Thought my Zazzle store had become invisible or something, no sales up to or over the christmas period most disappointing. But this morning finally brought some good news - A SALE. Admittedly only
a greeting card but at least it is something, brings me the grand total of £0.12. Wow, I had put in a fair bit of effort but not too much as I am becoming bored with working on the store(s) and not seeing any return. I only do a little now and then now. A whole year and only 12 sales in total and a couple of those were from me to use up the meagre royalties and a discount offer - only to find that I had to pay almost as much again in duties when they got here.
I get lots of good comments but dont seem to get any sales, I can make more writing elsewhere, but I shall keep the account live and the stores open. Adding a few products slowly, why not? I waste plenty of time elsewhere on the internet.
See new cards/postcards on my Zazzle account:
Most of my products are designed using my own artwork, especially the pastel paintings which I am currently creating. I also use some of my
mixed media collage work and
photography. A less often used source of images are public domain images from the internet, such as
Hubble telescope pictures or
Dover publications. So it is a fairly wide selection of images on a wide selection od products but sales do seem to keep eluding me.
I know I am told to keep making products on the store, but I never seem to hit the magic number which seeems to bring the buyers. Maybe it is SEO again, that debillitating subject for a creative artist which means that the internet just doesn't work for us.
Here is one of the latest postcards:-
