Hi, I'm in a similar situation as you, we follow each other on insta. Been working almost a year now full time on Zazzle, hopefully sales will be better for us in the coming months. 🤞
Your designs look great btw, you got cover photos, nice titles and tags, promote things on social media.
One thing I noticed that could really help you is to offer simple personalization of text.
For example you have a "personalize" button here but customers can only replace the photos and they have to go into the editor to change the text.
It can be made easier for them to create templates for the names and other details.
Here's an example from my store of what I mean:
Here you see that the customer is able to edit text after clicking the blue Personalize button. When you click "edit this design", on one of your designs, and select text that you want the customers to change. Goto the settings on the right and select Make this a template object.
Here's another of your products that could benefit from template text fields.
Now customers must enter the more complex design editor environment to change the text. When you convert the name field, Olivia's baby shower, into a text template object customers can quickly update it by clicking "Personalize".
More info on this feature is in the official help documentation: https://help.zazzle.com/hc/en-us/articles/219145288-Creating-a-Product-Template
Good luck! And hopefully sales will be better so we both can continue our Zazzle adventure. It's a great platform to be creative and share it with the world.
I was wowed by your work, I think you have some gorgeous imagery and are quite talented at designing and typography. While it's true what others have said, that the invitation market is heavily saturated so hard to get a foot hold in now, I think many of your designs stand out enough that you will do well, especially since you seem to have a really good handle on tagging and have made beautiful covers. BUT, as @Pixelan explained, none of your products are using templates, whether it's a simple "your name" on a phone case or a complicated wedding invite with lot of text they'd need to customize. That's going to kill potential sales for you, it's way too much for a customer to enter the design tool to change so many different fields. It'll be a lot of work but I think re-publishing everything with templates fields will pay off for you.
Can you please tell me how much time it took you to reach bronze level.i have gone through your store and you have very beautiful colorful unique designs which definately makes your store different from others
Thank you! It took a very very long time but there are some good reasons for that so it shouldn't be seen as discouraging to anyone else doing their own thing or just starting out. When I first joined Zazzle it was to fulfill a specific need (matching biz cards for a group each member could customize and purchase on their own); I found Zazzle Googling, didn't even know what POD was let alone had any goal of being a POD designer LOL. With that done I walked away for over a year, Z wasn't even a blip on my radar. Over the years there were other lengthy time periods of total inactivity (because life happens) followed by brief spurts of adding products and trying to organize my store etc. The last few years, I'm much more involved (having my own internet connection again helped a lot there) but it's still just a hobby I'm not fully invested in as I still work a full-time job. Zazzle is my way to wind-down and if both the mood and timing is right, maybe I'll create something. I do very little promoting, sometimes I make my own Pins, but again that's something that the mood has to strike for to do. So I rely mostly on organic sales and others (bless them!) who might Pin or otherwise promote my stuff.
I'm not one of those super-successful designer's who's like "is the earnings report broken 'cause I didn't have any sales register yet this morning?" but I get sales regularly enough to make me happy for the time I put into it and number of products I have (roughly 500 at last check), and each and every sale is still a thrill. I make stuff that I like, that I would want to decorate my own place with (so not many photo or even text template designs) and I don't worry about what's popular or trendy. So I'm unintentionally kind-of but not-exactly a niche store and that works for me. I don't do the kind of stuff that's going to be on the front pages anytime soon but people who do want my obnoxiously loud type designs seem to be able to find them searching the MP. And that's where "niching down" comes in - if you're 1 of 100 results instead 1 of 1,000, much better odds of being seen. 😁
Yes, Congrats!! You're not just in the Trending section that takes a click on the menu to see, you are one of the four Featured Designers right on the Home page itself. And from the couple products I clicked on it looks like you did invest the time in re-making your products with template text. 👍 You're going to go far. 🙂
