Learn the methods for making money with Canva that are ACTUALLY working right now. Are you ready to turn your creative passion into a profitable venture? Canva, the user-friendly graphic design tool, has become a goldmine for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and side hustlers alike. Whether you're a seasoned designer or a complete beginner, Canva offers countless opportunities to make money online. In this article, we’ll explore 15 proven ways to monetize your skills using Canva. These methods are practical, effective, and tailored for today’s digital economy, ensuring you can start generating income without a steep learning curve. Let’s dive into these creative strategies and unlock the potential of Canva as your income-generating tool!

7 Ways To Make Money With Canva That ACTUALLY Work

My Canva Challenge

Can I show you 15 different ways to make money with Canva that actually work and along the way teach you something new about Canva's features that you didn't know? Well, that's the challenge I've set myself today, so let's jump straight into it.

1. Generate Quiz Videos

1. generate quiz videos. Yes, let me show you something. If you come to Canva and do a search for quiz videos, you'll find lots of different video templates that you can use to quickly generate your own quiz video, which you can then use to make money from affiliate commissions.

For example, take a look at this quiz video TikTok account. This account is very new. It was only created two months ago, but it is already had over a hundred thousand followers. And their only videos are simple niche quiz videos aimed at people that are learning and practicing English. Then, in their bio, they have a link to a page with a list of affiliate links to English learning courses and eBooks that people can go buy. It's an amazing strategy, and creating the quiz videos with Canva is simple. Just take one of their prebuilt templates and swap out the graphics and the niche questions, which if you aren't sure what they should be, you can generate using ChatGPT. The free version of ChatGPT is honestly amazing at coming up with great quiz questions.

2. Create Brand Identity Kits

2. create and sell brand identity kits. Seriously, I think that this is a massively overlooked niche for freelance graphic designers.

Yes, most freelancers that come to Fiverr just try to sell the most popular gigs such as standalone logos, which drives the gig prices all the way down to just $10 a logo.

So instead, why not come and sell a niche package aimed at a high income customer, like a business, and brand identity kits are a great example. Standard packages on average sell for at least a hundred US dollars, and as part of it, you choose their brand font, brand color palette, and you create a logo. And Canva is an amazing tool to quickly create these with because if you search for brand identity kits, you'll see that there are lots of templates to choose from that you can open up and start customizing for clients. And you can also use a little known feature that Canva has, which is their AI generated color palettes.

Yes, you can just ask a client to give you a picture or a photo that matches an aesthetic that they want their brand to replicate and upload it to Canva. Canva's AI will then automatically generate a color palette for you from the picture.

3. Pinterest List Pins

3. create list pins for Pinterest. So, list pins are one of the most effective way to earn money on Pinterest from affiliate commissions. And I'll show you an example.

If you come and do a search on Pinterest for the phrase, growing vegetables at home, you'll see that there are several different list pins ranking highly in the results, such as this pin here promoting a list of 10 vertical vegetables that love to climb. List pins like this can get really good results on Pinterest because they're both visually engaging and they spark curiosity in the reader. And well, if you click on the link for this pin, it'll take you to a blog page. And surprise, surprise, inside of this blog page are affiliate links to products that you can go and buy. And this method can make a surprising amount of money. Take for example, this affiliate marketer, who scaled her income to over $11,000 a month from Pinterest.

As she shared in this video, she uses Canva to create her list pins. She's created one template and now she just swaps in new text and new photos and graphics from Canva's library to scale this and create more.

4. Start A Clothing Store

4. start a clothing store. So, as my longtime subscribers know, I love using Canva to create clothing designs because of the fact that the millions of graphics and visual elements that have been pre-installed in Canva massively simplifies the design process.

For example, if you come to Canva and do a search for T-shirt templates, you'll find that there are lots of templates to pick from that you can then use to quickly create your own designs to print and sell onto clothing by swapping out the built-in graphics and text elements. And then, you can come to a print-on-demand app like Printify, which has a ton of blank clothing in it that you can customize.

You then just upload your own design onto it, and then you can list it for sale for a market price in your own online store, or you can instead sell it in an online marketplace like eBay or Etsy, or sell it on a print-on-demand marketplace like Redbubble or on Zazzle. I love this business and I personally use it to earn passive income online. And if you'd like to learn how, I recommend checking out my most recent Canva tutorial video, I'll have a link to this video in the description below.

5. Generate Quote Videos

5. generate quote videos. So, quote videos are a very effective way to quickly make money on TikTok right now.

Take for example, this TikTok account here created just two months ago. They have lots of popular videos like this one here that was posted just two weeks ago and has over 900,000 views.

This video discusses a scene from the Spider-Man movie, "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse". Well, what this TikTok account did was it came to the social media website, Tumblr, and it searched for popular posts that we're discussing, trending movies, like this post here did for "Spider-Man:

Into the Spider-Verse".

Then, they quoted this post and they turned it into a mobile video with an AI voiceover. And then they went and made a ton of money from the TikTok Creativity Ad Program. Only videos one minute or longer are eligible for their new ad program, but the ad payouts are ridiculously high. On average, TikTok is paying out 50 cents to $1 per thousand views. So, that means then that this basic quote video, which got over 900,000 views on average made about 450 US dollars to 900 US dollars. That is insane. And it's surprisingly easy to create quote videos in Canva because there are lots of prebuilt video templates to pick from if you do a search.

Choose one that matches your aesthetic and you can then swap out the text and stock video in the background. And rather than doing what that person did and finding quotes online, you can instead use ChatGPT to generate new, fresh, interesting stories or theories that you can then post.

6. Sell Printable Wall Art

6. create and sell printable wall art. So, on Etsy, one of the most popular types of products that customers love to buy are digital posters that they can then print off at home and make into their own DIY wall art.

Take for example, the set of funny downloadable posters, the Etsy research app Alura estimates that they've made over $50,000. And inside of Canva, posters are one of the products that have the most pre-made templates available that you can pick from to help you design and create your own. Plus, there is a handy feature inside a Canva for exporting printable designs like posters, so that when you print them, they will print in high quality and look really nice and vibrant.

Just click Share and then click Download. And then, under File Type,

7. Generate This Or That Videos

9. generate this or that video. So, a type of mobile video that is super popular and gets tons of views on both YouTube and on TikTok is this or that videos,

with one example being, choose your gift videos. It's essentially a form of a visual game. People mentally pick a gift while watching and then see what supposed gift they win. These simple little videos can get hundreds of thousands to millions of views. And no, before anyone asks, you do not have to be an established creator to get views on these videos.

Take this TikTok account, they have just posted a few videos and look, their choose your gift videos were an instant hit. There is just such a huge demand for these videos and not enough of them being made that new creators pop off all the time.

And so, you think about it, right? With the TikTok Creativity Ad Program that is paying out huge ad rates for creators, like 50 cents to a dollar per thousand views, this simple little video that got over 145,000 views could easily pull in over a hundred dollars. And well, thanks to the fact that Canva has a bunch of built-in photos and graphics in its element library, including a bunch of different graphics of gift boxes and photos to use for the gifts, you can make these little videos very quickly inside a Canvas video editor like I did here.

7 Ways To Make Money With Canva - That ACTUALLY Work