Would you consider making a sale on Teachers Pay Teachers? Perhaps you require income to supplement your monthly budget or to provide “fun money.”
Maybe you wish to start a side business? You must start at the beginning, no matter because you want to sell on TPT. This post fills that need.
You already put countless hours into creating materials for your classroom and putting your all into your courses. Processing such lessons and adding them to the website doesn’t need much extra time.
Selling teachers’ names is a wonderful method to earn some additional money each month (or more, if that’s your goal) through Pay Teachers.
It’s remarkable how your efforts and time are validated when you make a little money off something you made for your classroom. I believe it’s only the knowledge that the time wasn’t squandered. Your time, your creativity, and your understanding of the most effective teaching methods are valued by someone else.
It can be a little intimidating to start selling instructional resources online and on Teachers Pay Teachers. You become paralyzed by concerns like “where do I start,” “when should I upload it,” and “will it even sell.” So, this is where you begin. Additionally, unless you try, you won’t know if it will sell. Ready
1. Register to Sell
You might already be a member of a regular buyer membership. Your account must now be converted to a seller account. Continue reading to learn the benefits of opening a Basic or Premium Seller account before closing this post. Like opening any other online account, creating a Teachers Pay Teachers account is simple.
The next step is opening a PayPal account. You most certainly have a PayPal account already. The time is now if you don’t. You must have a method for collecting payments. TPT will pay out via PayPal once per month. Have you already signed up? Your bank account details should be close at hand. Two small deposits will be sent to your account using PayPal (really small: .06 or .04). This is to confirm that you are, in fact, the account’s owner. In order for them to truly recognize you, you will check your statement and then input the total of the two deposits on PayPal.
2. Subscribe to Premium (if you are serious)
Let’s begin. Do you intend to use this as a test drive for a longer period of time? Attempt it for a year? How committed are you to earning money from your lessons? Long-term financial savings can be had by making a one-time investment in the Premium Seller account. Although it can take several months of selling on Teachers Pay Teachers for your investment to be recovered if you are selling units you might as well be making the most of the sale price.
$59.00 will get you a Premium membership. You keep a larger portion of every sale and only charge a transaction fee when a customer checks out with less than $3 in their basket. There will be an extra transaction fee if your item was the only one and it cost $2.99 or less. similar to using your debit card at the store for purchases under $5.
3. Invest in professional clipart and fonts
We now know that you are sincere. You have a Premium Seller account in addition to your PayPal account. It’s time to design and list some stuff.
Don’t be concerned about putting too much money into this side business right now. You’re making sales on Teachers. Instead of blowing your entire budget simply to get started, pay teachers to earn some extra cash. There are approaches to disperse it.
Both free clipart for Instructors Pay Teachers goods and free fonts for teachers are available. The original fee will be offset by that. (Just so you know, in the future you’ll want to spend money on premium clipart and typefaces.)
You will eventually need to make some investments, just like in any firm. It is totally up to you to decide when and how much to invest, depending on your financial situation and degree of comfort. To spice up your resources, invest in a few commercial typefaces and clipart collections.
There are a ton of people that create graphics, digital sheets, frames, clipart, and typefaces for teachers to use in their resources and sell them on Teachers Pay Teachers. Some even provide free samples, which is an excellent place to start (assuming the product is of high quality and has Terms of Use that permit selling).
Remember to offer comments and earn credits after making several Teachers Pay Teachers purchases. These points can be used to buy additional Teachers Pay Teachers clipart and commercial typefaces.
4. Select a design program for Teachers Pay Teachers sales.
It will take time to produce all these fantastic items. You might already be skilled at producing resources for Teachers Pay Teachers, or you might need to invest some time in learning some fundamental design principles and useful software. It might go more quickly if you are already tech-savvy. This method has a learning curve, which is expected. Don’t give up just because it takes some effort and time. You’ll improve more quickly.
Which software do you employ? You may start off with what you have, I suppose. A big one is PowerPoint. The free Google Slides program functions similarly. Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator are my favorites. You can save money on Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription if you’re a teacher. To encrypt your PDFs, you need Adobe Acrobat or a similar program.
5. Create it and apply it
Many new vendors simply upload a ton of resources as their first step. This is a worksheet.
By the time they realize they have a legitimate business, their store is crammed with disparate goods that don’t go together.
Their stores not only have poor revenue, but they also have a sloppy, unprofessional appearance.
The aesthetics and content have nothing to connect them if they have bothered to market. It would be difficult for a buyer to choose their resources from among the others.
Instead, it’s preferable to open a store with at least a vague goal and long-term plan. You don’t need a comprehensive five-year business plan, but you should at the very least have a clear understanding of your target market, your niche, as well as a ready-to-use store name, logo, branding colors, and conditions of use page.
By doing this, you will be able to maintain some consistency among all your product lines even as you pivot, expand, and adopt new tactics.
Now, don’t worry if you have no experience in marketing or graphic design. Even the most tech-phobic person may easily construct their own company assets with the help of the abundance of free tools accessible today.
This is a major issue. Don’t simply produce it and market it. Why? thus you won’t have a genuine interest in it. There won’t be any of that special element. You must employ it. You should have your pupils review it and point out any errors they see (yes, this does happen frequently). It improves your product. Ask a buddy who is a teacher to try out your teachings in their classroom and give you feedback if you don’t have a classroom to experiment in, um, I mean to implement them in.
My best-selling materials are all ones that I created myself because I couldn’t locate any pre-made ones on Teachers Pay Teachers. This typically indicates that similar items are likely to be sought after by others. If you see a need, chances are that someone else does too. For them, satisfy that craving!
6. Items, 1 Free and 1 Paid
To get started, you simply need two things. A free one paid. Create a freebie that is worthwhile to pay for. less than 10 pages, too. The 10-page requirement will be covered in a later blog article for more sophisticated selling. Just bear that in mind when using your free item. Your initial Teachers Pay Teachers listing must be a free listing. Giving back to the community is the focus.
7. Design covers with big title fonts
Many vendors wind up redesigning the covers of their first listings. It’s all a part of the seller’s learning process and development.
It will save you a ton of time if you can decide on a design or style from the outset of the process. Square them up. Make the title prominent and obvious. To make it clear that it is your work, add your logo or copyright.
If things don’t seem to fit together perfectly or if you need to go back and redesign your graphics a few times, don’t worry. One of the trickier aspects of selling on TPT is designing your brand and cover. Finding your brand is the subject of entire courses!
Extra Pro Tip: When creating the product’s cover, spend some time creating a Pinterest-worthy pin for it as well. Time will be saved, and your brand will become more unified.
8. Protect IT!
Your product needs to be flattened in accordance with the TOU of the companies that created the clipart, graphics, and fonts. As a result, there is just one layer, making it impossible for hackers to remove the paid-for artwork and reuse it elsewhere. There are other approaches to accomplishing this, such saving your entire slide as a jpg and inserting that jpg in the file instead. You can configure security settings and password-protect the file if it’s a PDF. If you, as the owner, need to go back and change the file because of an error or an update you wish to add, this is a terrific alternative. Please keep your original files! In this manner, making an alteration won’t require you to invent anything new.
9. It’s Fun to Sell on TPT: Enjoy the journey
It takes time for the entire process. You won’t suddenly become a millionaire. You could not even have enough money each month to buy a coffee. Particularly during the summer. selling teachers’ names Pay Teachers is frequently described as a marathon rather than a sprint. This approach will help you develop and gain knowledge. In more ways than you can currently fathom. It’s all worthwhile, too. similar to teaching.
Give it a year or more. Make it through the Back to School sale on Teachers Pay Teachers. Make it longer than 12 months so you may compare June to June and other similar months to see your development. You will be overjoyed that you persisted in your efforts.
10. Extra Advice: Make a Credit Page
Where credit is due, give it. Most artists will state that using their clipart, borders, fonts, etc. requires giving them credit. To offer acknowledgment to the artists whose work is featured in the resource you just made, make a page to put at the conclusion of your products.
Along the process, there are a ton of things about selling on TPT to learn. There is a wealth of knowledge available on creating goods for Teachers Pay Teachers. Everybody has their own personal approach, method, and style. It’s first a little confusing. Learn about the Teachers Pay Teachers website. To assist you along the way, there are resources for sellers, a handbook, forums, and numerous other resources. You can, of course, email me with any inquiries and to keep up with new blogs.
TPT Quick Tip: There are numerous free ways to promote your materials. While video, podcasts, and blogging are all excellent marketing strategies, you don’t need any of them to start building your brand. You may promote your products without spending a dime by using Pinterest, social media, and even an email marketing newsletter!
Conclusion
Teachers Pay Teachers allows any educator to increase their income. To achieve your TPT objectives, however, you must adopt the appropriate tactics and follow all four processes.
But I can assure you that having a coach or mentor by your side makes things so much simpler. You should enroll in my course if you want to launch your Teachers Pay Teachers business successfully and build a long-lasting enterprise.
With the help of my course TPT Profitability, you can go from having no Teachers Pay Teachers store at all to having one that is profitable and expanding in just a month.