Sales ?

[Boki]

How are your sales these days?

[Caprice]

I actually feel for people who use Z as a source of income for getting by.  The drop in sales has to be really scary. 😧

[KayCordingly]

Yeah, same. I'm at 4 PODs and sales are going down drastically on all of them. Have been since the beginning of the year. I expect sales to be bad in January, but by now they should have been back to normal.

[Barbara]

I'm on another POD, and sales are horrid there, too. In my own household, we've cut our spending way down, buying only what we need to buy. That kind of thinking, if more common than has been, doesn't bode well for a POD, given that a POD sells only non-necessities. We've all been thinking Zazzle is or isn't doing this or that, but it may well have nothing to do with it.

I've done covers for my birthday mugs, which have sold well in the past, and for invitation-style postcards. I've a load of both, and so I'm trying to get them all on Pinterest just in case that helps, but I suspect it won't. Hence, I'm giving up on covers and hoping the economy turns around. The bank failures aren't helping in the realm of optimism.

Paint me glum.

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[Westerngirl2]

Take heart. Americans sometimes take awhile, but they generally wake up when times get bad. And I have that uncomfortable feeling that comes from being old and experienced that things are fixin' to get REALLY bad. Maybe it's necessary before things get better.

Hang in there.

[Boki]

Do you see sales in "Earnings & Transactions History"? 😲

[Barbara]

Yes, all my information is there. Isn't it for you?

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[Boki]

That information is now stabilized.

[Mariholly]

It's very curious for me... I'm not in POD anymore, so I can't compare... Well my sales started very well in January, a record month in my 5 years at Zazzle. I thought wooow it doesn't look real! Since everyone seemed to report low sales and big upsets over the changes to Z with cover photos and downloads. February there were many cancellations in January and few visits and few sales, maybe 50% less... Crazy. March used to be a good month. I do stationery and a lot of couples get engaged on Christmas and Valentine's Day and start planning now and I was selling hundreds of cards. My numbers are going to stay in March at the level of February, well it is not enough, but I am not going to complain because I am reaching that place with sales of adhesive labels for small businesses, which barely leave a few cents, that is why it is so curious for me . More small sales, more effort. My silver label is about to arrive, I exceeded the total figure, it will arrive later because sales from other domains are not included, (I never understood this rule... 🤷‍♀️ they are all sales, whether in the country and currency that sean) so my prosilver is coming and i always thought this was going to improve my position in Z... now i'm so nervous with everything that's happening and when i read your comments....

[Boki]

Sales are terrible. Not only is it selling very poorly, but there are also cancellations from the order. Very sad situation. 😞

[Boki]

How is your July holiday sale going? 🙂

[chuamishael]

it's bad, no sales yet on July.... 🙄 it's either economy is bad, or POD is saturated with designs or both. I just saw 20million on tshirt design, that's very saturated.  zazzle needs to spend more on marketing and partnership on other company. 

[ArtOnWear]

Really bad.

[chuamishael]

It's bad ☹️ , actually it's bad across all online stores. it's either bad economy is affecting us all, or we got too many designs uploaded. POD might be saturated already, we need to attract more Marketing referrals to join zazzle. or zazzle needs to spend more on marketing and advertising.  

[ievajen]

I suspect there is a glitch nowdays on some products on customers side not showing changes what they're typing - other day was paper cup - on front was fine as she typed, at the back no changes, when I was editing for me was no issues, all was good; today another customer had issue about the plates - what she's typing an extra line, it's not showing, I typed- for me it's showing all fine. Maybe browser, maybe something else, maybe because of the changes that being done on the system

[almdrs]

My sales are ok. Above the average for this time of the year. Much better than the other POD.

[Barbara]

My sales are, overall, average for this time of year. Maybe a touch better than last year, but still average. I've a severe dislike of summertime, and don't much like summer on Zazzle either. The other POD I'm on is hardly worth looking at right now.

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[Boki]

The sales are more than bad,... 😞 There are so many discounts on Zazzle these days, and the sales are desperate, instead of progressing rapidly, they are stagnating,...

[Caprice]

I figure at this rate, I might be Bronze by 2025+ 😝

[ustars]

I have not achieved any sales yet. Please Help

My Store:

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[Barbara]

@ustars, your link doesn't go to any store at all. Go to your store and copy the URL that's in your browser.

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[Boki]

Is it possible that sales are so bad that nobody buys anything for days? How is it with you? 😞

[OpusPosh]

December 2023  was not 30-40% higher than the other months of 2023; it was actualy LOWER which is quite unusual.

January 2024 was the worst month in about 4 years or more.