#2138 - Q&A: “Can I make and sell Notion templates?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
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🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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The productivity app Notion describes itself as a a project management and note-taking software platform. It comes with 100 templates, but you can make your own—and our caller wants to sell the ones they make. How can they do that?
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| 0:00.0 | Today we have a caller with a question about selling Notion templates. |
| 0:12.0 | This would be the software notion, the app, the productivity app notion. |
| 0:17.0 | In fact, it describes itself as a project management and not taking software platform. |
| 0:22.0 | Perhaps you have used Notion or something like it. |
| 0:25.0 | It's really taken off over the past few years, lots and lots of users. |
| 0:28.0 | And where there are lots of users, there's also sometimes at least opportunity. |
| 0:33.0 | As we've featured a number of stories about people who have created user guides for various software tools. |
| 0:39.0 | People have created templates. |
| 0:41.0 | In fact, that's what we're going to look at here today. |
| 0:43.0 | Notion comes with over 100 professionally designed templates, which allow you to add your own images, videos, and text using a visual editor. |
| 0:50.0 | And that's cool, but you also get to make your own templates. |
| 0:53.0 | So going to our caller here, they don't want to just use existing templates. |
| 0:58.0 | They want to make their own. |
| 0:59.0 | And not only that, they want to sell the ones they make to this very large user base. |
| 1:04.0 | So can they do that? |
| 1:05.0 | Well, yes they can, actually. |
| 1:07.0 | But how can they do that? |
| 1:08.0 | And what might make their templates more successful than others? |
| 1:11.0 | How can they grow this business? |
| 1:13.0 | Can I make and sell Notion templates? That's today's question. |
| 1:16.0 | Welcome to Sideosal School. |
| 1:17.0 | A detailed question coming up after this quick shout out to our sponsor. |
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