How do you become a Diamond Zazzle ProDesigner? You must achieve a lifetime earnings of more than $500,000 US from US-based sales. I, Elke Clarke, earned Diamond Zazzle ProDesigner status a while back and have already reached over 1 million in lifetime earnings on Zazzle. Zazzle does not have a higher badge designation, so I have called myself a Double Diamond Zazzle ProDesigner. I am telling you about this, not to brag, but because I was where you might be now. I wondered “How can I make a lot of money, on Zazzle, like $500K or 1 million?”. When I first started, I was so happy that I made $0.29 on my first Zazzle sale. Even though I wanted to make 6-figures a year on Zazzle, I did not know how. It all seemed unattainable and overwhelming. That is why in this article, I share some of my top Diamond Zazzle ProDesigner insider tips that you can use in 2021.
“It’s crucial that you believe it is possible for you to reach your dream Zazzle earnings goal, even if you don’t yet know how to get there.“
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, the creative. We share actionable steps that you can take to make money in your e-commerce business. In each article, 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!
Set your Zazzle earnings goal for 2021. You can only achieve something that you strive for. But you may not do it because goal setting may seem overwhelming. It can also be scary if you feel like you don’t know how to reach your goal. But instead have fun with this and dream. Don’t think of failure, instead think of possibilities. To help you set your earning goal, use our easy to use ERSD Goal Setting Technique. ERSD stands for Easy, Reasonable, Stretch, Dream. This technique, which we developed, has helped our students reach their dream goals.
The ERSD goal setting technique is to help you set different goal numbers for your earnings goal. You can’t help but achieve at least one of your ERSD goals. It will take the pressure off of achieving a goal and make it fun to reach your dream earnings goal. If you have yet to earn any money on Zazzle, we suggest setting your yearly earnings goal as Easy = Zero, Reasonable = $500, Stretch $2,500, Dream = 1 million. You choose how you want to set your goals based on our criteria detailed in our ERSD article. Click on this link to learn how to use The ERSD Goal Setting Technique™. The ERSD Goal Setting Technique™ has helped many of our students reach their Zazzle dream earnings goals. Give it a shot.
It’s crucial that you believe it is possible for you to reach your dream Zazzle earnings goal, even if you don’t yet know how to get there. Belief comes through mindset work. It is crucial for you to work on your mindset if you want to grow your Zazzle business and reach your dream goal. You will find it much more difficult to implement the action steps necessary to take your Zazzle business to the next level, if the mindset work is not done. Especially now in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, if your mindset is not solid, your business will suffer.
When the pandemic first occurred, we had no idea what to expect. Some of us figured it would go away, and that’s not been the case. Now, we need to work with it rather than against it. So make the mindset shift to show up in your business with your A-game, no matter what. Students of ours who showed up in their Zazzle business with their A-game in 2020 reached their dream goals. These goals were big and the results were even bigger. Our students reached $10K, $25K, $40K, $50K, $88K, and $150K in lifetime Zazzle earnings. Believe you can reach your lifetime earnings dream goal on Zazzle!
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Create your product production plan for the entire year. It can always be changed, but having a plan for the whole year is key to building a robust product inventory on Zazzle so that you sell all the time. When we first started, we did not have a plan, so we were always behind and too late to make products that would start selling. If you are in the retail or online e-commerce space, you have to have your products ready for sale 2 – 3 months ahead of each season.
We also didn’t look at the big picture. That is why now we teach this and give it to here as a Zazzle ProDesigner Insider tip. If you don’t have products in your store that could sell each month of the year (same or different products), then it’s time to make them.
Create a customer focused product production plan. It seems simple, but as creatives we forget that customers may not want every creative design we ever made just because we love our stuff. Instead, always have the customer in mind. What are they going through? What do they need? Focus on serving the customer and you will be rewarded.
When COVID-19 happened, things changed for people. For example, weddings were postponed, people had to stay at home, wear masks etc. This resulted in customers needing different products than what we normally sell on Zazzle. If you shifted and pivoted to sell what customers needed and wanted, you profited in 2020. In 2021, it will be the same.
To get better results (ie sales) people think they have to put in more time, make more products. The reality is that you must stop doing what is not working for you. Simple as that. Instead find out what is working for you and do more of that. If you are not making sales on Zazzle, then find someone that is making the money you want to make, like a Diamond Zazzle ProDesigner, and learn from them.
Take Brandon as an example. Before Brandon sought out our expertise, he only made $500 a year on Zazzle for 5 years. After taking The Profit by Design Academy™, Brandon made over $1,000 within 3 months! In 2.5 years he has made over $100,000 in lifetime earnings What a difference! This goes to show that he wasn’t a poor Zazzle designer, he just needed the right training in his skill sets to thrive on Zazzle from a Diamond Zazzle ProDesigner.
Another huge misconception we see is that people compare running a Zazzle business to a 9-5 job. Your Zazzle business is not equivalent to clocking in for 8 hours a day at your 9-5 job and getting paid an hourly wage. You are 100% responsible for your Zazzle store, the work you do, the outcomes you have, including your Zazzle earnings. The best part of this is that if you set things up properly, you will find that you can work a lot less but make more money.
Hours spent doing work don’t equate to money on Zazzle. It’s about the actions you intentionally take to get the results you want. A lot of Zazzle designers assume they need to work many hours and make thousands of products to make sales. This is not true. We recommend posting 100 products a month in your Zazzle store to build a consistent stream of sales throughout the year and work 20 hours a week using our recommended work schedule.
By incorporating The 5 Strategies: Establish, Create, Announce, Align, Analyze™, we work less (4 hours a month) and work smarter (follow our proven plan) in our million dollar Zazzle businesses. That’s why we can travel, which we love to do. Pre-COVID we took 6 weeks off and travelled to New Zealand and Australia. Our Zazzle businesses made us a predictable income while we were travelling and did not work. Instead of working, we enjoyed life. In this photo below we landed on the top of the Tasman Glacier in New Zealand in this ski plan. It was an awesome experience.
You can’t tell us your Zazzle business is working unless you look at the numbers. You have to know what your sales are, the number of views each product is receiving, what is selling, how much of each product is selling, what is the conversion rate of each product, how much do you make per month from your Zazzle store(s) and how many hours did you work.
If you are putting in the hours and making products, but not getting the money in return, you have to determine if your current actions are effective. By analyzing your earnings and the time you put in, you can tailor and tweak your product production plan accordingly. We recommend analyzing your numbers at least once a month. Analyzing all of these results will allow you to make decisions about your business that you would normally not make. Once you identify a problem you can fix it. Monthly analysis of your numbers will help you spot problems so you can fix them.
To become a Diamond Zazzle ProDesigner ($500K in lifetime earnings on Zazzle), it’s not just about which product to post and where to promote. You have to run your Zazzle business as a business.
That means the key business activities such as:
We still have fun, do creative things, love what we do on Zazzle, but we also follow these tips we mention above, to create successful million dollar Zazzle businesses.
Have fun following these tips and implementing them into your business.
Post in the comments. How many of these tips do you implement in your Zazzle business?
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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.
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