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a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

Jeff_Foliage — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:49:45 GMT

I see the new collections but I don't see how they fit together or even replace the current groupings. It seems ... clunky? to be able to find or see at a glance what sorts of groupings I've created. I'd like to be able to send followers from my social media to a collection or group of items. I also want to post an item to my SM directly...

This leads me to my second question. I right-click and share to my Twitter accounts or grab the URL and share the image and link to my FB accounts. I have a Chrome ext to share to my Pinterest groups...

I want to share from a prepared show page. If I click on it, it sends me to a page to edit it and I don't want to share that page. I honestly don't think the Zazz folks know how we share on every single other site. I want to share a product that leads the customer to the purchase page. I don't want them going to everybody else on Zazzle. They should be able to view similar items that I sell.

Thanks
https://www.zazzle.com/mbr/238209991515929872/stores
why don't I have a unique name instead of a number?

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

Connie — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 03:54:29 GMT

When you are on the Edit page, up in the right hand corner there's "View on Zazzle." That will take you to the collection itself so you can share that URL.

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

Sara_H — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:50:48 GMT

@Jeff_Foliage

Like Connie said, you can still share your collections the way you're used to. You just have to be on the public storefront to do it and not in the store back end.

On your public storefront, go the collections tab, you can search for which collection you want to share then right click for the collection url and share that way or if you go into the collection from the public storefront, the option to share is still there.

We are all numbers at member level - it's how Zazzle tracks us and it helps with affiliating

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

Connie — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 23:30:29 GMT

I don't go to the public storefront first. When I'm in my collections back end, I click on the collection I want to share, which brings up the Edit page. On that page, in the right hand corner, there's "View on Zazzle".

I click that, and it takes me to the public collection page itself and there's the Share button like you screencapped.

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

Sara_H — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 23:49:55 GMT

@Connie yes that is the way to do it too but I think @Jeff wanted a way of sharing without having to go into edit of each of the collections (I could be wrong though)

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

Connie — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 03:35:54 GMT

Oh, OK. That makes sense.

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

Jeff_Foliage — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:06:29 GMT

been seeing the answers and all are good suggestions. I also need to get in here more often and create more. I had good results when I first started but I got busy with work and everything else. So now I only come in once in a while...

For a suggestion to Zazzle, there should be a creators tool set and entry point and then you should have to buyers entry and creation point. I'm used to PODs where that is the way things work. Here it seems all blended together, which I find very confusing... But we work with what we are given... Thanks all...!

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

JenniferWhite — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 19:42:21 GMT

What happed to the image you used to see when sharing a collection to pinterest for example? It used to show a few different photos but now it only shows the cover photo and a blank section? If I remove the cover, then it's all blank?

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

Sara_H — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:26:39 GMT

@JenniferWhite is it a new collection you're trying to share? It may need time to index. I've just tried to share one of mine that didn't have a cover photo and it wasn't blank. Have you any ad-blockers on your browser? Try turning it off before your share

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

JenniferWhite — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:30:36 GMT

It's happening with all my collections, old and new. Here's a screenshot of me trying to start a pin. As you can see it's blank. I've tried both the sharing pinterest button on zazzle and the manual way on pinterest. They all show blank images.

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

Sandra- — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:00:50 GMT

Hi @JenniferWhite this happened to me a while ago and I discovered that when you try and share a collection with one of the Zazzle insitus which have the pen next to your invite as one of the first 6 products of your collection, the collection appears blank for some reason when you try to share. I noticed this is the case with a couple of your collections I looked at. The solution for me was to either move the product with that insitu after the 6th place, or change to one of the other views. Once you’ve made the change give it a short while to reindex and try sharing again and hopefully the images will appear. 🤞

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

JenniferWhite — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:44:23 GMT

That just went way over my head lol? Not sure what you mean by moving the Insitu?

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

VivianD117 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:42:19 GMT

Connie, I think you are going one step too far . . see below -- you have this selection right in the Edit page right under the Collections Performance Tracking -- unless that is what you were referring to. See screenshot below.

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

Sandra- — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:45:30 GMT

Apologies @JenniferWhite I didn’t make that very clear did I! When you post a product for sale you can choose which image you wish to display, with invitations one of those choices is a picture of the invite next to a pen (otherwise known as in-situ). For some reason, if you have selected the in-situ image as the one to display, and you have that in the first 6 items of your collection, then you get the blank when you try and share the collection to Pinterest. So if you move any of the ones where you have this view selected further into the collection. Example I’ve circled in one of your collections, move this one out of the top 6 in your collection (or change the product view) and it should then share OK. Hoping this now makes more sense.

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

JenniferWhite — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:06:59 GMT

Thanks. I moved that but still not working. When you mean change the product view, you mean change change that specific products view? I went in there and changed the RSVP card but it's still showing that same one in the collection. I tried to delete it to readd it, but there is no delete option I see in the collection anymore. I really don't like this new collection set up. Ughh...

Re: a two part question for collections and sharing to SM

Sara_H — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:28:43 GMT

@JenniferWhite

to remove something from the collection, click the three dots