Canva is a powerhouse for making money online, and yet most people have no idea how to use it to create stand-out products!
Trust me when I say, this niche is far from saturated.
In this guide, I’ll be taking you through the top 17 easy ways to make money with Canva, including what products are in high demand right now as well as what you can realistically expect to sell them for.
Easy Ways to Make Money with Canva
1) Canva Templates
What better way to make money with Canva than by selling Canva templates?
With so many people wanting to use Canva, but not having the time to learn it, more people than ever are turning to ready-made Canva templates!
And the profit potential is huge! These templates can sell for anywhere between $15-$100+ each.
Just 100 sales a month could easily net you a whopping $10,000 a month!
Instagram and Etsy are just two of the most popular places to list Canva templates right now.
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2) Digital Products & Course Materials
Have an idea for a digital product or course? One of the quickest ways to get the idea off the ground is to use Canva to design it.
With Canva, you can design anything from checklists to workbooks to flashcards, and they don’t sell all that cheap either!
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If you have an established brand or name, your digital products could easily retail for anything between $50-$250+ per unit, making it incredibly easy to scale to 5 or even 6 figure months!
If you’re just starting out, I highly recommend looking at selling your digital products on Etsy; I started two shops last year and they made a combined total of $3,000 a month, completely passively!
Related: How I Make $10,000 a Month Selling Digital Printables On Etsy
3) Resume Templates
If you’ve got an eye for design and detail, and can also design clean, but professional looking resume templates, you’re onto a winner!
Resume templates typically sell for $30-$90+, depending on the field/career path you’ve designed for.
Want to make money? Create resumes around job titles that naturally command a higher salary.
4) Become a Canva Contributor
If you’re a Canva Whizz, then you might want to consider becoming a Canva contributor.
Canva contributors design free templates, stickers or illustrations for Canva to use, but before you scratch your head and think ‘what’s in it for me?’, these contributors take a decent cut of the Canva Pro subscriptions. 35% to be exact!
Think of it like a commission based on how many people use your designs!
At first I wasn’t too sure how legitimate this idea was for making good money, but turns out it’s pretty profitable.
Ellie from Design Your Way earns roughly $3,500 a month, completely passively, with just a handful of designs.
She even admits that if she had the time to create more designs, she would earn way more money!
5) Print on Demand Services
You’ve likely heard of Print on Demand, or POD; it’s the idea that you create your own designs and then sell them on items for people to buy, ready-made.
Bags, t-shirts, mugs, keyrings, pillows – these are just some of the ways people make good money by selling their designs!
Small caveat though, this niche is saturated, so you’ve got to be good to stand out, or better yet, build around a niche that has a very loyal following e.g. mountain bikers, German Shepard owners, tennis players etc.
Print on Demand sellers who have cracked the code and built a repeat customer base easily make $5,000-$15,000 a month.
6) Social Media Management
Good at designing blog posts, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube or Tiktok graphics?
Social media content creation is a giant time suck for many creators and small businesses. That’s where you come in!
Not only can you offer straight social media post creation for a fee but you can also offer social media management packages if you understand how to build a following on these platforms too.
And let me tell you, these packages don’t come cheap! Just 3 clients a month could easily net you well into the $7,500+ mark.
The average monthly package contains 2-3 reels a week, a blog post as well as some basic content research.
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7) Low Content Books
Low content books aren’t a new idea, but they’re heavily slept on when it comes to an easy online money-making idea!
Low content books are anything that doesn’t require a text or detail to sell i.e. logbooks, coloring books, journals, meal planners etc.
They’re designed for the buyer to fill them in.
Sometimes the most simple ideas prove to be the most profitable with this idea alone potentially netting you a healthy $1,000-$3,000 a month in profit.
Some creators using Amazon’s KDP program even make between $5,000-$15,000 a month with their designs!
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8) Brand Identity Packages
Logos, social media graphics, color palettes, brand style guides, if you know exactly what I mean by all of that you could easily turn this simple idea into a money-making machine.
Most can’t or rather don’t want to design the intricate details of their logo and other visual branding graphics by themselves, so they hire a designer to do it for them.
Using Canva as a design tool, you can easily charge between $50-$300 per package, depending on the complexity that the customer wants.
9) Youtube Graphics
Know how to make a Youtube banner stand-out? Love creating attention-worthy thumbnails?
This Canva money making idea could easily make you between $1,000-$5,000+ in profit every month!
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With over 200 new channels launched every day, it’s no wonder creators are seeking new and improved ways to grab people’s attention.
Play around with a few styles to see what works for you, or better yet, head to the channels currently doing well and see if you can put your own spin on an already tried and tested design!
10) Marketing Videos
Canva is a bit of a hidden gem when it comes to video editing.
Whilst most will turn to CutCap or the more advanced Davinci Resolve, Canva’s video editor is actually pretty good for basic marketing videos.
With its drag and drop style editor and incredible selection of visual effects and text styles, you can create unique looking short or long form videos in a matter of minutes!
Given that many brands can’t afford an in-house production team or don’t even know where to start when it comes to video creation, this idea can easily become a 5 figure or even 6 figure business.
11) Become a Canva Affiliate
Already have a blog, Youtube channel or similar social following? This is one money making idea that doesn’t revolve around creating on Canva itself!
If you can organically and naturally promote Canva to your followers, you could snag a nice $36 every time a subscriber signs up to Canva Pro.
Whilst that might not sound like a lot of money, remember that Canva is the go-to design platform with over 55 million users every single month!
Because of its simple and intuitive nature, it basically sells itself meaning with just 10 sign ups, you can make $360 completely passively.
12) Become a Canva YouTuber
If you love making educational tutorial videos, why not become a dedicated Canva YouTuber?
Digital marketing channels can pull in RPMS of around $20 per thousand views, depending on what they talk about.
That works out at roughly $24,000 per million views!
Bear in mind, videos can continue to rack up views months or even years after they’ve been posted, meaning all those views quickly add up!
Plus, Canva Affiliate sign ups would be through the roof! Double income.
13) Basic Website Design
Website design truly is a powerhouse, money-making skill, but in the past it’s been reserved solely for technical designers, but not anymore!
Canva’s click and drop editor lets you design a website, or convert an existing presentation deck into a simple, easy-to-use site!
Whilst they might not meet the most technical specifications, most of these designs look stunning for portfolio, personal brand and small business websites!
Canva website designers can quite easily make over $2,000 a month!
14) Lead Magnets
Coaches, entrepreneurs, and business leaders are forever seeking innovative ways to grow their email list and lead magnets are a super savvy way to do this.
They can take a while to create, something most entrepreneurs and leaders just don’t have time to do.
If you can create simple, but effective lead magnets, you could easily pull in an extra $2,000-$4,000 a month!
Bonus if you can create a plug and play graphic for them to use on their website or social to promote the lead magnet too.
15) Digital Art
You’d be surprised how well art prints sell online, but it’s easy to see why! As the world turns to AI, more and more people are seeking authenticity in their prints.
They want art created by a real artist, something crafted with care (even if it is digital!).
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Art prints are often the best way for people to collect something they love without shelling out a pretty penny for the originals.
One of my closest friends makes close to $60,000 a year on the side selling her human right’s themed art prints on Etsy and Shopify.
16) Pitch Decks
Creators and small businesses need to create pitch decks and portfolios to show off their best work!
If you can create eye-catching pitch decks or portfolios that not only highlight the creator’s best assets but also make the creator stand out, you’re onto a real winner!
These decks can easily retail for $350+, depending on the complexity and detail of the work needed.
Just 5 decks a month could make you a nice $1,750, and that’s at the bottom end of the scale!
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17) Ebook Covers
According to Words Rated, 1.7 million self-published books are released on Amazon KDP every single year!
That’s 1.7 million potential authors seeking unique and attention-grabbing covers that accurately reflects the theme of their work.
Given that most self-published authors never end up working with big publishers due to the terrible profit structure, they’re forever on the lookout for good designers that can help send their book to the top of the best-seller charts.
Ebook cover artists on Fiverr can easily charge between $50-$250 a cover, whilst creators with a decent portfolio behind them can charge $300-$1,500+ a book!
Some super nice profit to be made in this niche.
