How to Make Money with Canva💰 (Top 4 Side Hustle Ideas)

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Kate Hayes shares her top four ways to make money with Canva, saying three of the four can become passive — create once, list online, and sell without filling orders. First is print-on-demand: create designs in Canva, download as a transparent PNG, source extra elements from sites like Creative Market or Creative Fabrica with the right license if needed, and partner with a provider such as Printify or Printful synced to a shop on Etsy or Shopify, which prints and ships while the seller keeps profit above the base cost. Second is selling Canva templates — for invitations, social media graphics, presentations, workbooks and marketing materials — using only free Canva elements and fonts, generating a template link, and delivering it via a linked PDF so buyers get their own editable copy. Third is selling printables such as wall art, ebooks and planning worksheets, ensuring at least 300 DPI resolution and using high-quality mockups and, for wall art, size bundles based on research. Fourth is design services, a more active model — e.g. branding, website assets and social media design — found via Upwork, Fiverr or direct outreach, which she says allows higher price points. Throughout she recommends market research on Etsy first to validate demand.

Key takeaways

• Print-on-demand: design in Canva, export a transparent PNG, and sync a provider like Printful or Printify to Etsy or Shopify so orders are printed and shipped for you
• Canva templates must use only free elements and fonts — Pro elements/fonts are not allowed for templates and would block buyers without Pro from editing
• Deliver templates via a PDF containing the generated template link so each buyer opens their own unique copy, never the original
• Printables need high resolution — a minimum of 300 DPI — plus strong mockup images; for wall art, research and offer the size bundles competitors include
• Design services on Upwork/Fiverr or via direct outreach are more active work but allow higher price points and profit ceilings than passive products

Episode details: published January 7, 2025 · 14:51 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kate Hayes’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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