Make Money Online With Zazzle

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If any of you have been using the internet for a substansial period of time, chances are that you have heard of Zazzle.com. This is one of the first websites designed to help you to make money online that I ever discovered. I never wrote a blog posting about Zazzle on the Residuals and Royalties blog because I honestly didn’t think that someone could really make money on Zazzle. I have had my Zazzle shop open for a few years and I have made a total of $3.18. (I only have a handful of items.) But don’t give up on Zazzle just yet. I have discovered that there are, in fact many people who make money online through Zazzle and they are getting some pretty good payouts.

I recently stumbled on a Shutterstock member named Joyce who has been uploading her artwork onto Zazzle and placing them on hundreds of products. Mugs, shirts, calenders, postage stamps, pet clothing, posters, business cards, greeting cards, mouse pads – you name it, Zazzle can put your image on it! Joyce told me that she started out making about $45 per month, but for the last three months she has earned over $150 per month. The fact is that the more products that you make available, the more apt you are to get some good sales. (Joyce has over 6,600 products for sale on Zazzle!) Joyce’s most popular selling item is a hand showing the American Sign Language sign for “I Love You” – but she says that “no one product has sold the most” and people have pretty much purchased a wide variety of items from her. Overall it looks like Zazzle is a great source of residual income, considering the minimal effort that it takes to create a product!

Joyce says that the key way to make money online with Zazzle is to keep creating products! Joyce has her commission set at 15% for most of her products, but she is now experimenting with different rates to see if she can improve her earnings. (You can set your commission anywhere from 1% to 99%)

If you are a stock photographer who has been dissapointed with dwindling sales - you too may want to consider opening a Zazzle shop to showcase your work and add to your residual income. All you have to do is choose a product and upload your images.

You can check out Joyce’s Zazzle shop here: http://www.zazzle.com/joyart

…and you can see my lame Zazzle shop here: http://www.zazzle.com/actorshumor

I’d love to hear from others who are able to make money online with Zazzle. I’d like to get an idea of how much you can really make on this website.

Let us know what you think about this review of Zazzle, if you have compliments, complaints, comments or you think it is a scam – let us know by commenting below…

Best regards,

Michael-John Wolfe

TAGS: Residual Income, Make Money Online, Royalties

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7 Comments to “Make Money Online With Zazzle”

JadeDragon 18 January 2010 at 5:24 am #

I’ve been wondering about Zazzle since seeing an article request come across Constant Content. I’ll do more research and blog about it soon.
MJ Wolfe 18 January 2010 at 12:04 pm #

I have decided to try and create about 3-5 Zazzle products per day, I just made 3 new products yesterday and I sold one today! Now I can see that if you have thousands of products – you’re bound to make a pretty good payout! Let us know how your research turns out! Thanks!

MJ
NoRR4Me 27 January 2010 at 1:03 pm #

Hello Mr. Wolfe, I came upon your blog while checking my Google rank for an article and a video I did on Zazzle. The video I uploaded to Metacafe only several hours ago is directly behind your blog — on page 2 of Google! Wow!

I signed up with Zazzle late last month. I was pleasantly surprized that I made 2 sales within 30 days of signing up. What makes it so cool is that I haven’t done much marketing, I only have a few designs and I haven’t maintained my store very well. But I still made some sales. Yes, Zazzle is legit. I will be adding more designs and products. I will also market more. Thanks for your blog post and suggesting that more products means the possibility of more sales.

I hope you don’t mind me listing my store name. It’s http://www.zazzle.com/smazazzle.

I’m bookmarking your blog. Thanks again.
MJ Wolfe 27 January 2010 at 2:54 pm #

Hi and thanks for checking out my blog! Yes, you are correct – Zazzle is legit. Since my recent blog posting about Zazzle I added a few products to my Zazzle store and I actually got two sales this week! (Both of the sales were items with a photo of Portland Head Lighthouse that I took last year.) It only takes about 30 seconds to create a Zazzle product – why would’nt we put up as many products as possible? Just curious, what term were you checking your Google rank for?

Good luck in all of your online endeavors!

MJ
NoRR4Me 6 February 2010 at 10:23 pm #

Hello MJ,

Sorry I’m just now getting back to answer you. I think I searched Google for “make money online with Zazzle” or something close to that. I’m now on page 1 with that term. However, I haven’t made anymore sales. I’m adding new things to my store anyway. Also, I’ve just opened up a twitter account to take advantage of that form of marketing. I’m not going to give up. I understand success takes commitment, time and work. I’d love to be as successful as Joyce, the lady in your article.

Anyway, thank you again.
MJ Wolfe 7 February 2010 at 6:03 am #

Thanks for letting me know the search term. Good job on getting to page 1! I am on page 7 for that term. I have no backlinks using that anchor text though. Good luck with your Zazzle store!

MJ
ExpandingPress 21 June 2011 at 8:29 pm #

I’ve recently read that it takes about 2000+ items to start seeing sales take off. Most pro-sellers have at LEAST that

Maybe I’ll get there eventually…