I Just Published My First Product on Gumroad

It was pretty easy, actually

Karen Cherry
3 min readMay 26, 2023

This is totally not a sales pitch for my products, I promise (but check them out if you must 😁 ).

This is me being excited about Gumroad 😃🎉✨

Gumroad hype is all over the place at the moment. Let’s be honest, most of it is run-of-the-mill drivel. Posts like “I made $170 selling an e-book” bore me. I’ve been selling digital products since 2015 and made more than $100K from them over the years, mostly as a side hustle. So spare me the small-time hustle-porn.

The exciting thing about Gumroad right now is that it is so much better than it used to be.

My big-selling digital products are sold through my Wordpress site, which is a B2B (business to business) site, set up for selling professional templates for business people to use in their jobs. I sell the templates using Wordpress + plug-ins because it gives me massive flexibility and ultimate control. Plus, it suits my B2B market, with own-branding, expense-ready invoices, receipts and super-low fees.

Gumroad doesn’t have the same flexibility as Wordpress for a business supplier but golly geez it’s absolutely bloody PERFECT for personal content creators. Its sales page design options have improved tremendously and it now includes features like…

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Karen Cherry

Substack writer. Secret tree hugger. Aussie business owner with >$20K revenue on Substack. Refusing to dumb it down.