PennyCharmer
I’m still here! Time keeps getting away from me so I haven’t done much since my last update except maintain my other Zazzle store. I saw only a slight loss in earnings (~ $50.00) in my other store after paring down from 17,000 to about 1,000 products. I’m slowly building that number back up and removing non-performing products from my inventory. And as I didn’t post an earnings update for 2017 earlier, I’ll do that next! ... Read More | Share it now!
Revenue Streams & Earnings for 2016: PennyCharmer Stores — Zazzle store: $4.52 — Shapeways store: $0.00 — Society6 store: $0.00 ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ — Other Zazzle store: $790.48 (this article includes affiliate links) ... Read More | Share it now!
I’ve rather neglected this site over the last year but am hoping to get back on track again now. I’ve continued to poke around on Zazzle but haven’t done much at all on Society6. I’ve been working on my skills in various media but have decided to focus on digital art for the time being. I haven’t been keeping up my PennyCharmer store on Zazzle either, but have been re-evaluating items in my other store and paring it down to just the most popular (this is still on-... Read More | Share it now!
Revenue Streams & Earnings for 2015: PennyCharmer Stores — Zazzle store: $128.67 — Shapeways store: $0.00 — Society6 store: $0.00 ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ — Other Zazzle store: $620.19 (this article includes affiliate links) ... Read More | Share it now!
zRank Update – I’m still focused on my other Zazzle store and have now completed its clean-up (more or less). To help boost my zRank, I’ve started performing regular maintenance on my stores, checking my 180+ days products and setting any with zero views to Direct-Only; everything else in my stores will have at least one view (from me) so once I perform my maintenance, I’m left with no zero-view items in my store. I’m also trying to maintain a consistent ratio betw... Read More | Share it now!
What I’ve Been Up To So, I know I said I was going to experiment with my PennyCharmer store on Zazzle to figure out Zazzle‘s whole zRank thing, but when my main store got zRank’d a 2 out of 10, I figured I’d better work on that one first. And that is where I’ve focused all of my online efforts for the past two months. I got my main store up to a 4 out of 10 but haven’t been able to budge it any higher since then. To get to the 4, I hid about 90% of my produ... Read More | Share it now!
The Changes This month Zazzle introduced new Designer and Store Profiles, and something called zRank. zRank is being introduced to assist designers in gauging how well their store will do in the Zazzle Marketplace, and will eventually become one of the metrics used to determine a store’s ranking in the Zazzle Marketplace. zRank provides a score from 1 – 10, with 10 being optimum, as well as some general advice on how to best achieve a higher ranking. The Effect Well, after reading t... Read More | Share it now!
In an effort to avoid that whole “eggs in one basket” thing, I’ve opened up a new PennyCharmer store at Society6. I’ve been there less than 24 hours but wanted to share my first impressions of Society6. The three things on Society6 that have stood out the most for me are: seems more strongly oriented toward visual artists than say commercial artists fairly straight forward to get started and apply your image to their products no customization available to the artist or ... Read More | Share it now!
I love the characters and creatures in Paul Stickland’s StrangeStore and his gardens too! (this article contains affiliate links) ... Read More | Share it now!
I’m living in the future with my latest obsession – 3D printing! If you’re like me, you’ve been hearing about 3D printing for a couple of years now and you’ve been seeing the nifty 3D prints of colourful plastics and interlocking shapes. And if you’re like me, you’ve thought “cool” and promptly moved on to the next thing. Recently though, I stumbled upon the 3D printing site Shapeways and there began my new obsession. Shapeways offers 3D p... Read More | Share it now!