I think it depends on what you mean by "third-party sources" and "Zazzle's own marketplace"? If you're taking that from the royalty report where it shows referrer as Self, None, or Third-Party, it's hard to come away with anything useful from that as that's just showing whether the buyer picked up anyone's cookie. "Third-Party" just means they picked up a cookie somewhere that credits the sale to someone and that could be another designer/affiliate or Zazzle themselves; it doesn't mean your product(s) is being specifically promoted by anyone anywhere. It does mean though that people can pick up a cookie through whatever means, come to Zazzle, browse and actively search the marketplace by keyword, land on your product, make a purchase and - that's a Third-Party sale, doesn't matter if they came in from an email/post/ad by Zazzle themselves, or say a Pin from another designer linking to something of their own. So I don't know what angle you mean as to 'Zazzle's own marketplace generating sales' but for fun I looked at my report and after subtracting self-referred sales, 56% of my lifetime sales have been Third-Party, 44% have been None. Of my ten most recent sales, 4 were None and 6 were Third-Party. I personally prefer when they come in as None as you earn a little more that way and as I said, I don't think "Third-Party" tells me anything meaningful.
I think it depends on what you mean by "third-party sources" and "Zazzle's own marketplace"? If you're taking that from the royalty report where it shows referrer as Self, None, or Third-Party, it's hard to come away with anything useful from that as that's just showing whether the buyer picked up anyone's cookie. "Third-Party" just means they picked up a cookie somewhere that credits the sale to someone and that could be another designer/affiliate or Zazzle themselves; it doesn't mean your product(s) is being specifically promoted by anyone anywhere. It does mean though that people can pick up a cookie through whatever means, come to Zazzle, browse and actively search the marketplace by keyword, land on your product, make a purchase and - that's a Third-Party sale, doesn't matter if they came in from an email/post/ad by Zazzle themselves, or say a Pin from another designer linking to something of their own. So I don't know what angle you mean as to 'Zazzle's own marketplace generating sales' but for fun I looked at my report and after subtracting self-referred sales, 56% of my lifetime sales have been Third-Party, 44% have been None. Of my ten most recent sales, 4 were None and 6 were Third-Party. I personally prefer when they come in as None as you earn a little more that way and as I said, I don't think "Third-Party" tells me anything meaningful.
