Last week, I shared our new collaborative creative community. If you did not read about it, you can check out that post here.  This week, we have our first creative theme challenge. Below you will see a little inspiration for that challenge. You can create in your niche with a product/s that make sense to you. Our suggested deadline is Friday, September 12. After this time, it is my plan to promote our creations on at least one platform, if not more. I'm hoping that those who participate might do so as well! 😊 (Note: Promote for free. I don't pay for advertising, so I want to ensure that is clear.) Come join us for some fun, and to read some tips about some suggested keywords and resources for planning your creation. In order to see the challenge details, you will need to join with an email (it's free, and there's no upsell. Seriously, I have no courses or digital guides to sell even if I wanted to. 🤣). You will find us HERE: https://ctrlz-amandarenee-shop.fourthwall.com/supporters/posts/154194 Inspiration for our challenge (and why NOW is the time to create with this theme) ... View more

Hello! I have created a new community for creatives who sell their work online. I am a Zazzle designer, have "dabbled" in some other POD sites in the past, and also enjoy learning about bettering my business by following, watching, and talking to sellers on a variety of platforms. My hope is that this group will bring creatives together across platforms to make our businesses stronger, and our lives a little less lonely. 😀 If you want to learn more, I released a video on YouTube about it yesterday: https://youtube.com/shorts/TYIAqGGAWMM?si=QSFFOTmZEc12mqJj .  If you're more of a text person, here are the basic details:  1. Right now, it is focused on "challenges." Essentially, there is a creative task that is general enough to help us all that we can all be doing simultaneously. I'm a big proponent of body doubling and accountability. The first challenge is to create, or update and perfect, your creator landing page.  2. It's hosted on FourthWall because it's free and allows me to include creatives on a variety of platforms (not all creators sell on Zazzle, and not all Zazzle designers even visit these forums).  3. It's a "membership," but it's free. I promise. No upsell. I don't have classes or things to sell you. It's a membership so that random people can't just easily drop by and spam it.  4. I have more thoughts about extending the collaboration of this group in the future (still for free. lol) , but I'm going to wait until I see if there's even interest before I get too excited developing this and diving into details.  PREMISE:  Years ago (as in, 2009), I started and led a collaborative weekly challenge on The Sims 3. Yes, the game. I loved to build and to learn from other builders. It turned into a successful community on that forum, and it was a ton of FUN connection and learning. My hope is to build something like that for creatives. No expensive membership required. Just a way to synergize and stay motivated. It's a tough time, but also an exciting one. Let's navigate it together! 🙂  ... View more

I've tried selling on Zazzle a few times, but never had much success; However I feel some of my illustrations could be helpful/used by Zazzle creators that have the right skills for designing Zazzle products! I've only just begun expanding into selling Clip Art/Illustrations, so only have a couple of products listed for now - Here is one of my first clip art packs, perfect for the coming summer months! More summery/vacation themed illustrations to come! https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4308155698/fruit-line-art-digital-clip-art-18-hand?ref=shop_home_active_1&logging_key=2e1514e587ab9a356bc94895672a6ea18bb96d71%3A4308155698 *I hope this is the right place for this! And appreciate anyone that takes the time to read and click the link!   ... View more

Attention Zazzlepreneurs   Newly released   Member only product - to ensure the product ideas aren't going out to a massive audience and competition is limited.  Membership is FREE however.    Since being back I've devoted my time to understanding the new fees structure on Zazzle which is daunting initially. I certainly found that to be the case while I had a major dose of brain fog.   But now I'm feeling back to my old self, I have taken a deep dive and examined ways we can work with the new fee structure. There's no fighting it so we have to work with it.   I have created a guide to share my findings, which breaks things down in an easy-to-follow format. It's not a guaranteed fix but there are ways for you to evaluate current practices and changes you can make and the sensible way to do that is split testing, which is why I have included a guide on how to conduct split tests, as well as a worksheet for you to record your results.   In addition to that I have curated a list of 100 micro niche product ideas that Zazzle's competition in personalized goods (Temu, Amazon to name two) cannot easily replicate!   I've kept the guide at a manageable price and simplified the explanations as much as possible as to how the new fee structure works.   I hope you find this a valuable   What You’ll Discover Inside:   No-fluff explanation of how royalties, marketing fees, and referral commissions actually work. Tactical strategies to safeguard your income in light of the new fee structure.   A curated list of 100 product ideas that stand out—products your competitors can’t easily replicate.   Good luck Zazzlepreneurs   ... View more

Hi Zazzlepreneurs I want to give you an honest update about something I’ve been considering. I had thought about creating a VIP membership with a low monthly fee where members would receive regular content and resources from me. But after really weighing things up, I realized a few important points: The kind of quality content I’d want to provide would take a lot of time and energy and given my health issues I can’t always predict my energy levels. The pressure of having to meet a set deadline every month worries me, because I don’t want to let anyone down. 👉 So instead of a paid membership, here’s what I’m going to do: I’ll keep things free to join (no paid membership required). From time to time, I’ll surprise you with free items (like the free tagging guide I recently released) —no set schedule, no promises of “X per month,” but fun extras whenever I can. That will include graphics and whatnot. Any bigger resources or materials I create will continue to be available as standalone paid products (no membership needed) at a fair price as is currently the case. This way, I can focus on making things at a pace that works for me, while still sharing value with you all. 💛 Thank you so much for understanding and for supporting my work—I appreciate this community more than I can say and I promise to do as much as I can when I can.  The Zazzle fees guide is shaping up so that will be released soon, along with 100 micro niche ideas that should ensure Zazzle's competitors in the world of personalization don't get a look in! So keep an eye out for that! ps. Re the ideas for content that you've been voting on, I have taken your responses on board and will be working to see what I can do for you. Here's to a restful Sunday! Happy Zazzling  LeahG ... View more

  BIG NEWS!! Zazzlepreneurs Memberships Resuming! Wow I never thought after the year I've had I'd been writing this now! As you know close to a year ago now I had to down tools due to health issues and a major case of burn out and honestly it's been a long hard crawl to start to feel even a little bit normal! My brain just wasn't in 'that' space you know? And I have to confess to some weird type of PTSD related to the laptop and online projects. If I say I have opened it more than five times in this entire time that would be an exaggeration! What I have been doing though is working hard to try to get back to that space! The head space where I am firing on full cylinders and able to focus. And I believe I am sufficiently there to be able to engage in small projects. On that note ... I do feel very bad for leaving you all in the lurch all that time ago and would like to resume the memberships with a new take ... whatever I offer will be included in the membership to keep it simple. The site which will be getting a revamp before I open VIP memberships again ( you can join free presently for updates) is www.Zazzlepreneurs.com also ( same website) domain www.grafixdeals.com  I've started posting to the blog and will arrange some new tools and materials as well as giving the site a facelift with help of my daughter who is a talented graphic designer in her own right ( better than me!) so nothing immediate but it's coming. Baby steps! I am brimming with ideas but am also open to yours as to what you might like to see! Let me know if you are coming back to the fold! I meanwhile will work out a nice membership deal.  I hope to engage with you all again super soon and thank you so much for your patience and behind the scenes support. It was and is very much appreciated.  Leah x Ps this time there will be a big emphasis on marketing and good news! I am the new admin of Facebook group 'young entrepreneurs' which is also open to the older generation!! This group has 72,000 members and growing rapidly. So a great spot to be seen! I will be providing plenty of non spammy promotional opportunities and features! The link escapes me but if you search 'young entrepreneurs' and locate the one with 72k plus members that's the one! You're all welcome! oh and for those new to Zazzle I am LeahG platinum pro  ... View more

A tool for you to use if you want to append your Ambassador ID to your product links. Also has space for you to add a tracking code.  Just copy your Ambassador ID in the box/copy your product link and generate - then you can copy/paste that to your socials https://creativegiftstudio.my.canva.site/affiliate-link-creator-assistance   ps - it doesn't save any data anywhere (I'm not collecting anything - just a web base form) Find your Ambassador ID here  https://www.zazzle.com/my/ambassador/ambassador  As a reminder - This is for adding your Ambassador ID to your products - zazzle already auto adds your Ambassador ID when you promote other designer's products using the share icon. Have fun and bookmark it! ... View more

I downloaded the 10 images intending to upload them, but it kept showing a pop-up saying; serving error. Can anyone help me   ... View more

Hi everyone, I am currently working on a WordPress plugin for my website which allows me to fetch product data via Zazzle's RSS feed and then post it as a product to my website, displaying the product in categories and on product pages. I have to say that I am not a programmer by any means. I dabbled a bit here and there in the past, but for this plugin I decided to use ChatGPT to help me get what I want. I am making great strides. I have a search function in the backend of my website to enter a search term, the plugin then displays the results and I can choose which products I want to post by clicking on a post button. The plugin is also looking at whether the product already exists on my site and updates the data, which will be helpful when the product price is changing. So far I am displaying the product image that the feed offers me. However, it appears via the RSS feed I can only get the main product image. I would like to get and display the other product images as well. Is there a way to do this? ... View more

It lists with links so you can make your edits on products with titles under 5 words, similar descriptions or containing generic terms (80%+ similar, titles that might be short, products that have complete duplicate keywords, low keyword count <10, and picks out "banned" keywords. I would love to test this so if anyone wants their store analysed with this it only takes a few seconds. DM me your RSS link which would be something like https://feed.zazzle.com/rss?qs=yourstorename and I will DM you an excel sheet with the output. If everything is perfect it might come out blank! Sorry if I cant reply to everyone, I just want to test with other stores to see if it can be helpful. If there is anything else that you think can be added then let me know. I assume that this kind of thing is allowed. If it is not then please tell me and I will delete. ... View more

AI is about to be challenged for copyright  Big names are taking lawsuits to court about it, may set precedents as to usage, pertaining specifically to art, especially if you are using AI to create products on PODs. Getty is one of the big names mentioned. <https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/stable-diffusion-copyright-lawsuits-could-be-a-legal-earthquake-for-ai/> Those using AI to create art for sale may want to hold off till this rolls thru the courts with a decision about copyright. (Unless you have deep pockets and a dynamite legal team) ... View more

Hi everyone! I have been loving some of the vibrant, bold illustrations I am seeing in the design world recently. I recently created a set of modern floral graphics, and decided to make them available for free professional use, including on Zazzle to whomever would like to use them. The set of 20 illustrations (svg & png) is available to download here: https://fakingitfabulous.com/2025/06/29/bold-florals-free-clipart/ ... View more

Not quite an external tool, but I found something that's helped me easily create a referral link for products. This creates a favorite/bookmark and when clicked, it reloads the page and appends your referral code to the end of the url. You can adjust it so it creates a popup you can copy. No more going to find your referral code and adding it on manually! This is in Edge, but others are similar. Step 1.  Go to the top right "..." and select Favorites Step 2. In the new window, go to the top "..." and click "Open Favorites Page" Step 3. Click "Add Favorite" from the top Step 4. Name it "Add Z Ref" or something Step 5. In the url field, paste the below text after updating your referral number For page reload: javascript&colon; (() => { const affiliateCode = "your_rf_number_here"; const url = window.location.href; const separator = url.includes('?') ? '&' : '?'; window.location.href = url + separator + "rf=" + affiliateCode; })(); For popup to copy: javascript&colon; (() => { const affiliateCode = "your_rf_number_here"; const url = window.location.href; const separator = url.includes('?') ? '&' : '?';alert(url + separator + "rf=" + affiliateCode); })(); Leave it all on one line. The tutorial I found had each line on separate carriage returned lines and it didn't work that way. Hope this helps!  ... View more

Okay I feel skeevy for even posting this but my products just never get seen.  Is there a (preferably free) way to use AI to get your products out there and seen? My ideal thing would be some sort of a background bot that could post products wherever they are allowed without spamming and without it or me getting banned for using said bot. I do not want to use it for design at all. I despise that concept and am not super comfortable with AI in general but I'm frustrated as everything I do on zazzle doesn't work. My new stuff-hidden, my optimized stuff-hidden, my old stuff that once got a ton of views even though they were kinda meh-hidden... I saw one keyword thing but it has a monthly fee. I'm only willing to pay if I get results. Also I am the photoshop, affinity, illustrator, type of tech savvy not the kind of tech savvy that uses a million acronyms I don't understand. I mean I've heard of SEO but I don't really know which filter on photoshop will give me the good SEO. Kidding sort of, but honestly if I was a programmer I would go do that not design T-shirts.  ... View more