Making Money With Canva As A Freelancer

Five Creative Ways That African Freelancers Can Make Money With Canva

If you make your money online, or if you are in e-commerce, you understand the importance of online presence. To be a brand in this digital age requires that you maintain social media pages with content. Everything from YouTube videos, Twitter feed, logos, and imagery for your online identity. This is where Canva comes in.

Canva is a platform that allows creators to use their templates to create posts, banners, logos, videos, posters, and more. They have basic templates for free and a wide variety of templates for their paying members.

How Can I Use Canva To Make Money Online

1. Use Canva For YouTube Channel

You can create YouTube thumbnails for your videos. Banners for your YouTube channel and even edit your videos on the platform.

2. Create Print On Demand Products

You can create the graphics and artwork for your print-on-demand business on the Canva website. The templates on Canva are all professional level and you can choose the file type that you want it saved as. Ensuring your print on demand company prints your art and graphics in the best quality for your product.

3. Design Your E-book Cover

E-books generated $1.1 billion. If you have a story to tell or information that people, find useful, creating an e-book is the least you could do to make money online. Once the words are written you will need a book cover that communicates the value of your work. Canva will allow you to use their templates as well as their images and elements to create a captivating book cover for your e-book.

4. Canva For Businesses

You can create good-quality logos on Canva. On Fiverr, you could sell one logo for at least $5 each. You can also create business cards for clients and charge a fee respectively. Other products you can create for your business clients are; presentations, websites, invoice templates and so many more. Most busy business owners are aware of Canva but who don't have the time to sit through that process will be happy to pay you for it.

5. Social Media Manager

To be a social media manager, you will need to create posts and infographics to keep the timeline active for a company or brand. Using Canva you can create posts, gifs, videos, animations, and event invitations for the timeline. Social media managers make about $50-100 per hour. With this useful website, you have the ability to make this too.

Have you ever used Canva in your freelancing work? What most excites you about this platform. Comment below and share with this community of African freelancers how else they can use Canva in their freelancing work.