These are flexible business ideas you can start using Canva.
As you may know, Canva is a very popular graphic design tool and for good reason. Through Canva, you can create professional-looking designs for various purposes, including marketing materials, social media graphics, logos, and more. Therefore, it is widely used by small businesses and offers numerous money making opportunities for freelancers.
If you love designing things and would like to work on your own hours, make money, and set your own pay rate whilst doing what you love, then this article is for you.
I’ll give you business ideas you can start and make money with using Canva, no matter your experience level.
What makes a great small business idea?
A great business idea should be flexible, low-cost, scalable, in high demand, based on your passion and skills, compatible with your work-life balance, and legitimate.
Above all these things, it should have a high potential to make you money – because that’s the reason for starting a business anyway!
The business ideas listed below check all these boxes. No start up costs, you can design in your own time. You create the designs once and leave them to sell (Passive Income!).
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10 Profitable Business Ideas You Can Launch Today Using Canva’s Design Tool
1. OFFER SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT TO BUSINESSES.
One of the best ways to use Canva is to create social media posts. Canva has nearly 200,000 templates for social media. Simply find them by typing ‘social media templates’ in the template search bar.
You could offer social media management services to small businesses, and using Canva, you create eye-catching graphics and posts for their social media channels.
2. START A LOGO DESIGN BUSINESS
If you find it easier to make simple small designs rather than write captions or entire posts, then starting out a logo design business may suit you better. With over 200,000 templates available for inspiration, you can use Canva to design logos for businesses, and offer logo design services either as a standalone service or as part of a branding package.
3. GO INTO DIGITAL MARKETING
You can offer digital marketing services to businesses. If you have a good understanding of marketing, sales, the psychology behind buying and persuasion, you can sell your services and earn. Using Canva you can create marketing materials such as email newsletters, web banners, and digital ads. If you are looking to learn more about marketing in 2023, you can join Udemy or Skillshare as there are a lot of online courses to learn from.
4. SELLING PRINT-ON-DEMAND PRODUCTS
From t-shirts, to mugs, swimsuits, or phone cases, Canva can be used to design graphics for print-on-demand products which can be sold through any e-commerce platform.
You can start the POD business. Or you can sell your designs as digital products.
You can sell your products or designs on Etsy, Creative Market, Redbubble or on your own store. If you would rather not run an online store, Koji is perfect for selling on all social media platforms.
5. START AN ETSY SHOP
Starting an Etsy shop is a great way to make money. I personally like the free traffic that comes with Etsy. In addition, the set-up process is straight forward.
Some digital products you can create on Canva to sell on Etsy include:
Printable Wall art
Invitations
Calendars
Planner inserts
Children’s Workbooks
Checklists
Printable affirmations
Productivity Checklists
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6. START A BLOG
If you enjoy Blogging and you want to make money from it, you can use Canva to create graphics for your blog posts and social media promotion. The more you promote your blog, the more traffic you get.
In the world of blogging, more traffic = more sales. Also, with more traffic, you also increase your chances of getting accepted into Ad networks such as Mediavine, Ezoic etc. Head over to how to start a blog to learn more.
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- Sell printables – Selling printables is the easiest side hustle to make passive income. You can do it in your own schedule and earn over $10,000 a year selling simple printables.
- Proofreading – Earn $15-20+ an hour proofreading online. Set your own schedule, choose what you want to proofread and when.
- Complete short tasks – Make money filling out surveys or playing games on Swagbucks. You can earn up to $5 per task, tasks take only a few minutes to complete.
- Get paid to read books – Yes, you can get paid to read books and there are over 15 companies that can hire you. Head over to Get paid to read books online to learn more.
7. DESIGN E-BOOKS
Anyone can create e-books on their own but not everyone can design a captivating e-book cover or content page. You can create and sell your own e-books. There are so many templates to choose from. From cookbooks, to recipes, fitness or coaching workbooks.
If you simply like designing, you can offer a personalised service where you design and format e-books for authors, bloggers, and business owners.
8. WEDDING STATIONERY DESIGN
There are so many options when it comes to offering wedding stationery design services. You can create custom invitations, save-the-dates, programs, menus, place cards, table numbers, signage, and more.
Couples love wedding printables because it can easily be customized to match their wedding theme and colors, and can save them both time and money.
I really like the wedding niche because you will often get orders for 10s to 100s of items if you sell prints in addition to digital downloads.
A great way to get clients will be to pitch your service to Wedding planners so they can send couples your way.
9. BUSINESS BRANDING SERVICE
If you are into marketing and branding, you can use Canva to create unique business card designs for clients, and offer printing services or sell them as digital designs. You can also offer an entire branding bundle which will include logos, business cards, social media graphics, brochures, email templates etc.
10. DESIGN AND SELL WEBSITE TEMPLATES
Do you know you can create websites on Canva?. However, because Canva websites are not SEO optimised, they are not recommended for bloggers.
That said, Canva website designs (which are beautiful by the way) can be customised, saved as JPGs and imported to other website builders such as shopify. This is how you make the money. By selling templates to entrepreneurs or businesses who need a website but do not want to create one from scratch.
So there you have it! 10 flexible ideas you can start today with only one software. Canva offers both a free and Paid plan. The paid plan offers many more graphic options. However, you can begin with the free plan, see what it offers and then go ahead to get the paid plan when you know exactly what you want to sell.
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