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Kristadee

Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:47:52 PM

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Joined: 4/27/2012
Posts: 43

Hi I just opened up my store a few days ago. I have gotten people to come a few a day but noone buying anything. Can you give me any pointers. I have started a facebook page, I have posted on Reddit a couple times. Also Craigs list.
www.zazzle.com/kristadee*
Thanks for any imput or suggestions.

Country1969

Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2012 4:02:58 PM

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Joined: 3/12/2009
Posts: 3,116
Location: Wilkes-Barre

Hi,

Welcome to Zazzle.

Just think of me like one of the judges on American Idol.

Yo,Yo, dude...Its like this
You need lots more products in your store to even start promoting your store around places. But that's already known.

Next, design your own header for your store. Those ones are so plain on there.

You are off to a go start. Just keep adding when you can.

Make sure all designs fit well on the products. Many times people use quick create method and they don't fit correctly. Unless you are making it that way, then it's fine. I know I make things that are off slightly but you can use a background color to hide to edges that might be white.

Tags..Zazzle a tag spamming policy. Stick with tag words that refers to the design. Example: if you have a Tulip. Use words like: tulips,flowers,floral,floral+photography. Because you have to think of search words people will likely to use to find your design/product.

Pricing: I made a royality chart when I first started on what to set my rate at. Like buttons at 30% ,magnet at 35% and so on.
But I set mine at different rates due to the design. It's a judgment call of yours what you like to set each product. If you make a chart and use it for creating them, you have a easy notes to follow whne youpost it for sale.

Also, if you decide to change your rate do it before the 20th of each month, thats when your new rate kicks in.

Good luck and many sales to you.

David aka Country1969

Kristadee

Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:21:49 PM

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Joined: 4/27/2012
Posts: 43

Thanks for the tips. I know I need a lot more stuff but I have had problems figuring out how to put my designs on the bigger items. Like the pillows, picture frames etc. I even thought I could design a cool skate board but the images are always too small. How do I get them to fit. When I am working on my design on the computer is is quite large but when I save it apparently it shrinks. I tried uploading it as as a painting image but it won't accept that. Any help would be appreciated. What did you think of the designs I have created so far?

Country1969

Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:50:44 PM

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Joined: 3/12/2009
Posts: 3,116
Location: Wilkes-Barre

Your designs are great.

I know it what you mean. It can be frustrating at times.
I usually like to make certain designs bigger for that reason.

Heres a chart that Zazzle has for guidelines many people follow.
I don't know if they have all the products there yet.

http://zazzle.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/85

But if you are deciding to use them on other products, I would go bigger for multipurpose use. Also set your resolution higher so get the best results.

Use one of these image formats:

JPEG

The JPEG format supports millions of colors, which allows for great design flexibility.
The JPEG format compresses the image information, keeping file sizes small and reducing upload times.
Most digital cameras can save images in JPEG format.

PNG

PNG is a completely lossless compression format.
Most graphic design programs (e.g. Photoshop) can create PNG images.
The PNG format includes full alpha transparency support!
PDF and Adobe Illustrator (AI)

Mewmew34

Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:25:29 PM

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Joined: 5/30/2009
Posts: 117

Put a title to your products besides just the default. Having more descriptive words in the title will help people find it doing searches. Same with the description. Try and have a description of the image that's more unique to the image. You can leave what you already have if you want, but try and add to it as well. Unfortunately for me it's one thing I'm not too good at. I need to work on my descriptions eventually.

Seconded with adding more tags. Make sure they're still related to the image, but you should add as many as you can that fit. With the sunset image, tags like "sun", "sky", "clouds", "water", etc. would all be good because they are all a part of the photo. Any colors in an image would be good tags to add, too. I know I've seen a lot of people posting asking for products in certain colors to promote in blogs and such. If they search for purple, they'll never find your products with the purple hearts on them.

I'm trying to make sure I get all the good tags in my stuff, too. I've only been really working on my shop for a few days so no sales yet, but I'm getting a fairly steady number of views per day so far.

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