In this blog post we are sharing with you the million dollar Zazzle success story of Brandon, one of our students of The Profit by Design Academy™ and our coaching client. Brandon started with us in 2017. He tracked his journey as he implemented the training from The Profit By Design Academy™. Here we share details of how he started with a brand new Zazzle store and went on to sell over a million dollars-worth of Zazzle products, which earned him over $100,000 in his lifetime earnings.
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“The determination to succeed was always within Brandon, he just needed the right tools, proven plan and coaching to reach his goals.”
When Brandon started with us he had a Zazzle store that only made $500 a year.
Brandon’s success story starts in June 2017 when he enrolled in The Profit By Design Academy™ to learn how to implement our 5 Strategies into his online Zazzle business.
We use The 5 Strategies to create successful Zazzle businesses and still use these strategies today. They are: Establish, Create, Announce, Align, Analyze™.
If you’d like to learn more about The 5 Strategies, be sure to check out episode 2 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast where we dive deeper into each one.
Brandon decided to start a brand Zazzle new store following the step by step video training of The Profit By Design Academy™.
He filled his new Zazzle store with products based on the list of the 50 top-selling products on Zazzle provided in The Profit By Design Academy™.
After following our 5 Strategies outlined in the course for 4 months, Brandon had made $500, the amount he usually made in one year in his old Zazzle store.
By the end of December 2017, Brandon had made over $2,000 through his new store.
In 6 months following our course, Brandon had earned more than what used to take him 4 years to earn.
Brandon has a 9-5 corporate job. He does Zazzle on the side. He followed our work schedule which recommends that you work 20 hours a month on Zazzle. In that 20 hours, you create 100 products a month, promote and manage your Zazzle store.
Due to his job commitments, Brandon was not always able to reach the 20 hours, but he always made Zazzle a priority when he had the time. The takeaway is that Brandon worked even less than 20 hours a month in some months and still achieved results because he implemented the course training and used the time he had effectively.
Jump ahead to March 2018. Brandon realizes that in order to up his game and achieve bigger results, he needs accountability and guidance to more effectively implement the finer aspects of The 5 Strategies. So he enrolled in The Profitable Membership™. This is our membership program which you can add on to The Profit by Design Academy™ when you enroll. In The Profitable Membership™ a new masterclass is released every month to help you dive deeper into implementing the 5 Strategies to reach consistent $5K months.
Joining our membership was a crucial part of Brandon’s progress.
In April 2018, Brandon had his first $1,000 month! Considering that before taking the course, it took him a year to make $500, this was an incredible achievement. His total lifetime earnings at this time were $5,500.
Brandon wrote to us after hitting this achievement and stated, “Due to all of the clean up I did in March on my products, I started to see sales on the new products I made in less than a month. The learning for me is that I had done the research to know what is popular, but I posted a poor design. Once I posted a good design in the popular niche I had identified, I made sales on Zazzle almost immediately.”
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In this blog, we share with you Brandon’s feedback of his experience in The Creative CEO Mastermind™ held in June 2019. The mastermind consisted of five days of coaching with us. He recalls that it was an amazing experience that made his business skyrocket. This allowed him to continue to grow, learn and ask those 6 and 7-figure business questions to make his success possible. Brandon loved the direct access to both of us to get his questions answered fast and use his time efficiently.
By the end of 2019, Brandon not only achieved his goal of $60,000 in one year but he exceeded it. Brandon shares that after he invested in our course, our membership and our mastermind he was able to achieve a much bigger goal in less time than he expected. This was in part due to the perfect combination of training he received through our course, the membership, and our coaching which he received through our mastermind..
Brandon came to us from a place of uncertainty and in doubt about the possibility of having a successful Zazzle business. Once he started doing the course, The Profit By Design Academy™, he realized what he was not doing properly on his own. The determination to succeed was always within Brandon, he just needed the right tools, proven plan and coaching to reach his goals.
If you’ve been working hard on Zazzle for a long time without achieving the earnings results that you want, it may be because you don’t have the right tools, the proven plan to follow or Zazzle experts to coach you.
Three years after enrolling in The Profit by Design Academy™, Brandon received his notice from Zazzle that he had achieved Zazzle Gold ProDesigner status. He has achieved over $100,000 in lifetime earnings from US-based sales on Zazzle.
We are excited for Brandon’s success because before he worked with us, he struggled for 5 long years on his own and only made a total of $2,500. After receiving our help, he sold over 1 million dollars-worth of Zazzle products and earned over $100,000 in 3 years. #CRUSHINGIT
If you find yourself stuck and not able to reach your Zazzle earnings goal on your own, like Brandon, seek help from Zazzle experts. When you invest in yourself and in your Zazzle business it could be a game changer, like it was for Brandon. On his own Brandon struggled for 5 years and only made $2,500 in total. After receiving our help he made $100,000 in 3 years and is now on his way to earning his second $100,000!
Instead of feeling frustrated and unsure about what steps to take, Brandon now has the confidence, tools, proven plan and support he needs to keep scaling his Zazzle business. The difference was that he enrolled in The Profit by Design Academy™, joined The Profitable Membership™ and took part in The Creative CEO Mastermind™. He received the help he needed from Zazzle experts to achieve the results he wanted that he could not achieve on his own.
Thank you so much for reading! We hope this blog post has given you actionable steps to start and scale your Zazzle business so that your passive online income can give you the location and time freedom to live your dream life.
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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.
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).
