Any experience with Zazzle?

[redwater]

When does one reach PRO status? Is it three months making a $100,- each month or just reaching $100.- in total? I have read both.

It's $100 earnings total, which most agree is a bit low. They'll only be 'inviting' new prosellers quarterly, so maybe things will happen at the end of March, if they make it April, I might just make bronze - no great shakes but at least you get a pack of free business cards.

http://www.zazzle.com/mk/sell/proseller

wow, that's cool! how long did it take you to get to bronze, if you don't mind?

[gill]

I've been there 14 months, so it's not enough to give up the day job (if I had one!), and I didn't really know what I was doing for the first 6 months, i.e. putting photos on products and hoping they'd sell. It takes a while to find your niche, but maybe stock photographers (I'm not one) have a head start there.

[redwater]

I've been there 14 months, so it's not enough to give up the day job (if I had one!), and I didn't really know what I was doing for the first 6 months, i.e. putting photos on products and hoping they'd sell. It takes a while to find your niche, but maybe stock photographers (I'm not one) have a head start there.

thanks for sharing. i guess being able to identify a market niche that is not fully saturated products will be a great benefit in any business.

[madelaide]

With sales in a variety of products and subjects, I didn't find any niche yet. 

[redwater]

With sales in a variety of products and subjects, I didn't find any niche yet. 

your market niche could be your photographic style or if your an illustrator your art/graphic style/genre or something like that.

[click_click]

I don't understand the Pro level requirements as I passed the $100 mark in March 2010.

Since then nothing happened and I'm about to hit Bronze level soon.

I asked Zazzle but they just wrote back that they are working on the program for 2011 which appears not to be released yet. No answer to my question why I wasn't bumped into the Basic Pro level early last year.

So I'm just confused.

[gill]

The basic Pro level requirement was different last March - then you would have had to earn a minimum of $300 over three consecutive months - $100 per month average. Since they changed the plan just before Christmas, I don't think anyone has been made proseller yet.
But who knows, the way Zazzle works is a mystery.