Creating digital products is digitizing what you know into digital formats to preserve, share, and monetize your intellectual assets. This article discusses ways to digitize and share your skills and knowledge with others.

Creating digital products is an exciting way to share your knowledge, creativity, and solutions with a global audience. Whether it’s an eBook, software, or design template, digital products offer endless opportunities for students, entrepreneurs, educators, and creatives to generate passive income and possibly even build a scalable businesses.

Unlike physical goods, they require no inventory, making them cost-effective and easy to distribute. However, success in the digital marketplace depends on understanding your audience, delivering real value, and leveraging the right tools and platforms. With the right strategy, anyone can turn their skills and expertise into digital assets.

Digitizing your knowledge allows you to:

• Reach a wider audience.
• Monetize your expertise.
• Establish credibility in your field.
• Share your knowledge and teach to benefit others.
• Automate income streams (through courses, eBooks, etc.)
• Leave a legacy of your knowledge.

Write about what you know that people would be interested in learning or acquire skills in to better their life and career. See Selling Digital Products > Coming Up With Ideals for Digital Products on how to come up with ideas for digital products. The types of digital products you can create include:

• Step-by-step tutorials
• Case studies
• Industry insights
• Subject strategies
• Q&A sessions
• Study guides for academic subjects
• Study guides for career skills like project management.

If you’re currently in school or have past school material in digital form you already have a source of possible digital products that you can sell online.

Sellable school material could be class notes, papers, presentations, etc. If they are in digital form, they can be uploaded to this and other similar digitial marketplace websites to sell.

So rather than store your school material away once you finish your courses, why not share them? People can then benefit from your knowledge, subject insights contained in your study material, helping them learn subjects you’ve once studied.

To sell your (digitized) school material at KommDigital, all you have to do is:

• register for free,
• upload your school material
• write why people should buy your material (i.e. what they’ll learn and the benefits of this (better grades, etc.),
• include sample or two of your material to help market your material
• set a competitive price that people perceive as value that entices them to buy and
• collect a 70% commission each time people buy your material.

There are no costs to uploading your digitized school material for sale.

Writing an engaging description of your digital products can be challenging. Basically you need to write a description that entices without being overly salesy. AI can help with this help. ChatGPT or DeepSeek can write compelling product descriptions to better market your school material. See How to Learn for School (& Life) Success ebook’s description as an example. To see how to prompt ChatGPT or DeekSeek to write good descriptions visit Designing ChatGPT Prompts to learn how.

If you have past school material or non school material you wrote (reports, papers, presentations, notes, etc.) only available in hard copy, you can still sell them online by digitizing them as well.

You can digitize these materials using your phone, printer or a scanner to scan them into a digital format such as a PDF. Once digitized, you can then download them to your device and upload them to sell on this website or similar sites. Here’s a video that shows you how to easily do this:

If you prefer to read how to do this, here’s a comprehensive Wikihow article article that goes into the various ways of scanning your documents into an PDF:

Note if your hard copies are hard to read, they will be hard to sell. In that case, you will have no choice but to rewrite them. You can use content creation tools like Google Docs, Powerpoint, etc. to make them legible and into a digital format at the same time in order to sell them successfully.

Everybody has unique knowledge and skill in many areas, gained from formal school and school-of-life from first hand experience, coaches, mentors, teachers, self study and life in general.

It used to be daunting and time consuming to write down your knowledge and skills. But with content creation tools and especially AI, it’s now much easier to write them and digitize them to share with others.

Here’s some content creation tools below to help you create various types of digital products. Many of these tools now incorporate AI, making it easier to quickly come up with content.

Popular tools for creating digital products include:

• E-books: Canva, Adobe InDesign, Scrivener software; word Processors like Google Docs
• Slide Decks: Powerpoint, Apple Keynote, Google Slides, etc.
• Infographics: Piktochart
• Flash cards: Quizlet, Anki, IdoRecall
• Courses: Teachable, KommunityEd platforms, Camtasia, Prism, Live Studio (latter 2 screen recorders)
• Software: Figma, Flutter, Python, Bubble.io

It can be daunting to plan and write out your knowledge and skills from scratch. AI can significantly enhance the digital product creation process by automating tasks, improving efficiency, and generating high-quality content.

Many of the above listed tools now include AI with them. You just “ask” the tool’s AI to create content on the topic you want and the AI creates the content on the topic! You then edit the content by adding your knowledge and insights to it to make the content uniquely yours.

Asking or prompting the AI with as much detail and context as possible results in better answers (i.e. content) to your ask. Here’s how you can “ask” good questions to get good “answers” for your digital products.

,To write ebooks using AI, if your word processor not yet includes AI (many do now), add a chrome extension like Sider to your chrome browser. One of the many AI things Sider can do is act as a content writing aid while you use Google Docs to write your ebook. Using Sider’s AI writer tool you can write a first draft and then add your subject matter insights, knowledge, edit out and add more detail to the content.

Similarly, you could use ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Copilot (Later Window versions), Apple Intelligence (Later Macbooks) or Gemini (Chromebook) to write help your ebook content. Then copy and paste the produced content into Google Docs, Microsoft Word or Apple Pages, etc. and format the content into an ebook or paper. We wrote a blog post on our sister site, KommunityEd on how to use ChatGPT to create online courses. A lot of this post’s main points, especially designing prompts, apply to creating your ebook as well (e.g. outlining chapters).

To make your ebooks and papers more educational, use copyright free stock image from sites like Pexels, Unsplash or Pixabay to add images to your ebooks and papers.

Here’s a video on how to format a Google Doc into an ebook, most of which also applies to if you’re using Microsoft World or Apple Docs to create your ebooks and papers with:

Slide decks are another way to teach what you know or share your skills. Slides can be an effective way to teach others as they are visual in nature.

You can create slide decks to sell on this or other similar digital marketplace websites by using ChatGPT directly to write a a slideshow script for you by prompting it with a topic, number of slides you need and as much context as possible. ChatGPT then writes out the content and you can then copy and paste the content to your preferred presentation tool (Google Slides, Powerpoint, etc.) to create your slides.

You can then export/download the slides to then upload them to sell on this website or similar sites.

Similarly, you could create digital flash card decks on a given topic to sell online, including on this site. Digital flashcards like flashcards display a question to prompt learners to answer questions. The cards then display the correct answers to help people remember topic concepts.

The advantage of digital flashcards over manual cards is they auto schedule questions and answers on topics the learner gave the most wrong answers to from the last Q&A flash session. That way, learners are tested most frequently on what they know least know until they master that topic, not what they already know.

Once you’ve created digital flashcards on virtually any topic, you can then export them to use, share with others and even sell them online.

Digital flashcards are platform specific, meaning the learner has to have the corresponding flashcard app to use them. Popular flashcard apps are the basically free Anki. Other popular platforms are Quizlet and Idorecall. Here’s a video tutorial on how to use Anki to create various topic flashcard decks. At the video’s 11.22 mark talks about using Anki flashcards created by others. You could do the same and then share or sell them online:

You can also use AI to create infographics to sell. You could use an infographic tool like Pictochart, export the resulting infographics and upload them to sell online. It can also do double duty by creating slideshow presentations as well. Here’s a video demonstrating how to use this tool’s AI aspects to create infographics:

We recommend you create ebooks, papers, slide shows, flashcards, infographic versions of your knowledge and skills. That way, you can sell various types of digital products at various prices and/or package them together to sell at one price. Selling various digital products and packaging them together to sell increases your chances of selling more digital products overall.

The easiest way to do this is to first create your ebook or paper and then repurpose the resulting content there into slideshows, flash cards, infographics and even as full online courses to sell each separately and as a package.

Creating digital products involves leveraging various tools and platforms to design, develop, and distribute digital goods that provide value to customers.

Common digital products include ebooks, online courses, printables, digital art, music, website themes, stock media, memberships, and AI-powered tools.

Writers can use platforms like Google Docs and Canva to create ebooks, while course creators can use online course platforms like KommunityEd for structured learning experiences.

Graphic designers and artists can design and sell assets using Procreate, Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator, and musicians can monetize their work through platforms like BeatStars or Spotify.

Developers can build and sell website themes, UI kits, and automation scripts using tools like Figma, Webflow, and GitHub.

For those interested in stock photography or video, platforms like Shutterstock and Adobe Stock offer opportunities to generate passive income.

What platforms can I use to share my knowledge?

• Blogs & Writing: Medium, Substack, WordPress
• Videos: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels
• Online Courses: Udemy, Skillshare, KommunityEd
• Newsletters: ConvertKit, Substack
• Community & Memberships: Patreon, Discord, LinkedIn
• Digital Product Markeplaces: Like this website, KommDigital

Do I need technical skills to digitize my knowledge?
Not necessarily! Many content creation tools are user-friendly and require no coding. AI tools can also assist with content creation and automation.

How do I grow an audience for my digital content?

• Be active on social media.
• Use SEO to improve content discoverability.
• Engage with communities and forums.
• Offer free valuable content to attract followers.

How do I know what knowledge or skills are worth digitizing?
Identify what people ask you about the most or what problems you can solve effectively. Research market demand using platforms like Google Trends, Quora, or Reddit.

What is the biggest mistake beginners make when digitizing knowledge?
Waiting too long to start! Perfectionism can slow you down—focus on providing value first and improve as you go.