A new, FREE, creative community for challenging ourselves and collaborating. :)

[Amanda23]

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! 🙂 

[Windy]

I might try it! Please let us know, is this something where we could join a particular challenge when we happen to have time? Or would we be expected to join each challenge as it comes up? Also, when you speak of perfecting the creator landing page, I assume that must be something which will be done on Fourth Wall? 

[Amanda23]

Hello, WIndy! 
I don't know what happened, so if this shows up twice, please let me know! I wrote a response to this a few minutes ago, but I'm not seeing it here. 

Yes, you can ABSOLUTELY JOIN whenever you'd like. Some challenges may be more your style or more relevant to you than others. Sometimes, you might be too busy. Other times, you may just not be "feeling it." 😄 This is meant to be low-stress and fun, but hopefully also yield some good products for your business!

I just made these first couple of posts public, so feel free to swing by and see what it's all about. To comment, I think you'll still need to share your email address. That was my big concern, so for now, I think I'm going to just make them public. This is probably best anyway since I think it's a pretty new thing for the Zazzle community. If you visit the challenge page, you will be able to read the challenge description. 

I am unable to post the link here, but if you watch the video above, you will find that which you seek. 😉



I'd prefer to answer challenge-specific questions there to keep everything in one spot, but for the landing page, you do not need to make one in FW. I actually made mine in Canva. I know some people like to use LinkTree, but I like being able to design it in a fun and interesting way. I will make a video on how to do it if people are interested. 😄 

This is the landing page I made in Canva: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGZfnRZ0gs/jDYn6D_QhyV7oO4R-12N4w/view?utm_content=DAGZfnRZ0gs&utm_cam...
If you're unsure about clicking (it's just a Canva link), here is a jpg preview. You can't click on it, but it will show you a different style of landing/links page than you'll find on Linktree. 


I hope you'll swing by and take a peek. 
Amanda

[Badeesie]

I'm not seeing a link to the community in your post. Am I missing it? Do I need to go to youtube to find it?

[Amanda23]

Unfortunately, yes. I am unable to link to the challenge here. My messages keep going away. 
Good news, though. Once you go to YouTube and look at my first comment, you will see the link you need. I have also made the posts with the challenge information PUBLIC so you can see if it's something that looks fun before you need to give an email. 

[Amanda23]

Also, if you’d prefer to find info via Benable, I have added two cards with links to this list. 🙂

https://benable.com/ctrlzdigitaldesigns/trustworthy-resources-for-pod-sellers 

[Windy]

https://ctrlz-amandarenee-shop.fourthwall.com/supporters/posts/152300

[Amanda23]

Thank you for sharing. It kept deleting my posts when I included a link to the site. 

[Windy]

Well, I have status as Honored Contributor ll, so.....

But seriously, I wonder if you somehow were copying your link with an errant space in the middle of it. Or something. This might cause a link not to stick?

[Amanda23]

That could be a possibility. 🙂 Thank you again! I hope many will come check it out. I think it will be a wonderful community for collaboration.