Hello everyone !! I have been on zazzle for more than a year now and since then working hard to get success but unfortunately i lose hope now cause i am not making much money on zazzle.Or may be i am missing something that other successful creators do.Hardly i made 100$ uptil now.Please have a look at my store and let me know what i am missing
https://www.zazzle.com/store/kayartdesigns
My store name is KayArtDesigns.
Any suggestion or help will be appreciated.I cannot buy any course as i cannot buy those expensive courses.if anyone could help me ,i will be thankful
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You have lovely designs, and in checking some of your tags, it appears you’re doing fine there, too. I’m wondering if it would help if you found a niche to design for if that would help. You do a lot of florals, so maybe something for gardeners. Or maybe if you look at the things you yourself enjoy besides designing on Zazzle, you might find a niche there. I love music and decided to create music theory designs, which worked well for me. I’ve also followed some of my other interests, which boosted sales a bit. Whatever we’re interested in, we can be sure there are others who are also into those things.
I don’t know if this will help, but it might be fun for you to give it a try.
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You have a gorgeous store and lovely products!
BUT .. like many who come to Zazzle , the themes mimic what is already available in great abundance on Zazzle, and so being seen is akin to being a grain of sand in the desert. You’re not just competing with several thousand similar titles and tags but these are hugely saturated niches. Sorry if this seems harsh, but it is a reality.
My advice is always the same … GO NICHE!
There is a ton of free advice re this and how to do it, and emerging trends via my website.
I did an example of ‘going niche’ recently… inside 2 weeks, less than 9 views, made sales.
Pop across, and soak up what’s available free.
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Hi, I’m in a similar situation as you, we follow each other on insta. Been working almost a year now full time on Zazzle, hopefully sales will be better for us in the coming months. 
Your designs look great btw, you got cover photos, nice titles and tags, promote things on social media.
One thing I noticed that could really help you is to offer simple personalization of text.
For example you have a “personalize” button here but customers can only replace the photos and they have to go into the editor to change the text.
It can be made easier for them to create templates for the names and other details.
Here’s an example from my store of what I mean:
Here you see that the customer is able to edit text after clicking the blue Personalize button. When you click “edit this design”, on one of your designs, and select text that you want the customers to change. Goto the settings on the right and select Make this a template object.
Here’s another of your products that could benefit from template text fields.
Now customers must enter the more complex design editor environment to change the text. When you convert the name field, Olivia’s baby shower, into a text template object customers can quickly update it by clicking “Personalize”.
More info on this feature is in the official help documentation: https://help.zazzle.com/hc/en-us/articles/219145288-Creating-a-Product-Template
Good luck! And hopefully sales will be better so we both can continue our Zazzle adventure. It’s a great platform to be creative and share it with the world.
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Thanku so much for your guidance and yes i should try other than floral as there is a lot more competition there already.
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Thanku so much,i am just so confused about the niches,should i create some new niche with new tags that are not there ,will that work ?? Or should i create something from the tags that are already popular there with some of new word addition ??
thanks i am truly grateful to you. i never ever checked this before, did’nt know that my products are not editable directly.thanku for letting me know this thing.
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Niches (sometimes called “niching down”) is more about finding a design theme that isn’t saturated in the marketplace. You find an underserved market and make a design for them. It’s about getting very specific. For instance, take “floral”. Maybe there is a specific type of flower that isn’t well represented in the marketplace. Maybe when somebody puts the flower name into the search bar, they only get back 20 results. So you find what that underrepresented flower is and make designs for it.
Or maybe you get really specific about what customer you are designing for. There are zillions of birthday party collections for milestone birthdays such as 1,2,16,18,21,30,40,50. But what about birthdays that aren’t milestone years? There are far fewer for non-milestone birthdays like 13 or 17.
Then there’s occupations and hobbies. Design something that your coworkers might buy that would get a laugh in the breakroom when they bring out a mug you designed. Or that people who also enjoy biking/hiking/ballroom dancing etc. would buy.
Or for people who have the same breed of dog/cat/fish/bird as you so you know what they like.
Or people in your geographical area.
etc.
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I was wowed by your work, I think you have some gorgeous imagery and are quite talented at designing and typography. While it’s true what others have said, that the invitation market is heavily saturated so hard to get a foot hold in now, I think many of your designs stand out enough that you will do well, especially since you seem to have a really good handle on tagging and have made beautiful covers. BUT, as @Pixelan explained, none of your products are using templates, whether it’s a simple “your name” on a phone case or a complicated wedding invite with lot of text they’d need to customize. That’s going to kill potential sales for you, it’s way too much for a customer to enter the design tool to change so many different fields. It’ll be a lot of work but I think re-publishing everything with templates fields will pay off for you.
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Thanku so much for explaining me so well ,much appreciated.I was so confused about this term niching down uptil now.Now i will definately work on this and hope will get better results.
Thanks again
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Thanku so much.I have got some very positive response from everyone here which gives me a hope to be consistent.and yes i have seen it myself now that my products are not easily editable,will going to repost them.
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Can you please tell me how much time it took you to reach bronze level.i have gone through your store and you have very beautiful colorful unique designs which definately makes your store different from others
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IMO you are WAYYYYYY ahead of most designers that gets started on here. When I first started my designs were ok but it took me a long while to learn since I was a photographer first and graphic designer later. Your designs and are superb and you are going to be successful here if…
You open up your designs to customization. Allowing your designs to be personalized allows a customer who loves your work to make it personal, to gear it to exactly who they have in mind, and gives the buyer the flexibility to be more creative. If you do that I’m sure if an affiliate sees your designs are marketable they could end up promoting your work… making your job of making some $ a little easier 
I wish you future success
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Thanku so much for your response and to give me a courage to do more .With the hope of success i will try more harder now to be successful on this platform.Got so many positive responses.
Thanks again for guiding me
Can you please tell me how much time it took you to reach bronze level.i have gone through your store and you have very beautiful colorful unique designs which definately makes your store different from others
Thank you! It took a very very long time but there are some good reasons for that so it shouldn’t be seen as discouraging to anyone else doing their own thing or just starting out. When I first joined Zazzle it was to fulfill a specific need (matching biz cards for a group each member could customize and purchase on their own); I found Zazzle Googling, didn’t even know what POD was let alone had any goal of being a POD designer LOL. With that done I walked away for over a year, Z wasn’t even a blip on my radar. Over the years there were other lengthy time periods of total inactivity (because life happens) followed by brief spurts of adding products and trying to organize my store etc. The last few years, I’m much more involved (having my own internet connection again helped a lot there) but it’s still just a hobby I’m not fully invested in as I still work a full-time job. Zazzle is my way to wind-down and if both the mood and timing is right, maybe I’ll create something. I do very little promoting, sometimes I make my own Pins, but again that’s something that the mood has to strike for to do. So I rely mostly on organic sales and others (bless them!) who might Pin or otherwise promote my stuff.
I’m not one of those super-successful designer’s who’s like “is the earnings report broken 'cause I didn’t have any sales register yet this morning?” but I get sales regularly enough to make me happy for the time I put into it and number of products I have (roughly 500 at last check), and each and every sale is still a thrill. I make stuff that I like, that I would want to decorate my own place with (so not many photo or even text template designs) and I don’t worry about what’s popular or trendy. So I’m unintentionally kind-of but not-exactly a niche store and that works for me. I don’t do the kind of stuff that’s going to be on the front pages anytime soon but people who do want my obnoxiously loud type designs seem to be able to find them searching the MP. And that’s where “niching down” comes in - if you’re 1 of 100 results instead 1 of 1,000, much better odds of being seen. 
@KHUSHBOO
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You’re quite welcome. I wish I had started out with your skillset. I forced myself to learn graphic design from scratch and it was a long road. One word of advice: doing this part time is a great way to get started since it sometimes takes a while till the $ add up. I did this part time for 6 months till I decided to jump in with both feet and take a chance. I’m not nearly as successful as others here but I can tell you if you can stick it out and constantly create fresh designs you have a chance at success.
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You’ll find all my posts re niches here
Thanku so much ,and i am doing it full time for last 12 months ,just giving everyday 4 to 5 hrs. Hope one day i ll get success
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Nothing to add that hasn’t already been said but jumped in for one more much-deserved kudos for your truly beautiful work. The only drawback is that you are in an extremely competitive segment, so it will take more time and effort to break through. I would concentrate on building up a follower base on socials where you can then redirect your fans to your products. One year isn’t much and the start is always steep, but the more you sell and get your products in the marketplace, the more you will generate additional sales. Don’t give up. Best of luck!
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Hi, how many designs/products per day were you uploading when you were part time, and how many once you started full time?
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