Using Friendsgiving, Christmas, Thankgiving, posh and birthday all in your tags is confusing the system and not showing any relating tags. Notice the suggested mugs under your own are only yours? That is a red flag for you to change your tags to the appropriate ones.
I don't want to detract from the OP thread, but I am really intrigued by this. Can you elaborate further?
I always considered being in a league of one's own as a good thing but I do understand this point, it does makes sense. It's a conundrum though ... Do you want to be "niched down" enough with unique tags that probably aren't popular/good so mostly your own stuff shows under your product, or do you want to find more common ground with tags so hopefully your products show up on competitor's scrolls? I feel like the more common tags you use, the more competition there will be in search results. But then, the more unique your tags, the less likely it is you'll get the additional exposure of being on competitors' scrolls. Lots to think about. Thank you for elaborating.
Same.
What else can I do?
Be patient. 😉
Your Happys Pews store has only 20 products so far, the oldest of which is barely 5 days old. And those 20 are made up of one design on two products - mug and tote bag - you've published separately in different sizes. That's unnecessary as the shopper can choose those alternative option themselves on the product page. The only time you should do that is when choosing a different size would negatively impact the design, then you might want to publish it as it own size with the design altered to fit better. I also noticed that the ability for shoppers to edit the designs is turned off and that's a personal choice but it prevents shoppers from being able to tweak things themselves.
Your design has text in the center of it that's part of the image so you've published those as different text versions. For something like that, you can make the wreath background transparent and then use template text over it, so that the shopper can change that word to anything they want.
I'd consider using template text, and then instead of using your time to publish the same (except the text) design on the same product in its different sizes, you can expand to more product types and creating more designs, the fun part. 🙂
With your Nadaras Motorsports store, the same thing about publishing on different sizes/styles/colors of same product applies. But the main thing here is copyright / trademark / IP issues. You've used the names of racers in the titles and tags, and a helmet brand name & logo is clearly evident in some of the designs. That kind of thing will get your products pulled. You can target motorcross fans as a niche, but you have to avoid using brands, logos and names like that.
Back to being patient: The POD market is extremely saturated, Zazzle and others. MILLIONS of products on Zazzle alone. The surge in AI has made it even more so. Anyone trying to get their foot in the door these days is facing immense competition and will be lucky to even be found in searches. POD design is a slow grow, you're not going to magically get sales overnight. You have to ask yourself, what sets my work apart from the literally millions of other choices people have?
as @ColsCreations stated - you have to be very careful as your products will get pulled if you use IP that has been trademarked.
In the case of your LH44 line - that is owned by Lewis Hamilton - 44 IP Limited (easily found by using USPTO trademark search) and has been trademark for class 025 which is t-shirts.
I would remove them before they get removed for you
When you do your research - always check USPTO
I did my research on this before even setting it up. The main thing that inspired me is that F1 and Motocross are an underserved community on Zazzle and in the merch world. The cars that sponsor the teams typically produce "official" merch and don't represent and capture what fans like me want.
Right. That's exactly why people can't cash-in un-officially. I might not like the cover art some band is using but I can't just go and create my own using their name to sell it. That suggests some relation to, endorsement by, or affiliation with, the named entity. You're not using the driver names in the actual designs, "just" in the tags & titles, but it's those tags & titles that draw eyes to your product and thus create an association.
I noticed that most designers who sell F1 and motocross merchandise use the driver names because that's what fans use.
Sure. But just because there are other examples for sale doesn't mean it's kosher
I haven't had anything pulled or returned for review yet so far because these helmets are also not current ones.
OK. First - if an item is pulled for IP reasons, it doesn't go to "review", it just gets gone. Zazzle doesn't mess around with possible infringements, the item is deleted and you get an automated email leaving it up to you to guess why. From reading these forums, it seems that nine out of ten times it's because of tags and not the actual image used.
Second, things don't usually come to the attention of Content Review until either 1) someone uses the 'report this design' button on the product page or 2) an order is placed and thereby reviewed by a human at Zazzle. Third, doesn't matter if the helmet design represented in your graphic is current or not; your image contains the Arai logo which you don't have the right to use.
I'm not an expert on this subject so you do you but since you asked for advice, I'm just trying to advise that you may want to take a closer look at these things so you're not wasting your time publishing things that could get pulled because they're in violation.
