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To grow your email list as a blogger, you have to create freebies that make your readers sign up. Printables are easy and, therefore, a common choice for such freebies. But you can take it one step further by creating fillable pdfs.
If the person who signs up to your email list wants to print them, they can. However, if they’d instead use them on their tablet or laptop, they could fill in the box with the keyboard.
I’ve used a fillable pdf for the first time in Melyssa Griffin’s Pinfinite Growth (-> find the review of the course HERE). It indeed came in handy. Also because you can scroll down inside the boxes, which enables you to put in much more text than would typically fit.
Now that you know some of the reasons you should create a fillable pdf, we can jump into the easy and free step-by-step process.
1. Create Your Printable
I like to use Canva to create all kinds of printables. They simply have the most extensive free template library for all sorts of printables.
Go ahead and use whatever tool you like best to create your planner, checklist, calendar, etc.
Once you’re finished, save it as a pdf file on your laptop.
2. Open PDFescape
Google for PDFescape and click on the link.
On their side you should be greeted by this page:
Click on the FREE ONLINE button. Then upload your pdf file.
Once that’s done, click on the FORM FIELD button and decide what kind of box you want your fillable pdf to have. Then use it to mark a box exactly where you want it to be.
After that, its just rinse and repeat to all the boxes you want.
Once you’re done, you can save and download the document with the green button on the left side.
And voila! You have your fillable pdf!
It only takes a few minutes, and it’s entirely free to do.
I hope you continue to create amazingly valuable and fillable PDFs for your readers!
Sophie
