When I first started getting sales on Zazzle I began keeping a little map of where orders went across the USA. I wasn't keeping track of any details, just coloring in states when I'd get my first order there. It was fun seeing my map slowly fill in; each new state landed was a milestone to celebrate. I've shared my map a number of times in the forums - when I've been extra excited over finally landing one of the stubborn states! - and it's always generated a lot of interest from other Designers in being a fun idea, with many starting their own map. This week I decided to recreate my map in a multi-layered format that allows complete customization of every part of the map to make a really unique personal map one would be proud to share or feature on their website, blog, social media, and other promotional efforts. Here's what my custom map looks like (Montana is my sole hold-out): Even if you've long ago "filled in" the entire US, a custom map paired with a slogan and your logo or a QR code can be an eye-catching marketing gimmick for your website, blog or social media promotions.  My blog post here includes the link to download my free .psd map template, no signups or subscriptions etc necessary. Take a break from studying analytics and writing tags and slaving over the perfect template to have a little fun in creating your own custom map. 😃 If you create a map, would love to see how you customized it! So do come back and share a pic of your map (or a link to your site/blog you used it on).  ... View more

Hey there! Have you ever wanted to fully complete the steps to get to 100% store setup completion? Well here is your chance. You're invited to join in this live interactive experience The 100% Zazzle Store Completion Challenge: LIVE on April 22, 23, 24 at 2 p.m. ET each day  We are hosting this 3 day live challenge to help you complete the steps needed to get your store to 100%. You will receive live reviews on your store completion process and also receive access to our brand new exclusive  100% Zazzle Store Completion Digital Course.. Schedule:   LIVE Day 1: Store Homepage Review LIVE Day 2: Product Review LIVE Day 3: Collection Review    PLUS: Access to The 100% Zazzle Store Completion Digital Course. Come and join us as we guide you to get your store to 100% completion! Join us by clicking here. Before the challenge begins, make sure you watch the course ( 4 ​video walkthroughs ) so that you are prepared for the LIVE reviews. Let's ​do this together! See you in the challenge, Jen and Elke Clarke ... View more

This free workshop (replays) and Q&A (live on April 17, 2026) is for you if you: have been on Zazzle for several years were earning consistent 4- or 5-figure yearly payout from Zazzle  experienced a drop in sales after the Ambassador Program April 1, 2025 have not been able to gain back the income you lost can’t seem to grow your income at the same pace as before the change In 2025, Jen Clarke and I helped clients of ours increase their monthly Zazzle earnings despite the changes Why were they not as affected as others? We ensured that they did NOT have “holes” in their Zazzle businesses. The health of a business can be measured by how quickly it can bounce back, and even thrive, after a dramatic change. Their stores were only affected for the first month or two, if they had no "holes" or quickly fixed the "holes" after the April 1, 2025 implementation of the Ambassador Program. If you would like to find out how to spot the “holes” in your Zazzle store and learn what to do to begin to fix the “holes” you can: 1. watch the 4 hours of replays of Day 1 and Day 2 of the live workshop we held (see links below) 2. join us on Friday April 17, 2026 at 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. ET for a FREE Live Follow Up and Q&A session. This LIVE session is not a teaching session. It is a Q&A session only.  To get the most out of the Live Q&A session come prepared with your questions after watching the workshop replays and doing your homework. Zoom Meeting Link for Live Q&A Session on April 17, 2026 at 10 a.m. ET Meeting ID: 896 6267 7865 Passcode: 020605 Prep Work: Watch the 4 hours of replays beforehand to learn and do the work to be prepared for the live Q&A session on April 17, 2026. Day 1 REPLAY link (about 2 hours)  (expires April 17, 2026) Passcode: R!FG1Un= Day 2 REPLAY Link (about 2 hours) (expires April 17, 2026) Passcode: u9*ZP7?K See you on April 17, 2026 at 10 a.m. ET Best Elke ... View more

Hey everyone! 😊 I’ve been busy building out some free tools over at printablepretty.com that I think a lot of Zazzle creators will actually find useful. These started as tools for my own workflow to speed things up and cut down time in Illustrator and Photoshop, but they turned out solid so I figured I’d share them. Here’s what’s live right now: • Seamless Pattern Generator https://printablepretty.com/seamless-pattern-generator/ • Seamless Pattern Tester https://printablepretty.com/seamless-pattern-tester/ • Free Color Palette Generator https://printablepretty.com/free-color-palette-generator/ • Custom Free Printable Calendar Generator https://printablepretty.com/custom-free-printable-calendar-generator/ Everything is completely free to use. ✔ Commercial use allowed ✔ POD use allowed (including Zazzle) ✔ No subscriptions or paywalls If you try them out, I’d genuinely love feedback. I’m actively improving these and adding more based on what creators actually need. Hope they help you crank out designs faster 🙌 ... View more

Students who went through the February 2026 cohort sold products they made in the live training in less than two weeks. Listen to 3 testimonials from 3 different levels of Zazzle earners  This is a friendly reminder that we start on April 6, 2026 with the live one month Bootcamp for The Profit by Design Academy™ Experience This is not like anything you have ever experienced with a course. It’s a “done for you”, step by step, “take the guesswork out of” Zazzle business plan, that we help you implement in the month of April  …even if you can’t join live and have only a few hours free. If you ever just wanted to know what sells on Zazzle, but also get the exact details and instructions for the: designs to create popular product types for the top niches to sell in keywords to use to get your listings seen way to organize your store categories exact products to put in the different collections to sell more,  ways to get bigger referral payouts from Zazzle Then the Profit by Design Academy™ Experience is exactly what will provide you with these answers. Plus you won’t just “KNOW” what to do You will DO the WORK, in our live Bootcamp Experience (April 6 - May 1, 2026) If you only have a few hours a day but can’t join live you will still benefit because all the replays are available to you. There is extra time set during which you can get the work done,  So that you can receive a personal review on everything you do in the course in April 2026, like the following: Your store set up The niche and customer focus you choose Products you design Titles, tags, descriptions on your listings Collections you create Pinterest pins you pin Products you sell (Yes, people have sold products we told them to make in the bootcamp) It sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is good, AND it is true. We have taken all of what took us years to figure out and provided it to you… …in the most digestible, easiest step by step, way to make it doable and put it all into  The Profit by Design Academy™ Experience If you are feeling overwhelmed, don’t know where to start, what to do first, or even just don’t realize there are so many moving parts that you must do all at once to start selling, or sell more, then… Lock in your spot before April 6, 2026 midnight PST So we can take the stress off for you and show you that you can do it with the right guidance and support. We are excited to guide you on this experience that will literally change how you see Zazzle and what you can achieve in your Zazzle store. Best Jen and Elke Clarke   ... View more

Back by popular demand. Join The SOLD Bootcamp ($27) - March 24 to 31,2026. This is right for you if you want to: know and complete the 3 crucial steps to set up the foundational structure of your store to sell more learn and receive feedback on creating sellable intentional products promote effectively to receive more referrals.   It includes a masterclass on "How to improve your sales within one month” with actionable first next steps you can implement right away Who is it for new or relatively new to Zazzle intermediate sellers who have not had much success selling It is an interactive experience where you learn, implement, and then receive feedback. 1 hour per day live training  (noon to 1 p.m ET) with homework  Each day you post your homework in the private FB group where I and my team will provide feedback - written or loom videos. You can also ask questions in the group during the week that the FB group is open. Plus a bonus Masterclass - "How to improve your sales within one month with actionable steps" VIP Upgrade for $97  = an additional 30 minutes x 5 days of group Zoom calls to ask about each day of training You can find out the rest of the details here and sign up.  See you there Elke ... View more

@1WhoConquers  Copying part of your comment from this thread in the Tech forum to start a discussion here as I have lots of questions and am probably not the only one who could benefit from understanding more about RSS feeds and their potential as a promotional tool. I am appealing to the teacher in you to approach this from the angle that I (and other readers)  know NOTHING yet about RSS feeds so need to start with the very basics before going into advance uses. 😉 Don't know RSS? Oh, now you've opened a can of worms! I really need to write this up for the tricks and tips board, but I'm a teacher at heart, so here we go... RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a tool used to conglomerate various sources of information and "push" them. As a person, you would use an RSS reader app, tell it all the websites you want to read regularly, and have it just pull all the new info regularly so you don't have to remember to go back to all those spots manually. Handy for news websites and blogs. And Zazzle has been kind enough to give us RSS versions of all our stores' URLS. Not only that, you can add an affiliate id to the RSS URL and it will automatically get translated into affiliate commissions. I have a basic understanding (which is likely wrong)  of what an RSS feed is and I know we can make them for our Zazzle stuff.  I think of an RSS feed as something you embed on a website in a little box so visitors can scroll the box for all the latest whatever from the site the feed is for. So like maybe it would be for weather or breaking news or all the latest articles regarding a certain topic of interest to your visitors. So in my mind an RSS feed is something you add to your website/blog (maybe we'd call it a widget now?) for the benefit/interest of visitors. But it seems like from reading it's the reverse, that RSS feeds are made by viewers so they can "pull in" stuff from a website without actually going to the website. This very first concept is where my brain starts going into convulsions. Is the webmaster making & displaying RSS feeds for visitors to their site, or are visitors setting up their own RSS feeds to monitor the website? The last time I gave any thought to RSS feeds was several years ago. What I realized then was that to see an RSS feed you need a feed reader app, otherwise you just see a string of behind-the-scenes coding gibberish like this when I click your link in the other thread to your sample RSS feed.   I use Firefox as my everyday default browser and it does not have a feed-reader built-in. I recall searching for a feed-reader add-on and the choices were too numerous & complicated for a beginner who just wants to see what an RSS feed is supposed to look like these days. So keeping all this in mind, my first questions as a total beginner are: 1) Can you recommend a simple RSS feed reader add-on that will let me see feeds as intended? 2) If you add a feed "widget" to your site/blog, what does it look like to people who do not have a feed-reader add-on? I have tried Googling up examples of sites with embedded RSS feeds and get nowhere, just get results that tell me how to add a site's content to my own reader app. Sigh. 3) If ones main purpose in using RSS feeds is to promote, how does that work? The viewer would have to have a RSS reader in their browser to see your feed as intended? So that's my first round of questions. Are RSS feeds primarily something a site adds as helpful content for viewers, or are they something viewers create themselves for the site for their own convenience? ... View more

If you are designing invitations but not selling even if you get views, it may be that your designs don't "meet the brief" to create an intentional product that sells. What actions are involved to “Meet the Brief” to Create an Intentional Product that Sells Chose a researched popular use (serve a need) in one niche for one specific customer Research fully to understand what is needed to serve the needs of that customer including product type choice and design elements (graphics or non, photo or none, color trend, font trend, specific text needed etc.) Deliver on all aspects with the product, design and label / post it properly for sale Our popular LIVE intentional design review sessions are back for another round. This time Jen Clarke and I are focusing on invitations in 3 popular niches coming up in the yearly sales cycle:  Baby Shower, Bridal Shower and Graduation Join our FREE LIVE Design Intensive: Invitation Edition - 3 Days, 3 Niches, 3 Designs March 2,3, and 4, 2026. Register here for our FREE Design Intensive - 3 days, 3 niches, 3 designs,  Day 1 - Mar 2, 2026 from 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ET - Baby Shower Invitation Review Day 2 - Mar 3, 2026 from 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ET - Bridal Shower Invitation Review Day 3 - Mar 4, 2026 from 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ET - Graduation Invitation Review How it works: 1. Watch the following three videos to receive tips on how to create an intentional product for the three invitation designs. Baby Shower Invitation Tips - Released Feb 24, 2026 Bridal Shower Invitation Insights - Released Feb 26, 2026 Graduation Invitation Tips - Released Feb 28, 2026 2. Create a design for each theme 3. Join us live to submit your designs for a review - one per day. Benefits: 1. Practice to improve your design (and selling) skills  2. Learn from the reviews others receive 3. Get the insider information on 3 niches to get you started in niches you may have always wanted to tap into 4. Find out possible reasons your products have views but no sales. Be on live with us - first come first serve - reviews only done live - as many as we can in the hour. See you there Best Elke ... View more

✨ All bundles pictured are hand drawn in adobe illustrator or procreate. Commercial use and POD usage allowed (spoonflower excluded). No additional license required. https://printablepretty.com/product-category/seamless-patterns/seamless-pattern-bundles/ ... View more

I am running a paid bootcamp - The SOLD Bootcamp ($27) - Jan 26 to 30th - for Zazzle sellers who want to learn more about what it takes to set up the foundational structure and focus of their stores for success, the intentionality of their product inventory they offer to sell more, and their promotional strategy to receive more referrals.  It's best suited for Zazzle sellers who are new or relatively new to Zazzle but many intermediate sellers who have not had much success selling also find it eye opening. It is an interactive experience: 1. 1 hour per day live training  (noon to 1 p.m ET) with homework (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) 2. Each day you post your homework in the private FB group where I and my team will provide feedback - written or loom videos. You can also ask questions in the group during the week that the FB group is open. 3. Plus a bonus Masterclass on Friday - "How to improve your sales within one month with actionable steps" 4. VIP Upgrade for $97  = an additional 30 minutes x 4 days of group Zoom calls to ask about each day of training You can find out the rest of the details here and sign up.  It's our most popular introductory course / event because people walk away from it with clarity and work done to begin the transformation they desire. See you there Elke ... View more

If you are looking for a monthly "TO DO" manual and business plan to run your Zazzle store like a business using my 5 Strategy Framework™ then The Profit by Design Academy™ Experience is exactly what you need. It is open for enrollment until January 30, 2026. It is a course with a ONE month coaching and course implementation bonus happening Feb 9th to Mar 6th. When you are done this month of implementation you will have: 1. set up your store for success 2. posted 100 curated products for sale (in 5 niches) after receiving design and SEO feedback 3. created customer targeted collections containing the 100 products, effective marketing cover images for each product and added each to store categories that help you scale and market effectively 4. promoted the 100 products and collections externally In The Profit by Design Academy™ Experience we teach The 5 Strategy Framework™ which has always been the reason for my Zazzle success and also the success of hundreds of our students and coaching clients. But I am not here to prove that it works. I am here to offer the opportunity for you to join our community of Zazzle sellers who want their stores to undergo a transformation from where they are now to a bigger goal. The Profit by Design Academy™ Experience is specifically structured so that it is for complete newbies, beginners, and intermediate Zazzle sellers. It is open for enrollment until January 30, 2026. ... View more

I published a blog post on this yesterday and that includes the link to download my free .zip file.  Zazzle Print Safe Color Palettes To summarize the post: I took the "Print-Friendly" color swatches as offered in the new customer interface (184 of them currently) and labeled them all with the corresponding HEX value as assigned by Zazzle. Then I made it into four separate .png files I could upload to Zazzle and put them on a folded 5x7 card (the only product I could think of with four distinct and equally-sized print areas). And then I layered a 3-color svg behind the swatch images to provide three color areas for testing HEX values in. With all three sections of the svg being available at once to change colors on, you don't have to keep switching to Background or other layer/element to try out a HEX value.   I published my Print-Friendly color-helper card so I can open it anytime in the Design Tool for my own reference. However, that doesn't do anyone else any good, you all will only be able to access it as the new customer interface. So I packaged the parts into a Zip file you can use to make your own Hidden reference product you can access in the Design Tool. The Zip includes 7 files including my original PSD file with all the un-flattened text labels so you can edit as you wish. Link to download is in the blog post (no time limit on editing blog posts so just better way for me to share a link as I can edit/change it anytime in the future). *In case anyone is wondering, I needed to put the palettes on four different "sides" of something because even on something big like a duvet or shower curtain, you still only have the one small view in the design tool and they needed to be large enough to see without zooming. But you have the parts to make a reference product in whatever way works for you, and also the PSD file for off-line reference.  ... View more

Some months ago I created my own Discord community for reasons that are now irrelevant. The upshot is that it's now a small but active community of other Zazzle Designers. Since we are creeping up on the time of year when Zazzle traditionally makes these forums Read-Only, I thought this would be a good time to publicly introduce my Discord and invite everyone to join it. Discord never closes, it's 24/7 live chat, so it's a great & fun option for chatting, venting, asking questions ... I myself did not understand what Discord was until not too long ago when I was coaxed in to signing up to join someone's server. Turns out Discord is just what old-schoolers like me used to call "chat rooms". It's just live chat. Discord is just the name of the platform. Then there are communities, akin to the main Z forum, that in Discord lingo are called "servers". Then in those servers (communities) there can be different "channels", which would be like the different forum sections under the main Zazzle community. My server (community) has a number of different channels (forum topics). if you already have a Discord account, all you need to do is click on my invite link to join my community. If you don't yet have a Discord account, clicking the invite link will prompt you to create one. These are the different forums ("channels") on my community ("server"). With a Discord account and clicking my invite link to join my server, you can read and post to any/all of them. If you join and click the thumbtack icon in the top right of screen to view Pinned posts, you'll see more info on what each forum is geared towards. With Discord there is no time limit on being able to edit (or delete) a comment, and you can include images, gifs, and emoticons. I have nothing to gain from this Discord, I am not trying to sell you all anything, it's just a fun way to chat with fellow Designers, and it doesn't even have to be Zazzle related. I just ask that, no politics of course. *Also Note - while there is a Discord app you can install on your phone and/or computer, YOU DO NOT NEED IT. You can join & participate strictly from your browser. Which is how I use it, as just another browser tab. Here's the invite link: https://discord.gg/9hAEEHJR5c  There's also a link in my sig if you lose track of this post. 😉 ... View more