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HERE'S WHAT I THINK
Zazzle is better then CafePress
I love Zazzle. The interface, products and customer service are awesome...and I make lots of money!
5 Reasons why I love Zazzle!
- I can edit my designs so that they fit on the products...can't do that on CafePress!
- I get a FREE Gallery.
- I sell a lots of stuff on Zazzle.
- You can set your own royalty AND you get a 7% referral commission for items bought off of Squdioo, your blog or any other site you're on.
- Zazzle has awesome contests.
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Zazzle 101 ... How to make a profit on Zazzle
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Zazzle is one of the Print-on-demand companies out there that allows people to design & sell their own creations. I love Zazzle's ease of use, friendly staff, and the fact that I can make money on my art. I've put together this comprehe...
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Zazzle is better then CafePress
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David_Stuart says:
Zazzle by a country mile. CP can stick their ten percent where the sun don't shine. Btw I've been trying to close my CP shop for two weeks but can't seem to log in. Page simply times out regardless of browser or computer. Now my shop fee's are due and I'm feeling a tad cynical.
Posted October 27, 2009
Pukeko says:
Yes, Zazzle is great! I don't know cafe press, but the arguments here haven't convinced me to switch.
Posted October 27, 2009
digiscrapthat says:
Just opened my Zazzle store recently and I'm loving it! I was really happy with the way my Cafepress shop was growing, but then they changed their commission policy to 10% and that just blew my commissions. Not to mention that EVERY time I sent out ads thru my various advertising routes I'd get sales right away. Yet the commission statement ALWAYS said that I only had marketplace sales.... Makes you wonder....
I do wish that Zazzle had baby bibs and ornaments though. Hope they'll do them sometime soon!
Posted October 23, 2009
Jewelsofawe says:
Personally I do like zazzle better. I make money on my own stuff and from referrals. And i find it more sociable with the community it has and the fan clubs.
Posted October 16, 2009
misstaraleexo says:
Zazzle is so much easier to navigate, as well as customize. After a little less than one month on the site I made 7 sales, I still have yet to make one on Cafepress.
Posted October 13, 2009
spunkyduckling says:
If I ever had to date cafepress or zazzle, I'd surely fall for Zazzle. I've been using their service a few months now and I love how they have the add text software. So accommodating and cost effective. You don't need to install some expensive graphic program or pay a graphic artist hundreds of bucks to do a simple text only design or artwork. You can start off and build yourself with their free service and later with the money you make install your software or hire a pro.
Posted September 12, 2009
BunnyBoiler says:
How ironic someone mentions using CP over Zazzle because with Zazzle they cannot choose which shirt a design is sold on, in fear one might have been made in a "sweat shop"...The irony is, with the latest CP Marketplace changes, it is YOU that are now the one working in a sweat shop capped with the 10% commission. I use both POD's, but now I design with Zazzle in mind, there's just no motivation to sweat and perfect quality for 10%.
I am so disappointed to learn that the CP module and links from Squidoo generates a "marketplace" sale...Kind of takes the wind out of your sails (no pun intended)
With the new direction CP has chosen, I'd have to throw a vote in Zazzle's basket
Posted July 13, 2009
msavad says:
i vote for zazzle because cafepress is ripping us all off.not to mention anything listed in squidoo, using the cafepress widget - is a marketplace sale, even if you place the shop link in yourself. and that of course now means you get pretty much nothing for your hard work.
---Mike Savad
Posted July 10, 2009
AlexTK says:
Cafepress killed itself when brought in the changes from June 1st, losing all respect from their community in the name of greed. Zazzle doesn't crap on you.Choose zazzle. Cafepress is in its dying days. Common sense, cafepress, where did you lose it? Seriously, you can't piss the people off who prop up you company. Bunch of idiots. Zazzle, go there. My choice as an ex-cafepress.
Posted July 09, 2009
Ed Hass says:
ActuallY better yet....ZAZZLE allows you to place unlimited items For sale for each item WITHOUT THE NEED TO UPGRADE AND PAY FOR THAT MONTHLY UPGRADE.
Posted June 27, 2009
Indoor_Jungle says:
Zazzle is WAY better. I've been on it for 1 day and love it more already.
1) Sign up is easier. I remember having a little trouble signing up
2) It's connected to twitter. You can tweet after you create a new item.
3) You can have more than one of each item in a store
4) You can type words onto an item
5) You can change the models.
6) Bags have more variety. On cp, there's only 2 bags. On zazzle, there's a bunch.
7) You can make a panel to promote your store.
Posted June 22, 2009
mikelleina says:
I agree with the above reasons. I dont know what else to say but I use both.
Posted June 17, 2009
cafepre$$isDEAD says:
I'm another convert to zazzle following CP's foolish and greedy 10% commission changes. CP - RIP - 1999-2009. In life, offered a lousy looking website, with cheesy graphics catering for the whole family (see the banner graphic on their communities page to see what I mean...*pukes*), helping struggling artists, photographers, and graphic designers, plus the occasional stay at home mum with MS paint designs the opportunity to get a little extra money each month. Killed off after a bitter war with other POD services, or destroyed by their own greed, offering a 10% commission in the marketplace and having people pay to use there shitty service. Not to mention piss poor t-shirt printing. When the business sank in late 2009, the CEO and founder of Cafepress Fred Durham was found in his office at cafepress towers smearing his own crap on the wall, daubing in massive letters 'TEN PERCENT!' and 'I'm not mad, i'm not mad, i'm not mad' repeated over and over. Days later he was found in a puddle of his own piss, broke, huddled in the corner of homeless shelter. Around a year later, a gang of ex-cafepress stay-at-home moms tracked him down to a lone wood hut in the Forrest. He was tortured, molested with sigg bottles and crap tiles coasters and then murdered with a rope made of old cafepress t-shirts that was tied to his balls and their station wagon. ...Damn, this could almost be a twilight zone episode. There is a moral to the story though, one which cafepress needs to learn from quick. Don't rip off your shopkeepers, and don't rip off your customers. The June 1st changes do just that. They are picking pockets right left and centre and it WILL bring them down. Zazzle is the future, cafepress is dead.
Posted June 14, 2009
Voiceofoppositiontogreedandfraud says:
Yep, Zazzle. I would have said cafepress a few months back, but now, hell no!! I like many have been affected by their lovely changes which from JUNE 1st see the shopkeepers robbed of well earned profits. Yes, robbed. Cafepress will deny it. In fact they're staying quiet and hoping any bother from the people that make cafepress what it is (soon to be what it was) will silently hush-hush and go away. The truth of the matter is, cafepress are increasing how much they take from a sale in the marketplace and reducing the earned amount of the designers/artist/photographers. The tip is not to all hush-hush and accept these chances but to voice your opposition to what is undeniably wrong. Reverse these changes cafepress or lose. Vive la Zazzle! It's free, you get a fair deal with profits, it's easy to use, and lastly they don't have the image/bad press problem that cafepress currently has. Use zazzle, shop at zazzle... yet avoid, I repeat avoid cafepress like the plague and let the greedy morons sink their own damn business.
Posted June 05, 2009
YourFreedom says:
What I like about Zazzle is that they offer sneakers, ties, T-Shirts, mug & art. You have freedom with your designs, the opportunities to pick and choose your text designs to put on your merchandise, some of the text images are really cool! They give you a nice template for your site which looks really professional for free.
Posted May 26, 2009
Restofthestory says:
I prefer Zazzle over CafePress because I don't have to hold my nose to block the stench of greed at Zazzle, like I was forced to do to at CafePress. Zazzle supports the storekeepers, CafePress picks their pockets.
Posted May 10, 2009
No way, Monkeybrain!
tandemonimom says:
CP has a marketing deal with Twilight to make Twilight designs official fan merch, rather than risking copyright infringement, so it's CP for me!
Posted March 21, 2009
draik says:
I vote for cafepress because I earn more from cafepress. However, I am getting into Zazzle too.
Posted March 20, 2009
SideSplitters says:
I just don't like the customization on Zazzle. It's not as seller friendly in some aspects...it takes a long time to get a lot of products on there, whereas with CP you can bulk add in a snap. My two cents.
Posted August 12, 2008
Timewarp says:
I have shops on both CP and Zazzle but CP has always performed way better for sales, they have a great marketplace with lots of customers and also a well developed affiliate program.
Posted July 16, 2008
AnnaleeBlysse says:
I make more on CafePress too. But then again, Zazzle has keyrings.
Posted April 14, 2008
draik says:
I make more on Cafepress than Zazzle. Simple reason to love Cafepress.
Posted March 01, 2008
EelKat says:
I have been on CafePress longer than Zazzle and have made more money because CafePress ALWAYS let you set your own commision (Zazzle only started doing it for the Christmas season 2007... CafePress had the option like 7 years ago.)
Plus CafePress has some pretty cool products that Zazzle doesn't have: tiles, jewlery boxes, dog shirts, clocks, pillows, etc.
Both are good though, so I use them boh.
Posted February 26, 2008
slotowngal says:
Only CafePress offers a GREAT bonus program
Customized Premium Shops are MUCH easier to work than Zazzle galleries
The forums on CafePress are unbeatable
I'm making way more $$$ on CafePress than on Zazzle
Posted February 18, 2008
irregularworld says:
What you say is true, and I don't want to slam Zazzle, but they do not offer the option of determining which shirts a design is sold on. That's important to me, as some of their shirts are made in the USA, ethically, and some aren't.
I won't sell shirts made in sweatshops, and because Zazzle won't allow me to make that restriction, I cannot ethically sell shirts at Zazzle, and have to use Skreened and CafePress instead. Try out Skreened!
Posted February 15, 2008
calicoskies says:
I wish that I could make more than one product at a time on Zazzle. It takes way too long to set up my designs.
Posted February 13, 2008
freelief says:
It's not you, it's me. I just don't get a warm fuzzy feeling from Zazzle.
Posted February 13, 2008
viceroy says:
Even thoug Zazzle is technically better than Cp, Cp is still the top contender.
It generate more sales and traffic than zazzle.
Posted February 12, 2008
goldenecho says:
You don't have a third option--which you did cause I'd take it. I think they both rock...but I will say that Zazzle isn't "better" so much as they are both better at certain things.
Zazzle rocks because of...
-Custimization (customers can change the design) and use templates
-Your own free shop with SECTIONS! (Yeah!)
-Awesome feedback options--letting the customer keep favorites, join fan clubs, leave comments, and rate products builds a relationship between customer and artist--LOVE THAT.
-More flexibility in design
-More shirt styles, more mug styles, and more bag styles!
-ROUND STICKERS (can't say how much I love the round stickers)
-Keychains
-Ties
But CafePress has..
Lower prices on most items and much lower shipping on almost everything.
Muct easier way to add a design to a lot of products at once.
Tile coasters, boxes, and plaques (I love the tile boxes) and ornaments (love those too!), teddy bears, pillows, clocks.
A lot more designs available to shop through in the marketplace(though that may change)
But THESE ARE NOT THE ONLY PRINT ON DEMAND MARKETS OUT THERE!
ArtsCafe.com offers free storefronts that rock, 100s of products neither CafePress or Zazzle, and prices that will AMAZE you. Like all places it has it drawbacks. It's a harder learning curve as a shopkeeper because they are relatively new and don't have as many good help-files to learn from. Shipping takes forever. But hey, it only costs $3 freaking dollars! And if you go for a payed shop you get an even lower base price on your products, free shipping, and ability to offer coupons for your store and yours alone!
And then there's...
Printfection.com
OK, so they mainly only have t-shirts, but they have SO MANY MORE COLORS of shirts there, and the quality of the printing is AWESOME. You have fully customizable shops. Its easier to add products than Zazzle, but you still have some ability to move your design around on the T-shirt and resize it if you want to.
So, I think it just depends what you want to do.
Posted February 12, 2008
BurnTees.com says:
there's one MAJOR thing that zazzle lacks that CP has. the ability to customize. that's something that just HAS to be fixed before zazzle can really be called top dog.
in response to the free thing on CP...it's $60 a year...you can sell less than 10 shirts and pay for the service...not such a bad price.
Sure Zazzle has better products, but you can only create one product at a time and you can't shop by design...which customers prefer.
Posted February 12, 2008
Look what you can do with Zazzle on Squidoo!
HELP ME PROVE MY POINT
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