How to Become a Seller on Your Therapy Source
After the launch of the Digital Product Creation for Professionals Toolkit, I have been getting a lot of questions about how to become a seller on Your Therapy Source. I am super excited that readers are so interested and here is why! Don’t feel like reading? Scroll down to the bottom to watch a video chat about becoming a seller.
WHY IS IT A GREAT IDEA TO BECOME A VENDOR ON YOUR THERAPY SOURCE?
I own Your Therapy Source so obviously my answer is biased, but I do stand behind the Your Therapy Source marketplace 100%! Here are the top reasons:
IT IS A GREAT WAY TO MAKE PASSIVE INCOME
You might wonder what I mean about passive income. When you create digital products and sell them online you earn money all hours of the day and the night. For example, one of my first products that I created took me about 4 hours to create. I was able to create it quickly because it was all activities that I had been doing with my students to help them improve their gross motor skills.
These were activities that were engaging and got results. In 2007, sat down at the computer and started writing. Fours hours later I was done! I listed it for sale on my website and eBay (back then it was before Teachers Pay Teachers, Etsy and Amazon). The cost to create the PDF was ZERO dollars.
It was an amazing feeling when sales started to roll in on Your Therapy Source. I was so excited! First $5 then $10 then $15 and so on. I would literally go to sleep and wake up to see that I had a few more sales. That is the why digital product creation is passive income. You create a product once and it continues to earn you money.
YOUR THERAPY SOURCE HAS A LARGE AUDIENCE
Your Therapy Source has been online for over 15 years and built up a large audience. We have a HUGE list of email subscribers and are active on social media. Our readers are highly interested in learning about and promoting healthy child development. It can be easier to make sales on our website right out of the gate compared to a website. Current vendors have shared that they sell more resources on Your Therapy Source the first week when they list their product compared to Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT).
The competition on Teachers Pay Teachers is fierce and the shear volume of products is so high. As of last month, TpT had over 460,000 special education supplemental resources and over 200,000 speech therapy-related materials. That sure does make it hard it to get found on TpT whereas we have a much more niche market here on our website.
YOU CAN SELL ON OTHER WEBSITES TOO
Your Therapy Source does not restrict where you sell your products. When you sell on our site, you maintain ALL the rights to your prodcuts. You can sell them on our website, TpT, Etsy, Amazon and more! They are your creations. Think of us like a bookstore. Authors sell their books at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Independent book shops. Your Therapy Source is just like an independent bookstore!
READY TO START EARNING MONEY ON YOUR THERAPY SOURCE?
If you already have a product ready to go, read the steps below to learn how you can submit your products to be sold on Your Therapy Source. If you are thinking, “Margaret, I have tons of experience and ideas, but zero clue of where to get started when it comes to digital products” check out the Digital Product Creation for Professionals Toolkit. Colleen from The OT Toolbox and I used what we’ve spent years learning through trial and error to create this program. You can hop in with your idea, create the digital resources that others like you really need, and start making money selling your resources online. This program outlines exact strategies to take you from idea to passive income!
Digital Product Creation for Professionals
BASIC INFORMATION – HOW TO SELL ON YOUR THERAPY SOURCE
Here is some basic information on how it works:
- Your digital product is submitted for review.
- Once approved, your product can be listed for sale.
- You set the pricing (we do require a $5 minimum price for vendors) and maintain all the rights to the documents.
- You earn 65% of every sale.
- Make money! Payment is the first week of the month for the prior month’s sales.
The vendors on YourTherapySource earn a few dollars per month to thousands per month. Send us an email at info@yourtherapysource.com to get started today!
HOW DOES PAYMENT WORK?
Once you have started selling on Your Therapy Source, you will receive an email each time you make a sale. You will also receive log in information so you can view your sales on the Vendor Dashboard.
When you make a sale you earn 65% of the price of the product (you determine the price). You might wonder why we take 35% and here are some of the costs incurred on the website for us to provide the shopfront:
- web hosting fees
- credit card processing fees
- shopping cart software
- digital marketing – we promote your product via blogpost articles, email newsletter blasts, and social media posts.
- email marketing fees
- labor costs to list the products
- search engine optimization software costs to get products noticed on search engines
- commercial use image fees
- labor costs for customer service
- site speed software and more!
Not only does all of the above cost money, but it is also a lot of time. If you are working another job while you are building your side hustle, this is a huge advantage for you to list on our website. You list, market and sell your products. After they are purchased, we handle any customer service questions. You get paid!
THANKS ANYWAY, I WILL JUST SELL ON MY OWN WEBSITE. WHY NOT DO BOTH?
Of course, you have the option to create your own website and set up an online shop. Then you can keep 100% of the cost of your resource. But guess what? Colleen and I have spent years building our audience, creating new content and managing social media. It takes a long, long, long time and lots of hard work to get noticed by Google.
Why not do both? Selling on our website can help you earn money while you build your own audience. Plus, you are getting your product in front of new interested readers who might in turn, follow your journey on your website.
STEPS TO GET STARTED EARNING PASSIVE INCOME
Let’s review the steps to take now to get started earning passive income today!
LEVEL 1: I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO START
If you are just starting out, check out the Digital Product Creation for Professionals.
LEVEL 2: I ALREADY HAVE PRODUCTS
Send us an email at info@yourtherapysource.com to start chatting about your resource. I can’t wait to start working together!
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SELLING DIGITAL PRODUCTS?
Watch this video with Colleen and me, where we talk about how to sell on Your Therapy Source and The OT Toolbox. Stay tuned for more information here. Colleen and I will be recording videos to share all of our experiences about digital product creation!
READ MORE AT DIGITAL PRODUCT PROFESSIONALS
You can follow along our journey of digital product creation at our website specifically dedicated to this topic. Read the blog posts and watch our videos.
