How I Made $150 with a Custom Notion Template Order

I’m happy I took the chance.

Poonam Sharma
3 min readApr 1, 2024
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I was a little inactive here for the last few weeks. I've many reasons behind it. But let's not talk to them right now. So, starting in March, something good happened. I finally closed my first custom Notion template deal.

You may know I started as a Notion creator last year, and in August 2023, I also uploaded a gig on Fiverr to make custom Notion templates for others.

The good thing is I started getting leads through Fiverr and my existing customers for custom orders.

But somehow, I was not convinced I could do it. I left freelancing because it's time-consuming, so going back to that scenario was not part of the plan.

So, I refuse so many gigs of custom Notion templates. But at one point, I had enough Notion templates in my shop, and now, as I love to create Notion templates, I can't just keep creating for my shop, So I thought of getting some custom orders.

One day, I received an email from my existing customer that she liked my work and asked if I could make a custom Notion template for her.

I thought to take this. I sent the mail saying yes, I can make the template.

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Poonam Sharma

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