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Design
The Creative Work
Compose obituaries, memorial programs, and keepsakes with real typographic craft — layouts that honor a life and read as beautifully in print as on screen.
Now Enrolling · Fall 2026
The SOLDObituaryMasterclass
Learn the Creative Work. Build the Business. Create a System That Can Sustain Both.
Enroll now in the next semester of the School of Loving Digitals Obituary Masterclass — where creativity meets printing, business systems, marketing, workflow, technology, and agency growth.
Enrollment is open for the Fall 2026 semester. Register now for 50% off — just $50. Class starts September 1.
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Next semester begins
Class starts September 1
9:00 AM ET · Live on Zoom
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What you'll learn
Six disciplines, one system
SOLD isn't a design tutorial and it isn't a business course — it's both, taught together, because a memorial agency needs the craft and the system to survive.
Design the work
Build the system
Build the system
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Printing
Print, done right
DPI, RGB vs. CMYK, bleed and safe margins, fonts and file prep, PDF export. Turn artwork into files that are actually ready for professional printing.
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Business
Systems that sustain
Pricing, package bundles, intake, and a repeatable process — so the work no longer lives only in your head and every family gets the same standard.
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Marketing
Get found & booked
Position the agency, build offers families understand, and market with intention so your calendar stays full without discounting your craft.
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Workflow
Tools & templates
The technology stack, templates, and AI-assisted process that let you produce faster, protect quality, and stop reinventing the file for every order.
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Growth
Scale beyond yourself
Delegate, add capacity, and grow a memorial-design agency that can run — and keep serving families — even when you step away from the desk.
The SemesterSeven modules,
Seven modules,
start to sustain
A full semester that moves from the very first press-ready file to an agency that runs as a business. Cohort-based, taught live, inside the SOLD community.
Now enrolling —
register today.
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Print-Ready Foundations
Design like a pro from the first file. The fundamentals that separate a screen graphic from a press-ready one.
DPIRGB vs. CMYKBleed & safe marginsResolution - 02
Photoshop & Canva Expert Designing
Master the two tools that matter — Photoshop for full creative control and Canva for speed — and design with confidence from layout to finishing touches.
PhotoshopCanvaLayouts & typeTemplates - 03
Buy Equipment
Know exactly what to invest in — printers, paper stocks, and finishing gear — to produce professional, in-house work without overspending.
PrintersPaper & stocksFinishing gear - 04
Pricing & Packages
Turn one-off jobs into bundles families choose from — with the cost savings and add-ons mapped out.
Essential · Celebration · LegacyAdd-onsValue pricing - 05
Client Systems & Workflow
Intake, proofs, and timelines that make the agency repeatable — so quality never depends on your memory.
IntakeProofingTemplates - 06
Marketing the Agency
Show the face behind the business and market with intention so the right families find you first.
SocialOffersReferrals - 07
Agency Growth
Add capacity, delegate, and lean on technology and AI so the business can serve families beyond you.
DelegationAI & toolsScaling
ScheduleThe Fall 2026
The Fall 2026
Semester
Seven live sessions on Zoom, every other week from September 1 to December 3. Each session week meets twice — pick the time that fits, or join both.
Tuesdays · 9:00 AM ET
Morning session
Thursdays · 7:00 PM ET
Evening session
Every other week
7 sessions total
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Tue, Sep 1 · 9:00 AMThu, Sep 3 · 7:00 PM
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Tue, Sep 15 · 9:00 AMThu, Sep 17 · 7:00 PM
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Tue, Sep 29 · 9:00 AMThu, Oct 1 · 7:00 PM
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Tue, Nov 10 · 9:00 AMThu, Nov 12 · 7:00 PM
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Tue, Dec 1 · 9:00 AMThu, Dec 3 · 7:00 PM
Save your seat
All sessions are recorded — can't make one live? Watch the replay.
Early enrollment · Limited timeRegister now,
Register now,
get 50% off
$100$50/ semester
Lock in your seat for the Fall 2026 semester at half price. Seven live modules, taught inside the SOLD community — register before class starts September 1.
50% off the regular $100 tuition
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Somalia Carter
Founder & Lead Instructor
Meet your instructorThe face behind
The face behind
the business
Somalia Carter builds memorial keepsakes that families hold onto — and she teaches designers to do the same, profitably. Through Loving Digitals Obituaries, she turned careful, compassionate design into a real business.
She founded SOLD — the School of Loving Digitals to hand that whole system to the next wave of creatives: the print craft, the pricing, the packages, and the workflow that lets an agency serve families and still sustain itself.
- Founder
- Loving Digitals Obituaries
- Founder
- SOLD — School of Loving Digitals
- Community
- Live cohorts on Skool
- Focus
- Memorial design & print business
Design the work. Build the system.
What you walk away withNot just skills.
Not just skills.
An agency.
You leave the semester with the creative craft, the business system, and the workflow to run them together — the three things a memorial agency needs to actually last.
Learn · Build · Sustain
The SOLD method
A press-ready file process you can trust on every single order.
A full product line — programs, keepsakes, memorial boards, cards.
A pricing and package system with the cost savings mapped for families.
A client intake and proofing workflow that keeps quality consistent.
Templates and a tech stack that cut your production time down.
A marketing rhythm that keeps the right families finding you.
A real plan to grow beyond a one-person agency.
Inside SOLD
We're a family
SOLD isn't a video library you watch alone. It's a living community of memorial designers who trade feedback, catch each other's mistakes, and celebrate every win — together, in real time.
Live cohortsDaily feedbackPeer critiquesOn Skool
#Wins
“Booked my first full package this week — the pricing module made it finally click.”
#Critiques
“Posted my program cover for feedback and had five sets of eyes on it by morning.”
#Print help
“Someone caught a bleed issue before I sent to the printer. Saved the entire job.”
#Updates
“Shared my new keepsake bundle and the whole room cheered me on. Progress over perfection.”
#Accountability
“Seeing everyone take action pushed me to sit down and finish mine. We’re really out here doing the work.”
#Resources
“The file-prep checklist alone was worth it. I stopped guessing and started shipping.”
The next semester runs inside the SOLD community — where the learning, the feedback, and the family all live.
Reserve
your seat
Enrollment is open for the Fall 2026 semester. Drop your details and we'll send your registration link — or register instantly on Skool for 50% off, just $50.
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Questions
Before you join
Yes — enrollment is open for the Fall 2026 semester, and early registration is 50% off ($50). Class starts September 1 and meets every other week through December 3. Register now to lock in your seat.
No. The semester opens with print-ready foundations — DPI, CMYK, bleed, file prep — and builds from there. If you're brand new, you'll be brought up to speed; if you're already designing, you'll fill the gaps that cost you jobs.
The craft is memorial design — programs, keepsakes, and boards families treasure. But the print skills, pricing, packaging, and business systems you build transfer to almost any print-based creative agency.
Live, cohort-based, inside the SOLD community on Skool. You learn alongside other designers, get your work critiqued, and move through the semester together — it's a family, not a video library.
Yes — that's the point. Pricing, package bundles, client intake, workflow, marketing, and growth are taught right alongside the creative work, because an agency needs both to last.
Design and produce a full line of memorial products, hand press-ready files to a printer with confidence, price and package your work, run a repeatable client workflow, and grow the agency beyond just you.