I don’t feel like my designs are the issue.
Social Media Platforms are full speed ahead. I even started using A.I to assist with my listings since about a month back. SEO looks good at best. … 🤔 Anyone else dealing with sales decline?
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Sales are down big time for me.
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I ran ads for the first time since December of 2022 this weekend and the response was like… “What?” . Like, why did I even spend the money. Know what I mean? 😐
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Maybe it has something to do with the fact that buyers need to create a Zazzle account to make a purchase? It would be more streamlined if Zazzle offered “Guest” checkout so clients could skip the whole sign up routine. I’ve sorta felt like this has been the issue since I began selling on here back in 2012. Nobody wants that kind of headache. They just wanna get their purchase over and done with as quick as possible. I’d think.
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On the one hand I’m really glad to hear it’s not just me … on the other, it’s kinda scary that it’s a prevalant issue. Hugely down over last year. Still getting sales everyday but nowhere near what they were. Whazzup with that I wonder?
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Though I do still get sales, they aren’t like they were in the past, and I’ve wondered about it too. Yes, the economy isn’t in the greatest shape, so that would certainly affect sales, but my gut says it must be other things too. Are people jittery about the future? Have they changed due to so much more time spent with electronic devices than out there face-to-face with others, thus not affected as much by the likes and dislikes of the groups they run around with? I’m wondering, too, about the designers who focus on weddings, which over the years have been less of a thing, more and more people simply moving in together.
It must be a polar shift.
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I agree your designs are not the reason. But think sales are in decline for many Z creators. How is your traffic to your store? I have noticed the last view is not great.
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I’m down for the past coupla weeks, but can’t say that it isn’t my normal summer slump.
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Is the photo a picture of the ad you just ran?
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sales are steady for me, but less than last year’s.
also international buyers are definitely buying far less now than in previous years.
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You may be interested in my Free Zazzlepreneurs course which I have jump-started?
It’s a work in progress (members were keen to have access sooner rather than later) and module 1 is already ready to view, download or access online.
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how about your traffic? do you google analytic your store? just did it on April, still struggling and so confusing to see analytic
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I think that all things work by trends such as macroeconomics, pushed by it but not necessarily.
after a period of expansion things stagnate, spend a while without continuing to rise, then rise again (if the uptrend prevails) or fall due to the normal ups and downs or because a downtrend has started.
For me the problem is here, when I see a period of lower value I do not know if its already a downtrend or if its just a normal break (nothing goes up in an arrow indefinitely, just look at a graph of the stock market, even in an uptrend things go up and down).
all this to say that life as a commission agent is very difficult 
like everything else, we have to have the strength and financial cushion to withstand the bumps. may the force be with us all! 
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Same here - these last two weeks have been awful.
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(Odd. I couldn’t use the general reply button, only the reply-to button.)
There have been a few other threads like this one over recent months, and it’s interesting that, when some people say they’re selling, others say they aren’t. I’m doing sort of okay, but a short while ago, I was selling little to nothing. It’s probably related to what sorts of products we design. However, the overall trend seems to be lower sales, likely due to the awful combination of a not-so-good economy with the summer months coming on. The best we can do is sit tight, continue designing what we love and think will sell, and maybe take a walk out in the sunshine.
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Yeah, it is. I just ran 2 different ads. Sort of an A/B situation and neither ad did well. 🤔
A minimum of about 3 to 65 visits lately 3 to 15 visits a day.
A minimum of about 3 to 65 visits lately 3 to 15 visits a day.
If you don’t mind me asking… what sort of items are you selling on a daily basis?
I’m wondering if the black gradient on the bottom of your ad is causing a problem since all your products shown on the bottom of the ad are black products. If you run the ad again, try lightening or removing the black gradient to see if that helps attract customers. Also try deleting the two people in silhouette on the background. You don’t want anything competing with your products.
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