On this page are all the useful resources I have found since beginning this business, as well as a few of my own. I use all of them and thoroughly recommend a visit to each to see how they can help you in your business. I will continue to add more as I find them. Enjoy.
SylverZone Printables Products
The SylverZone on YouTube – free tips for using the Affinity Suite as well as product reviews related to publishing:
https://www.youtube.com/@SylverZone
Bordering on Zen will give you Zentangle style borders for your pages as well as ideas for how else to use them.
You can find them as well as many other printables including PLR pages for your planners and journals at my Etsy shop at the link below:
Affinity Suite – Serif’s publishing suite of Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher, is very easy to use, a superb alternative to Adobe and so much cheaper! IF you catch them at the right time of year, you can get them at half price too. With free updates for life, masses of tutorials available (some through my website – https://SylverZonePrintables.com), why not give them a try.
Amy Harrop – I have bought and used several of Amy’s products and can recommend her style of teaching. She is thorough and very successful at what she does, so she really knows what she is talking about. Her product Beyond Printables teaches you how to take your existing products and repurpose them extensively.
Artsy Challenge – a range of pretty resources to help you create and publish.
Creative Fabrica – Another site perfect for the beginner to collect graphics, fonts and designs. Several offers on a regular basis ($1 each!). Reasonable subscription rates too with many bargain add-on subscriptions. Worth checking out if you are stuck for ideas. This site also allows you to sell your designs.
Creative Market – A wonderful site, full of graphics, fonts and so much more to help with design ideas. They regularly give away fonts and graphics, so sign up for their list and be the first to be notified when they are on offer.
Journal Accelerator – This simple software speeds up the process of creating your journals in Microsoft Word many fold. Straightforward instructions by Di Heuser will have you creating your first journal in no time!
Kristie Chiles at Dream to Paper has some wonderful courses and PLR products to help you get started on Etsy and other platforms. And if you’re interested in using Pinterest as a social media platform to promote your products and printables she has an excellent course (listed below) to help with that – I use that myself.
- 99 Printable Ideas
- DFY Tshirt Doggy Graphics WOOF!
- $17 Affiliate Success Printable PDF
- Affiliate Pinning Success
- How to Write an eBook in 24 hours to sell online
- No Content Notebook/Journal Crazy Etsy Trend
- Pinning Success Club
- How To Get Hundreds of Views To Your Pinterest Pins in 15 Minutes
- Simply Pin it
- How To Create Party Invitations To Sell On Etsy
And another excellent source for help with marketing using Pinterest as your core strategy – it works! – is Levee Road Studio. Amy Le Blanc gives you exact details and strategies for researching, pinning, and tips for being consistent and efficient with the process. This is another course I use for my marketing and can thoroughly recommend.
Marian Blake of Marians.Design has a range of courses in her LEARN Academy for a very reasonable monthly subscription. For that you get full access to all her courses (over 20 at the last count!) for as long as you subscribe. She shows you how to use free software (mostly) to create just about anything for your books and printables and is constantly adding to the list
Michael Cheney’s Millionaire’s Club is a valuable resource for those wishing to grow a passive income using affiliate links and networks – a cheap monthly subscription gives you access to a huge amount of information and 100% commissions on relevant products should you choose to promote them.
PowerPoint Replicator – Similar to the above, but using PowerPoint instead of Word. PowerPoint has become a popular software to create low-content publications as it is much cheaper to use than Adobe products.
PLR Planners – An Emporium of done-for-you low-content planners and books for you to get started without having to spend time creating. Lots of free training here. Add your brand and finishing touch and publish! Simples
Prefer digital products to paper-based ones? Look no further. The Digital Planner Bonanza shows you how to make Digital Planners based in PowerPoint, Notebook, and others. These you can sell on your Etsy shop, or your website for others to download to their various devices. Perfect for the modern ‘gizmo’ world!
See the Affinity Ease training which links to Digital Planner Bonanza by showing you how to create these products in Affinity Publisher – a superb alternative to Adobe InDesign and ridiculously cheaper!
Setting up WooCommerce Subscriptions – an extremely detailed video with training on how to add subscriptions to your website if you are using WooCommerce.
Jan Small at SimpleHappiness has a wonderful range of PLR products that can help you get started in your publishing career. If you’re stuck for ideas take a stroll around her online shop.
Stuart Turnbull and Bart Hennin are two very experienced publishers and marketers in the online publishing field with a raft of products under their belt. I have bought and used many of these and have always found their information to be valid and reliable. They primarily use free software to create the products in their courses.
Here are just a few of their excellent reports:
Tangent Templates – Just starting out and don’t have a clue what to put in your books? This is definitely the place to start! With a huge range of single-page templates and masses of training and tips, they are the one-stop-shop for the beginner in my humble opinion. Use code INTRO-10 to get $10 off your purchase.
Useful YouTube Channels
Making Money With AI – Keep up-to-date with what you can do using the powerful AI tools that are flooding the market.
Paul Marles – an online publisher who creates videos on how to make money with publishing and all the tools and techniques useful to the self-publisher.
Ryan Hogue – an online publisher and merch seller who is on a mission to retire young. I think he is well on his way! US based with a very helpful range of videos on how to sell on Amazon Merch and Redbubble. Many tutorials on how to get started on Etsy.
SylverZone – my own channel featuring many free tutorials for using the Affinity Suite, as well as reviews for products in the online publishing industry.
Affiliate Disclaimer
Some of the above links may compensate me (at no cost to you) should you choose to purchase through them. My thanks if so for supporting my website. I use all of the recommended products above and can personally vouch for them all.