How Can I Earn?

[User007]

How can I be a seller partner on Zazzle? I am a painter. Not full-time, but I do pain during my free time. I started painting as a hobby. But later took it as a sidekick to generate extra income. Does Zazzle allow others to promote their products on this platform?

[CreativeLeahG]

You can add your designs as a creator to Zazzle products and then those items can of course be shared via show me forum, but you can't promote NON-Zazzle items here if that's what you mean?

How to get started: https://www.zazzle.com/my/store/create

[User007]

Have to say that, the product is nowhere related to Zazzle. There are my own creations. I paint these while I have free time. Being a programmer in the ai services domain, weekdays are stuffed with assignments. So, I usually find relief in paintings and books. These are oil & water-based.

[CreativeLeahG]

If you're not adding designs to Zazzle, then no. This is a Zazzle product. Promoting anything else here would be regarded spam. You're perhaps on the wrong forum. This is for Zazzle customers, creators and designers etc. Adding your non zazzle, non POD company link is also spam.

[Barbara]

A lot of the people here do original paintings and drawings that they then scan into their computers, saving the result as a JPG or PNG and uploading this to Zazzle. They can then place the image on anything they want from postcards to posters to canvas prints. I've done this myself with pencil and pen drawings.

@CreativeLeahG  I don't think he was trying to spam the forum. It was only a link to the place where he works at ai.

[CreativeLeahG]

I advised User007 as you advised and included a helpful direct link to add his art to products. He responded to clarify he wished to sell his art here minus 'Zazzle' influence ( as I understood it). 

Perhaps 007 you are seeking a platform such as Etsy where you sell the originals?

To help you understand what Barbara and I have said, these are a few of my own original artworks as added to Zazzle products kawaii_doodle_art_gifts_and_accessories_by_leahg.  We can only promote the Zazzle product with our art work transferred to it and NOT the original artwork (digital file/canvas etc). 

[Barbara]

And here's an example of my original pencil work that I scanned, uploaded, and put on a poster:

https://www.zazzle.com/shrew_amongst_the_dandelions_poster-228739170978090402

As long as your work can be scanned, you can transfer it to anything here on Zazzle.

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[CreativeLeahG]

beautiful!

[Barbara]

Thanks, Leah. One thing I've discovered, however, is that original artwork doesn't sell quite as well as simple illustrations. People looking for art must be going elsewhere, but I'm too lazy to research the possibility. LOL

[CreativeLeahG]

It depends on the subject matter but yes interest is limited. I once did 'well' with hamster illustrations and cartoons (pet hamster specific). And also re Gooty Spider ... so pet specific can work and as you say they like cute, possibly as child/teen market gifts. Adult pet market is likely more slogans than images.