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Trending Products to Sell in Your Zazzle Store
Trending Products to Sell in 2021
Jen and Elke Clarke
By Jen & Elke Clarke

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Trending Products to Sell in Your Zazzle Store

Have you ever wondered what is needed for you to have a top selling or trending products to Sell on Zazzle? It depends on the current trends and you deliver a great unique design. Let’s go deeper to find trending products to sell on Zazzle. On Zazzle, we, as Zazzle designers, must create unique designs that we then add digitally to the blank products available on Zazzle for sale. Then we post them for sale in the virtual marketplace as products that people can buy. We then receive royalty payments from Zazzle once the product with our design on it sells.

 

The best way to figure out what designs to add to products and post them for sale in our Zazzle store is by researching popular trends. When you focus on the popular trends it removes some of the guesswork. It’s easier to decide what design to create and which products to post for sale in your Zazzle store. After all, you want your efforts on Zazzle to pay off. 

 

If a trend is popular, your products with trending designs and uses will get more views and sales, and could lead to a top seller on Zazzle. 

 

In this article we’ll show you the trending products to sell in your Zazzle store to increase your chances of nailing that Zazzle bestseller. 

Trending Products to Sell on Zazzle

“Graduation ceremonies and celebrations will be impacted by the pandemic again this year. When you’re looking for that best selling idea think about how to help grads celebrate in new ways.

 
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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. 

 

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Trending Products to Sell on Zazzle

Zazzle best sellers

Of the 15 millions dollars-worth of products we have sold over the years many of them have been Zazzle best sellers. 

 

Do you ever wonder how our best selling products on Zazzle became top sellers? We did our research, and created a unique design on a desired product type in a popular niche that had trending elements, like style, color and fonts.

 

It may sound simple, but it’s not. It takes practice, consistency and perseverance. That’s what we teach in our zSupercharger™ Zazzle Skills Building Coaching Program.


But to help you at get started we put together a starter kit here in this article. So let’s get started!

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11 Ways to Find Trending Products to Sell on Zazzle

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To uncover the trending products to sell in your store each year you need to play detective. This is a fun exercise so grab a pen and a piece of paper and get ready to sleuth! You’re on the lookout for specific needs the customer might have this year, design styles and elements that crop up regularly, popular colors and font styles and also keywords or phrases. All of these things could become Zazzle trends!


Here are some places you can look to discover the upcoming trends in your niche:

  • Google searches using keywords that your idea customer would use
  • Google trends
  • Pinterest searches
  • Social media posts (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook)
  • Physical brand name stores
  • Online brand name stores
  • Online forums
  • Blogs and websites
  • Pantone color of the year
  • Magazines
  • Friends and family members
Trending Products
Zazzle Trending Products to Sell

If you’re wondering which products to sell in the wedding niche here are some ideas to get you started:

    • Change the date cards. Many couples have been forced to reschedule their wedding celebration because of the pandemic and they need a way to let guests know about the changes. 
  • Elopement announcements. Couples who couldn’t wait for the restrictions to lift have eloped instead, so create designs for announcement cards that they can send to friends and family to share their happy news. 
  • Post wedding party invitations. Many couples who had to limit the number of guests at their wedding will want to throw a huge party after the restrictions have been lifted so that they can celebrate with friends and family.  
  • Hand sanitizer. Just because hand sanitizer has now become a way of life doesn’t mean it has to ruin the look the bride wants for her wedding. You can design hand sanitizer bottles to match her theme.


If you’re in the wedding niche and you want to know how to take your designs to the next level you can enroll in
The Wedding Invitation Bootcamp. This includes a 3 hour video training session showing you how to best serve customers whose weddings have been impacted by COVID.

Trending Products to Sell on Zazzle in The Graduation Niche

Graduation ceremonies and celebrations will be impacted by the pandemic again this year. When you’re looking for that best selling idea think about how to help grads celebrate in new ways:

 

    • Invitations for online celebrations. As many grads decide to take their celebrations online to Zoom or Facebook offer them invitations for virtual parties. 
  • Yard signs and banners. Just like last year drive-by graduations will be popular in next year so design some signs that can be displayed in the front yard to let everyone know that the graduate lives there!
  • Outdoor games. For those who can celebrate in person, think about how you can add your graduate designs to corn hole sets and ping pong tables and bats as well as other outdoor games.


If you need more ideas check out our post which shows you how to
sell graduation products on Zazzle

Trending Products to Sell on Zazzle in The Home Decor Niche

If you’re in the home decor niche you can focus your attention on the following design styles and product ideas:

 

  • Ultimate Gray and Illuminating Yellow. Pantone has two colors of the year to convey a message of strength and hope. Use these colors in your home decor designs to ride this trend. 
  • Cottagecore. This design style was inspired by the simple life and harmony with nature. It combines vintage prints with a muted color scheme in a way that inspires feelings of comfort and nostalgia.
  • Outside entertaining. People are spending more time outside this year due to the pandemic. Choose products that will help them entertain outdoors like pillows, blankets and paper plates. 

Trending Products to Sell on Zazzle in The Business Niche

Business Trends for 2021 by Jen and Elke Clarke million dollar Zazzle sellers

The pandemic is influencing trends in the business niche too this year. Here are some products and design ideas to pay attention to:

 

  • Business reopening kits. As businesses start to open their doors again the owners need marketing stationery and signs to let their customers know that they are reopening their doors. Also think about signs and floor stickers to help customers maintain social distancing. Branded face masks, face guards and hand sanitizer products are also trending products to sell on Zazzle. 
  • Add your logo here. People are setting up brand new businesses and they want stationery and supplies from business cards to rubber stamps that they can easily personalize with their own logo.

Trending Products to Sell on Zazzle - Summary

To achieve best selling products on Zazzle, do your research and follow the advice of others who are succeeding in selling on Zazzle.

In this article we showed you:

  • 11 ways to find popular trends in your niche.
  • 4 niches that are trending.
  • Product uses in each niche that can help you narrow down the search to create popular product designs.
  • Trending products in the wedding niche.
  • Grads will need.
  • Popular Home Decor color trends.
  • Two ways to profit business trends.
Trending Products to Sell in 2022

Your next step is to define your ideal customer group (avatar) so that you will target the right market to sell your designs like crazy! In our signature training course The Profit by Design Academy™  you will learn how to determine what niches are best for you, define your ideal customer group (your avatar), and how to create designs and products that your avatar wants, needs or solves their problem which = more sales. 

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About the authors

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).

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