I have spent YEARS building up my product inventory, mastering Design skills and marketing and promoting my own designs. If you are NEW to Zazzle, or have less time to create your own products you may find you make MORE MONEY FASTER as an affiliate!
My affiliates make MORE from my products than I do! My royalties are super low, less than 10% with many at 5% making them great value for customers looking for a budget bargain. YOU as an affiliate make nothing less than 15%!
Access my Zazzle products HERE and my affiliate tools via THIS Instagram account where I will share latest products with promotional banners, text and hashtags for you to utilize for sharing, all you do is download the banners, copy and paste the text and hashtags adding your own referral link! This is MUCH more likely to result in a sale than simply sharing products direct from Zazzle!
I have today set up my Instagram as the one-stop-place to access my banners, text and hashtags. I will be creating even MORE TOOLS for affiliates in the coming weeks!
Good luck. We need more active and actual affiliates. Everything stated in your infographic is true. But the problem is that most of our 3rd party sales are from Zazzle itself. So, I appreciate any attempt to get real affiliates on board.
Doesn’t Zazzle offer discounted direct product price based on your sales level generated each month or year? I was under that understanding. Just like buying envelopes, the more you buy the more discount you recieve. So the more a designer sells the more discount they recieve on blank products than someone who sell less or is new.
I’ve always googled my product IDs to find where affiliates are promoting my products.
I’m not saying that there aren’t affiliates. I am saying that you can’t go by your 3rd party sales to evaluate how many sales you get through affiliates. You need to look at your ‘Your Recent Sales’ emails to determine that and I have determined that Zazzle is responsible for most of my 3rd party sales.
This is an excellent example of why Zazzle should differentiate their own “referrals” from actual affiliate sales in our reports.
For any potential affiliates out there, I welcome you to promote my shops and products and thank you in advance. click my signature to visit my profile and see all my Zazzle shops.
I would also like to encourage you by saying that I myself do make extra here at Zazzle by promoting other designers products. it is doable.
"I am saying that you can’t go by your 3rd party sales to evaluate how many sales you get through affiliates. "
I said:
‘Many affiliates make money referring my products’. Many affiliates Do. I did not say ALL 3rd party referrals are affiliates. There is nothing misleading here. I do check to see who is promoting my products that result in sales.
What you can’t do Jerry is make sweeping statements that you have no way of validating saying ‘most’ come from Zazzle. Most of yours might? That doesn’t make it the case for everyone. We can check… I have done so as demonstrated. And of course being an affiliate and knowing of many affiliates I can confirm we are not mythical beings.
You said “I appreciate any attempt to get real affiliates on board.” what am I and all the others promoting if not real affiliates?
In April 2022, 95 of my cleared/pending sales (out of 3289) were self-referrals - amounting to $1000+ referral income (not including royalties ).
Zazzle invest a great deal of time and money in their affiliate program. Perhaps contact Zazzle’s affiliate Manager to discuss their program in greater detail. They may shed some light on your concerns re where your 3rd party sales come from.
Re me checking sales emails, I made 3,289 cleared/pending sales, in April. I can’t possibly check them/nor do I elect to receive them due to the number.
Knowing the specifics would be greatly beneficial, I agree,
In summary I can confirm affiliates are ‘real’ and ‘actual’ and we are busy gaining sales for others and I wish to help and support my existing affiliates and welcome new ones on board. For further discussion, may we start a new thread, thank you.
@JerryLambert ps. the only reason I am sharing these sales figures is to validate my claim my products are worth promoting - they sell (so do you yours!) .
I’m not suggesting that you are being misleading. I am saying that Zazzle using the term “3rd Party” on sales generated through their own links is somewhat misleading and confusing because Zazzle isn’t a 3rd party.
I can validate my own 3rd party sales, which is what I stated, by looking at the tracking numbers in my ‘Your Recent Sales’ emails. Also, this has been discussed with Zazzle multiple times. I, and many others, have requested a separate designation for Zazzle’s referrals in our reports. If they did so it would be easy for everyone to determine affiliate sales as apposed to Zazzle’s own 3rd party sales.
I also never said that there were no real affiliates, I said we need more real affiliates. Affiliates used to be a lot more active in the community. That is why I was offering you my appreciation and admiration for what you are doing while at the same time trying to make a point to Zazzle that we need better and more accurate means of calculating our efforts. Multitasking, I think is what they call it. I was giving you a compliment, not trying to derail your thread.
I searched a single item from one of your stores and found a number of affiliates promoting YOUR product as shown ( I followed 3 of the links they do arrive at your product). There may be more on subsequent pages ( I counted another 5 ) . I don’t know why you weren’t able to get these results ( or emails) but as you can you see here, you have a great number of affiliates. Apologies if I misunderstood earlier and I will look into rewording my banner ad. I do also agree, we need a clearer idea of what specifically 3rd party are about. Maybe they could have another category for Zazzle generated. Onwards and upwards! 🙂
Yes I am real. I do agree with Jerry that it would be beneficial for all of us if Zazzle would differentiate their advertising promotions from the actual affiliate 3rd party sales, mostly to make our earnings reports easier to understand and more accurate.
I also get quite a few that are Zazzle ads. About half.
They could even keep the carveout and just call it an advertising fee. I’m willing to pay it for the extra sales I get when they place Google ads for us. But I’d like to be able to see a line item indicator on the reports page so I’d know at a glance which sales are from Z or from affiliates.
I love your idea of making banners and tools for your affiliates, and I even used that first one you made. It did quite well on Pinterest and I expect it to generate referrals someday. (Sometimes it takes months for a pin to “catch” a sale”.). I track them all. Got a referral from a two year old pin just today!
I found that really valuable so thanks! I am about a year old with my store and still learning the ropes. I have an rf code but haven’t quite managed to work out what to do with it. Your post was a great reminder for me to look in to this.
Yes Pins are awesome, I will have a Pinterest board for Pins to share given their unique dimensions. I have loads already it’s just the process of finding them and uploading them with the required info. It would be so much easier if all these platforms used the same image sizes.
I am also going to create more motion Gifs as the tiny bit of animation can help visibility, especially on Facebook.
Re ads, I have never dabbled in paid ads (too afraid) but maybe a thread for Zazzlers to share their ‘paid ad’ experiences would be helpful. Paid pins, facebook ads and so on. Discuss best practice, how to word, audiences to target and so on. I may have a dabble with a paid FB ad soon, so I will share any results if any that brings.
That’s great news, I hope you’re able to find my resources helpful, I have more, pins especially but need to upload them. My main page for this is here
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