Those That Took Years To Have Income From Zazzle?

[tunescool]

ive read threads on here with people saying it took years before they started making good money here. can you share with us anything you did or noticed when sales started to come in for you

did you change anything, now with AI im redoing my tags and descriptions, hopefully this will help me some

was it just accumulating so many sales on each individual product

i know i have decent products that people will like, alot. and theres a ton that havent been viewed in over a year.  i said im redoing my tags and such, is there potential still for them. would i be better off deleting them and reposting them

im not just some schmo with 500 tshirts covered in stupidity

[CreativeLeahG]

Things have changed a great deal in the past 18 months, so what applied re how we made sales, nolonger applies with regards to changes in the marketplace and the hierarchy regarding what shows 'first'.

If you want to hit the ground 'running' and not spend years, then my advice is to introduce new niches that are not currently saturated on Zazzle. There are many tutorials online ( be sure to only access updated ones based on my above observation). Having viewed your store, I am not sure you are competitive enough (when comparing like-for-like in the marketplace), so tags and titles alone won't make a huge difference. I am sorry if this is blunt but if you want to make significant sales, you do have to consider the whole picture. 

• New Profitable Niches
• Quality Designs and themes that meet the customer's needs
• Marketing strategies to find and attract those customers to your store
• SEO titles, descriptions and tags
• Trend research to see how you can gain instant momentum by appealing to what customers are looking for right now!
• Media Covers for your products
• Collection Covers 

To name a few.

[Jadendreamer13]

I agree with everything that LeahG mentioned. I took a quick at your shop. Do some market research to determine what’s currently trending and create designs that incorporate those trends. What’s not currently trending (that you’re featuring heavily in your store) is:

- Animal prints

- Chevron patterns

- The color purple

- Products with no option for customization

I would leave those products as is and focus on creating trending products, designs, patterns, and colors going forward. If you can, I would also focus on getting training from creators who have navigated Zazzle’s changing marketplace and still became successful sellers.

[tunescool]

youre just wasting my time, looking at an older store i dont go on. i have 10,000, most with customization. very nice invitations, birthday, wedding. i dont need a niche with kitties to make a million dollars

i asked for something specific, not an expert criticism of my stores and products

i asked for others experience on zazzle, quit looking at my stores

[igiftcenter]

if you prefer we assist you on the "active store" why don't you provide the store address so we can more accurately guide you?  If you did so and I haven't seen it then accept my apologies for asking again

[Danny_t]

Hello igiftcenter. I need your honest accurate guide and recommendations for my store. I have been having views yet no sales for over a year now. Here is my store address catsapparellovers. Kindly reach out. Looking forward to your feedback. regards. 

[waterart]

Wow, you came here asking a question and then got angry because you didn't like the answer. Nice

[GraphicAllusion]

Talking about wasting time, remember the people here who tried to give you advice were taking precious time out of their day to help you out. Whether or not you choose to take it is completely up to you - but please be a lot more gracious about it in the future. Also, without feedback and a little criticism (which is never meant to be anything other than genuine help I'm sure) how can we hope to improve our efforts when we need to? Sometimes we just can't see our own missteps, and it takes a fresh pair of eyes to pick them up. Good luck with your store in the future.

[Jadendreamer13]

That’s the store that comes up when I click on your profile here. You asked why it can take years to make money on Zazzle. That’s my answer. I’m sorry that you found my response to be critical. It was meant to be helpful. I won’t read or respond to your questions in the future. Best of luck with your shop.

[Wildart]

I have been here for years, and about one year to make sales,from memory. Back then I used the bulk creating tool, and most of my tags were the same for each design. sales took off with a couple of simple designs,picked up by corporate use, I think ( that is ,an organisation), More recently  sales took off again with a simple mask design(feminine and dainty). The biggest improvements were: designing products one by one with unique tags, Sticking to a popular niche design or product, and keeping up with optimisation. WHenever something sells ,say 3 separate designs in same product, I take note and expand on them. As I think of different small businesses, it can be an inspiration of how that commodity can transfer to a product, to be used by a small business for example. (e'g' coffee,tea) Hope thats some food for thought for you. Once you have sales, it begats more sales through more views.

PS, how are you using ai for tags please?

[tunescool]

youre unfamiliar with using AI for tags or whatever? is that correct?

both chatgpt and bard i use

just simply ask them to come up with so many tags for whatever product. or write a description for you

[KeegansCreation]

Ask AI for best practices for success in print on demand designs. I'm not being snarky or sarcastic. If you want advice that isn't specific to your store and doesn't rely on people assessing your store, that seems a good use and you clearly already have an account with OpenAI. 

My own sales are moderate. I am only Bronze. This could be because I haven't taken the step that the truly big sellers have taken: making my own website and driving traffic from there to Zazzle.

Barring that giant step (which I haven't taken), Zazzle has recently given us some good marketing tools with the collection update, cover photos and now videos. I personally have had success with cover photos. Things that didn't sell for months suddenly had sales after I added cover photos. Taking advantage of the new collections configurations has helped too.

[igiftcenter]

We are all really anxious to help you further. What is your main store website so we can give you the concrete answers you are looking for without wasting your time.... or ours 🙂

[ColsCreations]

Title, Description & Tagging Best Practices

[Wildart]

AhI am familiar with Chatgpt,  thank you for the reply, and yes as Col's Creations says, I would further ask for unique tags, that will help and get around the duplications. I might try and imput the design details and see what it comes up with. (fordescribing the design not the object)

[DM]

If you want to be successful at Zazzle, don't rely on Zazzle. You have to drive your own traffic. You have to have more skill in marketing than design in order to get eyes on your products. Try searching for something in the marketplace and see how relevant the results are, and you will understand what I mean. You are competing against spammers who put dictionaries in as tags. You still need good titles, tags, and descriptions for the sake of your own site. Maybe the AI tags and descriptions will help.

My advice, which is worth exactly what you paid for it, is to take some time and focus on your own marketing and build that up.

[ArtElixir]

Hello all... I'm new.. is there a way you can check-out my store ArtElixirPrint and provide me comments, constructive criticism or suggestions so that I can earn 😊 thank you in advance.