Selling on Notion?
People who are doing this today, I have some questions I’d love your input on:
- Is it working for you today?
- If it is NOT working for you today, where else would you have chosen to sell?
- What kind of products seem to work best (i.e., checklists, wikis, video courses with written guide)?
- How “technical” does you audience need to be to get benefit from this platform without it being too cumbersome for them?
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Added an additional question about where else you might consider selling if Notion isn't working for you.
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I’m selling a few notion templates / systems on my Gumroad at https://gumroad.com/eisabai
It’s working for me so far, as in, I’m making at least one sale every week.
All of my products are quite different but they solve a problem and provide am immediate value to the buyer. I think that’s what matters the most.
The buyers are already Notion users so I’d say they are pretty technical.
Thanks @eisabai, hearing about the different product types you have is really helpful!
I’m already doing the work of the actual product I want to sell today (and getting paid for it!), and since making this post, I’ve gotten feedback back that people want videos and accompanying PDFs to go with it if they were to try and do this on their own. This would basically be a digital course and I’m thinking Notion isn’t the right place for that.
Hey, I'm working on userbooster.co right now. It's a notion dashboard that will help you set up a proper launching strategy, and get early traction.
Thanks @xavier, this is helpful. My target buyers are e-commerce founders and from my experience consulting with them so far, many of them are not very "technical" people even though they run a business on the Internet and use several SaaS platforms.
Your comment about dashboards and databases makes sense and makes me think Notion may not be the right place. I'm going to be giving step-by-step guidance and general principles on a topic and there might be a better format or place for this to live.
Hey Mike, here are my 2 cents.
1- Not working at all.
2- I believe there is audience for everything, but the hard part is reaching them.
3- Same as 2.
Let's see others experience.
Cheers.
Thanks for this feedback @polle!
I have a digital guide/checklist I want to sell to e-commerce companies , but the audience I want to sell it to has wide ranging technical abilities, but a good chunk are on the lower tech side. What I want to sell is helping these kind of people through a technical concept that will ultimately help secure and improve their business but I’m not sure this is the right medium.
You can always try :)
Notion is a good platform and is growing fast. I can see many people using it in years to come.
I'm currently using Fruition as my platform to my website. I'm selling Notion style portraits of people for their dashboards.
https://frdspuzi.com is my website.
I couldn't answer to your other questions as they are catered towards the technical aspect of Notion in contrast to what I offer. Albeit, I see an increasing demand in the usage of trackers. Be it finance, habits and others. Notion is a place that is used like a second brain to most.
Hope that helps!