Why you should offer services before launching a product (+100 online service business ideas)

Many online business owners feel like they need to have a product ready to sell when they first start their business. In reality, you should start with selling services. We break down why you should start offering services first and share over 100 online service business ideas to help creators earn a living.

💡 Add files to your emails

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Need to get more important info into your customers’ hands? Just add files as downloadable links in your Broadcast and Sequence emails. Supported file types include PDFs, images, documents, videos, and MP3s. Check out this step-by-step rundown of how to add files to your emails.

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How you can use this feature

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• Send materials to your students. Teaching an email course? Share guides, worksheets, or slide decks so that your students can dive deeper into the course work and keep learning on their own time.
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• Tease out a new creative project. Include the intro to your upcoming podcast or a portion of a soon-to-be-published essay.
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• Share files without a website. If you need to get reports or case studies in front of your readers, but you don’t have a website URL to share with them—no problem. Just add the PDFs to your emails, and readers can download the files to their own devices.

How our rebrand benefits creators on ConvertKit

In this episode of our Rebranding in public series, we share how this rebrand will impact creators on the platform. Our transition to Kit is so much more than a name change, new colors, and an updated logo. Our brand strategy is the foundation that our new brand will be built upon so it’s important that we get this part right.

Product Update

Edit scheduled email Broadcasts without unscheduling

Say goodbye to the hassle of unscheduling and re-scheduling emails when you just want to make a quick edit.

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Make the edits you want to your scheduled email broadcasts, hit save, and you’re ready to go—all previous scheduled details will remain as is.

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