So remember when I asked people for stories about their Zazzle products? Well it turns out one of your contributing compadres had a great story for me. Here is what LL11funway had to say…
Here is the story. About a year ago my boyfriend asked me to design a favor for his 45th High School Reunion on Zazzle. He knows I dabble in design work (about 20 hrs a week, at least LOL). Anyways, I was in hot pursuit of the famous Wildcat which was their high school mascot. Needless to say, this icon was produced as a sketch which means no digital copies, no reproductions, no photos, no anything of good quality to capture the famous creature. Reproductions would not do only the original Wildcat, and incidentally the colors had to be black and orange no substitutes. So after about 3 weeks of searching for this elusive “cat”, I finally found the original graphic. It was not on the alumni or school website but he was mysteriously hidden waiting to “attack” in rage at the next Winter Park High School football game. I found him buried in a football program, so he did still exist anyways. I quickly pasted him immediately into Zazzle as now I had the prized Wildcat in my possession. I started experimenting and found it looked great on the Zazzle white mug with the black handle so the design truly was orange and black on a white background. The committee all loved it but woe, the budget could not allow a quantity purchase of the Wildcat mug so we went to Wildcat keychains, also designed on Zazzle. So with one mug in my possession (which everyone liked) I took it to the reunion picnic the day before and was surprised when everyone wanted one, with no price break for quantity, they were willing to pay the individual price. I took the money and ran home to zazzle and shipped them directly to each request. It is a great memento and I have another class that is interested in the same mug for their reunion. Of course I will customize it with their date. It was a fun experience. The Wildcat lives on.
Now that was a great uplifting story, your turn! Send me your stories and I will tell the world!
May 7, 2007 at 6:34 pm |
I really like your story about this mug which inspires me to make my image that I really want for my youth group. I am a christian mom with a 21 month old baby boy and two teens so I am trying out zazzle as a means for me to make some extra cash and design things that I feel are inspirational sayings in both english and spanish. Thank god for this opportunity for me to have fun doing something that I really enjoy!
May 7, 2007 at 6:37 pm |
Your story was really inspirational to me! Good luck!
May 9, 2007 at 9:00 am |
I just applied for a job doing graphic design for a ‘fire truck’ manufacturer.
After my interview, I went home and created a company logo and put it on a coffee cup, here at Zazzle…just to show him my photoshop abilities. I sent it to him in an email, thanking him for his time, an interview and his consideration…I GOT THE JOB!
Maybe it was the designed coffee cup that clinched it!?(…but if not, I’m sure it helped!)
May 9, 2007 at 9:04 am |
Awesome story, thank Cherie!
May 12, 2007 at 7:35 am |
The Wildcat logo looks great on the mug but you should have taken advantage of Zazzle’s easy to use designer and placed the logo on the other side as well. If someone is left handed then they will have something nice to look at too while enjoying a beverage. I realize that you have offered the option of customization and the customer can place the logo on the other side himself/herself but not everyone wants to take the time or has the patience to do this so it might be better to offer it right from the start. In my opinion, Zazzle has the best product designer of all its competitors, and if they are going to make it that easy to design something then I am going to take advantage of it. It’s still a great mug and a great story