I opened a Zazzle store, TMK Original T-Shirts Shop in March 2011.
It was easy to open the store just by typing my e-mail address and store name.
I have a Cafe Press account as well, but wanted to try a different drop shipping service at a different company, and sometimes visited the Zazzle website to check their services and products before I signed up. I was impressed that it's free to run a store at Zazzle. No membership fee is required. I logged in “My Account” and looked around the menus to get used to their services.
I wrote a store description:
Welcome to TMK Original T-Shirts Shop! We offer original T-Shirts that can not be found at any other store; unique and humorous designs for seasonal events, cute and funny cats, Japanese Kanji with beautiful illustrations, and more. Check back frequently for new designs for upcoming events and special occasions!
They have a lot of products, but I will focus on T-Shirt designs for a while, and then create other items little by little. I already prepared some designs for this upcoming Easter. I have created and set up some other seasonal designs at Cafe Press, but this is the first time for me to create Easter designs.
The menus in “My Account” are recognizable by their names, so I was able to add a new category, Easter, under Store Categories, upload the image named My First Easter 2011 to the “Image” folder, and add it to the baby T-shirt, and now it is “In Progress” in “Products.” I couldn't figure it out how to move the product to the Easter category so that people can see the product at my store. I will do it tomorrow.
Next day, I successfully published my first design, "My First Easter 2011” at my Zazzle store, even though it took me some time to find the “post for sale” button.
Next day, I successfully published my first design, "My First Easter 2011” at my Zazzle store, even though it took me some time to find the “post for sale” button.
