The Rebranded Teacher
The Rebranded Teacher
How to Make TPT Products Fast!
What if you could turn one solid template into two profitable products—again and again—without burning out or blowing your budget? That’s the engine behind our 30-resources-in-under-10-hours sprint, and we’re pulling back the curtain on the exact system: build evergreen first, then smartly clone into seasonal versions with minimal, thoughtful changes.
We start with the economics that drive better decisions for TPT sellers: seasonal items often sell in a short window and take longer to break even if you outsource. By owning a simple, repeatable format—board games, coloring sheets, pixel art, task cards—you cut production time and risk while keeping standards alignment tight. We show how a zombie-themed board game becomes a Halloween hit, how an operations set morphs into a fall variant, and why a strong evergreen core keeps your catalog useful year-round.
Process is where the real gains live. We walk through a one-file workflow that speeds duplication, keeps quality checks easy, and makes delegation to a VA painless. You’ll hear how we use checklists to track drafts, exports, covers, and previews so nothing stalls in publishing. We also talk asset strategy: artwork licensing for emojis, choosing flexible graphics and fonts, and building a reusable library so themes can swap fast without redesigning from scratch.
AI makes a cameo as a practical springboard. We use ChatGPT to generate extra word problems, sentence prompts, and seasonal contexts, then curate and compute our own answers for accuracy. The result is less ideation fatigue and more momentum. To wrap, we share quick-win product ideas perfect for batching—coloring activities, pixel art grids, short story analysis, escape-style worksheets—and guardrails to avoid the “more is better” trap so quality stays high.
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Welcome to the Rebranded Teacher Podcast. My name is Lauren Fulton. I'm a full-time teacher, author, and seller on Teachers Pay Teachers, and I help other teacher entrepreneurs grow their TPT businesses in a way that's purposeful and sustainable. So if you're looking for actionable, step-by-step ways to grow your business, you're in the right place. Let's get started. I created 30 TPT resources in less than 10 hours, and I'm about to show you how. If you're new here, my name is Lauren Fulton. I've been selling on TPT for nine years now. And I am pretty consistently in the top 1% of TPT sellers on TPT. And I'm going to show you a few tips and tricks today, a little outside the norm, of what I do when I want to create resources fast. Now let's go ahead and get started because I want to show you. And if you're listening on podcasts, I want to show you some visual examples of what I'm talking about so that you can see how easy it can be to batch create a ton of resources. So you're not spending a lot of time trying to reinvent the wheel. Now, I want to start with this. I do not normally create my TPT products. At this point in my business, I have writers and they create a lot of my content for me. Having said that, there are some times where I'm like, ugh, there's a product that I really want to create, but paying somebody$50 to create that resource plus paying another VA to create the covers and previews, turn it into a PDF and upload it to TPT. When I'm trying to create a lot of products, not only is that a huge upfront expense, but it means that I have to sell a lot more of that product before I can turn a profit. And so there are some resources that I've learned over the years. It's just better if I can create them, if they're fast and easy to create, or if I create a way, make a way for them to be quick and easy to create, then I can save a lot of money. And honestly, while creating products is not one of my most favorite things to do anymore, sometimes it can be really relaxing to kind of go back to the basics and not feel like I'm always having to do big picture stuff. Sometimes just kind of cutting out all the noise and just sitting down and making resources can be really therapeutic and enjoyable. And honestly, knowing that I'm gonna save a ton of money doing it is really great. So for these 30 products that I created, again, it took me less than 10 hours. If I were to pay to have those created, it would be about$50 a product. So these really simple resources would have cost me somewhere in the neighborhood of$1,500 to have them created. And some of those resources, in fact, most of them, are resources that are seasonal. So they're only going to be sold during Halloween or during fall, which means that if I don't make$50 on that product, then I lose money the first year. So while in an ideal world, I would make that$50 back. I want to know that ahead of time. And this year I had kind of a different strategy because a lot of these products I'm creating for something that I'm doing off of TPT and selling on my own website, kind of doing, I don't know, it's different, it's kind of complicated to explain. But some of these resources, they will be available on TPT, but I'm creating them for a special project. And so I wouldn't normally create this many resources, particularly this many seasonal resources in such a short period of time. So what I want to say is this while I created these resources really quickly, saved myself a ton of money, and I think that there are some really great principles here that you can steal from me and some really great tips and tricks that you can steal to help produce your resources a whole lot faster. I do want to emphasize that faster is not always better. So having more resources isn't always going to make you more money versus having like one high quality product. So let's go ahead and get started and let me show you some tips for creating some resources really quickly. My first tip for creating resources really quickly is to think about is there a way to take an evergreen template that I have and turn it into something that's seasonal? So in this particular case, and I've done this many times, but in this particular case, I have this zombie board game activity. It usually looks like this. So they have different problems, and then as they move around the board, it tells them which problem number to work. It has some little hazard cards and it's zombie theme. So this can be used any time of year. Now, this resource is not in TPT. This is specifically exclusively inside of a membership that my business partner and I have, but this is a resource that I created years ago, and it has been a favorite. So what I did this year is I decided I was gonna create a Halloween version of this resource. And the only thing that I had to change was the game board, the cards, and change just a little bit about the card. So the template was already there, the layout was already there. All I had to do in a lot of cases was just take the existing problems. Now, for this one, I was creating brand new problems, which we'll talk about here in a second. But if I wanted to, I could have taken these existing systems of equations problems that I already had for this game board, and I could have moved them around. So I could have said, let's make problem number six, problem number one, let's make problem number one, problem number nine, let's change problem number two, three, and four. I could have rearranged and changed out the problems a little bit so that a teacher who had both would still be able to use both in the classroom. Students would still be able to see new problems, it would not be the same problems in the same order, there would be new problems there, all that kind of stuff. But then really all I have to do is just kind of change those out and then just add the new game board pages in. So this makes it super, super easy. Kind of changed up the teacher directions just a little bit, and then I was good to go. Now I also did this for this emoji resource. So a while back, I started creating these like emoji math resources, and I got about three resources in, didn't upload them to TPT yet, but I was doing this for fun, and then I found out that emojis were copyrighted and that it's actually quite expensive to license some emojis. And I made the investment, spent several hundred dollars getting a commercial license for a set of emojis, and I didn't really ever make any more. And so I decided I was like, you know what? No more of that. I'm going to create some more of these emoji resources. So one of the things that I did is when I created one like for subtraction, like I created like a generic subtraction one, and then I created one for Halloween where I changed the word problems so that they were Halloween word problems, changed the emoji puzzles so that they created something for Halloween. And then for some of them, I did like a fall version, but I chose either like Halloween or fall, and I changed up the problems a little bit and the answer pass. So a teacher could buy both of them. Her students, his or her students would not notice a difference. They wouldn't notice that they were the same problems because they're not, and they're not the same puzzles, but I'm able to quickly duplicate, change out the emojis, and then just change out some of the word problems and a few of the other problems in there to kind of switch things up. And I'm able to do this super, super quickly. So having an evergreen version and then a themed version of a resource can be a way to kind of like double dip and to quickly, quickly create two resources instead of one. So with a little extra effort, I've got two products instead of one product. I've done this exact same strategy with a lot of my resources. So I have like some worksheets that are like escape the jungle, and then I change them up and I have the same format, but I have it for like fall where they're trying to escape a pumpkin patch, or I have them for Halloween where they're trying to like escape a haunted house, or I have them for Christmas where they're trying to build a snowman, like all kinds of things. And I'm able to take the same problems and I can lay them into more than one template. So I can put them into an evergreen template, and then I can take those problems, switch them up, change them up just a little bit, switch the numbers, change the order, you know, all of that good stuff. And then I can put them into a Halloween template or a Christmas template or a fall template. And with just a little bit more effort, I'm able to get two products instead of one. So that's tip number one is when you're creating a template that's evergreen, ask yourself is there a way for me to quickly and easily create a seasonal template for this resource so that as I'm creating an evergreen one, I can go ahead and create a seasonal one here and there. Not that you have to have like a one-for-one ratio, like every every green resource that you create needs to be a seasonal resource. But for some of your more popular topics, you might just go ahead and say, like, hey, I'm gonna go ahead and change this up a little bit and throw it into the seasonal template and be able to create those really quickly and easily. Another thing that you'll see that I did here is I kept everything in one PowerPoint file. Now, if you're type A, this might kind of drive you crazy. But for somebody like me, this was really, really simple because I had an evergreen template, I had my Halloween template, and then I had my fall template. And so whenever I was doing these, I could quickly duplicate a page and just drop it on down. This also made it so much easier for me to send to my VA afterwards because everything was all in one place. So she was able to create, you know, factoring trinomials fall game and a factoring trinomials evergreen game. And she had it all in sort of one spot. And she was able to just kind of quickly and easily export all of these and then split them up into different PDFs. So she could click the pages that she wanted to export, she could export those pages using Flatpak and create one PDF at a time. And it was easy for her to do all from one place. But then if I ever want to duplicate any of these again, I can quickly see visually, okay, for subtraction, I used this template. So I need a new Evergreen template if I'm going to do another fourth grade standard, for example. And so I could kind of duplicate that and see it all in one space. This is how my brain works. And it honestly, it was super satisfying versus having to keep up with all of the different PowerPoint files. Now I will say that I saved this obviously very frequently. And then whenever I would finish a session, I would save it and then upload it into Google Drive just in case something happened to this file. If it suddenly got corrupt or like whatever, because that happens every now and then, technology goes haywire. I had a backup version in Google Drive and I didn't lose the entire file, like all of these resources. I didn't lose all of them, they're all here. I do this quite a lot whenever I'm creating products, like having them all in one place for some reason makes it a lot easier for me. And then if I notice, like at one point I forgot to erase these off of the student pages, like erase the answers. I'm able to just quickly like go through without opening a whole bunch of files to check all of them. I'm able to just kind of scroll up and see, did I miss that on something else? Or, you know, something like that. And it makes it really easy to kind of flip back and forth, to add a new little template on there, you know, like I've got fall, Halloween, and two versions of Evergreen, and I've got them all in one place. And it just makes it really easy for me to kind of add on. Now, would I do this indefinitely? No, but I made a list, and that's the next point is like make a list. So I like to make a list of every single resource that needs to be created with that particular template. You can see here this was for my Evergreen. So once I created the PowerPoint, I was able to check it off. And then my assistant could see when that was created, and she could go in and she could create the PDF, the cover and preview. And then when I converted it to fall or Halloween, which I obviously forgot to check off, then I could mark that piece as completed, and then she marks it as complete whenever she uploads it to TPT. So that way I have a list of everything that I'm gonna create. It's all right there, and I'm not just kind of making things up as I go along. I have a list, I know what I'm supposed to be creating, and it makes it a lot easier for me. And finally, the last thing that I like to do is I like to utilize Chat GPT to help me create these even faster. I mentioned before that a lot of times I'll switch up the word problems. So, like if I've got an evergreen and a seasonal, then I'll do evergreen word problems and then seasonal word problems, then I'll just kind of change up a couple of the numbers for some of the like non-specific. Now, obviously, I'm talking about math, so this is a little bit different than it might be for ELAR or something like that. But if you have sentences, like let's say that we're talking you're creating a punctuation activity. If you create sentences where the student is supposed to go in and add punctuation or there's a spot and they have to choose like which punctuation mark they're supposed to add, and you create evergreen sentences, you can have Chat GPT create those sentences for you. So give it a specific example example of what you want and then ask it to give you more than what you need. Okay. So for example, I created a resource that was for operations with rational numbers. And so I asked for eight generic word problems with rational numbers, even though I only needed four or five. And then I asked for eight Halloween-themed word problems with rational numbers that I was able to just kind of go in and copy and paste those and put them in. Did I change some of them? Yes, absolutely I did. There were definitely ones where I was like, I don't love that, or I don't love how that solution worked out or what have you. And I was able to kind of change those, but it gave me a good starting point. And the same can be true for like having it write a short story or having it write simple sentences or things like that. Giving yourself a springboard with by using Chat GPT can help make things go so much faster. Even if you're still having to tweak them, most of the time you're still gonna save time and certainly save brain energy. And so I will use that as at least springboards for my word problems. Now, I don't find that it's very good at providing solutions. So I still have to create the answer key myself, which is totally fine. But having it do that saves me so much time and was one of the big reasons why I was able to create so many of these resources in less than 10 hours. Because sometimes that for me personally, the game is like mental. It's not that I run out of time, it's just that I get exhausted and I get really bored of doing the same thing over and over and over again. And so being able to just like plug things in really quickly saves me so much time, saves me so much mental stress and kind of helps keep the momentum going for me. When normally I'd be like after three resources, I'd be like, okay, I'm done. I'm checking out for the day. Like this is it. So, number one, creating two versions of a template, one that's evergreen and one that's seasonal. And then when you create an evergreen version of that product, go ahead and create a seasonal version as well. Maybe not necessarily for all of them, but for some of them. Switching things up, changing things up so that with a little bit of extra effort, you have two products instead of one. Second is keeping everything in one PowerPoint. Now, this would not work if you have a very lengthy thing. For example, with like the zombie run activities or things like that, where the resource is like multiple pages, probably wouldn't do it for that. But for resources that are short, like a one or two page resource, it's really nice to honestly have everything in one PowerPoint to quickly duplicate it and move on to the next section. And then if you realize there was a mistake on something, you can just scroll back up and fix it, especially when you're working quickly. Doing that versus having to go back in and open every single file, such a game changer. And then third, utilizing Chat GPT to kind of help you create those seasonal versus evergreen versions and help you save any amount of time that you can while you're trying to batch those things out really quickly. Lastly, I'm gonna give you some ideas. So if you're like, oh, this is great, I would love to come up with some ways to make something seasonal versus evergreen, but like I don't know that I have anything that I could do that with right now. Here are some ideas for some really simple but popular resources that you could easily create evergreen and seasonal versions of coloring sheets 100%. This would be incredible. Like creating coloring activities, coloring sheets where you're changing problems up just a little bit, where you have say coloring a jack-o'-lantern and coloring a flower, right? Where you have one that is evergreen and then you have one that is seasonal, and being able to repurpose some of those problems or quickly tweak them and change them, and then just create both of them at the same time for different topics. Game changer. Pixel art is another great one if you're looking for a way to do that digitally. Using a seasonal picture for your pixel art and then having an evergreen version of that is a really great way to have a dual purpose template. Task cards, short story analytics, where you're able to utilize the same template, but change out the short story with something that's seasonal, but keep the questions essentially the same, amazing. That could be a game changer. So there are so many different ways that you can take ordinary popular resources and create a seasonal and an evergreen version of them so that you can quickly churn out those resources with minimal effort. If you have a hack for creating resources really fast, we want to hear it down below. Drop your best hack down inside of the comments because we would love to see it. And if you listen to this episode via podcast and you're like, I wish I could see what she was talking about. I showed it on YouTube. So go check out the YouTube video and make sure you subscribe to my channel while you're there. 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