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I (Elke) am back with another post revolving around how to be successful on the Zazzle without creativity, in fact our top two clients earning over $300,000 each, are not creative!
There’s a common misconception that you have to be creative in order to make money on Zazzle. There’s also a belief that you have to be a strong designer to earn that passive income from the platform.
Well, in this post, I’m going to debunk those two myths.
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 a Zazzle e-commerce business over 10 years ago and have sold over 15 million dollars worth, and counting, of products on Zazzle.
The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast is for you, the creative (or non-creative in this case). 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!
So, if you’re looking for an online venue to make passive income but wondered if it was possible for you as a non-creative, this is the post for you! I’m sharing examples of two individuals we coach and mentor that make a substantial, passive income on Zazzle as a side hustle, even though they wouldn’t have called themselves creative or design extra-ordinaires prior to working with us as clients.
There are two different ways to make money on the Zazzle platform. The first way is to just promote what’s already on the platform. You don’t even need to create anything! Zazzle pays a 15 percent royalty for sales made through Zazzle affiliate marketing program. You can do this however it suits you – through Pinterest, social media, a blog, your own website, etc.. If you already have an audience or following, this could be a perfect method of making money for you.
The other way to make money on Zazzle is to receive a royalty by Zazzle licensing out your design that is added to particular products within your storefront. You can set your royalty percentage anywhere between 5% and 99% on each product, which gives you the flexibility to decide what you’re going to earn.
The hard part is deciding what products and what designs you add to those products which you’ll post for sale. You may be thinking, I already told you, I’m not creative! I can’t create designs! But that’s where you’re wrong. There are several ways you can still go about creating designs and successfully making sales.
The first option is to hire a graphic designer to create designs for you to use in your Zazzle storefront. For this, you’ll need to do some research to understand what types of designs are selling well, designs that are trending, and different niches you’re interested in so that you purchase designs intentionally. You can easily – and pretty inexpensively – hire a graphic designer from a platform like UpWork.com.
From there, it’s time to upload the designs onto products and post them for sale in your store. The Profit by Design Academy® will walk you through step by step on how to post your products for sale to get the most possible views and provides a proven monthly product production strategy so that you can build out your store inventory.
Another way to generate designs is to buy graphics on a site like Etsy. This way, you’re less involved in the design process. You need to verify, though, when you do this that the graphics you’re buying are okay to use on the Zazzle platform.
The final way you can create designs even if you’re not creative is to go through design training. Our Profit by Design Academy® training program is a coaching program as well as a training that covers how to properly design on the Zazzle platform. In the program, not only will you learn how to use Zazzle’s design tool, but you will also gain an understanding of how to list items correctly, tag them to optimize sales, and so on.
Now that you understand your ability to generate designs to use on Zazzle without having to be naturally creative, I want to share two success stories from The Acdemy that have used the strategies I just shared to receive substantial passive income on the platform.
Christine is one of our top-earning coaching students. She lives in the Philippines and works full-time for her family business. Zazzle is her passive income cash flow side hustle. She started with the intention of being a Zazzle affiliate, as she had business knowledge but very little in the way of an artistic or creative background.
In 2016, she began promoting Zazzle products on her blog and made $132 that year from the platform. She grew curious about how much earning potential there was on the platform, though, so she joined our Profit by Design Academy® in 2017.
She followed the training to a tee and used our 5 Strategies™ for Zazzle success. Fast forward to 2020, she had a $100k earning year on the platform. This is NOT a get-rich-quick scheme, but that’s not a bad trajectory in three years on the platform.
As I mentioned, Christine is a non-creative. She purchased graphic designs and used them on her products that she listed for sale in her Zazzle store to generate her income. She has created an online business that, within four years, has generated over $300k in royalty and referral payouts. That means she’s sold over $3 million of Zazzle products in that time.
Now that we’ve covered Christine’s success, I want to talk about another Profit by Design Academy® client who has a similar story.
Now onto our next Profit by Design Academy® client, Brandon. He is another top earner in our program. He’s working in a high-level corporate job and Zazzle is his side hustle. He’s SUPER efficient on the platform and driven to create a passive income to help him retire early in a comfortable way.
He had been trying to sell his photography work on Zazzle on his own and didn’t have the success he was after. In 2016, he made $500 on the platform
Brandon is a photographer but wouldn’t identify as creative. He realized the earning potential outside of his comfort zone of photography, specifically with graphics ut did not know how to get started.
He joined our program in 2017 and has now made over $330k on Zazzle. In 2021, he impressively earned $150k. Like Christine, this is a wonderful trajectory that Brandon has built up since he joined the Profit by Design Academy®.
As of the day this post was written, Brandon actually texted me and let me know that he was trending towards making $2,000 on the Zazzle platform just in the last 24 hours. Wow!
Brandon is another success story that shows you can put just several hours of work a week into your Zazzle business and make money from it, even if you’re not someone that would identify as creative.
Even if you wouldn’t identify as a creative, there’s still an abundance of potential for you to make money on the Zazzle platform. As discussed in this post, there are many avenues you can take to generate designs that will sell without having to tap into any creative energy at all.
The two success stories from our training program that I shared today have used a combination of the different ways I shared to make money on the platform. You, too, can mix and match these strategies in order to find your Zazzle success.
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Episode #38 – How to Sell 1 Million Dollars-Worth of Zazzle Products in One Year with Christine Factora: https://elkeclarke.com/1-million-dollars/
Million Dollar Seller on Zazzle – An Exclusive Interview: https://youtu.be/Ygmx_rYn2RU
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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.
