For Sale, at incredibly fair prices, an entire warehouse of over 2,000 amazing work-related items, totally unique to this planet, and found nowhere else but in my shops on zazzle.
I’ve had a few things shipped to me, to inspect the quality and assure myself that they are sending out good products. Rest assured, they are.
Permit me to tell you the story once again:
Five years ago, I loaded my zazzle shop with about 2,000 products, and assumed that everyone could see them as well as I could.
I was wrong.
I hadn’t pressed two important buttons, and the items went into the collection bins all right, but they didn’t show up for clients visiting the site.
On the other hand, I could see them perfectly, and assumed, wrongly, that everyone would have the same experience.
They didn’t.
They dutifully went to the site, pressed a few buttons, and saw three or four things, period. Certainly not the thousands of items I had carefully made and placed there.
Last week, I spent many hours researching why my items did not show up in collections, and finally, Barbara discovered those two important buttons that I had not pushed, and so, one-by-one, I went through all 2,000 items, one at a time, and pressed those two buttons on each one.
They appeared as if by magic in my collections, all of them.
You can now see them. It’s as if I had a shop full of stuff, but never opened the door and blocked the windows.
For five years, for cryin’ out loud, nobody noticed that there was something dreadfully wrong with my zazzle site.
They assumed that I had no intention of showing my merch, and let it go at that.
Well, I went at it with a vengeance, and now they all show up, and you’re invited.
I wish I had stuff like this to offer back in the day, but in the sixties, we didn’t have an internet, or made-to-order, or any of that sort of thing — not even cellphones.
If you want to change into your Superman clothes, there are no phone booths left into which you can duck.
Clark Kent has no choice now. He has to change in midair, because his gender is uncertain and therefore he can’t use either bathroom without a full physical on the spot.
Speaking of which, I drove into a gas station yesterday and asked them to fill up the tank, but they couldn’t — the loan officer was at lunch, and the escrow department was crammed with motorists trying to pay for their gas.
I had considered showing you just a very few items that you might find interesting, now that they are available:
You’ll note that some of those puzzles have more than 1,000 pieces. You’ll also note that there are plenty of visual clues, even in the sky areas, for the puzzle solver.
You can preserve the finished puzzle in a variety of fun ways — ask about that at our morning zoom meeting.
That collection of designer socks is my attempt to show you how to show a concept for a business, a “Proof of Concept” is what the lawyers call it.
You can start an entire designer clothing business or boutique without spending a single penny on stock.
All your merchandise is made to order, and you inventory absolutely zero. Nothing. Nada.
Upload your design and reap the profits when your fabulous designs sell — and they will, if you can successfully drive clients to your zazzle store from your facebook, twitter and other social media accounts.
That’s the only place they’re going to come from.
Don’t think you’re going to get any business out of bots, which you’ll get from bought lists like the ones you see on fiver.com — I’ve checked them out, and they’re all bullshit.
There is no substitute for sweat & hard labor, and building a social media base is definitely hard labor.
Success doesn’t come from sitting around complaining. It takes hard work, determination and an ability to treat success as the result of a string of failures.
That’s the way it works, folks. Trial & Error. Mostly Error.
I figured, at four bucks a plate, who can get hurt for that? They used to make porcelain plates, but at a hundred bucks a plate, they got no takers, and the porcelain was taken down, leaving the paper plates.
Please note that there are at least Dinner Plates and Salad Plates, and maybe more.
Okay, it turns out that there’s a 7″ Round Paper Salad Plate, a 9″ Round Dinner Plate, a 7″ Round Paper Bowl, a 7″ Square Plate and a 9″ Square Plate, and boy, do they look good.
I hadda put in at least one collection of mugs and cups, the mainstay of my little side-hustle, this little online art gallery operation on zazzle, although I have similar operations on similar sites, such as redbubble, cafe press and paom, and I’m looking for more.
I’m able to produce full-cut full-print apparel, where the design is imprinted on fabric, then cut and sewn, but those items are very expensive, running from about $100 to $2500 for the really amazing stuff that’s cut in silk and linen.
Irresistible to add in my fine-art guitar picks. I had a special pick made for me years ago, but these are even better, carrying the effects of Objective Art, which means Dissolving Radiations, around the globe and beyond.
I say beyond, because I have gotten orders from outworlder aliens, and I can prove it. Outworlder Aliens always pay in Federation Dollars — they never carry human money around — it’s so clammy.
Actually, I only included this because of the gold pocket watch — it’s one of the best items they offer in zazzle, and it comes in silver, too, and makes a great travel watch.
The other reason I included the tours page is to show you what YOU can do.
Okay, you move to a small town. Bring a cell or camera to at least 12 of the hottest attractions in the area, the best-known sights to see.
Now plaster those images on a bunch of stuff in zazzle, inform the local chamber of commerce that you’ve done so, and offer them whatever items they want at a discount, which I show you how to do in the workshops.
You can single out a business and work out a deal with them to produce promotional items for their ad campaigns, but I warn you now, stay away from political groups — they’re all crazy.
Again, I’m showing you how to lay out a designer page for proof of concept. You show this page to your backers, and expand into runners as you’re able. I show you how at the advanced workshops.
You could open a small shop around Times Square in NYC with these. You need to order 12 to 24 pair in order to get going, but it WILL work, if you learn to smile.
Oh, yes, tote bags are another “proof of concept” sector that I favor greatly for the inception of boutiques, whether online or off.
I plan to create many more tote bags, wallets and other such gadgetry — they’ve added a whole bingy-bongy bunch of new totes on zazzle, and I can’t wait to get to working with them.
This image was produced by embossing in the designer metal. Looks just like the real thing, so much so that zazzle added a warning that it was simulated. I thought that would be obvious, but this is Planet Earth, and humans abound.
There’s no reason why you couldn’t do the same as I did — learn how to create in zazzle, which is easy and we give hints at our workshops, so help is on the way.
What I mean is, you could open a small store on zazzle and just get the FEEL of it. It’s not about money — it’s about skills, experiences personally experienced, and a hand up and a way out, so take it and be grateful it exists, even though the setting — Earth and its politics and crassness — is such a rude awakening.
Speaking of Awakening, I have some Awakening Exercises I’d be willing to share at a zoom workshop. I’ll see about arranging a good time for that.
See, people walk the Earth in sleep. Sleep is escape from pain. Sleep is the easy way out. Awakening is hard and painful, like what happens when your arm or leg falls asleep, and it starts to tingle.
That’s what it’s like.
Why would you want to do this to yourself?
That’s a question only you can answer.
In the meantime, there’s zazzle to learn and zazzle to master.
At the same time, while you’re at it, while you’re already on the zazzle page, why not buy an item, track how long it takes to get to you, note the quality of the merchandise, and see what the whole zazzle thing is all about, anyway.
Believe me, at a time when cryptocurrency is being beaten down to nothing, nobody will want to buy your NFTs, although that’s the very time they should.
The public can always be counted on to buy high and sell low — that’s the functions of greed and panic that Wall Street knows only too well.
Don’t be a sucker. Stay out of Wall Street.
Here’s a challenge:
Find an item in my zazzle stores, buy it, get it in your home ready to ship, then SELL it for twice what you paid on zazzle.
The trick here is to not sell something beyond what it’s actually worth, and the key to this exercise is to realize that NONE of my items on zazzle are priced at retail.
If they appeared in a proper setting, such as a Park Avenue Gallery, the prices would be, on average, four to five times what they are on zazzle.
This affords YOU an opportunity to buy my merch on zazzle, and then sell my stuff for true retail anywhere else but zazzle.
Ebay demands you have the item actually in hand before attempting to sell it on eBay — it’s their rule, not mine.
At some point, I’ll show you how to design and sell almost anything for FREE, and then SELL it at a HUGE profit.
Don’t go by me — I take on average 5% profit, although some pieces are priced high enough so that there won’t be a misunderstanding about value.
In short, everything I priced as fair as I could manage.
These auctions are still running!!! Help! Bid! Hurry!
Large Handmade Tribal Earrings
signed Painted Face on a Sacred Rock
Michele’s Organic Truffle Recipe
Michele’s Secret Nutty Super-Slab Recipe
These are examples of target pages you could promote to help me sell my stuff, and for each other in the marketing class — it’s all about how many eyes actually see your listing, and that means hard work, determination and marketing skills.
Well, it’s time to roll in to breakfast, and out again to the zoom meeting at 6:30.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby