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Joined: 3/27/2011
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 Zazzle used to be my most successful print on demand store with monthly royalty payments I could count on. But for the last 2 or 3 years with templates for mass creation of new products not working, I did not spend much time creating new products. I did create a few posters with very few photos hoping potential customers or lazy me would transfer the design to other products but NAH, that never happened. So I NEED to create more products but do not know where to start. By now, Zazzle has so many new products like Gold Gloves or Yoga Mats and I have the feeling there is not enough time in my busy day to create anything over there... Are templates for quick creation still a good idea? Should I invest some of my precious time to create my own templates all new from scratch? But which of the over 1,200 products should I use for templates? I am really lost :-(
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I don't use Quick Create so can't advise on that. I find more efficient to copy/paste a design to different blanks open in multiple tabs. Using "transfer This Design" myself is also good.
Where to start? If I were you, I'd start with creating products that can fill all your collections up to at least 7 products per collection. A collection only shows on the product page if it has 7 (or more) products in it. I looked at your store and noticed most of your collections have less than that and so won't show on product pages.
After that I'd move on to updating phone cases. I noticed that while you have many phone cases, most of them are for older models.
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Location: Greenville, SC
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Christine aka stine1 wrote: Zazzle has so many new products like Gold Gloves I am up to date on all new products, but Gold Gloves...Doesn't ring a bell. Can you point them out?
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Gina ©gleem wrote:Christine aka stine1 wrote: Zazzle has so many new products like Gold Gloves I am up to date on all new products, but Gold Gloves...Doesn't ring a bell. Can you point them out? I wondered about the gold gloves as well. But I do hope you can find your way back! Adding: I am not the best person to give this kind of advice because I tend to be spontaneous and still find myself designing mostly what I enjoy designing. Sometimes I design with a specific purpose but it then it starts to feel like work and I stall out...
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Maybe a typo? We do have golf gloves.
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Fuzzy Felosarix wrote:Maybe a typo? We do have golf gloves. of course! it was too obvious for me to figure it out! LOL 
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Fuzzy Felosarix wrote:Maybe a typo? We do have golf gloves. Doh! I don't design them so they didn't cross my mind! Thanks for catching!
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Location: Leverkusen
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Oh yes, of course it is GOLF. Sorry for that typo!
Mhh, so I think I will start to fill my collections and create the latest phone cases.
Thank you all for your advice. Any other ideas? :-)
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Joined: 3/1/2011
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I'm not sure if I can give you good advice, but I can share what I have done to start working on Zazzle again because I was in the same situation as you are last year.
I have been out of Zazzle for a couple of years, and came back in April 2018. I was overwhelmed at a lot of the new features that I was not familiar with such as zRank, Collections, new tagging policy, and some unseen products that are invisible with a red eye mark. I was confused where and how to start again.
I told myself, “Take a deep breath!”
I started by organizing my stores. I worked on re-tagging my products, re-writing the descriptions and deleted or modified my old designs while drafting new ones. Also, I created Collections.
I tried not to stress out, and worked little by little. I'm close to catching up now.
Divide and conquer!
I think it's a good idea to focus on a couple of products for a restart.
There are a lot of Zazzle products that make us want to create as much as possible. I thought before that templates for Quick Create are useful to create multiple products and help increase sales, but I doubt it now. It works well for some products and some designers. I'm still experimenting.
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