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Are there any plans to offer an option where people can open more than one store in the future?
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You can open as many stores here as you'd like. Log out of your current store, go back into Zazzle and simply sign up again just like you did the first time. You can (and should) use the same email addy and password but each store needs a unique user ID.
If you open new stores make sure to link all of them under your main store for your VB by going to your earnings>volume bonus
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Ok, dumb question time. Quote:make sure to link all of them under your main store Where do you do this?
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It's not a dumb question at all....while in your main store go to your myzazzle>earnings>volume bonus and on the top right there's a place to add additional stores so your VB is all combined and paid on that store.
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Joined: 5/28/2009
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mousearte wrote:You can open as many stores here as you'd like. Log out of your current store, go back into Zazzle and simply sign up again just like you did the first time. You can (and should) use the same email addy and password but each store needs a unique user ID.
If you open new stores make sure to link all of them under your main store for your VB by going to your earnings>volume bonus Hi MouseArte I searched on the forum to see if there was any info regarding opening additional stores. I came across your info (above) in the forum and proceeded to follow it (I THINK I did anyway). i spent a great deal of time setting up the new store and designing new products for it,etc. When I do a google search using the new store's name , using many variations of it with and without "+Zazzle" etc., it does not come up. When I go to Zazzle and do a search it usually does one of two things. Either it says there is o such store. Or it will take me to a generic Zazzle page that indeed has all the products but it is not in the official store that I designed and set up with great care. My goal was to have two separate stores but linked as far as the account part of it goes (all the earnings into the original store account). Is this not possible? After much trying I was finally able to get a working link from the new store to put on my original store so people visiting it could just click and go to the new one. And THAT does take you to the store I designed. But that appears to be the only way to get to the actual store and not just the generic Zazzle gifts page. Even when I get the email notice that the design has been published for the new store and I click to go there, it still takes me to the generic page most of the time (maybe all the time??). The secondary problem is that I goofed when I in my haste to set up a second store featuring my designs using my husband's photography (he is aware of it and is credited for the photography) , I chose to use his initials (KDSphotography) as the name . Turns out other people with same initials have done the same thing (not Zazzlers, but on the web). I would love to be able to change the name but have read this is not possible. Not being a computer programmer, I perhaps wrongly, wonder why this would not be a simple thing to do. But right now I am more concerned about the first problem of why the new store does not come up o a google search or even a Zazzle search. Sorry for the length of this . I appreciate any assistance you or any other seasoned Zazzler might have to offer a relatively new one!
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Do you, by chance, have your store set to private? Go into My Account>Store>Basic Information and scroll down past the info input box and see if you "Make this store private" ticked.
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whatawonderfulworld wrote: When I do a google search using the new store's name , using many variations of it with and without "+Zazzle" etc., it does not come up. It can take weeks to be indexed by search engines whatawonderfulworld wrote:When I go to Zazzle and do a search it usually does one of two things. Either it says there is o such store. Or it will take me to a generic Zazzle page that indeed has all the products but it is not in the official store that I designed and set up with great care. Make sure the store is not set to private whatawonderfulworld wrote:My goal was to have two separate stores but linked as far as the account part of it goes (all the earnings into the original store account). Is this not possible? No. You can link the volume bonus together for all your stores. Pick which of your stores to make your main store and add the other stores to the volume bonus section of that store. Each store has to earn the $25 minimum to get paid for that store, and the earnings history for that store is only available to view in that particular store. You will receive one check for the total of all multiple stores that have each met the minimum. whatawonderfulworld wrote: I chose to use his initials (KDSphotography) as the name . Turns out other people with same initials have done the same thing (not Zazzlers, but on the web). I would love to be able to change the name but have read this is not possible. That's only the name for the URL of the store. You can change the name (title) of the actual store to anything you want, i.e. Kevin D. Smith Photography. Go to the basic info section of the store settings.
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Thanks to all who once again have taken time to help a tech- challenged fellow Zazzler and thanks in advance of any additional support that comes my way after I close this post.
Mousearte asked if I had checked to see if my settings were at the "private" choice. No, everything is set for the public viewing. But always wise to start with the most basic and obvious as my husband says (is it plugged in, turned on,etc.). Mousearte, I did post this problem earlier and just could not find it again!
The other nice person (I should have paid attention because now I am off of that page) who mentioned that it can take weeks for search engines to "find you" was encouraging in that perhaps this is only a temporary problem and will, in time correct itself.
I am not so concerned about the name of the store as I am about the URL. That is the one I would prefer to change. I thought it was going to be so smart to use my husband's actual initials as the store url. Right now I would just be happy if anything would show up on searches. And any ideas as to why I cannot always get the link, when I type it somewhere, to be "active" (working) as opposed to just "dead" type on a page?
I also tried to do a new zazzle panel and succeeded but when I went to paste the code in place of where an older,dated one currently appears, I could not get it to allow me to delete the old and paste in the new. This probably should be in another post??? Sorry, not sure how this works yet. Thanks again everyone.
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I see 17 products in your husband's store. I see the storefront. Are you typing kdsphotography into the search box to find his store, or are you going directly to the store by using the url http://www.zazzle.com/kdsphotography ? If you're using the search you won't see the storefront, you'll just see the products in the marketplace. Since you only have 17 products in the store so far, why not just make another store with the name you want it to be? Upload the images to the new store and re-make them there. If you had 100 products or more it would be a pain, but with only 17 it wouldn't take that long to start from scratch with the store name what you really want.
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Thanks staioneryshop for your time and suggestions. What I was doing was doing a Google search by typing in KDSphotography +zazzle in the search box. Doesn't come up. But when I go to the address box at top and type the full URL (http://www.zazzle.comKDSphotography) it does find the site. With my main store, I can just proceed as in the former and it brings my main store up. So why it works with the one and not the other is a mystery to me.But at least I know now that I can get to it by typing the full address in the address bar at top.
Since I now feel better about that, think I will probably just leave things as they are. But you are right, if I wanted or needed to make a change, now would be the time before I add dozens of products.
Appreciate the help fellow Zazzlers!
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