Designing with Zazzle.

Zazzle - Print on demand

If you have a flare for fashion or love to make up witty saying, Zazzle may just be the right place for you.

You can add your designs to just about anything you can imagine. Shoes, bags, hats, and skateboards are just a few of the items. Of course they do also have the usual items for print on demand like shirts, posters, and calendars.

On the Zazzle site, you can find the templates for the various items that are available to create. Start with one of these and make any design you want. Although I use and prefer Photoshop, you can use any program capable of make a graphic design that you are comfortable with.

Upload your design to their site through their easy to use dashboard. Once you have done that, the rest is pretty much fill in the blank. You decided what type of item to make with your design. Add some text and background if you like. Position the image you created with their intuitive tools and click the "post for sale" button at the bottom of the page.

All that's left is just filling in the form with the title, key words, and description. Select a category and you are on your way. When an items sells, you get a royalty for it. The standard is 10% but if you want, you can change it to whatever you like above that.

Zazzle has many different user tools for promoting your items. You can create a flash panel to display your most recent or popular items like this one:


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You can also promote other people's items you like and get a referral bonus even if you don't create any of your own items. One idea I saw that seemed to be very successful was to promote selections from the many profile and business cards they have available.

Zazzle really does have many different opportunities for just about anyone, designer or not, to make some side income.