Risk of Losing Self-referrals

[SORS]

Since Zazzle encourages us to feature other designers’ products in our own stores, does that increase the risk of losing future self-referrals by sending customers to other shops? Has anyone actually seen referral success from promoting others in their store?

[Sara_H]

@SORS  Where have you seen this? I've never seen them encourage us to feature other designer's products in our own stores.

They are our stores.

You can earn  referrals promoting other designer's products in the marketplace

https://www.zazzle.com/sell/affiliates

[SORS]

I may be mistaken on this.  Maybe administration can clarify this.  I know that other stores have posted my products in their collections. The question still remains, by promoting other stores links, are we increasing the likelihood of not getting future self-referrals because of the cookies? 

[Cat]

I'm confused too. How would you promote another designer's work in your store? Only thing I can think of is by including other designer's works in a collection. Is that what you mean?

[SORS]

Yes, by adding their product to your collections...or creating special collections for other designers.  I'm curious as to how that might effect self-referrals.   I know that my products have been shared in other stores. Maybe they can chime in here. 🙂 

[Cat]

It's an interesting question. I've never done that (added other designers' work to a collection), but in general I think that self-referrals are a gamble, and since Zazzle doesn't give us any way to track if one of our clean links resulted in a sale of someone else's product (a $0 referral) there really isn't any way to track it.