Your First Product, Live Tonight: A Step-by-Step Setup
You have the idea and the file. This is the practical walkthrough - from upload to a link you can paste in your bio - and it genuinely takes less than an evening.
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Everything up to now has been decisions. This part is just doing. Put an hour aside tonight and follow along - by the end of it you will have a live, paid product link.
Before you start, gather three things
- Your file, finished and exported (PDF, ZIP, video, whatever it is)
- A cover image - a clean screenshot of the first page is completely fine
- Your bank or UPI details for payouts
Step 1: Upload the file
Create the product and upload. MintLink stores the file privately and only ever serves it through a secure, single-use download link after payment - so your work does not end up circulating in a group chat the same evening.
Step 2: Write a title someone recognises themselves in
Weak: "Instagram Growth Guide". Strong: "The 14-Day Reel Plan for Home Bakers Under 1,000 Followers". Name the person and the outcome. If your title could belong to a thousand other products, rewrite it.
Step 3: Write the description in four blocks
- Who this is for - one sentence, specific enough to exclude people.
- What is inside - an actual list. Pages, files, sections, counts.
- What changes after - the outcome, in plain words.
- How delivery works - "instant download after payment". Say it. Buyers worry.
Step 4: Set the price - then leave it alone
₹49 to ₹149 for a first small product. ₹199 to ₹499 for something substantial. Pick a number, publish, and resist changing it for two weeks. You need data, and you cannot get data from a price you keep moving.
Step 5: Turn on preview
Let buyers see the first page or two before they pay. It feels counterintuitive - and it consistently increases sales, because the thing standing between a person and a purchase is almost always doubt, not price.
Step 6: Publish, then test it yourself
Open your own link on your phone, exactly as a stranger would. Does the page load fast? Does the cover look right? Is the price obvious? Does the description answer your own questions? Fix anything that made you hesitate for even a second - that hesitation is multiplied across every visitor.
Step 7: Give it a home
Turn your MintLink profile into your link-in-bio storefront so every product, service and event lives at one address. One link in your bio, forever. Update the products behind it whenever you like - the link never changes.
The gap between "I want to start selling" and "I sell things" is about ninety minutes of actual work. Everything else is deciding.
Tonight's checklist
- File uploaded
- Title names a specific person and outcome
- Description covers who / what / result / delivery
- Price set and left alone
- Preview on
- Tested on your own phone
- Link in bio
That is it. You are open for business.
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