Are you a Zazzle designer struggling to sell the amount you want on and wonder whether people are actually selling on Zazzle? Then keep reading because the answer is; “YES, people sell on Zazzle every single day.” We, Jen and Elke Clarke, started our Zazzle business over 10 years ago and have sold more than $15 million dollars-worth of Zazzle products combined. We’re not the only ones though, collectively our students have also made over $6 million dollars-worth of Zazzle products.
In this article we’ll share the success stories of some of our students as we look at 7 ways that our signature course The Profit by Design Academy ™ has helped these students do more selling on Zazzle. Keep reading to find out more!
“Paying close attention to your sales data is also the key to finding the design that’s just started bubbling away and has the power to become a runaway bestseller, as long as you can identify it and maximize its potential.“
But before we dive right in, let us introduce ourselves in case this is your first visit. Welcome to The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur blog. We’re Jen and Elke Clarke. We are a mother and daughter team that started Zazzle e-commerce businesses over 10 years ago and have sold over 15 million dollars-worth and counting of products on Zazzle.
The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur blog is for you if you want to have a long term, passive, online business. We share actionable steps that you can take to make money through your Zazzle store. In each article, we will take you one step closer to achieving freedom with your time, location, and finances.
We believe that you can live your dream life if you have a passive, long term, profitable e-commerce online business. We will show you what to do to work smarter, not harder, the right tools to use and what proven roadmap to follow to make your dream life happen. Let’s get started!
When we first started our Zazzle businesses there was no one to teach us what to do. We had to learn everything through trial and error, and there was a lot of failure but we didn’t give up. Over time when we got better sales results, we analyzed what we did to achieve that sales success. That is how we came up with The 5 Strategies: Establish, Create, Announce, Align, Analyze™.
The more we used our 5 Strategies™ in our Zazzle businesses the more we sold and now we have sold over $15 million dollars-worth of Zazzle products. This number seems wildly surreal but it has happened for us and now it is happening for our students over time.
Creating an online e-commerce business using Zazzle is a long term passive income business model. It starts out slowly and then grows exponentially as you start to make more sales.
Our top students worked to set the foundation over the past 3 years earning more money every year. Keep in mind Brandon, who is now on track to sell $1 million dollars-worth of Zazzle products in 2021, only sold $100K in his first year after enrolling in our signature course The Profit by Design Academy ™ even though that is still a good result. Since then he has continued to use the course and also our coaching to improve and grow his Zazzle business every year. It’s a journey. Click here to read about Brandon’s journey.
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Rinat was struggling to know what she should do first, second, third to start selling on Zazzle. The Profit by Design Academy™ took the guesswork out of Rinat’s daily struggle that was causing her stress and frustration.
Now that she is a student of The Profit by Design Academy™, Rinat has a proven plan that she can follow with confidence and clarity. She knows what to do next because the course is in a step by step format with videos that show you how to start and scale your Zazzle business. It’s like a college business course for Zazzle but easier to follow and implement. Plus Rinat has the support of Team Clarke to answer her questions about the course material. Rinat now has a plan. Do you want a plan that works?
When you implement Strategy #1: “Establish” of our 5 Strategies™ you are laying the foundation of your business. You are improving your Zazzle skills, your business management skills, and defining what your business will be. In The Profit by Design Academy™ you will be shown how to define your vision for your business, your brand, your niche and your avatar. These are some of the pieces needed to lay the foundation of your thriving Zazzle business that will be with you for a long time.
“Establish” isn’t just for new designers, long-standing Zazzle store owners benefit from this training too.
Kimberly has been a Zazzle designer for a few years now and never made more than a few hundred dollars a year. She joined The Profit by Design Academy ™ in June 2020 and was part of the Bootcamp that walks you through the course and keeps you accountable. Kimberly used the course and the bonus feedback from us as coaches in the Bootcamp to overhaul her main Zazzle store. She rebranded her store and after getting help with defining her avatar, she started making targeted designs for her avatar. Kimberly has seen an increase in her sales, and in January 2021 she hit her stretch goal! #Snapsnap. Congrats!
When you implement Strategy #2: “Create” of our 5 Strategies™ you will make and post products for sale in your Zazzle store that are targeted and have the best chance of selling.
Many designers fail in their Zazzle businesses because they follow a “throw spaghetti at the wall and see if it sticks” strategy. That works for pasta, but it doesn’t work for Zazzle. We show our students how to create products with intention.
As part of The Profit by Design Academy™ training you will receive access to The Top 25 Best Selling Items to Sell on Zazzle List. This list is one of Nelda’s favorite things about the course. She has been using this list every single day for the last three years to grow her Zazzle business. Back then she was earning about 25 cents a day, and now she is averaging $200 a day. That’s $1,400 a week or $5,600 a month that Zazzle pays Nelda all because she is implementing The Profit by Design Academy™ training.
Click on the image below to hear Nelda’s Zazzle success story.
Rebecca is another one of our students who put that product list to good use. Click on the image below to hear Rebecca’s story, and how she is making money in her store selling products she would never have dreamed of making if she hadn’t learned about them in The Profit by Design Academy ™.
There are lots of ways to make money online, and lots of people telling you how much they have made, but many of them don’t tell you how much they spent on advertising and promoting. We have sold 15 million dollars worth of Zazzle products without spending a single penny on ads. In the training for Strategy #3 “Announce” we show our students how to promote their products without buying ads, and without being salesy.
One of the things we teach our students is how to promote products on Zazzle by maximising collections. This is a great way to get customers to buy more than one product from your store. Dawn is just one of our many students who has had success with our promotion strategy. She sold three items from her Valentine’s Day collection to one customer #happydance
Strategy #4: Align is all about setting your goals and aligning your actions and mindset to achieve them. You would never set off on a journey without a destination in mind, and we strongly believe that you shouldn’t try to run your Zazzle business without a goal in mind. If you want to succeed on Zazzle you need to set your goals and work towards achieving them.
We encourage our students to set dream goals, using The ERSD Goal Setting Technique™ that I, Elke, created to help them reach those goals.
Boryana loves The ERSD Goal Setting Technique™ because it helped her to 4X her earnings from 2019 in 2020! #snapsnap
Strategy # 5 is “Analyze”. This can be the scariest to some designers because it involves diving deep into your data. It’s the most important strategy though, because it will help you to understand what is working, what is not working.
Remember what we said about throwing spaghetti at the wall and how that is not the way to run a successful Zazzle business? Even if you take the time to understand your avatar, create intentional products and promote them in an effective way if you don’t check your stats on a regular basis you are flying blind.
We have personally created products that we thought were perfect. We followed all the steps but they just wouldn’t sell. By analyzing the data we were able to find these designs, take a closer look at them and realise that we had made a spelling mistake on the design, or our template bounding boxes weren’t set up properly. By identifying these issues we could remake the products and then start to see sales.
One of our students, Amasilys, thought she had done everything right when creating her designs, but thanks to The Profit by Design Academy ™ training she was able to spot the ones where she hadn’t set up the templates for the personalization options correctly.
Paying close attention to your sales data is also the key to finding the design that’s just started bubbling away and has the power to become a runaway bestseller, as long as you can identify it and maximize its potential.
One of our students, Clare, followed Elke’s Money Multiplier Strategy™ to transfer a design that had sold on a pillow to other products, and the other products started to sell as well. #snapsnap
You can work through The Profit by Design Academy™ on your own, or you can join our Bootcamp where you will take the course at the same time as other academy students and we will guide you through each of the 10 modules, one week per module. We will do critiques of things you implement, guide you, keep you motivated to get the course completed.
We have a wonderful Facebook group where everyone supports each other as you go through the training together and hold live sessions where we answer your questions and critique the work that you have done in your Zazzle store following that week’s training.
Kris is one of our The Profit by Design Academy ™ Bootcamp students and she loves the live sessions and the critiques.
She says that another benefit of being a Bootcamp member is that it gave her the structure and discipline to go through the course module by module so that she got the most out of the learning. She knows that she has everything she needs to run a successful Zazzle store.
Click on the image below to listen to Kris’ story.
Cindy is another one of our The Profit by Design Academy ™ Bootcamp members and after applying what she learned she has quadrupled her Zazzle sales.
When the 10 week Bootcamp period is over many of our students choose to sign up for another round when we hold the next bootcamp (usually 2 a year). In the meantime, the best place to get continuous support, guidance and more training for you as you grow your Zazzle business is in The Profitable Membership™ which you can join any time once you enroll in The Profit by Design Academy™
All of The Profit by Design Academy ™ students have lifetime access to the self-study video training course. Our most successful students go through the course routinely because they keep finding more and more helpful training that they were not ready for yet until they reached the next level of the growth of their Zazzle businesses.
Were you inspired by reading and listening to the stories of our students who took The Profit by Design Academy™ because they wanted to improve selling on Zazzle?
We are so proud of them and their achievements. Here is a summary of what they found helpful and made a difference so that they improved their selling on Zazzle results:
As you have seen each of The 5 Strategies: Establish, Create, Announce, Align, Analyze™ fit together to form a roadmap that you can follow to run your own successful Zazzle business.
It’s all laid out for you in our signature course The Profit by Design Academy ™. We invite you to join our growing community of academy members who are creating successful businesses using Zazzle and achieving their dream life.
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Jen and Elke Clarke are a mother-daughter duo that empowers women entrepreneurs to make money online. Through courses and coaching, Jen and Elke help women (and men) become successful creative entrepreneurs on Zazzle and e-commerce. Combined Jen and Elke have earned over $1.5 million combined through their businesses on Zazzle. Jen and Elke have influenced and transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with their free content, paid and private coaching.
They are international, award-winning authors. Click the links to purchase their books through Amazon: Earn Around The World and Create Online and Grow Rich.
Jen and Elke Clarke have been featured in Yahoo Finance as TOP 5 e-commerce coaches in 2020 (June 2020).
