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October 28th, 2009 | 
Author: Titles and Tags for Better Search Visibility
Zazzle Sellers! Make sure to add proper titles, descriptions and tags to ALL your products. This is the key to success. If the shoppers cant find your products, well then… they wont sell. Watch this video and learn how to edit products individually or in bulk, in order to add tags, titles and descriptions. In this video I also explain the difference between ‘editing’ a product and ‘customizing’ a product.
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Introducing new Zazzle products and features!
Check out these links that go with this video!
- Any example of a store using the Fully Expanded Category List feature
- An example of a store using the Scrollable List of Categories
In a nutshell, Store Category Sorting and Browsing is a powerful feature that makes Zazzle stores easier to navigate for customers, and easier to merchandise and promote for store owners.
- Store Owners can set the display order of all categories and products within their store.
- Store Owners can upload icon images to represent any category in their store, or use a default image generated by Zazzle.
- Stores can be set to display a scrollable list of categories, or a fully expanded list of categories.
- Customers can sort products in a store Alphabetically, Reverse Alphabetical, by Newest, or by Popularity.
If you don’t read anything else in this post, read these help topics!
We just pushed out a couple of detailed help topics on this feature, with fancy screenshots and everything!
Get your Store Set up!
- Add a Banner to your store
- Add a Profile Pic
- Update your Profile Info
- Update your Payment info
- Add custom html and text to the landing page of your store
- Manage the products you have already created
- Create a new product
- Your profile picture and icon
- Upload/Manage your images/designs
Earning Info ($$$)
- Payee info, we need this in order for you to get paid
- Royalty History (things you sold)
- Referral History (additional 15% you get for referring sales)
- Account setting, change password, change email etc
Promote your Store & Products!
- Make a cool FLASH panel
- Add your products to FACEBOOK!
- More Promotion Tools
- Product Panel for your Blog page
Tutorials (mainly videos)
- About how to refer to your products and make 15% extra!
- How to automate yoru product tweets
- Zazzle Intro to your Store Dashboard
- The basics of creating product templates
- Make products in BULK
- How to make products for Zazzle (templates you can use)
- Product Style Control
- Use your Referral ID aka Associate ID (You can get extra 15% per sale)
Zazzle Earnings Scenarios Part 1
Zazzle Earnings Scenarios Part 2
If you are having problems seeing the text on the slides in these 2 videos and you are interested in recieving the Powerpoint presentation I used in this tutorial, just send an email to rob.greenleaf@zazzle.com and I will gladly send you a copy.
Ever wish there was a super easy way to create referral links for random Zazzle pages you wanted to promote? Well we have a solution! All you have to do is install the Zazzle Referral Builder Button and you will be good to go!
Once you’ve installed this link button on your browser, you will be able to generate a link with your referral ID attached to the end of said URL so that you can create referral links with ease!
Simply put, this button, when clicked on, will produce a referral link to that Zazzle page you are currently on. This will only work on Zazzle pages and it will only work if you are logged in. Click on the link below and on the page it takes you to, make sure to follow all the instructions to properly install the Zazzle Refferal Link Builder!
I was trolling the Zazzle Forums today and came across a cool post by Bradley W. Schenck a.k.a. Ars Celtica. He was kind enough to create a Zazzle store, that acts as an example of how you can achieve this particular stores look and feel through customizing the CSS for your store. Read this thread to find out more about how to achieve this ‘LEAD BY DESIGN’ look and feel for your Zazzle Store.
I also stumbled upon some other tutorials he has written on Zazzle related topics.
Check them out below:
How to Reorganize your Zazzle Sidebar
How to Add a New, Custom Page to Your Zazzle Store
All of his tutorials are very well written and easy to follow! I highly recommend you take the time to read his tutorials!
You can create up to 100 products with the click of your mouse. You can use any of the Zazzle merchandise combination “Default Zazzle Product Lines” menu options to generate a set of products using your design, or text or you can create your own selection of merchandise to produce a custom Product Line. 
The Zazzle Default Product Lines contain a choice of groupings of related merchandise items you can use in Quick Product Create to make your products. These merchandise selections are designed to meet the needs of most contributors. If you don’t want some of the products in the group, you can delete them in the next step. If the Zazzle Default Product Lines meet your needs, great. No need to read further. For a complete list of the products included in each of the Zazzle Default Product Lines, see “Which Zazzle products can I create using Quick Product Create?”
If you are interested in creating a custom set of products you can use and re-use as a merchandise inventory for Quick Product Create, you can do that, too. It’s not hard, but you need to know a bit about how Quick Product Create works.
You can create any set of products by creating a Product Line containing the merchandise selection you want. Your Product Lines containing template products will appear in the Choose products to create menu, under, “My Product Lines”. Each product created must be based on an existing template product. The number of template products in the Product Line you choose determines the number of products created. The particular product merchandise for which you have templates determines the particular products produced for that Product Line. The particular template area in your product determines the template area in the product to be created. All template products in your Product Line must contain the same template fields and the template fields must have the same Product page label and URL parameter name. 
One new product is produced for each template product present in the selected Product Line. For example, if your Product Line contains 25 mugs with no editable template fields, 25 profile card template products, 25 t-shirts with template fields allowing the customer to add a text slogan, and 25 greeting cards with text template fields allowing the customer to add a greeting, Quick Product Create will produce 75 products, consisting of 25 t-shirts, 25 profile cards, and 25 greeting cards. The mugs are ignored since they are not template products.
It’s a good idea to examine each product you create using Quick Product Create individually. Some products may require slight adjustments to placement, size, or other aspects of your design as it appears on a particular product. Some product templates are not appropriate for all designs. For example, a poster template may be designed for an image that is wider than it is tall. If the design you are using in Quick Product Create is taller than it is wide, part of your image may be clipped.
(You can also watch a video tutorial about QPC by clicking here)
Combine Your Zazzle Stores To Count Towards One Volume Bonus!
UPDATE!!!!
Ben, one of Zazzle’s engineers was responsible for the cool RF Builder button I made a video for yesterday (see the previous post). He took some time last night to make an easier way for you to get this RF Builder button installed on your own browser! Go BENMVP’s Blog Post and drag the link you see specifed on his post, to your browser and you will be able to instantly start using this RF ID Builder Button on any Zazzle page!
Introducing the Zazzle Referral Link Builder Button!! This is a totally NEW Referral Builder Button for your BROWSER!!