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Muhammed Ali Merchandise Promotion!

contentcatcher — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:11:54 +0000

If you know a special aspiring athlete or social activist to be, we definitely recommend taking a look through the new Muhammad Ali store. This month only, Ali merchandise is 25% off in honor of Black History Month and Ali’s recent 70^th Birthday. Muhammad Ali postcards are perfect motivators for a locker or bedroom wall. His sweatshirts are great for keeping those upper body muscles warm after a long workout, or gift that special someone with an Ali phone case that emanates integrity and motivation!

Don’t forget to use the special promo code: BLACKHSMONTH

Zazzle Custom Stamps Featured on the Martha Stewart Show

Patrick Briggs, Zazzle Maniac — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:14:11 +0000

How do you give mail an extra-special-touch? How do you bring a smile to the face of someone across the country without being there? How do you create the delicious glaze on crème brulee? Who can help us??? Martha and Zazzle can. Martha Stewart, the queen of the extra-special-touch, featured Zazzle Custom Stamps on her Valentine’s Day gifts special because she knows that a special mailing starts with how you send the mail and ends with what’s in the box. Check out the clip below.

As for the crème brulee, all you need is a cooking blow torch and some fine motor skills. What’s your extra special mailing look like? What Zazzle Custom Stamps will you use to send a gift this year?

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Foto Friday!

Patrick Briggs, Zazzle Maniac — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:19:49 +0000

Check out this week’s Foto Friday!

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? See details on how to participate in Foto Friday.

Cartoon Cardigan Welsh Corgi Coffee Mug

Sasquatch Research Team Tee Shirts

Duel in the Dirt Print

Butterfly Refrigerator Magnet
Mice in cheese refrigerator magnet
Trees and houses fridge magnet
This one’s for my mom Magnet

Red Dianthus With Raindrops – Medium Postage

The New American Revolution Tshirt

I Love My Dingo T-Shirt

Join in the fun now! Learn more about submitting your photos and videos to Foto Friday!
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Zazzle Featured Seller Interview with fancybelle

Jes, Zazzle Community Producer — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:43:12 +0000

Ashley, from the Zazzle store fancybelle, talks with us about her hobbies and her time at Zazzle. Check out the interview below and don’t forget to check out her store fancybelle!

Zazzle: Give us a brief bio, where you’re from and when you started making art.

Ashley: I’m a small town girl from Louisiana, currently residing on the grounds of the State Penitentiary. For as long as I can remember I’ve been into art and designing. It was clear to my family members at an early age that I had a passion for art, just ask my poor Grandma whose house still showcases the designs I doodled onto her walls. I was always painting and doodling away. I took every art class I could in school and in my early teens I was introduced to digital design and would later fall in love with Photoshop. I’ve worked for various advertising agencies and companies as a freelance designer over the years.

Zazzle: Any artists you look up to when it comes to designing?

Ashley: I really love Susana Parada (ParadaCreations) and Katie Daisy (thewheatfield.) Their art is amazing and so uplifting and motivating. It’s nice to see art remind you that it’s the little things in life that are important. Little reminders that tell you not take life too seriously and to just live. I admire artists who can send a message as well as create amazing art.

Zazzle: When you’re not creating art, what are your other hobbies?

Ashley: I love to curl up with a good book or slack off and watch really crappy reality tv shows. I spend the weekends exploring and thrifting… I’m obsessed with Ball mason jars and old books. My boyfriend is a bull rider and a stock contractor so I’ve grown a huge love and passion for cattle and bucking bulls. When I’m not in my office you can usually find me in my kitchen cooking up a huge meal or baking up a batch of anything. I love to be covered in flour!

Zazzle: What has been your favorite design you’ve created, and why?

Ashley: I don’t really have a favorite. I’m completely critical of my designs and never satisfied but I guess if I HAD to pick, I’d go with something simple and striped!

Zazzle: If you could be a superhero, what would be your super power?

Ashley: I’d love to be able to freeze time (is that a super power?) I constantly complain that I can’t find enough hours in the day to get everything I want to get accomplished finished.

Zazzle: Can you give us a sneak peek of a feature design?

Ashley:

Zazzle: How do you promote your store?

Ashley: I try to use social media, but I’m really not that great of a Tweeter. I don’t have the time or the patience to tweet all day. I recently had the opportunity to showcase some of my designs at GBK Productions 2011 Emmy Awards Gift Lounge thanks to The Artisan Group and that was a very good move for my store.

Zazzle: What got you interest in selling your art Zazzle?

Ashley: I wanted to design and I wanted to make money but I couldn’t figure out how to combine the two without being completely swamped. A friend told me that she had recently purchased invitations from Zazzle and that I should check it out. I was completely skeptical. It sounded way too good to be true, but Zazzle was one of the best things that ever happened into my life.

Zazzle: What tips can you give someone who is just starting out on Zazzle?

Ashley: Be patient and be diligent. Watch the trends but don’t depend on them. Create designs that are really YOU. Designs that people will see and go, “That’s so YOU! I knew immediately it was your design!” And most of all don’t be discouraged if you don’t get 100 sales a day. It takes time. Create, create, create and promote your butt off!

Thanks Ashley!

Do You Have the Cutest Pet? Enter the HSUS Spay Day Pet Photo Contest!

Jamie McIntyre Zazzle, Triathlete Treker — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:54:34 +0000

Zazzle is proud to team up with HSUS again to help promote Spay Day with the HSUS Spay Day Pet Photo contest. But here’s the question, does your pet have a cuteness level high enough to win the HSUS Spay Day Pet Photo Contest? If so, enter your pet now! After you have entered the contest, share your pet’s photo and story with friends and family and ask them to vote with a $1 donation towards HSUS. Every dollar vote helps spay and neuter animals in your own neighborhood and around the world (not to mention increase your chances of winning).

Best of all you can put your adorable pet’s photo on any of these great HSUS gifts!

The contest runs the month of February — get started now!

Zazzle leads the way with USA manufacturing – featured on NBC Bay Area

Patrick Briggs, Zazzle Maniac — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:21:12 +0000

Jeff Beaver, Zazzle Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, was recently featured on a NBC piece about San Francisco Bay Area companies bringing manufacturing jobs back to the USA. A true testament to our commitment to high quality manufacturing in the US, the clips show Jeff talking about our production facility for custom t-shirts, mugs, and more in Santa Clara and our recent partnership with Rickshaw Bagworks (made in San Francisco). Check it out below.

Towards the end of the segment, the reporter makes the statement, “…And the outlook? More tags saying made somewhere else.” What do you think about that? I don’t think that’s the case. As personalization becomes the norm (what if your iPhone was partially designed by YOU?) and the cost of overseas labor and transportation rise, I believe there will be a demand for locally made/high quality products.

What do you think? Is American manufacturing coming back? Where do you want to see American manufacturing return?

New Seventeen Valentine’s Promotion!

contentcatcher — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:44:25 +0000

If you know a teenage girl who has her hands on a new Seventeen magazine every month, have we got the gift for you — Zazzle is offering 20% off Valentine’s merchandise from Seventeen! Seventeen is a great brand for the fashion forward and lively teenage girl. This special offer is available for a limited time only, so grab it before it ends! Don’t forget to enter SEVENTEENLUV for 20% off!

SwagStation – Instant Zazzle Store on Your Facebook Pages!

Patrick Briggs, Zazzle Maniac — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:01:16 +0000

Listen up Zazzle Sellers, Swag.io has got some good news for you and it’s called the SwagStation. This new Silicon Valley startup just created the SwagStation app for Facebook pages that allows you to create a Zazzle Store on a fan page in just three easy steps! The value? Instantly port Zazzle Stores into Facebook to monetize Facebook traffic on Facebook (and just in time for the Facebook IPO). More information about how to use this app is on Swag.io.

The app is still a bit young and the Swag.io Team is looking for some great feedback from the Zazzle Seller community. If you want to help improve the app (and by doing so improve your Facebook Zazzle stores powered by the app), give ‘em feedback on the SwagStation Facebook page wall.

Who’s going to be the first Zazzle Seller to open a SwagStation? Share in the comments below!

Foto Friday

Patrick Briggs, Zazzle Maniac — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:36:24 +0000

Check out this week’s Foto Friday!

Trendy Chevron Pattern Business Card

Fluorescence Shirts

Animals on Parade Tshirts and Gifts

Bardic Guild Mug

Tall Ship Sailing Mug

Assassins Guild Coffee Mugs

gotowork tshirts

Wild Pack Enterprise T-Shirt

Join in the fun now! Learn more about submitting your photos and videos to Foto Friday!
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New Mae West Collection!

contentcatcher — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:16:37 +0000

Tis the season to express your love, and Mae West can teach us a thing or two about free expression. West is best known for pushing the envelope and rewriting her parts in theater and film to best fit her style. A quick Hollywood sensation in the 1930’s, only 3 years into her film career, she was the second-highest paid person in the United States. Impressive, right? With clever sayings like, “Save a boyfriend for a rainy day, and another in case it doesn’t rain,” and “When a girl goes wrong, men go right after her,” Mae West’s independent style and alluring nature landed her a hot spot in our Valentine’s exhibition with a special 20% off promotion!

Check out the Mae West collection and don’t forget to enter MAEWESTLOVER at checkout for 20% off !

Curious to learn more about Mae? Check out her website!