Making Money with Your Own Zazzle Store
Zazzle is a website that uses print on demand technology. Those who enjoy design can open a store free of charge. Your design goes on the product only when the company gets an order. They handle everything from that point, including shipping. Store owners can set there own price points and profit percentage, unlike its better known competitor, CafePress, which sets a profit point of 10% on each item.
Your design could be placed on a myriad of products including T-shirts, posters, postcards, buttons, hats, stickers, ties, binders, invitations, letterhead, stationery, photo cards, flyers. stamps, business cards, mugs, calendars, shoes, pet clothing, aprons, bags, bumper stickers, keychains, magnets, mousepads, photo sculptures, skateboards, and ties.  It is very easy to open up a store at this website. I heard about the site more than a year ago. I went there, looked around and a few minutes later I had a store. My take on something like this is if it's free, and all it's going to take is a little time, I'm there. (That's why I have seventy-something Squidoo lenses, three blogs, and five static websites.) I put my design (mostly just slogans) on a few items and left the site. Design for me is a very loose word. I think I'm fairly creative in a lot of ways, but design isn't my thing. I never logged-in again and even forgot my password. Earlier this year I was pretty surprised to see $34.89 that Zazzle had sent to my PayPal account. Evidently somebody had went Christmas shopping in my store.
If I can make any amount of money with rudimentary design and no promotion, I think a talented person who spent some time promoting could do very well. At some point I will pay an artist for some good designs and do some promoting on my websites. If you like design, you really should be on be on this site. Once you have designed your products, there is nothing else to do. Any commissions are residual, passive income. Zazzle has a very active new user forum where all of your questions can be quickly answered. If you have a website or blog, you can post a link to Zazzle and pick up a 15% referral fee. If you open a store there and you send somebody there from your website and they purchase one of your products, you can get the 15% on top of your royalty. Since both this company and CafePress are free, you might want to open a store on both websites.
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