No sales for days. Disappointing,… Your sales? 🙄
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January is typically a slow month.
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@Boki @Jadendreamer13 is right - January is typically slow. I made a sale earlier today (https://www.zazzle.com/customizable_find_us_on_social_media_trodat_4911_self_inking_stamp-256700615746233729?rf=238748736489762753&tc=npv_pid_256700615746233729_date_01292026) and 11 total for the month of January. So while I’m not getting rich (of course) I’m fine with it because it was more than I made in 2024 or 2025 during January. 
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I don’t know what my magic is but I have had 50 sales for this Month. I am flabbergasted.
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@ibelieveimages That’s so awesome!! Super cool and a motivation for us all. 
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January surprised me in the best way. I have in 42 sales / transactions mostly stationery and men’s birthday cards. At this point I’m starting to feel like the Hallmark of Zazzle, and honestly, I’ll take it. Evergreen designs really carried me this month
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It’s nice to read that other people are selling,… But it’s a disaster for me! No progress for days. :disappointed_face: It feels like my store isn’t even visible,…
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This January has been much worse for me than this time last year. Zazzle has fallen off a cliff.
Am trying to upgrade my marketing game, but yeah, not good.
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Very slow, many consecutive days without sales; even so, I feel lucky to have made about 30 sales…
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I’ve noticed a real connection between my activity and my sales. When I’m actively creating and listing new products, I see a boost. When I was offline for a month caring for my husband, my sales were pretty flat. Once I started creating again both for my Zazzle store and for the educational blog I contribute to my sales picked up. For me, staying engaged in some way really helps keep the sales coming in
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Late December and early January were super slow for me, but sales picked up for me in the last part of January. I’ve sold a couple of mid-range items this week, in addition to small tissue paper and card sales. I think an increase in my Pinterest traffic might be helping.
I hope your sales start to improve.
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Of course, one should not give up work in the hope that, finally, the great effort and work will really pay off, but… The current situation looks as if the stores have been “cut off” from the site, because there are no inflows,… Catastrophic. 
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@Boki Don’t give up yet because January is typically really slow (we call it the January Hole in my hometown). Since today was the last day of the month I compared my last three January months (I started on Zazzle on 11/11/2023):
January totals by year (non-canceled):
2024: $0.36 royalty | 1 order item | 1 item | $3.62 subtotal
2025: $3.80 royalty | 2 order items | 2 items | $13.93 subtotal
2026: $40.42 royalty | 11 order items | 16 items | $192.78 subtotal
It helps me personally to get (and stay) motivated (even if we are only talking peanuts or breadcrumbs in my case) to see the visual curve pointing upward (meaning I can beat the previous time period).
But it’s true, it will only get harder going forward to make sales for several reasons, sigh.
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That’s great, @Susang6 “I’ve noticed a real connection between my activity and my sales”
I haven’t seen that. Also: I am mainly selling old products, hardly anything created in the past year or so.
I am also working on a lot of new cover images, but that does not seem to make any difference.
One of my stores has a rank 9 (so far), but regularly goes days without a single sale.
December and January are usually pretty slow, but I haven’t seen anything like this before.
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I do not recall noticing anything like that, and I am extremely active, creating several designs every day.
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I’ve seen firsthand how my activity affects my Zazzle performance. I publish regularly on a high-traffic educational blog, and every article includes an ‘About the Author’ section where I link to my Zazzle About page. When I had to step away for five weeks to care for my husband, I didn’t publish or create new products and during that time, my views, linkovers, and sales all dropped significantly. Once I resumed writing article and listing new products, and sharing everything picked up again. For me, it’s a combination of consistent content, fresh listings, and organic traffic from the links I’ve shared. That break where I wasn’t online really highlighted how important ongoing activity is.
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I’ve had my store since 2009, and over the years I’ve slowly built up a pretty wide web of backlinks thousands of articles with “About the Author” sections that include a hyperlink to my Zazzle About page, plus sharing across Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, and running several groups as an admin. That said, it’s been a long, often exhausting journey. I’m not a commercial blogger I write educational and informational content, and keeping five personal blogs going, along with contributing to a high-traffic educational blog, is a lot of behind-the-scenes work. There were many 20-hour days filled with creating, listing, and sharing. So when I had to step away for a month to care for my husband, I really noticed the difference views and sales slowed, and my linkover history dipped. Once I returned to creating and publishing, things gradually picked up again. For me, it seems that staying active in some way whether through writing, creating, or simply being present at my groups helps keep things moving. But I know we all have different rhythms, audiences, and strategies, and what works for one person might not work the same way for another. I think that’s part of what makes this community special we each bring something different to the table
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One… ONE sale in January. I’ve gone from what was often multiple sales per week a year ago to maybe (if I’m lucky) one to two a month! Ya all can continue to blame it on the economy or time of year all you want but something has changed at Z and it was sudden. When I read posts from a designer that used to make over $700 a month to sometimes not getting a payment now…something has changed big time. I don’t know what this new marketing fee i_s_ going to but it doesn’t seem to be helping any or at least not helping me. I feel you @Boki , it’s as if the shop isn’t even being seen. Well other than by all the Singapore bots…
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You are a powerhouse, @Susang6
“20-hour days” … I don’t know many people who would come even close to that
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It is incomprehensible to me that it has a huge number of views, and in fact there is NOT a single sale, for days,… It would be more logical for sales and earnings to be large, but in fact it is a disaster because there is NO at all! 🤔 😞 😭
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