Okay, so I've just spent that last couple of days creating my little heart out!! I have created all sorts of Christmas/Holiday products for my Zazzle store. I received an email from Zazzle letting everyone know that politicians are prediciting that this holiday season will be better than the last three when it comes to consumer spending. They also state that their busiest sales season is coming up soon. They recommend that you have as many holiday products as you can create in order to increase sales. Hmmm....sounds promising. We shall see about that. I did what they suggested, in fact I plan to do some more this evening. Time will tell...tick tock tick tock tick tock!



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More Designs and More Waiting

So I spent a majority of my evening and today creating new designs and adding them to products on my Zazzle store. This in itself is a feat considering I have two little ones at home under foot, but that's a vent session for another day. Still no sales today. I have been reading the Zazzle community forums and most people say it takes time, while there are the few super designers who declare that they made sales within days of starting their stores and are making money hand over fist. I would love it if they would give me a tutoring session on this!

Like I said, I never intended to start this as my million dollar idea but it would be nice to have receive that sale which would be equivilant to a pat on the back that your hard work and creative mind aren't a complete waste.

Oh well, I guess I'll just keep waiting...what else do I have to do?

I have always been a creative person at heart. Have always loved to draw, do craft projects, and really anything that allowed me to use my creativity. After being laid off from my very boring office job two years ago I decided to start selling second hand items on line using eBay and also creating a website of my own. I really had alot of fun creating my website and deciding how it was going to look. But unfortunatelly being I had two children at home and third on the way and just didn't have the time of the space anymore to keep up with selling out of my home.

Then out of the blue during a random Google search I stumble across a site called Zazzle.com...a print on demand website that allows you to use your own designs to create and sell merchandise that is printed and mailed out by Zazzle. You in turn receive a royalty for every item that sells with your design.

Now I had heard of Cafepress before and had actually tried my hand at it, but to be honest I was not at ALL impressed with the tools and products on that site. Now Zazzle on the other hand....Wow...it is a creative persons dream! I decide that I am going to just give it a try and therefore I upload some of my own personal photographs that I have taken during trips to the zoo with the kids and pictures of our very own pet cat Apollo. I create a few things, coffee mugs, postcards, postage stamps and the like. Low and behold a few days later I get an email telling me that one of my items has sold!!

I couldn't believe it...right befre my very eyes was my very first sale notification. I hurriedly log into my Zazzle account which has a really great dashboard and everything you need to tracks royalties and earnings. I can't wait to see what is waiting for me there. Finally, I see it....my earnings....a whole $.81!!
Okay, so I didn't get rich from my first sale but I was completely excited my the fact that I had sold anything at all. Just knowing that a prairie dog that I photographed is out there on a postacrd somewhere is reward enough...well, almost reward enough. I certainly wouldn't turn down future sales.

I will be sure to add more posts to my blog and record my Zazzle adventures. Will I become the millionaire that I have always dreamed of being? or will I become a flop in the print on demand world. Only time will tell!

If you would like to follwo my Zazzle adventure and check in on my latest designs visit the site at www.zazzle.com/krichard08*



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