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In this episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we’re excited to have Audrey Jeanne Roberts joining us! Audrey Jeanne was one of the people we looked up to as a successful Zazzle designer when we first started on Zazzle. She is a Platinum Zazzle ProDesigner ($250,000+ in earnings) and is very close to becoming a Diamond ProDesigner ($500,000 in earnings). So she thought she knew all she needed to know about how to succeed on Zazzle and overcome the 2020 COVID sales slump.
Professionally, Audrey Jeanne has gained national recognition for her elegant, vibrant watercolors and gouache that are often combined with original heart-touching sentiments. And today, she’s joining us to tell her story of how she overcame the COVID sales slump and skyrocketed her earnings on Zazzle.
But before we dive right in, let us introduce ourselves in case this is your first visit. Welcome to The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast. We’re your hosts, Jen and Elke Clarke. We are a mother and daughter team that started Zazzle e-commerce businesses over 10 years ago and has sold over 15 million dollars-worth and counting of products on Zazzle.
The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast is for you, the creative. We share actionable steps that you can take to make money in your e-commerce business. In each episode, we will take you one step closer to achieving freedom with your time, location, and finances.
We believe that a profitable e-commerce business is what opens the doors for you to start living your dream life if you work smarter, not harder, use the right tools and follow the proven roadmap. We’re here to give you the tools you need to make your dream life happen. Let’s get started!
And today, Audrey Jeanne speaks with us about how she and her Zazzle business bounced back from the struggles she faced that COVID brought on in 2020. For all the details, listen to the ENTIRE episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast on your preferred streaming platform.
Audrey Jeanne never had any formal art training, but she fell in love with calligraphy and watercolor. For many years, she focused her energy on traveling around to different art shows to promote her work. When she had children, she wanted to spend more time at home with them.
She eventually began to digitize her art. She loved Zazzle because of how passive it was. It gave her the freedom to travel less and be at home with her kids more.
Audrey Jeanne has also worked with several licensing agencies. While she appreciates that work, she stresses how challenging it is. She says that Zazzle is the sweet spot in terms of earning passive income from her art.
When Audrey Jeanne first decided to start working on Zazzle, she told herself that this would be a long term project. She went into this business knowing that consistent effort over a long period of time is the strategy that would get her results.
Luckily, within her first six months, she was earning $1,000 per month. She attributes it to the affiliates on Zazzle promoting her work early on, and because of this Audrey Jeanne saw her sales skyrocket.
Audrey Jeanne was enjoying pretty steady success on Zazzle until COVID came. Most of her products were in the wedding and occasion niches, so when the pandemic postponed these events Audrey Jeanne’s sales were dramatically reduced. She went from making over $10,000 per month to only $500 per month.
It was a shock to Audrey Jeanne. She could have let that shock paralyze her. But instead, she asked for our help. She was determined to beat her COVID Sales slump.
Audrey Jeanne found us and our course, The Profit by Design Academy™ in early 2020. After she started working with us, she realized that there were some things she had not set up properly in her store when she started out, mainly her titles and tags.
She had been relying heavily on the affiliates to promote her products. When the promoters stopped because the pandemic affected weddings and other celebrations from happening, Audrey Jeanne’s sales were also affected.
We are so happy that we could empower Audrey Jeanne to properly set up her Zazzle store in the most optimized way possible! She no longer has to rely on anybody else promoting for her because now it’s happening organically.
After starting in The Profit by Design Academy™ Audrey Jeane set $3,000 a month as her first earnings goal. She’s already reached that. She’s on track to hit $5,000 a month soon, and her long term goal is to reach $10,000 a month again. We’re excited that she’s well on her way!
Audrey Jeanne says that if she continues to plug away and keep doing the right things consistently as taught in the course, she knows her Zazzle store will provide her with the income she wants to enjoy being with her family and keep doing what she loves. She feels much more confident knowing her store is set up properly and that she has a business plan to follow to scale tpo $5,000 a month on Zazzle.
Audrey Jeanne will inspire you. Audrey Jeanne came back strong after the COVID pandemic caused her business to crash down to a scary level. She recommends getting the right help to achieve what you want rather than doing it alone. Getting our help, Audrey Jeanne was able to reverse a downward spiral in her Zazzle earnings during COVID, going from $500 a month to $3,300 a month. You can check out Audrey Jeanne’s Zazzle store here.
To hear all of Audrey Jeanne’s story and learn how to overcome the 2020 COVID sales slump, listen to episode 39 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.
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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 sold over 15 million dollars-worth of products, and 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.
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Jen and Elke Clarke have been featured in Yahoo Finance as TOP 5 e-commerce coaches.
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