How To Get Started Zazzle (Print On Demand)

1. Selling On Zazzle Course: Hey everyone, welcome to a new course here on Skillshare. If you're interested in learning how to sell on basil, and you need a step-by-step guide. This is going to be the course for you. We're gonna show you everything from getting runs Oslo.com, create an account on there, creating a store. We're gonna be talking about some general rules on Sasso as we go out throughout the course. And I'm gonna be giving you guys a little tutorial on how to create your first design and how to actually select what products you want to sell on Amazon. If you're interested, go ahead and get started. I'll see you guys on the other side. Let's go ahead and get to it. 2. 1st: Create A Zazzle Account & Store: Okay guys, so the first step to selling on Zola's, you want to head over to Zazen.com. Now I'm gonna go into an Incognito tab here and show you guys what you're probably going to be looking at is you're gonna be seeing a website that looks like this. So what you wanna do here is click cell on basil and you're gonna see this button that says salons as well. You're going to click on this as well. Now what you're gonna do is you're going to login to your account. I actually have a demo account. So this is just for public use only. So I'm not actually selling on this account, but I have a public account here and I'm just gonna go ahead and click Zell on Sawzall. And I already have a few stores open. But what you're gonna do is you're gonna fill this out here and you're gonna click, you're gonna add your store name. It could be any name you want to. It's not really important. This is the name of your shop, of your store. Now keep in mind that this is a pro tip that within nozzle you're allowed to have multiple stores as opposed to other print on-demand platforms where you're not allowed to have multiple stores. This platforms allows you to create multiple which will show you how to do. But you want to go over here and click on, enter the store name, you add it, you select I'm not a robot. You could clearly creates store. Once the store is created, we're gonna go over here to view stores. So we're gonna have a few different stores here. I have this store called mythical, for example. Once you create a store, it will show the products that you have. But more importantly, when you edit your, your store, you're going to have to add a few things. You're gonna have to add your store name, your tagline, some information about the store, a banner. If you want, you can add a website URL, some tags, city, province, and state. And these are not required, but they're optional. Once you add all that information, you're going to go over here and hit submit. And all of that information is going to be public. And let's go ahead and just get into how you can create an icon for your store and a banner. We'll go ahead and do that in the next lesson. 3. Create Zazzle Store Banner & Profile Image: Okay, so to create our little icon and our banner for our store on Basil, I'm currently using a tool called Canva. Canada is a free, free, unpaid, but you could use the free version to create your, your, your, your banner and Profile icon. So let's go ahead and get started. Click Create design here. By the way, you could sign up to Canada for free. It's canva.com, CAN va.com. And what you're gonna do is you're going to type in here a custom size. So the custom size is going to be 1920 by 1080. That's gonna be the size for our banner. And what we're gonna do is we're really just going to use the middle part. So when you create a banner, you can go with really anything. You can go with an image like this, for example. And you can just edit the text in the inside. On the left side, you can see a bunch of different Canva templates and you can come up with the name. So if you want to call your store hello, fashion, you could do that. You can name the store wherever you want. You can always add some graphics and things like that here. Now in terms of the icon for your store, good size is, and I always like to do this. I like to do 500 by 500 for my icon and I can add whatever image or icon that I want for my profile picture. So I could go over here to my uploads and I can upload an image related to it. So here I have a picture of a fish, for example, and I can use this as my icon. Now when you're ready to download your images so that you can upload them into your xoxo story. Just go over here to the Download button and download it. It will be an image and you can go over here to your store. Let's just use this store for example. And let's go back here to this door, but I have the wonderland store and let's go ahead and click Settings here. And we could just give a little tutorial on how this works. The first thing we're gonna do is we're going to change our icon. We're going to go over here to the top left and click on this little house button and click Change. And what we can do is actually upload our icon bridges, dragging and dropping. And you can see here it's actually constant. It's currently uploading our, our fish image. It's going to take a second just to load. But if the image is below a certain pixel size, it will not upload. So in our case, we actually did a 500 by 500. We're going to have to resize that. So let's go ahead and do this and let's resize it to, let's say 600 by 600. That is a better size. So 600 by 600, let's go ahead and resize that. Let's hit Download here, and let's download this. And there we go, we have the image, and let's upload it here into Zazen. And there you go. We have our image uploaded now in terms of the banner, Let's go back into Canada here, and let's click on that banner that we once had. And let's hit download here as well and download this image. And then when we go to dazzle here, we're going to hit Add store banner. I'm just going to drag it and drop it. You can see here it's uploaded and we have now the size of how we want to go. So we can make this as big or as small as we want. You can see I like this size and I can keep it just like this so that when I click Save or submit here, you could see that my settings have been updated and my store now has the banner which you could see here. It's a little blurry, but now it's kinda good. And then you have the icon. So that's all you need to do for your icon and your banner. You can solidify your, essentially your store identity. All right, so now that your banner and your icon is created, it's time to get started with the actual basil platform. So let's go ahead and get started. 4. Creating Your First Design On Zazzle: Okay, so let's go ahead and get started where we start to learn how to create our first design to actually sell the cool thing about Zazen, that you have so many different products So you could actually sell. We can head over here to the cell button. There is just loads and loads of products, like thousands of products. And we can look at that selection here. And the way you can come here as you go to Zazi.com slash Custom. And you can click Enter and you can see what comes up from there. And it will take you to this page. Or you could just type in Zazen.com slash gifts as opposed to Zappos.com slash custom.com slash custom slash gifts. And it will take you to the page where we have all the different kinds of gifts here. The reason why it's docile.com slash custom and not on the other link is weren't going to actually be customizing these products. So this is pretty cool and this is really, really fun. If you love arts and crafts are gonna love doing this. I mean, I remember being a kid in school doing arts and crafts and I love doing stuff like this. So let's go ahead and get started. We can edit anything, we can do phone cases, we can create business cards, we can create mugs, we can do a whole lot of different stuff. The first thing I'm thinking of, Let's go ahead and create a mug. So let's select the mugs here. And when we create a mug, we can actually have a selection of the primary product that we can work on. So let's just say I wanted to work on this product. I wanted to create a design here. And notice here how it says, Sorry, the style is temporary sold out, please. And select another style. I can still add this. I won't be able to check out or add an image. I can add an image and things like that, but I won't be able to buy it. So let's go back and actually sell something that is going to make us money. So here I can click create my own on the first one, and let's click add an image. This is the built-in editor that Zazen has. Okay? Xylitol has a built-in editor. And the cool thing about Zazen that when you edit your design, somebody else can edit it and also essentially by that same product after they edit it and you take the profits from that. So here we can add some texts like my name or we don't even have to say is my world. Let's just, let's just type something else in my name is as good. My name is. And we'll add that piece of text. And we'll add another piece of text here where we'll have it, let's say Rick, okay, The cool thing about this is that whoever is coming into edit this mug, they can edit this text here to have their own name. Here. When it says My name is, let's say we want to customize this, the font so we can look here. And we can have a custom style font here. And we can make this significantly larger than what it is. So my name is we can drag this here. And the name Rick, we can drag right there. So my name is Rick. So let's say we were creating a Halloween styled mug. This would work for Halloween and we could create a background color. So the way we do that is we just select on the actual background here, or we can actually go over here two elements or even background on the left. And we can pick the orange color, for example. So we have black text with the orange color. We can also look for different icons. So I can type in things like emojis here, I can have pictures of emojis. I can even upload my own elements. So something that I would want to do here is I can go to PNG tree.com. So let's go ahead and go to PNG tree.com and we can actually upload. And this is the cool thing is we can find an image we'd like and actually upload it. Let's say we want something that's a pumpkin in our mug so we can go find a picture of a pumpkin. And let's go ahead and hit enter here for a pumpkin. And once again, this is not, it's not like this is required for you to do this, but this is just custom. And let's say I like this design. That's a Halloween related design. Click download here. I can download this image. And in about a second it's gonna be downloaded. And there we go, it's downloaded. So let's head over back to the puzzle. And we could actually upload it. And notice how it says loading here and here I have my image. Here I have, I can change even the texts instead of My name is we'll label this Halloween Mug M. Then we'll have let me go ahead and fix that Halloween mug and you want to make sure you're spelling is correct. So just in case take the words that you type in, make sure it's spelled correctly. In our case it is. Let's type in okay, Halloween mug. And then we're going to have, Let's just elongate this rather because we wanted to fit really well. We don't want to cram everything in. And instead of Rick, we're gonna have R6. So this belongs to Rick, Rick apostrophe S, right? And I will say R6, Halloween monk. So we can put this on the bottom. We can put this over here and put this over here. And now we have text with an actual image that makes this mug actually look pretty good. So at first it was just bare bones didn't look good at all. Now we have something that's custom and it looks better. So we can click Done here and we actually have an image that is completed. So if you look here, all right, and all different angles, The mug is completed and it was just that easy. Now if somebody wanted to actually sell it, they can, well, we're going to go ahead and click cell. We can give this any title we can call this Halloween mug, right? And we can just select here and we can add any tags we want. Now, I'm gonna give a little tutorial in just a minute about how to add the right tags and title, etc. But in the future, anybody who wants to buy this mug can actually go in and edit the name of the actual mug. Instead of Ricks, it could say marks, it could say Jason's, he could say Tracy's, Mary's cartilage, whoever's Halloween mug. And there'll be able to, you know, essentially customize it the way they want to. Alright, so in the next lesson, we're going to talk about how to add all this information here and go through that. 5. Making Your First Design Public: Once you want to actually public or make public a design and actually sell it, the first thing we're going to have to do is give this a title. I gave this a bare-bones titled call Halloween mug, but you can call it anything you want. You could call it a ghost, Halloween monk, because we have a picture of a ghost. And that could be good. And we go over here and select a category. In this case, we actually have a category for us. Here in the description we could say get the best Halloween mug on the market. And once again, spelling matters. So here's a little typo. Get your mug with your name stamped on it, something like that. Just a short description for people to get interested in. Just explain what the product is. Here we can change our options of how we want the product to be presented. For example, if I like this area of how the product was presented, I could just click Okay, over here. I could select all options because of where I want to present it. So let's just say I want to only presented on coffee or travel mugs or beer mugs or whatever. In my case, I want it presented on all products. And in terms of the recipient, it could be for anyone who could be for handy won him, her kids, whoever. So in this case, we have anyone in terms of anyone, we have any person store category. For the categories we have all different kinds of categories, new products, etc. In this case, we'll just go ahead and just leave it for new products. And for tags, we have some obvious, we have a picture of a ghost, we have a picture of Halloween. All right. So we just want to make sure Halloween is spelled correctly. It is. We have a picture of, let's say pumpkin. Pumpkin. We have, let's say scary. And let's say we have the color orange as well. So because it's an orange monk, those are the tags that I feel comfortable using for now. If this was a competitive niche, I would definitely focus a lot more in tags, but this is just a quick, easy tutorial here. In our case, it's suitable for all audiences, so it's rated G for everyone. Here we have public consumption is perfectly fine. Public visibility and we do want to allow customization. So show your customize it button and the answer is yes, absolutely. Now in terms of the percentage, I've seen some mugs go up to $20 for sale. I've seen some mugs stay $15 in this case. I'll just keep it at five and select posted. Now if we completed everything correctly, it should say congratulations here. Now we can just wait for the product to be published. And it will take a little bit of time, but could take up 24 hours for the product to be published. But now our product is essentially in the processing phase. 6. Summary Round Up: So just to do a quick roundup of everything that we did, we created a banner for our product. We created a icon for, excuse me, for, not for our product, for our Sasso profile, we created an icon, we created a banner. We also created our first design, and we even learned how to publish it properly with the name, the title, the tags, etc. Well, what we're gonna do in the future lessons is we're going to create two more products and we're gonna have fun with creating these products. So let's go ahead and get started. 7. Example 1: Create Wrapping Paper On Zazzle: So since I created some products here, I want to go ahead and create more. So let's go ahead and create gotos azole and follow the same process. Let's click cell and let's pick something that we can sell here. So in my case, I want to do something fun, something entertaining. So let's just go ahead and read through some of the things that we could actually sell here. So we can sell stuff for home and sports and games, mugs, pillows, blankets, aprons, tapestries, face masks, magnets, playing cards, coasters, etc. The clothing we have t-shirts, women's clothing, men's clothing rather. Kids clothing, hats, tote bags, key chains, buttons, bandana has etc. Invitations and the stationary we have greeting cards, invitations, announcements, postcards, thank you. Cards, note cards, envelopes, notepads, rubber stamps, return address labels, and we have even more products, which invitation is a little boring for me, so it's not something I'll go into. Here. We have art, crafts and party supplies. We have wrapping paper stickers, posters that actually gets my attention. Let's go ahead and create some wrapping paper so we can actually choose what kind of wrapping paper we want. I'm gonna go ahead and pick the cheapest one so I can generate the most profit. Well, actually, it's technically not the most profit because this one is 19 inches by 2129 inches. I'm gonna go with this one because it's six feet, so that's probably going to be the cheapest one. Let's go ahead and hit Add Image here. So for the image, I want to go with a pattern. I'm going to create a pattern on my wrapping paper. If we go back here, the wrapping paper size looks like it's relatively like a square. And I'm going to be actually doing the same thing here in Canva. Since it's gonna be a square. I'm gonna go with the button, 4 thousand by 4 thousand here. And let's see if this fits on to Canva. And we're going to create our own design within Canvas. So I'm gonna go and let's say I'm thinking of a Thanksgiving or forget it. Let's go with Halloween again. Let's go with a Halloween wrapping paper. So let's type in Halloween and let's type it into our elements here. So I'm going to copy here, I'm going go into my elements in Kanban type in Halloween. I have all these different kinds of characteristics that fit into Halloween. So let's say I liked this hat here, and I want to minimize it. And let's say I have this pumpkin. And I want to put it here. Remember I'm creating a pattern here, so I have this sculpture. What I want to do is actually I want to create a background as well. So let's just say I go with this orange background color. That would mean for this pumpkin, Pumpkin would have to be a different kind of orange. So let's just go with actually let's go with a black for the, for the background so it can make the orange pumpkin stand out. So let's just go ahead and go with that. So we have our pumpkin, we have our skull here and our skull, I'm gonna go with like a gray tint instead of purple. We have r hat here for which we have this grim reaper kid here with a costume. So let's go ahead and do that, and let's add this. And let's see if any more icons that we can add here. We have a spiderweb. Have a cat. I'm going to make the cat white. And I'm, or actually I'll go with purple, went up. Let's go with purple. And let's make her whiskers stand out with white whiskers and white shadows. Just like that shall stand out the cat. What else do we have? We have some candy here. We've got a picture of some candy. We have a picture of a bat. Mat actually looks perfectly. I liked the way that looks. Let's see what else we can get here. The V spiderweb option is another option, even though we had a one here. So this is looking pretty good. So we have, let's just arrange our products here. So the first thing I'm going do is go here to form the four corners. And I have a picture of pumpkin spiderweb candy, okay, here. Here. I'm just going to add pictures of graphics here. So here you could see we have a whole line of graphics. Then we're gonna do the exact same thing here. So I got an image here, I got an image here. And I got this one. So let's go with, let's go with this one. Just like that. And let's go with this one which is right here. Actually, we already did something with a pumpkin. Let's go with this cauldron right here, the culture, and I'll actually make it a little bit brighter. So let's go with something. Let's go with something like a dark gray just like that. What we could do is increase the size or make everything fit properly. And what we're gonna do is we're going to drag this here to the middle and drag this here to the middle as well. And we have now our pattern. So obviously you can alter things just to make everything fit a little bit better since this is for a wrapping paper. And you can make things bigger, you can make things smaller. It's really up to you how you want to go ahead and design things. For example. This is about a good size for most of the stuff that we're doing. What I could do is I could just go over here and hit download just like that. So let it download here. And once again, this is going to be our pattern. We're going to go to our creator own, and we're going to upload this. So let's go ahead and hit Add Image. And we're going to upload the image here into our system. You can see here it's uploaded and it's added. And what we're gonna do is we're going to push this all the way to the left and open this up again. Just like that. It will be essentially two images on top of each other. Just like that, It's almost like a pattern. Since we have that, I'll just go ahead and click Done here. And there we go. We have wrapping paper for our gifts. And you can see here, every aspect of the image is shown. Here is a flat aspect of the image. Here's a regular aspect of the image and this is pretty cool, pretty fun to be able to do this. And we could just hit cell, it will go ahead and do the exact same thing. So we could type in Halloween themed Halloween themed. They already know that it's wrapping paper. It says Halloween themed wrapping paper, but it's already added. They've automatically add the word wrapping paper to it. Description is and get ready for Halloween this year. Some basic type of who is ready to hand out some Halloween gifts with this epic Halloween wrapping paper. Something very basic. And we'll go over here and just make sure we submit it just like that. We have different options. Obviously, I'm gonna make sure all options are selected. We have events here, we're going to look for holidays, and I want to go for the Halloween holiday and select that. In terms of recipient, we are good for anyone. Store category. We'll just select a random category. Here we have a bunch of stuff. We have bats, we have vampires, we have stuff for kids. We have pumpkins. We have, what else do we have in the image? Let's actually go back here and let's take a look at the image that we created. Because we would do want to make sure we got black cats, right. We have a picture of spider webs. One, 23, we have eight tags, so we have two more. We have, uh, which, which we have costume. Let's go ahead and make sure we spell that right. Spelling is important. Then we go, we added our ten tags. It's suitable for every one that we're going to set a 5% commission. And just click post. We have an error here. Yep, we have to select what kind of product category and that's it post. And you can see here it's Congratulations were completed. So let's go ahead and have a little bit of fun and create just one more design. 8. Example 2: Creating A Skateboard On Zazzle: Alright, so now that we created our wrapping paper, Let's go and have some more fun and create another design. So let's go over here to click cell, and let's find something else we can tell I'm actually thinking about selling this skateboard. So let's go ahead and hit Add here. And what we can do is we actually get to create the skateboard. So this is the other side of the skateboard. And what I want to do is I want to add my mythical design here. We'll actually see if this works. If this doesn't work, it's okay. I'll go back and make a customized customization myself, and we'll see how this looks like. So this is okay, we can actually make this a little bit smaller and see what happens. So let's go ahead and try to do that and see if we can fit more of the unicorn image. And we actually can. Let's go ahead and do this just a little more. See what can come up here from this, because you never know, it could look pretty decent. K, just a little bit more. We could, we could actually resize this just a little bit more as well. And that's about right. So I have this mythical skateboard here. And I couldn't just, Let me see. What I could do is this looks a little bit like it's upside down just slightly. So what I can do here is can I flip this? I believe I can, but we'll go ahead and see here. Let's go ahead and see. Can we flip this? Yes, we absolutely can. So we have this flipped and let's go ahead and drag the size here. This was already a design that I had created earlier. This mythical design here I did create it within Canva. You can see here, there we go. I find that this is a cool little skateboard design. And so that looks pretty cool to me. It says here there's an issue of design. Let's see what the issue is. The product contains some images that have been made larger than their original sizes. This may make it blurry. Well, it's not bad at all. It actually looks pretty good since the preview makes the image look good. So what I'm gonna do is I'm actually going to publish this. What I'm going to do is here, I'm actually going to select, I can't select any, any additions here to the product. Still can't sell it. So I have two actually improve it. So what we'll do is since this is blurry, there will be a good little live demonstration. We'll go over here to the product and remake it. For the design of our skateboard. I'm gonna go with something basic. I'm gonna create a new design here and we're going to go with our custom design. We're gonna go with 1920 by 1080. Let's hit Create the skateboard. I'm guessing he's gonna go from left to right. So let's go ahead and whip out a gradient color. So let's cope, Let's get a gradient. And the gradient I like is, let's say this green gradient, right? And let's type in the word here. Gobbling. I just liked the word goblin because it's green. It's like you're riding on a Green Goblin. The Green Goblin. We're going to add some cool text to it just like this. We actually have to be aware of how we're gonna do this because I can add the word goblin in my skateboard just like this. I can type in here text, add text, and I can type in the word Goblin. Just like that. What I could do all That's a really sick font. That's really, really cool. I can make this nice and big just like that. Maybe just make it a hint smaller just so that none of the text gets cuts off. Gets cut off, just like that. You can see there's a preview on the bottom here as to how it looks, but we don't want it to be in white. I want to have this gradient backgrounds. For the backgrounds, I'm gonna upload my, my own image background. I'm going to go with this, but I want to find pictures of goblins. Maybe that will be pretty cool. Goblin. Maybe I could take something like this and just make it transparent throughout. So I could take something like this and multiply it out. So make like a little pattern out of it. And I could do something like this and just make it nice and transparent, just like that. I could take this, multiply this out here, kind of like this, like this, like this. And like this, get as many as I can in there. Just like that. So that'll be perfectly fine. What we're going to do is hit Download. Let's hit Download here. This is why I love sizes because you get to do so many things on basil. And let's go ahead and go and add this as our background. So we're going to upload this as our background. I'm just upload this background here. You can see here it's added now. So you see the pictures or the faces of the goblin is added. And we could drag and drop this and do whatever we want to do here. But this is good. I liked the way that it's structured like that. I can go over here and selected done. And you can see here the word goblin is added in any direction and recent to the word it works. We can hit sell it. We can do the same thing we can say in Goblin and its escape board. I don't need to add the word skateboard. I'll just add the word goblin here. And it's added, the word skateboard is added in the back. The description, let's just say feel like a goblin. When you're scaling something basic, just, you know, it doesn't have to be crazy. Descriptive. This is just good enough for a beginner's guide. And we'll add some basic keywords like goblin, let me green. And let's say cool, rad, kick, flip, maybe I don't know, that'll be decent enough. And let's go ahead and click Post. If we did everything right, once again it says congratulations and that's it. That's all we have to do. So thank you guys for watching the course. Hopefully you enjoyed this course and hopefully give you enough information and a guide on how to create some designs for basil. All right, See you guys later. I hope you enjoy Talk to you later piece.