we're gonna talk about how to make passive income as a graphic designer or as a web designer or artist and I'm gonna try to cover that range because I know that everybody in the audience has different skills, so I'm gonna give you at least five ways that you can make passive income pretty much right now using the skills you have as a creative pro. Usually this is the kind a thing I save for Small Business and Social Media Saturdays, so if you've only been watching the graphic design videos, there's a lot of business stuff and ways to make money that I talk about on Saturdays, so you might wanna check out that playlist. I also talk about how to market yourself and that plays a role in what we're talking about here because need people to sell to. Passive income is about having ways that you make money when you're not actively working. There's active income and then there's passive income. Active income is nothing but who are watching the video. You design a website for a client, you create a logo for a client, you're spending tens of hours to get paid once. With passive income, the idea is this, you might design a website template, put that into a network like In vodo or Creative Market or what have you, and then you can sell that template for 50 bucks a thousand times in a year and make some real money.

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Or even if you only sell it a hundred times, or 20 times, the reality is this, you have the ability to sell it as many times as possible throughout the entire lifetime of that piece of intellectual property and you spent the same amount of time on it. If you spent ten hours and you get paid once, you never make money again for that effort. But if you make a product and you can sell that product over and over and over again, then you have a way to make money off of that time forever. So it's a more practical investment to make a product or something that can be resold for time to effort and sell that multiple times than to sell something once. If you go online you can find few world largest companies.  

There product based companies instead of service based companies. Creative Design service professionals can use skills and hedge their bets by working a nine to five job or doing freelance work, and then in the meantime , taking a little extra effort to make products that they can resell or by selling products on the behalf of other people. If you have skills in typography and hand lettering, then you have a tremendous opportunity. You can sell some of your hand lettering as stock media using popular phrases or quotes and people will buy that. Other things you have to do with that is you could put it on t-shirts, you could put that on merchandise, and you could sell those products online through print-on-demand services.

I just gave you two ways, but I'm just gonna count them as one. If you happen to have skills in hand lettering and typography, this is tremendous opportunity for you. You could also make your own fonts. You can use programs and make your own fonts if you have skills in typography and hand lettering and you can sell those fonts. So while I'm counting this as one, I just gave you three ways you can make money if you happen to have skills in typography and hand lettering. If you're a web designer, then you can sell templates, you can make website templates and you can sell those online. If you happen to have skills with WordPress, this is a great opportunity, people wanna buy premium WordPress themes all the time, but if you don't and you're just good with HTML, you can sell email marketing templates. 

People like me who run a business have to grow their email list. I pay 75 dollars a month right now to MailChimp to be able to mail my newsletter out to my email list and there's some affiliate things in there that sometimes make that worth while and I make money off them, so it's very practical for me. If I wasn't a designer, I would absolutely buy a template from a great designer that lets my email newsletter look better than all of my competitors and contemporaries. So you can either sell outright website templates, WordPress templates and themes, eCommerce templates and themes, or, very simply, you can sell email marketing templates if you're a web designer and all you do is HTML and CSS. So that's extraordinarily practical. If you are able to do JavaScript or PHP, 

This is not for the person who wants to pick a good graphic designer from USA. This is for somebody that might be a marketer, that's a solo-entrepreneur, it could be any number of things. It could actually be another designer that's working as an in-house professional that's not getting paid enough to do things from scratch and needs to buy back some of their time or has a budget to actually buy stock templates, so you wanna take advantage of this existing market, you're not competing with yourself, not really. The people who want something specialized and customized to them, are still gonna hire you for that and not gonna want a cookie-cutter template that a hundred people might have. The people who want to buy those template  for a reason. They have a specific vulnerability that they're trying to address and this is gonna help them.

 So, if you're not selling it to them, there's somebody else who is. So, if you have a background in print and production artwork then you can sell great illustrator and in-design templates that people are more than happy to buy and that is a great opportunity for you. If you're a digital illustrator, or you're somebody who's fantastic in Adobe Illustratoror  CorelDRAW, or anything like that, and you do vector artwork, then you can do vector graphic packs, and these could be anything from variations of social media icons, these could be characachers, these could be different symbols and iconography, and if you sell these as packs and bundles, you're more likely to get someone to buy them than if you just sell them individually. This is fantastic. It doesn't have to be a very time-intensive;

some of it doesn't even have to be very complex. Before having a membership with Adobe Stock and with Graphic Stock, I was buying things like this all the time from Can Stock Photo and from iStock photo and from Photo dune and from Graphic river and sometimes if I find something special, I still will go out and buy it individually from those sites even though I have memberships. So, I think it's really worth while for you to take advantage of those skills. If you're someone who has a background indigital illustration and vector artwork, this is great for you and there are a lot of people that can make money from it and it's great for your portfolio if you wanna get clients that will have provide them an individual things for them. 

they'll want you to just produce that for them because they've seen that you've actually done it. There's no downside to this because you can create a portfolio and body of work that will let you get real clients that you can do active income and charge the highest amount you can for. And at the same time, you have some stuff that's maybe a variation of that or has a little less effort behind it and you're selling that and making some great money on the side while you sleep. So this is not fluff, this is not hokey, this is not anything that's a scam, this is not not valuing your work. This is practical business sense that you can apply as a creative that will make you money, scale your public profile, and get you actual clients on top of it. One of the last and final ways that I'm gonna give you to make passive income is to sell presets and to sell assets. What I mean by this is custom brushes you might've made in Photoshop, custom textures, custom backgrounds, but also presets. Maybe you made a Photoshop action that automates a process, maybe you made some Light room presets that'll allow somebody to edit their photos and have an interesting look or color wash their photos. 

Those things sell all the time and there's no limit to it. You can sell Photoshop styles for text urizing a font, any number of things. So you can make custom assets and you can sell those and people do pay good money for that all the time. So, I've given you more than five ways to make passive income as a designer, as an artist, as a creative, and I really hope you take advantage of this. If you have questions about how to make passive income online, I've done a couple of great videos about that that you should check out, I'll link them up here, also in the description below. Also, I wanna know if you have any more questions about this or if you've ever done it before. Let us know in the comment section, let's have a conversation about that. Have you been able to make passive income online using your creative skills? What have you done that I didn't list? Or have you done anything from the list that I brought up? If you guys like this kinda video and you want me to cover even more ways, I could cover easily another ten ways that you could make passive income online as a designer or as a creative, then let me know in the comments and also let me know bygetting 300 likes on this video. The sooner we get 'em, the sooner I can make that next video. Anyway, Like this video if you like it,don't forget to Subscribe,check out the other awesome content on the channel. Remember, graphic design videos are typically on Mondays,unless I'm late. As always you guys, thanks so very much for watchingand don't forget, create something awesome today. And maybe make some money off of it.