Etsy Integration

Ouch! Zazzle took a game of hits in Round 1 with, Pull yourself up, Zazzle; this is a 7-round fight; let's go into Integration. When a platform integrates, let's say, apps or third-party vendors, it streamlines the process to help sellers scale their online business. Esty has a sound engineering team; they build good APIs for developers to build apps for Esty sellers.

They can integrate with Quickbooks to keep a record of profit and losses, Taxjar for your taxes, and other platforms like Shopify and Printful for automation in product creation and listing.

Zazzle Integration

Despite its vast operations and technologically sound website for scale for sellers, its integration solutions have much to be desired; sellers would have to build an integration solution themselves or use third-party solutions to work with the Zazzle API.

Zazzle Seller Products

The print-on-demand space has the most products for sellers to sell their designs; even downloadables like invitations give more selling opportunities and increase your store collections and products.

Esty Seller Products

Esty offloads the responsible shipping and handing to the sellers; however, they provide people to sell and upload goods and services. You can print on demand and integrate with apps like Printful and other print-on-demand solutions. Their ability for downloadables includes PDFs, website themes, fonts, and many more; Esty beats even Amazon in terms of the downloadable goods you can sell on their platform. Esty is not a print-on-demand first platform but rather an e-commerce solution; however, selling on Esty can come at a steep price.

Zazzle Seller Products

When selling online on other platforms, hosting your designs and stores has a cost elasticity for these companies, and Zazzle and Esty's business management is out for profit. You are, too, so everyone gets what they want in a free market. Let's go over Zazzle vs. Etsy's cost.

Esty Seller Products

There is a fee of 0.20 cents per listing, whether digital or physical, whether or not your item sells; not this .20 gets renewed every month. For example, listing 100 things on your Esty store will cost you 20.00 USD monthly. Here is this chart as a quick overview of Esty Fees.

Wait, there are more Etsy Fees

There are also Etsy Plus and Etsy Ads to push your products to the top; getting quick organic results for your items is a long gone conclusion; the prices of the table above selling on Etsy are high. However, it off-balances somewhat. They give a lot to their sellers as an opportunity.

Zazzle Fees

Zazzle is attractive because it offers a hosting service where store owners don't have to pay monthly fees. Instead, Zazzle takes care of website traffic and makes money by taking a cut from the sales of your designs. This cut, known as the "royalty rate," can range from 5% to 99% for each product.

Here is a Zazzle profit calculator to help you accurately calculate your earnings, considering product prices and your chosen royalty rate. Depending on how much you earn, Zazzle gives you a special badge to recognize your achievements. To stay competitive, set your design margins (the amount you add to the cost of producing a product) at around 15% to 20%, which aligns with what others in the industry typically do.

Competition Overall

Can you be successful on Zazzle on Etsy? Yes, millionaire Zazzle sellers and millionaire Etsy sellers are a reality. However, in a less competitive market, it is easier to succeed. Less competition means a more accessible market to achieve sales. There are two choices: blue or red ocean business strategy. By default, you are on Red Ocean scenarios based on selling a third-party platform; however, you can still succeed as an online seller in Red Ocean.

Etsy Red Ocean Scenorios

There are over 7 million Etsy sellers on the website 😲. You will compete against many sellers, but if you niche down on specific categories, you can make sales; however, it is still a red ocean. Moreover, with so many sellers, you must pay for Esty Ads or Facebook, Google and Pinterest Ads to get traffic to your listing; if you think you will get free Esty SEO traffic quickly is a forgone conclusion. If you want free traffic from Etsy product listing, you will need to post at least 50 items and wait three months. Remember, time is money. Also, with the dawn of Generative AI art, the Etsy marketplace has fluttered with generative AI art. as AI gain more adaption number of Etsy stores will increases exponential

Zazzle Red Ocean Scenorios

We estimate about 100,000(approximation) sellers, ranging from Pro to Diamond, making 1,000 to half a million per year. Using this Zazzle keyword analytics tool to filter and find the best perfroming Zazzle stores and best proforming products to gain inspiration the marketplace. However, just 100,000 sellers vs. Etsy's 7 million makes it a more accessible market to niche down. Therefore, weighting the successful stores and size of the competitive market, Zazzle is the winner of round 5

Transparency Overview

Is my store safe? Why did the store get banned for no reason? Starting a business is risky; having it out of nowhere is scary, too. Solid community guidelines and seller feedback are essential to ease the risk of losing your business.

Etsy Horror Stories 😱

A platform as big as Etsy doesn't come with its horror stories Etsy banning website; since there are so many stores, maybe it's a way to prune some stores off. Here is some proof people are getting their Etsy stores something for it may seem for apparent reason

Here is another video

To drive this point home, it has happened to one of our staff members here at Zazzlehunt. The store in the year Etsy suspended 2021 ChristiesStoreGoods has not been reinstated after the appeal; here are the emails to prove it

Zazzle Horror Stores

Do ban stores happen at Zazzle? Yes, but you hear the same frequencies as Etsy; if you do not hear the same frequencies of Redubble stores, Amazon stores,eBay stores, or any e-commerce platform, your Etsy store getting banned seems commonplace; there is a lot of content around Youtube and articles onlines around it. Taking a risk and starting your business, you do not want to feel like walking on eggshells; therefore, this round, Zazzle takes the win

After trailing three games deficit, let's see who wins this match.

Zazzle Community

Zazzle's got a vibrant community about their website and ranking system of Pro to Diamond, which is not used in other e-commerce platforms. The Zazzle forums are an excellent hub for good conversations. Folks actively participate, sharing tips on design, marketing tactics, new products you can buy, and stories about managing their online stores. It's an excellent resource for answering questions and connecting with other Zazzle users. Inspiration to fundamental strategies for growing your store to higher ranks. One of the unique aspects of Zazzle is that it also has social networking features like Postmark so sellers can follow and connect. This helps build a strong sense of community and makes getting inspiration from successful stores easier. So, with the forums, blogs, and social features, Zazzle helps its shoppers and sellers engage meaningfully. Plus, it is easy to start up your store..