If you are reading this article, then odds are you already have your own Zazzle store and are looking for ways to maximize your earnings. However, if you're unfamiliar with Zazzle, it is a company that prints on demand t shirts. They also allow anyone to open their own store for free and create and sell designs. Zazzle takes care of the printing and shipping process and pays their store owners a royalty percentage for each product sold. Although few Zazzlers have been able to earn an entire living with the site, it is possible to greatly increase sales and make a substantial income when keeping a few factors in mind. Now let's get down to business.
Content is King
Having awesome, quality and unique content is the most important aspect of making serious money on Zazzle. If your designs aren't eye appealing and interesting, not many people are going to want to buy them.
This is why it is important to focus on quality rather than quantity. Take your time and work hard on your designs before placing them up for sale on your store. Also make sure that your store front is eye appealing as well. It's usually a good idea to keep your store layout simple and organized. Over complicating the design can be a major deterrent and can turn off potential buyers.
Proper Tagging
Right before you publish a new design, there is a tag box which allows you to place appropriate tags relating to your product. This is an extremely important part of the process since not adding tags or putting inappropriate tags can cause you to lose traffic which inevitably hurts sales.
Always be sure to put as many tags as possible that relate to your product. This will help people find your designs both on Zazzle and the rest of the web.
Promote Like Crazy
If you truly want to be a success story on Zazzle, you will need to promote like it's going out of style. There are a multitude of ways to do this but let's discuss a few sure fire ways to improve your store's traffic.
- Social Bookmarking - Sites like Stumbleupon, Digg, Reddit and Delicious are some of the most popular and high ranking places to start.
- Submit Your Store to Toplists - toptee.top-site-list.com/ is great place to get started and has several toplists that you can place your store on. This is almost guaranteed to boost your traffic.
- Squidoo - This is a popular and high ranking site with Google that allows user to create a "lens" to feature their Zazzle products on.
- Comment on Other Zazzle Stores - This is an extremely easy way to get your name out there and give encouraging words to other Zazzlers at the same time.
- Wear Your Own Shirts - This is kind of old school but every time someone asks you where you got your awesome shirt, you can simply tell them that you created it and give them your store's URL.
Be Persistent
The old saying that "Rome wasn't built in a day" rings true for being a success on Zazzle as well. Don't expect to get rich overnight, but if you consistently work at it you can expect to have reasonable success after a few months. Try to continually add new products and follow these steps for the best results.
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