Episode 22 - In episode 22 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we are talking about the REAL reason you are not making money on Zazzle. If you aren’t seeing the results you want on Zazzle, trust us when we tell you that we have been in your shoes. Over time, we were able to overcome our struggles and achieve success in our businesses. Let us be your inspiration for you to overcome your obstacles. We’ve made $1.5 million combined on Zazzle, and as Zazzle experts, we can help you.   The points we’ll discuss today include:  

• Elke’s story of struggle and success on Zazzle

• Why treating your Zazzle business like a hobby isn’t working

• Advice on how to find the right experts to help you be successful on Zazzle

  If you’re struggling, making more money on Zazzle may feel impossible. However, we can assure you that earning money on Zazzle is attainable. We know because we’ve been where you are. Using our proven 5 Strategies™, we overcame our struggles on Zazzle and created a Perceivable, Passive, Profitable™ online e-commerce business using Zazzle that has made money for us for the past 13 years. Now it's your turn. How will you overcome your obstacles that you struggle with?   For more on The REAL Reason You are Not Making More Money on Zazzle, tune in to episode 22 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.   If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke   Love it? Subscribe, rate and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!  

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Episode 21 - In episode 21 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we are discussing how creating a successful business on Zazzle can help you live your dream life! If you feel limited by your current job and want to start finally living in alignment with your passions, this episode is for you. Your dream life can absolutely become a reality. We know because we’re living ours! In this episode, we’ll share how Zazzle gives you the freedom to make the life you want possible.    The points we’ll discuss today include:  

• What is your dream life?

• How your Zazzle business can provide time freedom.

• The financial freedom a Zazzle business provides.

• The location freedom that comes alongside a Zazzle business.

   If having time, financial and location freedom is part of your dream life, NOW is the time to get into e-commerce. It’s estimated that by the end of 2021, $9 billion will have been exchanged in the retail e-commerce space, almost double of 2020. Your dream life can start today by opening your Zazzle store to be part of this e-commerce growth.   For more on Creating Your Dream Life With an Online Zazzle e-Commerce Business, tune in to episode 21 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.   If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! @msjenclarke and @elkeclarke   Love it? Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. We would love to hear your key takeaways. Share them with us!  

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Episode 20 - If you want to sell products online, you have several platforms you can choose from. It might feel difficult to decide which one is the best for you. We believe that Zazzle is the best online platform for creative online entrepreneurs because of the freedom and opportunity it gives you. In this episode, episode 20, of the Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we will discuss both the creative and business sides of having a Zazzle store. 

 

The key points we will cover in this episode include:

 

• you can sell your creativity online and make passive income using Zazzle 
• How does Zazzle make it easy for you to create passive income online
• Why it takes a proven plan to create a successful passive online business on Zazzle

 

Not everyone on Zazzle is successful in making money. You have to create products that customers want to buy. There are marketing, research, and business management skills you will need. There is work that goes into creating an online business on Zazzle. However, Zazzle is extremely easy to use and gives you amazing opportunities in terms of the many products available for you to design on and sell without the hassle of drop shipping. Zazzle also provides you with complete creative freedom to sell in as many niches as you want and does not have a sales quota. 

 

For more on Achieving Time Freedom with a Zazzle E-Commerce Online Business, tune in to episode 20 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.

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Episode 19 - Whether you are faced with COVID-19 or other stresses, work-life balance for any online entrepreneurs is tough because it’s easy to not stick to boundaries. You most likely started your online business to have more time freedom, but wonder why you have no life out-side work. We, Jen and Elke Clarke, have been online entrepreneurs for over 10 years and we have been in this situation. We believed that in order to be successful in our online business, we had to sacrifice other aspects of our life. In episode 19 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we will share with you ways that worked for us so you too can have a work-life balance that is aligned with what you want, while achieving success.

 

The key points we will cover in this episode include:

 

• Align your business with your priorities. 
• Set and stick to a balanced schedule. 
• Create a support system for both work and life. 

 

Whether you are faced with COVID-19 or other stresses, work-life balance for any online entrepreneurs is tough because it’s easy to not stick to boundaries. We hope that this episode will be useful to you. We share our top tips to help you achieve that work-life balance as you build your Zazzle business and #CRUSHIT both in your dream business and in your dream life.

 

For more on Work-Life Balance The Online Entrepreneur Dream Life, tune in to episode 19 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.

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Episode 18 - Would you love to have a 5 hour work week? Are you a creative, who is spending many hours on Zazzle but not making the money you want to earn? In episode 18 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we share 5 tips on how you can build an online business using your creativity on Zazzle by working only 5 hours a week. We have students in our course, The Profit by Design Academy™,  with day jobs who can’t commit to more than 5 hours a week. They use our system and make money on Zazzle. We will cover 5 tips that you can use right now to work 5 hours a week while growing your Zazzle business. 

 

The key points we will cover in this episode include:

 

1. Shift Your Mindset and Set Your Earnings Goal. You need to get around the limiting belief that you need to work longer hours to get significant results.
2. Increase Your Productivity. One of our favorite methods we like to use is called the Pomodoro technique. Set a timer for 25 minutes, then focus on doing work for that specific amount of time. Take a break and repeat. 
3. Create Your Product Inventory. You have to create products to sell on Zazzle and ensure the products have a high chance of selling.
4. Promote Your Products. You want a strategic promotion plan and make sure what you’re doing is working for you.
5. Analyze Your Results. Review all aspects of your business and keep adjusting how you run your Zazzle business based on your results and goal. 

 

Once you incorporate these 5 things into your day to day running of your Zazzle store, a 5 hour work week designing and selling on Zazzle becomes possible!

 

For more details about how you can make money on Zazzle with a 5 hour work week tune in to episode 18 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.

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Episode 17 - In episode 17 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we are going to talk about the crucial mistakes to avoid when you name your Zazzle store. If you choose the name of  your store incorrectly, you will find that you picked a name that does not suit what you are selling on Zazzle or worse, that it’s copyrighted and you might have your store and all your hard work shut down. You definitely want to avoid these things from happening. We will cover tips and pointers you should consider every time you create a new store on Zazzle.

 

The key points we will cover in this episode include:

 

• Determine the purpose of your store. What is it you’re going to sell and what is your niche?
• Double-check that the name you decide on is not already taken OR that it isn’t copyrighted.
• Choose a store name that feels good for you and aligns with your vision.
• Be mindful of the small details such as punctuations, double letters, and spelling for store names.
• You don’t need multiple Zazzle stores when you first start out. We recommend 1 or 2 stores.

 

Take these steps to name your Zazzle store for success and believe it’s possible for your Zazzle store to be as successful as a big brand name store.

 

For more on mistakes to avoid when naming your Zazzle store, tune in to episode 17 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.

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Episode 16 - In episode 16 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we are going to share with you our 4 key tips on how you can make 2021 the best year ever on Zazzle. These tips will be helpful for you so you can prepare for 2021 now as we wrap up 2020. We know 2020 has brought on a fair amount of challenges with the Covid-19 pandemic. However, that will not stop us from entering 2021 with the expectations of it being the best year ever, because for some of our students 2020 was their best year ever. Why? Because they followed these 4 key tips that we are sharing with you in this episode.

The 4 key points we will cover in this episode include:

• Set your goal for 2021 now, and do the mindset work necessary to achieve your goal.
• Create your customer-focused production plan for all of 2021.
• Invest in the future growth of your Zazzle store and yourself.
• Stop doing what isn’t working for your Zazzle business to thrive in 2021.

These are the 4 key action steps that we want you to take now to plan to make 2021 your best year ever, despite Covid-19. We know these work because we use these action steps, and our students use these action steps, and we and our students have achieved success on Zazzle. Now it’s your turn to plan for 2021 before it happens so you can be prepared and succeed! We hope you find these tips valuable and helpful to make 2021 your best year ever on Zazzle.

For more on how to make 2021 your best year ever on Zazzle, tune in to episode 16 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.

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Episode 15 - In episode 15 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we are going to talk to you about how you can make more sales on Zazzle with your designs by keeping 4 key design tips in mind. We will do a deep dive into each of these 4 design tips so that you can do your best to increase your chances of maximum sales of your products on Zazzle. 

The key points we will cover in this episode include:

• Image quality is key! 
• How to be more intentional with your design placement.
• Stage your products that incorporate text with prompts to guide the customer. 
• How to set up your templates properly.

Whether you are making complex designs or simple text-based designs on Zazzle, these are 4 key design tips that must be taken into consideration each time you post a new product for sale on Zazzle. Implementing these crucial design tips will increase your chance of making sales on Zazzle.

For more on how you can make more sales on Zazzle with your designs, tune in to episode 15 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.

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Episode 14 - In episode 14 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we will talk to you about the 4 key concepts you need to know when it comes to profiting from Zazzle in the wedding niche. The reason we wanted to discuss this topic in today’s episode is because Jen specializes in the wedding niche on Zazzle. Her store is primarily for wedding-related products, she is also a Gold ProDesigner on Zazzle. This means that Jen has earned over $100,000 in take-home earnings and has sold over one million dollars on Zazzle, all from selling primarily wedding focused products.

The key points we will cover in this episode include how to:

• do product research within the wedding niche
• ensure you use the specific product types designated by Zazzle for weddings
• structure a wedding invitation product suite
• ensure maximum sales by formatting the text on each wedding invitation suite product

The wedding niche on Zazzle can be an extremely lucrative market to tap into. However, to profit and achieve success in the wedding niche, you have to research the niche and offer for sale the type of products and designs that are trending. We hope that these 4 key concepts will help guide you when it comes to profiting in the wedding niche on Zazzle.

For more on how to profit in the wedding niche on Zazzle, tune in to episode 14 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.

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Episode 13 - In episode 13 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we are talking about how to become the CEO of your Zazzle business. We dive into what it means to be the CEO of your Zazzle business and share more about our business framework, The 3 Pillars: Perceivable, Passive, Profitable™, which we used to become successful CEOs of our online businesses.

Some key points we discuss include:

• Why you should be operating as the CEO of your Zazzle business from the start.
• A breakdown of The 3 Pillars: Perceivable, Passive, Profitable™ and how they provide the foundation for our Zazzle business.
• The importance of feeling comfortable and confident in embracing your role as the CEO.

Every Zazzle designer needs to embrace their inner CEO and become the CEO they were meant to be. You can do this as long as you have your mindset in the right place and implement our business framework,  The 3 Pillars: Perceivable, Passive, Profitable™. You can achieve your dream life if you put the work in and embrace your inner CEO!

For more on how to become the CEO of your Zazzle business, tune in to episode 13 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast.

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