Tag: zazzle

Does Politics Sell? Elections Fall-out

Like many other Print-on-Demand sellers I dabble in politics inspired design. People like to broadcast their political affiliation and I’m happy to help them in their aims. But last years, after taking stock, I do have to ask the question, “does politics sell?”. I have a small set of political designs, but only two of…
Will my Redbubble shop be a success?

I heard good reviews about Redbubble. So, in January I pulled the trigger and opened my own Redbubble shop. My attitude is not to be on to many Print-On-Demand platform. It will cause too much maintenance which can’t be justified by the meager sales you get. So why start another shop then? There is a…
Struggling curating stale products in Zazzle shops

At the moment I’m struggling curating my stale products in all of my Zazzle shops. Zazzle itself made changes in its policy regarding stale product. Not anymore six months without views and sales, but a generous fifteen months. Zazzle had quite some trouble to get the views count fixed, daily counts were useless and counts…
Spring cleaning and culling products

Spring cleaning is something you need to do every year. This means also for my Zazzle shops. One of the shops does not perform at all, so it is selected for an experiment. Until now I mainly used the “quick create” tool of Zazzle. With mixed results. This is a handy tool to apply a…
Takeda kamon and Oda mon revisited

I want to add more historical Tokugawa Shogunate kamon designs and I start with the Takeda kamon. And besides that I had an old design of the Oda Kamon which needed rework. My new kamon of the famous Takeda clan from the Sengoku period. The most famous Takeda member is Takeda Shingen who fought in…
Control your Life and Business by Creating Value

Owning a small business is all about creating value. You’ll hear entrepreneur’s often put a lot of emphasis on creating value. Without it their business won’t have a reason for existing. But what do they mean with value. Many of us work for big companies, like I do. Deep inside a large hierarchy it is…