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Contributors Program

 

Introduction

Vincent Van Gogh never sold a single piece of work during his lifetime. If only he'd had Zazzle.com!

Whether you're an artist, a photographer, a writer, or a graphic designer, whether it's your hobby or your livelihood, you can upload your original work to display for sale on Zazzle products.

As a contributor, you may use Zazzle in many ways:

* Generate royalty income on your original work
* Display an unlimited number of products where your fans can find you (free!)
* Promote and advertise your original work
* Create design templates that others may customize (for birthdays, anniversaries, and so on) and on which you earn royalties
* Manufacture specific products for your own use or to resell (no minimum orders!)

Displaying your work at Zazzle is nonexclusive, which means you may continue using your contributed work for any other purpose you want to, including selling it elsewhere. In the meantime, you earn a 10% royalty on anything you sell at Zazzle. You can earn income for years on a single contribution, or from hundreds - it's up to you. It's free and it's easy!

Zazzle allows you to present your work to a worldwide audience at no cost to you. That's right: you don't have to buy a URL, design a website, or pay inventory and production costs. Zazzle makes it free and easy for you to market your creative work.

Getting Started

Follow these simple steps to begin earning money. Register. Create a Member account to get started.

Create designs. Create product designs by uploading your images, adding text, and playing with fonts and colors. Your image files will be saved in a private Image Gallery so you can use them later to create new products.

You will be able to choose categories in which you want to display your work. You may also choose whether other Zazzle users can customize your products.

Publish products. You may keep your products in a your-eyes-only Private Gallery or share them with potential customers (and start earning money!) in your public Contributors' Gallery. Your Contributors' Gallery has powerful tools to showcase your work, invite comments, promote upcoming events, and more. You can even allow browsers to further customize your work to create their own unique products.

Customize your Gallery. After you have created a Contributor account and contributed a product, your Contributor Gallery is automatically created. Once you have logged in, click on your username in the upper righthand corner of the page to access your Gallery.

Key features of the gallery include:

You may begin customizing your gallery immediately by clicking the "manage" button in the right-hand corner of your Gallery. Under "Settings," you may choose to add an interactive component to your Homepage, Favorites, Message Board, Journal, Calendar, Links, or Contact. Upload a logo, customize the general color scheme and the unique color scheme for the elements in each section.

Earn money. When you put a product into your Contributors' Gallery and someone buys it, you earn a 10% royalty, whether it's your original product or a customized version of it. Using our management tools, you can track your royalties at any time. You can even preview your check!

Become an Associate. Take your business to the next level: become an Associate and drive traffic to Zazzle.com from your own web site. With each purchase from a referred customer, you'll earn a 7% commission. And if that customer buys your products, you'll earn that 7% referral on top of your 10% royalty - that's 17% in total earnings.

Learn about our newest self-promotion tool, the Zazzle Star. The Zazzle Star helps you share your gallery, sell more products, and earn more money. Every Zazzle contributor can now have their own user-friendly gallery link that makes it incredibly easy to merchandise and promote their gallery to friends, family, contacts, and the rest of the world!

Royalty Payments

Every time someone purchases a product featuring your work, you earn a 10% royalty.

That's 10%, in perpetuity, on every sale of your contributed work, instead of a one-time commission. Meanwhile, you retain all rights to your work, so you can continue using it and selling it anywhere else you want to.

When unpaid royalties reach $25, Zazzle will send you a check at the end of the following month. In addition, we'll send you a check on January 31 of each year for any unpaid funds in your royalty account for the previous year.

Managing Your Account

In the MyZazzle section, you'll find tools to upload images in bulk and track your earnings as a Contributor. Click on the MyZazzle tab in order to:

* Bulk upload (link: http://up.zazzle.com/isapi/designall.dll?type=bulk) many images at once, then apply them to multiple products.
* Track the sales and royalties of all your products in your MyZazzle account.
* Preview the next royalty check you will receive in your MyZazzle account.

Nonexclusive License Agreement

View the full text of the Nonexclusive License Agreement.