Sales down ?

[Peter222]

My sales have not been on par with what is the norm. They were down over Xmas for sure. Is anyone else seeing this ?

TY much Peter 222

[rebeccaheartsny]

Same. I've gone from a solid part-time income to incidental bonus money, if I'm lucky. I can no longer count on earning a steady X amount per month the way I previously could.

This holiday season was especially disappointing. I always looked forward to big payouts in December, January, and February. Those days are gone.

[chuamishael]

definitely economy, I been saying this since 2023. but let's hope things will get better this year, let the economy adjust. let's hope war stops.

[epicdesigns]

January sales have gone down a lot for me compared to last January. My November and December were better than last year's, so this has been a sudden drop. Not for lack of adding and promoting either.

[Marcia]

Unfortunately, same thing for me. Nov & Dec I was slightly behind last year but January has been horrendous! And I've been creating, promoting, optimizing, & all. I just don't get it. Although I am noticing shifts in the algorithm which aren't in my favor.

[Martin]

Hi Marcia

Same pattern here. Although I was very lazy for the last half of 2024 and ignored Zazzle, so I guessed it was a result of that. I have pruned back my distractions for this year, hence more attention to Zazzle. I am intrigued to see if I can get it pumping.😁

[Scott]

You're welcome to use this discussion to discuss sales on Zazzle, but we'd prefer to avoid hosting conversation about competing services.

[JocelynMB]

Every time I see a notification, it's 9 times out of 10 always a depressing "you have 1, 3, 10, products that may need optimising" ugh

[MissPaperFarm]

Zazzle still always turns out to be the best POD 🥹

[Perelandrian]

Perhaps a Discord server could be made for folks here to talk freely.

[ColsCreations]

Perhaps a Discord server could be made for folks here to talk freely.

See invite link in my sig. But I recognize your artwork, even have Liked some of it, so I feel like you are already a member by another name?

@Perelandrian 

[KayCordingly]

Did something happen on the 20th? I ask because that's the day sales died for me. Here. Everywhere else, sales are fine.

[Zainab_Baloch]

Same here. I was convincing myself that it’s normal until I saw my Google Analytics-all the stats are showing a downward trend since 20th. 

[Sara_H]

@KayCordingly  the 20th was when the President was sworn in (Inauguration day) so you could say something happened that day

[Boki]

Are your sales moving and how many sales do you have per day? 

[MissPaperFarm]

I usually have 0 sales a day and make a few sales throughout each month like 2 to 3. But, my last sale was 2 greeting cards at 25% off and I only made .22 cents 😱 That royalty rate is brutal. I remember in 2016 when I first started, I could mark my cards up to 50% royalty rate and make at least 2$ a card. Now I have to keep the base royalty rate because if I mark it up, I really don't think anyone is going to buy a regular greeting card for over $8.  

[chuamishael]

you can mark up your card to 50%? holy crap, but in any case I only do 10%, but sales feels so slow. and earnings feels so low... you probably can do that in 2016 maybe because competition is still low, and right now those crazy influencer scamming and encouraging people to do print on demand, even tho it's not easy to do business here. these youtuber have attracted significant high amount of people doing print on demand and may have attracted the wrong people too.

[MissPaperFarm]

Yes! but, that was back in 2016 when I would mark it up 50%, the base price would be around $2 and then I could sell them for $4. Now, that is not possible. The internet is definitely over flooded with products and it's hard to get the quality products to be seen. Most search engine results bring up untrustworthy items. I'm always trying to think of ways to get around all that, but haven't figured out anything quite yet ☹️

[Wildart]

sales moving now av 1 or 2 a day, but then skip one or two, this is actually MORE than average, but given that Jan and Dec were dsimal its hard to compare...

[mblue]

My sales have been constantly going down compared to the years before.   I made over 2,600 images for my products. It takes a lot of time and money to make these.  I made a few videos. So I couldn't make a lot of new things, as I did before.  I thought since I didn't make enough new things, I should try, so I made a lot of new things and sales remain the same. I've been posting on a few social media pages most days for several months now. I even ran, and still am running, some ads, but my sales remain much lower than before.  I do have some products that get shown on the first few pages on Zazzle too. But still, my sales have decreased by giant percentages compared to the years before.  I looked at the search amount from Google and it's still high for my category.  I'm lost now.  I'm not sure what to do to improve the sales. 

[mrdoodle]

$1 an egg in some places. That's why sales are down. If I had to make a choice between food and stickers... no brainer. My Zazzle sales are down by 50%. Funnily, all other PODs are holding steady.
January and February are slow months in the POD world.
On the bright side, some PODs are going bust. Be glad Zazzle is still alive.

[orientcourt]

"Eggs what are they mrdoodle?  Here in Aussie land we are experiencing the same, mainly due to a virus outbreak! Unfortunately we probably don't have many to export to the USA. Would not be worth it either due to hefty tariffs 🙄