I'm going to remove that database title. There we go. We have all of this, we're going to filter it on priority is the highest priority here. They're only going to see the ones that they actually decided was the highest MVP. Then we can hide some of these properties, they don't need to see date created, they don't even need to see their highest priority and they don't need to see tax. All they're going to see is steps right here. And then they can just click and start adding and creating their steps here. We will delete out these untitled in here. If they created a step, let's say the time line feature, the first thing they need to do is create timeline model. And then the next thing they need to do is create front end timeline. You can see these automatically came up down here with the name and the feature we're going to say for each step, add a description or user story. Identify any inputs or outputs, and add any contingencies. What we can do here is we can just add in those properties. We're going to say description. Add it in as a text field, that's fine. We're going to do inputs, and we'll move that over. X only renamed inputs to outputs, then we can also add contingencies. This is actually going to be a self relation. I'm going to make it as a relation and it's actually going to be a relation to itself. We've added this basically. Now you have contingencies. Basically, to create the front end timeline, you need the timeline model. We can add a contingencies is create timeline model. Then you can see for the timeline model it is blocking, create front end timeline. That's how that works with creating those separate directions essentially. Now they can easily input in and we can go ahead and hide this tags. This is just something automatically created whenever that happens. Now they can have the name, they have their project features, they can put in the description inputs that they may need. Output. For example, on a model, the inputs could be like all of the different fields that they're going to have within their model. Their outputs could be any calculated fields or things like that that they would need. And then you have any tingencies and you can tell what is being blocked because of a contingency, essentially. Now we've created all of these steps. We could then create one for the medium priority and the low priority as well. But that's just duplicating these and refiltering in this. I'm not going to filter this because they should only have these high priorities when they get to here. Now we can come out and we're going to go into project timeline here. We're going to add in deadlines for features is what I'm going to do. I'm going to create this as a two column, I'm going to turn into two columns. In these two columns, this left side, I'm going to add a list view of the project features. And I'm going to go ahead and add in a property here called deadline. It's going to be a new property and it's going to be a date field that is ready to go. And then on this side I'm going to add in a calendar over here. It's going to be project features. We're going to do a new empty view that is a calendar. And show calendar by some reason deadline is not appearing here. Let me come in here. Properties, it has a date. I'm just going to change this date to deadline. Now that deadline, this over here, should also be yeah, deadline. Now what they can do, and I'm going to go ahead and switch this to full width, so this is a little bit nicer. And move this over is they can just drag and drop their features. Database needs to be done, let's say today. Or their timeline feature needs to be done by here. Now you can see this is still staying on when these are removed. I'm going to add in a filter deadline is empty. Now these are removed and if I drag them back over, you can see they come off the calendar as well. That's how we can get the project features. Now using your feature deadline, schedule, your project steps. This we're also going to turn into two columns. On the left hand side, we're going to do that list view again, but this time it's going to be step project steps. There we go. And we're going to do a new empty view. It's going to be a list view. And done. I'm going to go ahead and create that property. It's going to be a new property and I'm just going to make it a date field. And so now we have that in there, and then on this side I can go ahead and add in a calendar view. This gets a little repetitive, but just hang on with me. And there we go. So now we have that, these have no date yet. So now what we first want to do is actually show some things on this side. So one of the properties we want to show is contingencies. So that they can see what contingencies is, what needs to be done, essentially ahead of time. The other property that we need to show, we actually don't have yet, so I'm going to go into property and I'm going to create a new property that is going to be a roll up. And a roll up is just showing a property from a relation. So we're going to select the relation is going to be project features and then the property name is going to be a deadline and we're just going to show the original and then let me actually name that feature deadline. And that should be shown as well. If we drag the timeline feature over, we're going to make that July 6. You can now see that that says, okay, the whole feature needs to be done by July 6. Now they can drag this over as well, so we can say maybe this is due today. And if they click on this, they can actually extend their date and include an end date. And so they can say that maybe the end date is actually going to be like the 14th or something like that. So what you can do as well is we can create one more property, and this is almost done here. Now you essentially can create this timeline. Now all we really have to do is recreate this calendar on the main page. If we come out here, we're going to say project time line. And I'm going to turn this into a heading one and we can have a calendar view. And this is going to be of those steps, we're going to create a new empty view calendar. We don't need to show that title. And then we're going to have Dayton here. We can click Done, We can basically see this. Now we can't add in the different properties, so we can add in the feature that it is, project features as well, so we can see what feature it's related to. Now they have a timeline to be able to go through what all they need to do when according to their project that basically was already prepared for them through starting here. And you can come in and add icons and add aesthetics to this, but this is basically how you start creating out a really valuable template. The next one I'm going to do is more valuable because of the information it provides than the system it provides. And that's going to be a 30 day workout plan. But this was just to give you some basics of how you can use the features and notion to make it really easy to create a system for your potential customers. 6. Workout Planner Example: As a final example, I'm going to show you how to create this 30 day, five minute workout planner. Essentially, we're going to title it 30 day five minute workout planner. So instead of this really being like a system per se, the value coming from this template is really going to be somebody's knowledge of how to put these workouts together, how to make really quick workouts that anyone can do. The purpose of this notion template is to transfer knowledge. So it's the same as like a PDF or anything like that, but it's going to provide a little bit more interactivity for the user than simply a PDF. What I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go ahead and split this into two columns. If you haven't realized I have a similar aesthetic for a lot of the things that I do, I'm going to split this into two columns and I'm going to go to the full width. I'm going to come into the second column here. And I'm going to put just databases so that they can see what's happening here. And I'm going to go ahead and turn this into a toggle heading one, Turn into toggle heading one. In this, I'm going to now create two pages. The first one is going to be exercises, the second one is going to be workouts. And I'm going to turn both of these into pages. Turn that one into a page. Turn into page. This one I will get a little bit more aesthetic because it won't take me as long to go in the background so that if you're curious about how to create the aesthetics, we're going to get a little bit into that. In this one I'm going to go ahead and find that bar and drag it over. This has the biggest area, we're going to get started in exercises. I'm just going to create a table in here. This is just all the tables. And I'm going to create a new database called Exercises. Basically this has a name. I'm going to go ahead and leave tags in there, but I'm also going to add in like body area essentially in. And I'm going to turn this into a select field so that if someone comes and wants to create their own, they're able to do that. And then you can add in additional information in here. And I'm just going to add in some common ones. Bicep curls. Let's do mountain climbers, squats, shift inter will allow you to add in an additional one. Let's do leg extensions. Again, I'm kind of just coming up with this off the top of my head curls. Calf raises, lateral raise. We can do like glue bridges. Okay, so now we have a decent number in here and then we can start filling out the body area. So this is going to be arms, this is going to be like Abs. This will be leg, this is also legs. Apparently, I went really hard on the legs here. Legs, lateral raises its arms and then glue bridges. I'm just going to call it core. Really. Abs core, same. Okay. So now we have some different body areas and some different exercises here. And obviously this is more knowledge base. I'm not going to get into actually flushing this completely out because it would take absolutely way too long for this course. So I can come back into this and I want to go ahead and work on this workouts. I'm just going to, again, create this as a table and I'm going to create a new data source called workouts. And just go ahead and create that. So now we have the name of the workout. The other thing I want to go ahead and do is we're going to add a relation to exercises and here. And we're going to say show on exercises as workouts. And that's fine, we can add that relation in. Now we can add in the exercises we've created in here into this. Then what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to add in a text that's going to be a description of the workout. This is going to be important primarily because we want to give them the numbers for each exercise they're going to have to complete. There's not the easiest way to do that within here without creating a whole new table as well. We're going to do description, and I'm going to move that description up here. We can say like maybe we just call these by day. So we'll just do day one. We're going to make this description. Let's say this is five x bicep curls on each side. And then if you hit shift enter in here, it will give you a new line. We're going to say this is like ten x calf raises, five leg curls. Obviously, if you are a workout person, you're probably like this is much better then we're just going to say three rounds of, that's the simple description. It's three rounds of five bicep curls on each side, ten calf raises, and five leg curls. Now what we can do is link these specific pages in. So that when we come in here and maybe add in photos and really explain what they're doing, they can really easily just click on these and then be able to add in what they're doing. So for example, if I open this and I click on bicep curls, I could fill in all of this with like you perform a bicep curl by and then I can add in bullet points. And I could even like go to the web. Obviously, don't use like copyrighted images for sale. But if I just did like bicep curl, I'm going to go to images. I can basically like maybe pick one of these. I'm just going to copy that. And I can paste that in here so that they can see that image already in there. Obviously like maybe you have images of you doing all of these things and really stepped out. And then you can actually include these in the bodies of each of these so that they can easily see them. And then they know the description how many to do based off of the description of the day. Then we can follow up with day two, day three, day four. And if you have like really cool names for these workouts, you could also do that. Okay. So I went ahead and add it in 30 days basically. And the other thing I want to do is I'm going to come in here, I'm going to add in a number field for the day, and I'm going to show you why I'm doing this in a minute. This is just going to be 123456, Okay? Now these have days one through 30. Final thing I'm going to do is come in and add a date field. And I'm going to call this the start date. It's going to fill in for all of these and it's just going to be empty for right now. Now you have the day, you have the description. You could even add body area or something like that in here, the exercises. So they can easily go to these pages. Obviously, you're going to want to fill these pages out, The day and then the start date. Now if I come back out here, I can add in a calendar. Just going to type calendar in here. Add in a calendar view and I'm going to link it to the workouts. Create a new empty view. It's going to be a calendar. I want this, this is going to do by start date. Right now I can click Done right now, you could just put in a date. But what I'm going to actually do, so I'm going to come in here and I'm going to create a property. And this is where we're going to work with a formula. I think this is the first time we've done it in this course. We're going to add a formula in here and we're going to edit this formula. This formula is going to be date add. We're going to do start date, and then I'm going to put parentheses here. You don't actually have to, but I think it's just easier for making it make sense. Then we're going to do day minus one. So for example, if you were starting on a given start date, day one has the number one associated with it. So what you actually want it to just be is day plus zero, which is why we have that minus one in there. Then I have to tell if you're ever curious what these formulas are, just click in the name and you can see it's a date, a number. This is our start date. A number for day one is going to be zero. For date two is going to be one. And then you have to give it text to tell it how is it supposed to be adding. In this case we are adding days in and we're going to click done. This formula I can just make to be date. And I can come back out of here. Now if I go back into my layout, I'm going to do my start date is date basically. Now, if you come into the workouts and you say, okay, my start date is today, you can see it now has the data today. If you come back out here, you can see, okay, day one is now on my schedule for today, but that's going to be a lot of work to put that in for every single one, especially if they ever want to change or anything like that. So what we're going to do is right below our header, we're going to add in a button. This button is going to be a new button. We're going to say start my workouts today. We're going to say add a step. And we're going to edit pages in workouts. And we're going to edit a specific property, the start date. And we want that start date to be today. We can click Done here. And I'm going to add one more button just for funzies. I'm going to press Enter here, and I'm going to make this turn into like five columns or something ridiculous. So I'm going to drop this one into this column and then come over here. I don't think I dropped it. And then I can come here and I'm going to add another button that says, we're going to edit pages. Again, the same database. What we're going to edit is again that start date to, we're going to say reset plan. What's going to happen is let's click make sure this reset plan works. We're going to click Reset Plan. That looks like it worked. Now you can see that is removed there. Now if we click Start My Workouts today, you can see now day one automatically appears for today. Instead of just having random days, they can actually have their daily to do. Basically in here, here's a big calendar. And you can see, obviously these 30 day workouts just automatically come up and then let's say we reset it. It may take it a minute to refresh. I'm just going to refresh the page. You can see that that's gone away now. If I actually started tomorrow, I can just say again, start my workouts today and it would automatically fill them out through here. I'm going to re say this real quick. Whenever I'm coming into this, all I have to do is click on this guy. Now I have my description. This is what I need to do today and my exercises. And I can go ahead and put that in here. You could also, for example, use a button to create like a log. Say I did this today. We're going to use a button and we're going to insert a block below. And you can go ahead and put it, let's say this block. We want it to be a date. Let's do date. It's going to be now and this is going to be day one workout log. Basically, we're going to say like what was your bicep curl? We're going to also do curl. Wait, then we can do how did you feel after this workout? We're going to say add a log for today in the button, and we're going to click Done. So now what happens is if they're in here, they're doing their workout and everything, they can just say, add a log for today. And now automatically, this block appears here so they can answer. Okay, my bicep curl weight was 25, my late curl weight was 45. And I could say like, this was awful. So essentially, you're just creating a way for them to easily add another log. So if they want to add another log in, you can see it's adding that log in for what is right now. So basically, whenever they come to day one, they can see all of their different logs. And you can even in your actual in your settings, you can create this as a toggle one heading. We can say done. Now, when we add a log, the informations in this toggle, all they see is like today in here, obviously you'd want to delete all of that out, but that's a way to kind of use these buttons and sync blocks and formulas to be able to make this really interactive and easy, for them to be able to log things and all of that. You can even have contact information for you or even other course information for you up here to send them different places or anything like that. We can always add in like icons, so we can add in like a workout on let's do like fitness. No, okay, we're going to go to icons, so we can do like weight. I'm just going to make like a gray weight. We can change these icons. Let's come in here and I'm going to do, I'm just going to do like a little running man for exercises and then workouts. I'm going to do like a checklist. Yeah, something like that for the actual workouts. And then again, I can always like lay out, hide that database title so that doesn't appear. So you basically have their calendars here, they have their databases here. And you can add a cover, we can change cover and go to like something like unsplash. And we're just going to say like work out, I'm just going to do that. And so now you have kind of a basic workout planner where they can easily update their workouts to when they're doing it. And you could even like add in like a choose your own or build your own and give them the ability to build them. You can add in videos in here as well if you're trying to train them on different things. All of those are now possibilities to create kind of a workout plan or adding additional value to this template. But essentially the value of this template doesn't come from it really being a notion template, the value of this template comes from your giving them these quick workouts that they can do. And they can just click one button and it's automatically sync to their calendar instead of trying to remember what day they're on on a PDF. And they can easily have access to all of the information through a notion template that's just going to be a lot easier for them to work with. Again, the true value coming from this notion template is really convenience and the knowledge that you've already curated for them. I hope that these three template walk throughs were helpful to allow you to get where you think you can really start implementing and creating your own. And understanding how to take a worksheet or a system or a set of knowledge and create a notion template that is really helpful. The next part of the course is really going to be about how do we take just a notion template and actually create what we're going to need to have to sell? And then how do we actually market it and get it to a place where we're actually making money from it? 7. How to Create The Digital Product To Sell: Now that we have our template, and it doesn't matter which template you create, you can create any of them. But now that you have your template, what we're going to do is we want to now create this into some form of digital product that we can actually sell. What we need to do is we need to click Share up here, and we're going to say Publish. And we need to have this published to the web, because essentially what you are selling is a link to your template. We need to be able to get that link. Once we hit Publish, published to the web, it'll say this page is live on the web. And then you have these options down here for what someone can do on this. Essentially what we want is to allow duplicate as template. This means that when someone clicks the link, they will be able to duplicate this to their own notion dashboard. You don't want to allow editing because that means they can come in and change the original. And you don't want to allow comments either because then they can come in and comment on things and then this already has to be on the plus plan. But you don't want search engine indexing because you don't want people to be able to find this link through search. You want to be able to keep the link where nobody knows what that link is. Then all you have to do is duplicate as a template. And then all you have to do is copy this web link. And now someone can access this 30 day, five minute workout planner as long as they have this link. And when they do that, they will be able to click Duplicate up here in the corner just to show you what that looks like. I viewed this site. And you can see that this duplicate is right here. But they're not going to be able, they can come in and look at stuff, but you can see they don't have any ability to edit or add in two here. They can look at it and they can hit Duplicate, but they can't actually edit it or anything like that. Now there are two ways I'm going to show you for how to turn this into a digital product. The first one I'm going to show you is if you already have a software to host digital products in your back end, such as something like system Ao, teachable, something like that. What we're going to do, I'm going to go to System 0. This is where my back end is hosted. What I'm going to do in here, and you can see I already have my literature organization notion template. I'm going to show you this guy, basically this is set up as a course, but all it is is a digital product. And it has a set up where there is a little video here explaining how they duplicate it. And then I just include the links in the description of the videos here. You can also add additional tutorials. In this case, if you were to create specific types of tutorials for specific things they can do in your template, you can include those in a course style format. It's not like a true course, but it's a way for you to then be able to sell it. Obviously, I sell mine through a funnel on system 0. So if you look at my literature organization template, I'm just going to click View real quick. You can see that I sell this on system Io. So all they have to do is purchase the template and then they're going to get access to that back end course. And I automatically send them an e mail giving them the link to the template. So that if they don't even want enter into the course to see things, they're able to do that as well. Now the second way to do it is if you want to sell on a marketplace that just allow digital downloads like Ets or something else like that. So you can see I have an example one here. This is the digital download that I give on Ets. When someone purchases my template from Ets, I say, thank you for your purchase. You can access the notion template here, give them the link. Once you access the template, you will need to duplicate it to your workspace. If you don't know how to do this, you can watch this video. And here's a walk through of the template all on Youtube. And these can be unlisted videos if you want to have tutorials in your notion template, but you don't want to have some form of course back end, you can simply just make unlisted Youtube videos and then you can put them into your link. All you need to do is something, you can turn this into a page. And we're going to make this start here for how to use this template. And then we can do a tab. And we're going to do an embed, and then we're going to embed a link. I'm going to just go to Youtube real quick. I'm just going to look at one of my videos real quick and we're going to go to share and copy this link. If you're in your back end, obviously it would be unlisted, you would just copy that link. And then if I come back in here, I can paste that link in and embed the link. Now you can see this video is now embedded into this notion template. Now if we go back to the main page, they can easily just click Start here. And if that was the actual video, you would have that in there for them to use. Let's create a different version of this where it's going to be a little bit nicer. I'm going to use this using Canva and I'm just going to create a new design. And you can just create a US letter document. Then you can get as fancy with this as you want or not. I'm going to add in a heading that says, thank you for your purchase. Put this up at the top, make it nice. Then we can even do something like I'm going to do published and we can do something. Let's copy this real quick. I'll just hit Window Shift on my Windows computer. We're going to copy up there or take a screen grab of it. And I'm just going to paste it in here. This is so that we can teach them how to duplicate it. Let's add in text. We're going to add in a little body of text and we're just going to say, thank you for purchasing the 30 day, five minute workout planner. Click the button below to duplicate the template to your account, so we can center that in there. Then we can just add in a little button. All we're going to do is add in just a little shape, make it a little bit flatter, drop it in here, and we're going to say Access your template. And I'm just going to change this to like my actual colors. Let's make it that color. We can change the font color here, let's highlight the font, make that white. And we're definitely going to increase that font and fix my spelling mistake here. Access your template. There we go. Access your template. And then we can do just another heading. We're going to say click the duplicate button in the top right corner. I'm just going to say that click the duplicate button in the top right corner. And then I'm just going to zoom in on this a little bit so we can see it a little bit better. We'll expand this guy. And then I'm going to put a box element around it, so I'm going to have the fill be transparent, but I'm going to make a nice weighted border and have that border color be like a pretty light color. And then we're going to make it kind of small and put it in here and then decrease that border weight. Went a little too much on that. And if you want it to really stand out, you can always make it something like a bright red or something like that that actually matches these like yoga pants we have that. And then we can easily throw in some text, basically, if you have any issues with this template, you can view the video below or e mail me at my site, at mysite.com Just add that in. And then you can always add in videos down here or anything like that or just spread this out if you don't have any videos and take that out of here. This is now our actual digital download, digital product that we're selling. It's really just this link and we haven't put that link in yet. If you click on this guy, right click, you can click Link, then all you have to do is paste that link in and press Enter. Now if we downloaded this, we're going to hit download. We're going to do PDF, print, and we're going to go ahead and download. Now when I open this, this is what they're going to get. Right? All they have to do is click this and you're going to see it automatically appears here. They can then hit this, duplicate. It's duplicated to their dashboard, and now you've fulfilled your orders and what they need to do. So that's how simple it is. There's two different ways you can create the actual digital product that you need to sell. Which is either through just giving them the link through an e mail or course back end. Or giving them a digital download that you can sell on sites like Ets, podia, things like that. So next we're going to get into where you should sell your specific notion template and how you should sell that. 8. Where to Sell Your Notion Template: Now we want to talk about where you should sell your notion templates. Because now that you have something to sell, there's a lot of options and strategy that goes into where you actually want to put your things up for sale and how you're actually going to sell them. Ultimately, you have multiple options for where to sell your notion templates and you can actually sell them in multiple different places at the same time. The most common option, and what's probably taught when people are like, oh get rich off of notion templates is marketplaces. And marketplaces are a great option for creators that have a limited audience because they can enhance your discoverability. When someone searches for something on a marketplace like Etsy or Padilla or Gumroad, they're more likely to find your specific thing than just searching on something like Google or Youtube. Now because they provide the market, they're a marketplace. They're doing a service by providing the market, they're going to take higher service fees for providing this service. So examples of this are Etsy, Podia, and Gumroad. I sell two of my notion templates. I do actually sell over on Ets as well. And so this is a really good option if you have very little audience. But you do need to realize that you're not unique in this. Whenever you're in Ets, like while you might have really good stuff as a creator, people aren't going to Ets because they like you as a creator. They're going to Ets because they want something. So while it is good to sell your system over there, and potentially you could convert that person into a new subscriber. You are now competing with everyone else that's selling notion templates in your given area. So that's a good thing to keep in mind in that the things that are probably going to work best on Ets are things with low competition but high demand. So you want to find gaps in the market if you're primarily trying to sell on a marketplace versus selling on your own. The other place you can sell is if you have an audience. You would make more profit by directing them to your own website. Examples of places that you could sell your template is Kajabi system is the back end that I currently use. I've used Kajabi before to sell templates, think efic or teachable. Also you can do this shop. Epi has digital downloads as an option to sell. So you can set up a shop offi store with all of your digital downloads or even something like Wordpress has something like Woo Commerce that allows you to be able to sell your digital downloads as well. Because you're directing your specific traffic to them, they're only going to take their specific fee. So if you're using something like Kajabi system or think Gific, they're going to take a one time fee a month. So for example, you can get started on system for $0 but I pay about $47 a month for system. And then all I pay after that are the fees and stripe to handle the actual credit card processing. Instead of paying additional fees, I probably pay almost double if not triple the fees on Etsy to sell the exact same template as I do on my own backend system. So I direct my audience to system I owe to be able to sell them, my specific templates. It also allows me just to provide a little bit better customer service as well. So you can think about this, what is best for you to do and where should you consider selling your own templates? Thing to think about is that even if you have an audience, you can also sell on marketplaces. I just wouldn't recommend directing your audience to the marketplace. For example, I sell my templates on Ets. However, whenever I market my templates, I never include the link to Ets as the marketing for my templates. I always include the link to my own website because I'm doing my own marketing for it. There's no reason for me to pay extra to Ets when I'm doing my own marketing already. That is what I recommend is if you have some form of an audience Sure. Put it up on a marketplace and that's just you're making money on people that never would have bought it elsewise. But actually get your own back end of some form. Have your own website and then sell your templates through your website. You're going to end up making more money overall. And you're going to stand out as more unique than simply selling on a marketplace like At or gum rip. I hope this helps you think through how are you going to sell them and where you're going to sell them. Once you have that, all you have to do is basically upload the digital download and create the description for it and then we're going to get into marketing your template. 9. How to Market Your Notion Template: So let's talk about how to market your notion template. And I think this is where a lot of people stop whenever they try and talk about notion. Because honestly, if you just create a notion template and throw it up on Ets, unless you have really good SEO or throw it up anywhere else, you're going to have a really hard time actually getting sales. The marketing component of any digital product is probably one of the most essential components and it's one of the least talked about components whenever you're trying to sell a digital product. So I'm going to spend time and I'm going to show you my exact marketing strategy and exactly how my templates are actually selling. So if you are in a marketplace, you're relying on that marketplace to share your product with others. And the way that you honestly help it is by SEO. The other way you can help it is by ads. But then you're giving money for them to show your product to people. And even on Etsy, they do cost per click instead of cost per view. But you could still be paying large amounts of money without getting any money. And that is something that when I worked with one person on their Ts store, I honestly really encouraged them to turn off Ts ads. Because they were paying $100 a month for one cell that they made a profit of like three or $4 on. And so ultimately I don't run ads on any of my products. All of my products are done through organic marketing or SEO on marketplaces just like any other product. If you wanted to succeed, you're going to need to market it and it's not like your product is bad or anything. But think about the way that you work when you're looking for a notion template or how to do something. In notion, you may go to Youtube and look it up. You may go to Google and try and figure out if somebody has shown you how to do it. And then you could also maybe see if they already have a template available. Or you can go to a marketplace already and try and look it up there. So to appear in those places, you really have to start marketing it because it's most likely that most people just don't even know your template even exist, even if they are willing to buy it. The marketing options that you kind of have is creating content. So you can create content to share your template. And I'm going to talk about how to do that. Specifically, you can do e mail marketing if you already have an e mail list. You can send out an e mail list letting them know that you have a new template available. And I have a whole course on how to get into e mail marketing for content creators as well. On skill share. You can use ads, and so this is you paying for someone to display it. So on Ets, you can do Ets ads where you let it be displayed as a sponsored post. And you're going to pay every time someone clicks on it, whether they buy it or not. Or you could even run something like Facebook ads or Youtube ads promoting your notion template as well. And then you can also do Facebook group posts. So you can go into certain Facebook groups where your ideal audience is for your template. So if I was my case, I could go into like research groups or graduate student groups. And then I could make a post sharing my template and giving them the link to buy. Now, a lot of Facebook groups are cracking down on this and a lot of people are just going to Facebook groups for advertisements. And so what I would recommend if you're going to do this, is to just watch out and see when somebody posts a comment asking a question that is related to your template. You can answer them and then you can say, I've actually created a template for it and then drop your link. That's going to be a little bit of a better way to do it than just going in and making post regularly unless you are going to generate your own group. But then it's going to take a lot of time to be able to see that grow big enough to be able to market your template in there. The main one I'm going to talk about today is creating content. I think that is the most effective way to do it without spending a lot of money, and that's the primary way that I do it. In my view, obviously, I'm assuming that you are most likely some form of content creator already. In my view, you should create a minimum of one piece of content. For each template, I'm going to show you exactly how to outline this piece of content. Importantly, your content should not be a sales video. I think this is what a lot of people will do, is they'll be like, I've made this amazing template. This is what it does, this is who it's for. You should go buy it. That approach, people are just going to click off and then if people are just going to click off, it's not going to get served up in like the Youtube algorithm or the Google algorithm. It's not getting that search capability or even browse feature capability that you would want this to get. You really want this piece of content to just work for you. Telling people about your template with no further work from you. Basically, whenever you look at the content that you create, you should ask yourself, if someone does not buy my template, is this content still useful for them? And that is what I always do. The way we're doing this is by showing them the process. We're showing them the system for how to do something in notion or we're showing them this is how I organize my workouts in notion. And this is all my workouts that you might have seen videos about if you want them all organized in notion, you know, this is how you can go and do this. Ultimately what we're trying to show them is the system or process behind it. And you don't have to show them every little thing in your system or process, but you can just start showing them some things, honestly, I think about an eight to ten minute video is really good. So if you're going to a 50 minute video, walking them through your template, you might want to condense that down to like what the key things are that they can learn from it. Really good titles is my process to do whatever your notion template does in notion or how I do whatever my notion does in notion. I think one of mine is how I organize research articles in notion. I have another one that how I organize my research tasks and projects in notion. And then I have additional content as well. The content outline, what should this content look like. In your introduction, you're going to tell them what you're going to teach them how to do. Then you're just going to mention that your template is available. So you want to do this in some form of screen capture. If it's a video or if it's a blog. You're going to want to take screen captures or images of your notion template and space it in throughout the blog so that they understand what's happening. You're going to tell them in this video I'm going to show you how I organize my research articles and notion here is my notion template, Just let you know this is available for purchase. If you don't want to go ahead and set it up yourself, the link will be in the description below. And that's all you have to do. And then you're going to not mention that it is available. You're not going to mention your templates for sale until the very end of the video. The bulk of your video is going to be your process outline, so you're going to share your unique process. What I talk about is I literally do a walk through of my video explaining to them, okay, this is where I put it in and this is why I have this feature in here and all of this stuff. And then I show them how to implement or use the template. So I will go ahead and create example ones where I'm going to be like, okay, this is an example research article. And go ahead and input all these things and this is the date I want to read it. And then I'll take them back to my dashboard and be like, okay, now you can see it appears here and I can see in my Read this week, I know what I have to read this week and stuff like that. While you're walking through it, you want to talk about the benefits of everything. Or you can say things like, before I came up with this template, I used to get stressed out, but now I can see everything in one snapshot and it just makes it a lot easier for me. These are things that are going to connect with people who are maybe really stressed out because they don't know where everything is or they're not getting things out of their brain or they're trying to remember things. And so this is a really easy system for this. Then in your conclusion, once you go through your entire process or the parts of your process you're going to include in this video, you remind them that they can purchase this template. Be like just a reminder, this template is available for purchase if you don't want to recreate it yourself. And then you can say whatever you normally do as your altro or as the conclusion to your blogs. The next thing you want to do is every time you update your template, you want to create an updated video. And you're going to re explain parts of the process primarily focused on that updated part of the process. And you're going to share the new template. I've updated my template three, this will be the first time I'm currently coming out with a new template. I've updated my same literature organization templates four times. I now have multiple different videos out there explaining how to use. So definitely don't just like create your sales page and just let it sit there. You definitely want to promote it even if you have a small audience and you want to keep promoting it somewhat fairly regularly. I would say somewhere between once a quarter to once a year, depending on how much other content you're putting out. You want to go ahead and create one that reminds people you have this template and it just gives you one more way for people to be able to find out about your template. I wanted to show you real quick how really this has impacted me being able to create this content. You can see that here I've pulled out five different videos that are either showcasing or mentioning my specific literature organization template. This is for the lifetime of my current channel, and you can see the views. I've gotten 42,000 views. And this has resulted in thousands of dollars coming from the sale of this template from only five videos. The very first one I made is this one. I made it in 2021 and this is the most productive one. I've gotten $100 from just the video, but then I've also made thousands of dollars just from that one. And you can see that it is taken off through time. And then these later ones that have come out have also drastically increased. This biggest increase right here is because a different video took off and kind of my whole channel took off for those kind of four months. And then obviously, July just started for me, so that's why it's all decreased here. Overall, you can see I'm getting over 1,000 views a month basically on just one of these videos still, even though I made it two years ago, that is still driving me traffic to that landing page and that's where the majority of my sales are coming from, is because of these videos. I think that's really important to realize the power of content whenever you're trying to sell an ocean template. And I'm just going to go to traffic source real quick so that you can see really how I'm getting this traffic. And you can see by far the most traffic is coming from Youtube search. And again, I'm getting 500 to 1,000 views from Youtube search. And then browse features and suggested videos and even external. So I even have some other people that are recommending this video as well because it's just overall good video because someone can watch this video and create the template for themselves. Or they could spend five to $8 and just buy my template and save themselves a couple hours of work. And so it's still beneficial. And this is what's important is you want your video to still be beneficial. So that people still want to share it and still think it's a good video and watch it and it's not just a sales video. I hope this shows you the power of content in marketing your notion templates to actually get them to sell. 10. Next Steps: I really hope you've enjoyed this course and now I'm just going to take a brief moment to walk you through what the next steps is. Now that you've taken this course, the first thing I want to talk you about is your project. The project for this course is to create a notion template to sell. What you want to do is identify a system, a worksheet you already have, or a current notion use. You want to convert that system into a notion template. Then you're going to create the digital product that you're going to sell, whether you're selling that on your own back end or as like a PDF download so that you can give them the link that they need. Then you can create your sales page, whether that's on a marketplace or on your own website. Creating a sales page that shows cases, the features of your templates, Who it's for and has a search engine optimized is always a good idea, then you want to market your notion template. My primary way of marketing it is through content. You can also do it through things like ads, Facebook, group post, or even e mail marketing, which is a form of content as well. Then you should be good to start seeing some sales round in from selling your notion template. If you found this class, great, please leave me a review below to let me know how you enjoyed this class. This is really important for other people that are interested in this class to know that it would be a good way to spend their time if they're interested in selling notion templates. If you want to keep learning from me, I do have a course on how to organize your content notion. I will leave that link in the course description below. And I also have a course on e mail marketing for content creators. If you want to get started in that as well, I will have a link to that also in the description below. I truly hope you enjoyed this course and I really hope that you leave me a review down below.