Have you ever wondered how to make 5000 a month on Zazzle. We worked it out and now teach others how to reach this goal using our 5 Strategies: Establish, Create, Announce, Align, Analyze™. We have used our 5 Strategies to make over 15 million in sales. Zazzle isn’t just an online shopping platform. Zazzle is a way for creative designers to make money online, whether you are a photographer, artist, graphic design, surface pattern artist or creative with great ideas. The problem is that people don’t think it’s possible to consistently make a significant amount of money on Zazzle every month. In this episode we give you insights on how to make 5000 a month on Zazzle.
But before we dive right in, let us introduce ourselves in case you are new to The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Blog. Welcome! We’re Jen & Elke Clarke. We are a mother and daughter team that started Zazzle e-commerce businesses over 10 years ago and together we have sold over 15 million dollars-worth and counting of products on Zazzle.
The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur blog is for you, the creative. We share actionable steps that you can take to make money in your e-commerce business. In each post, we will take you one step closer to achieving freedom with your time, location, and finances.
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Check out the points below in this article to learn more about the 5 steps to making $5K per month on Zazzle.
“To make money on Zazzle your creative designs must be aligned with what the customer wants and will pay for.”
We come into the Zazzle business as creatives and oftentimes assume that just putting our creative work out into the online platform is enough to get sales. However, ultimately, we have to be business owners and increase our skill sets to run a business, to make decisions, and determine what to focus on when it comes to producing a great product suite that will make us passive income. We also have to take into consideration how to monitor and measure our successes as well as our failures. We both realized along our Zazzle journey that it takes certain skills to post and present products to the Zazzle marketplace and customers. Even if you were to have amazing photography of landscapes, unless we knew exactly how to post those images on the products to effectively showcase the work, we may have lost out on sales. To avoid doing all this work and getting nothing in return, you must focus on how the product appears to the customer and how they can find it on the Zazzle marketplace.
You also have to take into consideration marketing, whether you market organically or on social media platforms. The key here is to know those skills need to be developed on your end. We had to go through this as well and constantly work on leveling up our skills. Sometimes, we didn’t change our designs, but we just got better at posting on Zazzle in a way that the customer was also able to locate the product easily. This is why we’ve introduced The zSupercharger™ because this coaching program will help you with that skill set and others needed for success on Zazzle. Whereas our coaching program The Creative CEO Mastermind™ helps with the business aspects of scaling your Zazzle business to 6-figures. You need to develop both the skill sets and the business mindset to implement The 5 Strategies which are taught in The Profit by Design Academy™.
When you create your product inventory it is important to keep in mind, reaching your goal is purely simple math. If you work backwards, $5K a month divided by 30 days means you need to bring in $167 per day to achieve your goal. That is not your sales, this is your royalty income. In our case, we set our products at about 10% royalty to make us competitive in the Zazzle marketplace. Ten percent royalty is a sweet spot that we’ve found works well for us. You may be wondering how you can manage to make $167 a day, and you may find it an intimidating number. What we want to remind you of is that as long as you have a nice mix of products in your product inventory, this is entirely possible.
For example, having a product that your customers can buy in bulk has an advantage, especially in the occasion niche. With occasions, people tend to buy in bulk. For weddings, birthdays, graduations, customers will usually buy 25 to 150 invitations depending on the guests for each event. With the royalties from several orders along with the referral payout could very easily result in your daily goal of $167. Another way to reach $167 a day is to sell lower priced items in bulk. You’d have to have more orders but you would make about $1-2 per product sale. Or, you can sell high priced items like duvet covers, cell phone cases, or canvases. Those items pay out about $10-20 in royalties per sale. If you had a combination of low, medium and high-priced products that sold for you every day, you would begin to build up your product inventory of consistent sellers to reach your daily goal of $167.
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Once you post a product on the Zazzle marketplace, you have to tell people about it for them to even know that you’re offering it for sale. This is where we see our students and community feel a bit uncomfortable because they don’t like selling and make sales pitches. What you need to realize is that you don’t have to be pitching, instead, focus on how you can announce and promote your products organically in a way a customer can find your product. There are two ways to do this – SEO and social media.
If you want to passively promote products, a huge aspect many overlook is titles and tags. If you don’t add the correct titles and tags to your product it probably won’t be found or placed in the right area on the Zazzle marketplace. Your titles and tags affect your external SEO as well. If someone searches on Google for that item, the way you set up titles and tags will dictate if your product will show up in that Google search. When done right, the titles and tags you add to your product when posting for sale will be extremely effective in getting customers to find and buy your product.
Our next favorite way to announce is through social media. We suggest Pinterest, it’s more of a search engine rather than a social platform. Therefore it’s a passive way for you to promote on a platform where people are already looking for products to buy. We love any passive way to promote that is effective. That’s why we love using Pinterest to promote our Zazzle products. You can create and pin a Pin that’ll last and be searchable on Pinterest for years. Pinterest is also a great option because you’re not pitching and telling people to buy from you. Instead you are providing ideas and are sharing what you offer for others to save to their Pinterest boards.
You have to align your mindset as a designer and as a business owner. Expect money from what you do, but also show up to do the actions required to create that income. Secondly, You must align your business with your lifestyle and the freedoms you want to have. Alignment is sometimes the hardest out of all our 5 Strategies because it has to make sense and feel good for you to run this business. You have to take into consideration what you want to get out of Zazzle. It’s not just about making money.
Money is a tool you use to live your dream life.
What is your “why”? What do you want out of this business? It’s a matter of removing the monetary aspect of earning income on Zazzle for a moment. Why do you want to create products that serve customers while building your online business? When your why comes from your heart and soul, it’s so much more meaningful and aligned with everything you do moving forward in your Zazzle business. Once you treat your Zazzle store like a business rather than a hobby, and you have your actions, mindset, why and goals aligned, all the decisions you make and all the effort you put in to grow your business will feel so much more rewarding.
Initially, we both worked very hard on our businesses but weren’t working smart. Now, we focus on teaching our students to avoid our mistakes. They are still working hard but smarter. This way the work pays off. Also, we teach our students to work 20 hours a month. The fact that you can do it within 20 hours seems impossible and yet we’ve had a couple of students who’ve gone to the extent of monitoring their hours and sticking to the 20 hours while getting results. One of those students is Brandon, who we featured in a previous podcast episode that you can listen to here. Ironically, he wanted to prove us wrong but he proved us right and profited. He has made over $100,000 in Zazzle earnings. He’s sold over a million dollars worth of Zazzle products. He did this with a full-time job.
Analyze will bring us full circle with all The 5 Strategies. When you analyze your Zazzle sales and views, you will find out what’s working and not working. This allows you to do a deep dive into store analytics, product views, and sales. You can use this data to take strategic action steps to fix it. Analyzing may seem scary because it makes you vulnerable and accountable. It’s easier to sit back and assume everything is working but when you sit down to analyze things, you open yourself up to action steps and move forward. Remember, it’s okay to make mistakes!
Then the next part is to change your actions going forward based on your results. We have both been there and made our fair share of mistakes. If you keep doing the same actions over and over again, you will never get different results. Take a look at your actions and the results that came from these at least once a month. That way you will be more in control of the future outcome of your Zazzle business.
As you move forward in your Zazzle journey to success, know that it’s a learning and growing experience. You can always get help from us. We have free training, courses, and coaching programs for you. We suggest you start with The Profit by Design Academy™, which gives you the core foundation you need to build your Zazzle store based on our 5 Strategies: Establish, Create, Announce, Align, Analyze™. These 5 Strategies are the same strategies we used to earn 1.5 million dollars combined on Zazzle.
Thank you so much for reading! We hope this blog post has given you actionable steps to start and scale your Zazzle business so that your passive online income can give you the location and time freedom to live your dream life.
NOTE:
We and our students in our courses and coaching packages have had the best success when we have implemented ALL of The 5 Strategies properly. We can’t make any income claim statements, and it is all up to YOU to do the work and get the results, however, some of our students and coaching clients have reached $5,000 a month with our help.
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