How to create products on Zazzle

So you found the guidelines by yourself right? No?

Well here is where I found them: There are some big menus at the top of the page each with a little arrow. Click the arrow to the right of the one that says “Create”. You will now see a list and at the bottom right of the list there is “Image Guidelines” and “Guide Files”. The “Guide Files” will bring you to the templates.

Each product has their own template just like we saw before. Click on one of the templates (the little blue links that say PNG | PSD) and choose one of the formats. I chose PNG since that is what I create all my files in. This brings up a screen that has nothing but the template. This screen is now one big picture file and you can right click and do a “Save Target As” or you can choose the file, Save As.

You can now open those templates from your image software. I went ahead and saved several templates just so I wouldn’t have to go back. I didn’t save them all, just a lot of the more useful ones like the horizontal and vertical shirt, the bag, the hat, etc.

“Yes, Yes, I found the templates - you gave us the link last week. How do I create a product?”

Now that you have the template, and have put one of your designs on it, you can upload that file to Zazzle by doing the following:

1.    Log In, Click “My Zazzle”
2.   Click “Create a Product”
3.   Choose one of the products (I chose Create Mens Shirts)
4.   Click “Add Images”
5.   Click “From My Computer”
6.   Click “Select Images to Upload” - navigate to the images you want to load and chose one
7.   Click OK
8.   If you chose more than one design to upload in this particular screen, all will show on the shirt, so just   choose one design for now.  You should now see the design on the shirt.
9.   I used a design that I had created with the CafePress templates, and since I had made the image smaller than the full area to begin with, it seems to fit just fine.
10.   Adjust the design as necessary (add text, move around, rotate, etc.)
11.   Click “Post for Sale”
12.   Type in a Title, Description, Tags
    1. Title - make this clear since it will show on your site, so don’t leave it as the file name.
    2. Description - Type in a description of the design.  If it is of a red hand, then be sure to use the words Red Hand.  Remember, search engines don’t see designs too well so you have to describe it to them.
    3. Tags - these are the keywords for the design.  What types of words do you think people should be able to type in and find the shirt with.  Not generic stuff like shirt, but specific stuff like Red Hand.
13.   Choose a Public Category (under the shirt there is a number of Category selection links)
14.   Leave Public as your visibility (unless you want to change it)
15.   Royalty % (if you changed yours earlier this will already be filled in)
16.   Suitable Audience (choose G, PG-13, R as necessary)
17.   Show Customize It on Product page - leave this checked if you want to allow people to add text to it or modify it slightly.
18.   Make sure the “I agree to Zazzle’s User Agreement” is checked (of course if you haven’t read the User’s Agreement, you should; as I mentioned in “Read the Rules” on my Click Into Action site.)
19.   Click “Post It”
20.   Check out the Shirt I made while creating this Step-by-Step Process of How to Create a Product on Zazzle: Ha Ha Shirt Shop on Zazzle.  I put up the From Pink Slip shirt today.

Do you need a visual instruction on how to find the Guidelines? 

Check out the video below from Zazzle University.  It shows you how to find the Guideline files.

How did your products turn out?  This was just the Quick and Easy way to build a product, we will get into bulk building and shop organization here soon.

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