Let’s face it: social media is rented digital space. That’s to say if your account is hacked or your preferred platform shuts down, you risk losing your hard-earned followers. To earn a sustainable living as a creator, it’s important to find ways to monetize your audience beyond social platforms.
Enter The Leap, the ultimate link-in-bio store that makes creating mobile-first digital products and selling to your social followers simple.
With The Leap, you can build bite-sized digital products like mini-courses quickly with AI assistance, send social followers to your link-in-bio storefront, and even collect contacts and send lead nurturing emails — all from one single platform.
The best part? The Leap is free to use. This means you can save money and effort creating your digital products, driving social traffic to your store, and growing your email list. It’s a triple win!
Read on to learn how The Leap can help you monetize your social following effortlessly. Create your free account today to get started.
Start monetizing your audience with The Leap, your all-in-one creator store. It’s free!How to sell on social with The Leap
- Set up and customize your link-in-bio store
- Capture leads by creating a lead magnet
- Add your Leap store to your link in bio
- Nurture your leads via email
- Create a mobile-friendly digital product
- Rinse, repeat, and grow your offering
If you’re a creator looking to diversify your income streams, building a digital product-based business could be the perfect solution. In a nutshell, a digital product is anything you can sell online as a downloadable file. Once you’ve created a digital product, you can sell it over and over, making it a great source of passive income.
Interested but don’t know where to start? The Leap is designed to make selling digital products to social audiences simple. Here’s how it works:
Step 1: Set up and customize your link-in-bio store
If you want to turn your followers or anyone who discovers you on social media into paying customers, you need to send them to an online store. With The Leap, you can easily build a mobile-optimized storefront, and send social traffic to it with just one link in your bio. No coding or web design skills required.
To set up your link-in-bio store, create an account on The Leap. Once you’re logged in, tap Store on the left-side menu. Then, simply write a little description about yourself, upload a profile picture, and add links to your social channels.
You can also choose from over 200 combinations of pre-designed themes, layouts, and colorways to jazz up your store, matching it to the look and feel of your personal brand.
After customizing your store, you’ll also want to get your payment method set up, so you can start getting paid immediately when you launch your digital products (more on how to build said products in a minute).
Tap Settings on the left-side menu, then follow the instructions to connect your Stripe account — or create one if you don’t have an account already — to your Leap store.
Step 2: Capture leads by creating a lead magnet
To monetize your audience beyond social platforms, first and foremost, you need to establish a direct line of communication with your followers, outside of social media. The best way to do that is by building an email list and getting your followers to subscribe to it.
Creating a lead magnet is a great place to start. Essentially, a lead magnet — sometimes called a “freebie” — is a free resource that you offer to your followers in exchange for their email address. In order to access your freebie, someone must provide you with their email, which you can then add to your email list. This list of leads (i.e. prospective customers) comes in handy when you have digital products to sell later on.
You can use The Leap’s digital product builder to create effective lead magnets quickly and easily. Our platform’s authoring tool is powered by generative AI. This means it enables you to create best-selling digital products in just minutes and with minimal effort. Because it’s so easy to use, The Leap empowers you to create lead magnets from scratch or to transform existing digital products into lead magnets.
Once you’re finished building your lead magnet, simply publish it on your Leap store and watch your email list grow.
Click here to create your lead magnets with The Leap. It’s free!Step 3: Add your Leap store to your link in bio
Now that you’ve created your Leap store, you’ll want to share it with your audience so you can start building your email list (and raking it in). Luckily, The Leap makes sharing your storefront incredibly easy.
How? Because it’s designed specifically for selling (and sharing) on social. In other words, The Leap functions as a lightweight, link-in-bio storefront, which allows you to share your store, lead magnets, digital products, and more with a single link.
Before sharing your store’s link with your audience, you’ll need to create your URL. The Leap allows you to choose a handle for your storefront, which you can personalize with yours or your business’ name.
From there, simply paste your custom Leap URL into your social media bio and watch the downloads pile up.
Step 4: Nurture your leads via email
Now that you’ve scooped all those leads with your lead magnets, you’ll want to turn those prospects into paying customers. And the best way to do that is through some good old-school email marketing. While we might be living in the social media era, email marketing remains one of the most effective marketing and conversion tools out there, generating a ROI of $36 for every dollar spent.
The Leap enables you to harness the income-generating power of email marketing through its built-in email marketing suite. This means you never need to leave the platform to create and deploy newsletter campaigns that will nurture your leads.
The Leap’s powerful email marketing feature allows you to build comprehensive email broadcasts and email flows that will help you nurture your audience through every step of the customer journey.
So, what’s the difference between these two different email marketing methods?
Email broadcasts
Email broadcasts are one-off promotional campaigns used to grow your relationship with your audience. With The Leap, you can send email broadcasts to your entire email list or to specific segments, depending on which audience(s) you’re looking to target. The Leap allows you to create your own broadcasts or choose from a selection of expertly designed templates, including:
- Newsletter: Share exciting updates, news, events and information from your world.
- Resources to Thrive: Provide helpful tools, tips, articles or resources to help your audience grow.
- Behind the Scenes: A behind-the-curtain view of what you’re doing or thinking about at the moment.
Email flows
Email flows are automated email sequences that are sent to your leads based on specific actions, milestones, or other triggers. Because they’re automated, email flows are an easy, hands-off way to nurture your relationship with your audience and encourage purchases. You can use The Leap to create email flows that trigger based on the products your customers have purchased from your Leap store.
The Leap allows you to create your own email flows or choose from a number of expert-recommended templates, including:
- Warm Welcome: Greet new subscribers or first-time buyers. Make them feel part of something special right from the start.
- Friendly Check-in: Reach out to your contacts after their subscription or purchase. A friendly check-in can show them you care and are there to help.
- Nurture Funnel: Nurture leads naturally by sharing your story via an expertly crafted email sequence.
Step 5: Create a mobile-friendly digital product
Next up, it’s time to build your digital products (you know, the things that will really earn you an income).
The Leap’s AI-powered digital product builder allows you to create best-selling digital products in nearly no time — and with minimal brain power. This is because our platform’s authoring tool is powered by generative AI, which can brainstorm and create your digital products for you, speeding up the process and minimizing effort on your end.
To start, simply choose which type of digital product you’d like to create. The Leap makes it easy to build a number of engaging digital learning products. These include mini-courses, tutorials, guides, and challenges. Even better? The products created on The Leap are mobile-optimized and as intuitive to consume as Instagram Stories.
From there, input your area of expertise (e.g. “cooking”), and our AI-powered product builder will spit out a list of topics for your digital product (i.e. “My guide to essential kitchen tools for beginners”). Once you’ve selected your product’s topic, our authoring tool will build a first draft of your digital product in just a few seconds. Then, all you need to do is edit the product’s copy and look-and-feel with your own expertise, content, and visual branding.
Click here to start creating and selling digital products with The Leap. It’s free!Step 6: Rinse, repeat, and grow your offering
Now that you’ve gone through Steps 1 to 5, it’s time to walk it back and do it all over again!
The best way to earn the most from your audience is to continuously engage them with new marketing content and new digital products.
Lucky for you, The Leap makes the process quick and easy, so you can rinse and repeat more often, and grow your digital products revenue faster.
Create and sell digital products in minutes using The Leap!
Why use The Leap to monetize your social followers?
Free to use (i.e. risk-free)
As a creator, you’ve probably encountered (or at least thought of) at least one barrier to kickstarting your monetization journey. There are a number of them. However, the #1 blocker is typically cost.
For creators cautious about over-investing in unproven ideas, the initial cost of digital product platforms can feel prohibitive — and risky.
But that’s where The Leap comes in. The Leap is your zero-risk option — because it’s free! Our free plan lets you create and sell digital products at no cost, while keeping 100% of the money you earn. That means no risk and all reward. What’s not to love about that?
Plus, you can upgrade your plan at any time to unlock even more growth options for your creator business.
Click here to start creating and selling digital products with The Leap. It’s free!Powered by AI
We get it: as a newly minted content creator, your content business likely isn’t your primary focus. In fact, the reality is that you’re probably busy juggling multiple priorities, while your content business is languishing as a side hustle. In other words, this lack of free time is standing in the way of you growing your content business — and monetizing your passion — quickly.
Sound like you? Let us introduce you to The Leap. As a busy aspiring creator, The Leap is your personal concierge. From its AI-powered digital product builder to its automated email marketing flows, our platform takes care of building and managing your digital product business for you, so you can focus on what matters.
How much time does our platform save, exactly? Take it from The Leap user Dawn Richardson, who said it only took her 30 minutes to customize her mini-course, and 30 minutes to record videos for it, using our AI-powered digital product builder. Easy peasy!
Create and sell mini-courses in minutes using The Leap!
Ridiculously easy to use
There are currently lots of creator tools on the market. There are tools for creating digital products, tools for selling them, tool for marketing them, and so on. Because of this, many creators find themselves struggling to integrate all the tools required to operate their business. This constant app-juggling can seriously hamper a creator’s workflow and create a fragmented experience for their audience. Ultimately, this all makes it harder for creators to manage and grow their business.
Tired of having a-million-and-one tools in your creator toolkit? The Leap is your ridiculously easy to use, all-in-one solution. Our platform includes all the features you need to create, sell, and marketing your digital products, all from one place. These include an AI-powered digital product builder, a link-in-bio storefront, and a built-in email marketing tool. By replacing your entire creator stack with The Leap, you save money and time, and deliver a seamless user experience for your customers.
Start monetizing your audience with The Leap, your all-in-one creator store. It’s free!Seamless customer journey
If you know anything about the creator economy, then you know that you only have a limited window of opportunity to convert your audience’s attention into cold hard cash. To stand a chance in today’s bustling digital marketplace, you need to create a friction-free, distraction-free customer journey that will carry them from content to “Buy Now” seamlessly.
The Leap is your solution. Our all-in-one platform offers a seamless user experience, which allows your customers to browse your offering, purchase your products, and engage with your marketing content all from one central hub. Ultimately, this keeps your prospects engaged and more likely to smash that “Buy Now” button.
Build, market, and sell digital products all in one spot with The Leap!
Monetize your social following with The Leap
Now that you know how to monetize your social following with The Leap (and are aware of all the great benefits of doing so), the ball is in your court.
Sign up free on The Leap today to begin building and selling the digital products of your audience’s dreams — and start earning money.
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