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“FREE Jen and Elke’s “150 Trending Zazzle Niches and Designs” Guide”
In this episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we give you tips to build an eCommerce business model and show you why it doesn’t have to be that hard! If you want to start an online business but feel overwhelmed by all the options out there, this episode is for you! We want to introduce you to an eCommerce business model that’s more lucrative and passive so you can work smarter, not harder to make money online.
In the episode, we’ll cover what Zazzle is, how it’s different from other e-commerce platforms, and how it will benefit you as a creative online entrepreneur.
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 eCommerce business model 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 we’ll discuss how building a successful online business model on Zazzle is easier than you think! For all the details, listen to the ENTIRE episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast on your preferred streaming platform.
Zazzle is a print-on-demand (POD) company. That means that their products get printed only once the customer purchases them. This has great environmental impacts, but it is also amazing news for you as a designer.
You don’t have to print your own products! You don’t have to worry about having an inventory or shipping products. Zazzle takes care of all of that for you. All you have to do is design them and post them for sale in your virtual store. It’s all digital until the customer buys the item.
Another unique aspect we love about Zazzle is the capabilities for customization. Zazzle has a unique design tool that allows customers to change and manipulate designs to look exactly how they want and change out the sample text or photo for their own.
While you may think at first that you wouldn’t want someone to change your design, this is actually great news for you too.
With the customization capability, customers can make your products look exactly how they want, and they don’t have to go back and forth with you to make changes. This saves you so much time!
The reason this is another great feature is because when your design offers a capability to be customized as needed, customers are less likely to look at another designer’s products to meet their needs. Whatever the customer decides to do with your design, YOU still get the royalty when they use it.
No e-commerce platform is exactly the same. However, most platforms like Shopify, Etsy, and Amazon have some requirements in common:
In addition, these platforms have a lot of overhead. You may need to pay for website development, ads to drive traffic to your site, and much more.
Zazzle, on the other hand, is extremely unique from these other eCommerce business models. Here’s how it compares to other platforms:
Zazzle makes things so much easier for you as a designer and seller. All you have to do is create your designs and post them online in your online store on the Zazzle platform. This helps you work smarter, and not harder, like you would have to do on other platforms.
We want to show you how Zazzle makes running your business simple in a variety of areas:
Of course, while Zazzle does make it incredibly easy for you as a designer, you do have to post products that people want to buy. There are some business skills you need to learn. We didn’t have this training when we first started our online businesses, and we had to learn through years of trial and error. That’s why we created The Profit by Design Academy ™ to teach the strategies we use to profit on Zazzle. If there’s any “catch” to Zazzle, it’s that you do have to know how to make something people will buy, how to market your products and manage your business. But that’s what we’re here to teach you.
We get tired just thinking about the hoops so many entrepreneurs have to jump through using other e-commerce business models! We didn’t get into this business only to end up exhausted, and neither did you. We all want to work smarter, not harder, and Zazzle is THE platform to support that.
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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.
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.
