How well can you advertise and market pet beds? That is probably the more important question.

There are only 27,000+ showing up in the category of pet beds. Some of that will be in error due to the way people tage other products, but all in all, not that many.

Remember that design is only part of the selling equation at any POD site like Zazzle. Getting your design in front of the right buyers is the other part, and it is really your responsibility to make that happen. At least for the first 5,000 - 10,000 sales or so. If you can "turn Zazzles head" with sales then you might get help from them. But with 100,000's of thousands of designers and millions upon millions of products they can't promote us all.

You could also look for other designers that are specifically pet, most likely dog, themed and see if the pet bed pops up high on their pages when sorted by popularity...

I designed a few several years ago, I have had exactly zero sales of pet beds so far.

Collars and leashes, yes, pet beds, no.

I can't offer numbers and insights yet, but even if I could, it wouldn't help you much. What works for others must not necessarily work for you and vice versa. It all depends on what you create, on how you market your products, on what sort of audience and followers you have and many other factors. There may have only 100 beds sold per year and 50 of them may be yours, there may have 1 million sold, but not one was yours.

You've just started and you need to build up your own follower base and niche. You can't do this overnight, it needs time on a platform like Zazzle where you compete with thousands of other designers and millions of products. You have some bed designs, stick now to other products. With time you will know what works for you and what less and you can adapt on the fly.

I know, this wasn't truly helpful, but this feedback may be instead: on most of your designs, the space that holds the pet's name is way too small. You're mostly using short names that fill well the dedicated space (e.g. small tags), but this won't work on longer ones. Create your designs so that they can fit also longer names. You wannot lose a possible sale due to a small design flaw. Cheers!

It’s not really a worry of mine. I’ve only made a handful, mainly because I thought I should at least have a few in my shop! I think pet beds would sell more if they had a nicer presentation, such as in a room with a cute doggy on them.

What that link shows is both enlightening and confusing at the same time. I've long wondered whether pet-themed designs would do better there than patterns or abstract designs. It also seems that templates with a place for a pet's name aren't as big a draw as one might think. Kind of blows up a lot of my assumptions.

Thanks for sharing that!

Only my time, which I'm not devoting to creating on Zazzle at the moment. I did make some once upon a time, but they were non-performers and got the axe a long time ago.

Maybe someday.

I agree with you there, Shelli. Same goes for lots of other products needing better insitu views.