Zazzle Information

Zazzle.com is a major print-on-demand company that allows users to become merchandisers by turning their artworks into merchandise such as t-shirts, posters, etc. The users uploads images or artworks and other users will purchase it in the form of products like mugs, keychains and receives commissions from every items sold. Zazzle offers digital printing and even embroidered decorations to their retail items. Zazzle can produce customized merchandise within 24 hours from its billions of customized images and artworks. Zazzle also has linkage to retail companies such as Walt Disney, DC Comics and Marvel Studios.

Zazzle was formed by Robert Beaver and his two sons, Bobby and Jeff Beaver in 1999. The company receives a series A funding from Google investors John Doerr and Ram Shriram worth $16 million. In 2007, TechCrunch honored zazzle's website as the "best business model" during the first Crunchies Award. Zazzle.com was also noted by industry experts for its ease of use and product quality.

Zazzle is currently considered as the leading provider of customized products and has the largest collection of customizable digital images. The company also has a vast online community of graphic artists, buyers and merchandisers. Zazzle's top competitors were Cafepress and Goodstorm but were acquired by the company to expand their products viabilities.

The products of Zazzle are customized apparels, t-shirts, binders and almost anything you can think of. Zazzle basically works by allowing a a user to upload artworks and let them sell it and receives commission. Some of the famous products of Zazzle were T-shirts, business cards, invitations and mugs that are personalized or designs coming from a database of personalized designs. The customers can select a design and imprinted it or embroidered it into a t-shirt and receive it within 24 hours. The artist of the design used for the t-shirt will receive a commission from Zazzle.

Zazzle.com provides products from different range of categories from Sci-fi lovers such as Star Wars to DC Comics or humorous products printed on t-shirts and mugs. Zazzle also is perfect for different occasions such as Christmas and Thanksgiving. Customers can order product with holiday-themed designs.

Zazzle offers World-Famous-Brand like Walt Disney, Hallmark, Southpark and even the hit show from Discovery Channel, The Deadliest Catch. There is also a section where you can start from scratch and came up with your own customized apparels without any graphic designing background. Zazzle also showcases the daily best sellers in its "Today's Best Sellers" section and the products ranges from mugs to even skateboards.

All merchandise in Zazzle are customizable and the customer has full control on how it will look like.

Zazzle.com was highly praised for having a very user friendly interface and a fast response on product requests and inquiries. The website was built for the purpose of ease of use and the navigation menus was categorized and arranged in a manner that new users of the site will never get lost.

The website allows users to create account with a cart so that they can stack their product selections and purchase them when they are finally satisfied with their selections. The website also allows users to upload images like their artwork and became part of the website's vast collection of customized designs. With these, the users can create a merchandise of their own by selling the designs they uploaded and receive percentage of the product sales.

The homepage prompts you with the categories of the merchandise. The categories also served as the menu for the products and were arranged from what's in to the newest release and to the bestsellers. Example of the categories were DC Comics, Awesome T-Shirts, Remix an Icon, Alice in Wonderland, Custom postage, Easter Cards, Custom Business Cards, Start from Scratch, Today's Best and more.

The website allows everyone to design their own product and order either digitally printed or embroidered.