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‘Tis the season to save with Zazzle’s 12 Deals of Christmas! Today’s deal is FREE SHIPPING on orders of $25 or more! Our free ground shipping is a great way to make sure you get all the custom gifts you need for Christmas! Shop now! Check out today’s version of the 12 Deals video!
Check out this week’s Foto Friday Fun!
What’s Foto Friday? It’s our weekly blog post of customers enjoying their Zazzle products. Want to join in the fun and earn $5 towards your next Zazzle order? Read below for details on how to participate in Foto Friday.
Want to join in? It’s easy and fun! For every photo you send us we’ll give you $5 to use on your next Zazzle order. So get started taking those pictures and join in on the Foto Friday fun!
Rules:
You can tweet your photos to @zazzle or do it the old fashioned way by emailing them to community@zazzle.com.
Buy 1 Mug, Get 1 FREE!
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‘Tis the season to save with Zazzle’s 12 Deals of Christmas! Today’s deal is buy one mug, get one free (50% off 2 or more mugs)! Mugs are a great way to share holiday cheer. Add your photos and text to a mug, stein or travel mug to make a perfect gift for friends and family. Or if you’re not feeling overly creative, try shopping the marketplace for a funny mug that can be customized for the home or office. Check out today’s version of the 12 Deals video! Shop Now!
50% off 10+ cards, photo cards and invitations!
Use code: 12DEALSCARDS
‘Tis the season to save with Zazzle’s 12 Deals of Christmas! The 12 Deals of Christmas is a series of amazing daily deals on a variety of Zazzle products! Each day there’s a different deal to help you get your holiday shopping done on Zazzle. Of course the deals go along with the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” (you can use the song to figure out what the next deal is) and because there’s a song there’s a video! Check out the video each day of the Zazzle staff singing the 12 Deals of Christmas! Shop Now!
BeezKneez sat down and talked with us about her favorite designs, her inspirations, and what got her started on Zazzle. Check out the interview below and don’t forget to check out her store BeezKneez!
Zazzle: First off, tell us a little bit about yourself.
BeezKneez: I’m a totally self-taught designer in sunny California. I started out nearly 15 years ago helping a friend lay out a menu book for his food delivery service — in Word (omg!). A few years later, I got hired to do presentation services for a large investment bank. Over the years I was promoted through the ranks, and didn’t really get to design that much. I only recently got back into designing full-time, and I love what I do.
Zazzle: What’s your inspiration for your designs?
BeezKneez: Mostly, I design what I like. And, I’m fortunate enough to be a part of many designer communities that foster constructive criticism, and idea sharing. Many of my ideas get bounced off of some of the country’s most talented folks. I also subscribe to a few design trend blogs, and many of my friends are designers as well.
Zazzle: What has been your favorite design you’ve created, and why?
BeezKneez: Oh, man, did I have a ball with Sarah Palin during last year’s election. Every time she opened her mouth, I made a button. And I sold a ton of them! I still sell Sarah Palin items to this day. One of my favorites is the Lifelines button. And I’m terribly fond of my “From the Pet” Birthday Cards.
Zazzle: What is your favorite Zazzle feature? How do you use it?
BeezKneez: I *heart* the customization tools on Zazzle. I can set up invitations, photo cards, stationery, and business cards so all customers have to do is change out the photo and update the template with their own information. Priceless. Seriously, it doesn’t get any easier than that.
Zazzle: What got you interested in selling your art on Zazzle?
BeezKneez: A friend of mine asked me to create a t-shirt for a gag gift. While researching options that did *not* include an iron-on transfer, I stumbled across Zazzle. I made my t-shirt, my friend bought it, and I went on my merry way. A week later, someone else bought that gag-gift t-shirt. A couple days later, I had a couple more sales for that shirt. I didn’t realize that other people would be interested in what I created, or that I could actually make a supplemental income doing this. Three months later, I became a ProSeller. Now I have five different shops, and I “Zazzle” every day.
The shirt that started it all!
Zazzle: What tips can you give someone who is just starting out on Zazzle?
BeezKneez: Tag your items with some smarts. Describe (in tags) everything there is to your design. Think like a customer. What search terms would you use if you were looking for your item?
Thanks BeezKneez!
Here’s some Zazzle NEWS, Newsweek just opened a store on Zazzle! Now you can get Newsweek t-shirts, Newsweek mugs, Featured Newsweek magazines and more all in their Zazzle store. My personal favorite is the Stephen Colbert Newsweek edition that’s just truthy journalism. Shop the Newsweek Store now!
Happy Holidays to all! The SEASON is here and that means it’s time to Give Zazzle for the perfect Christmas gift. What’s Give Zazzle? Give Zazzle is about sharing your creativity, cheer, laughter, uniqueness, and so much more with those that you care about. It’s giving a custom gift that doesn’t come off the rack or shelf, but straight from your heart. It’s your wedding photo on a mug, your office joke on a mousepad, your family on a t-shirt. It’s giving a gift that is the perfect complement to the person you’re giving it to. Start exploring the Give Zazzle Center now to find the perfect holiday gift that can’t be matched by anything found anywhere else on the planet (well maybe at Zazzle.de…)
The Avery & Zazzle Photo Album Design Contest is over and the votes are in! Before we announce the winners we’d like to thank everyone for participating; it was another great set of entries for this contest and equally hard to judge.
Congratulations to KrispysKingdom for the 1st place entry Family Tree Photo Binder! Zazzle Seller KrispysKingdom will be receiving a check for $2,000! See below for all the winners of the Photo Album Binder Contest.
Winners
See all the contest entries here and stay tuned if you’ve still got the contest bug…there’s another contest coming soon…
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Darwin’s Origin of the Species.
We think that Zazzle, with its community-driven marketplace of billions of customizable products, represents a major evolutionary step in the advancement of human creativity and interaction. That concept is a bit complicated for a Tuesday afternoon, though.
So instead, here’s Zazzle seller NeoZAZ’s take on the theory of evolution.
Olympia, from the Zazzle Stores olmpal and zazzleproducts1, was kind enough to sit down and answer some questions about her experience as a Zazzler. Check out the interview below and don’t forget to check out her stores olmpal and zazzleproducts1!
Zazzle: First off, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Olympia: I live in Greece. Since my early years I have had an inclination for whatever has to do with art. Not being able to study something relevant to art, I finally became a Greek teacher. Some years ago, I took a course in drawing. Later on, I bought my first computer with drawing software. I loved it.
Zazzle: What’s your inspiration for your designs?
Olympia: Being born and raised in the country, I was always interested in nature. I liked to study things around me and I developed an interest in flowers and plants generally. So, when I started making designs my first source of ideas was the love towards flowers along with geometric designs, which I could find everywhere around me. However, I lately, started to “study” primitive and ancient art and I so much admire the things that all those ancient people created by just observing the world, that their creations became another source of inspiration for me. My designs are mostly decorative. They just exist to make the world around us more beautiful.
Zazzle: What has been your favorite design you’ve created, and why?
Olympia: My yellow flowers slip on shoe is one of my favorites. I love it because it is very versatile. I used it to make many different products such as business cards and stationery (among others). I also love my black forest mousepad because it is very pretty and delightful. I love beautiful things. I make my designs with that in my mind and I have fun making them!
Zazzle: What is your favorite Zazzle feature? How do you use it?
Olympia: I love making business cards templates. Business cards are my favorite products and I have a rich collection. When I first started making business cards I didn’t know about the template option. I made them but the customers had to customize the designs to fill in their personal details. I also like pasting text and product codes in the Basic Information section as in my Olmpal gallery.
Zazzle: Do you have any fun stories about being a seller on Zazzle?
Olympia: In the beginning, I hardly could keep myself away from my computer! I designed, uploaded and commented on other designer products, which is something I even now love to do! My daughter remarked that I had put on weight and that my butt looked bigger. I said her that my butt got flat because of the many hours I spent in front of my computer.
Zazzle: What got you interested in selling your art on Zazzle?
Olympia: At first I loved the ability to make shoes. It was love at first sight! Then just before last Christmas, I opened my second gallery and I was fascinated with all these wonderful products that Zazzle offers. Now I work more on my ZazzleProducts1 gallery, but I make shoes regularly as well.
Zazzle: What tips can you give someone who is just starting out on Zazzle?
Olympia: I would advise new Zazzlers to make quality products. They can use quick create but they should first make at least one of each product individually to see how things work and after making products using quick create to check them and delete the ones that have, let’s say, white borders or other defects.
Thanks Olympia!
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