Etsy -- Very strange site. Click on art/photography/landscape if you want to see some really ugly stuff. Try the highest price sort for a laugh. The lowest price sort seems to be a loss-leader front for selling higher price prints without having the advertised .20 cent product available.

I guess results at Zazzle vary a lot. In the past three months, my sales there were above any of the micros. Also 2011 earnings at Zazzle are above any of the micros (less than some once I consider the tax, as they charge me 30% of everything). Last month in fact I made more than the sum of my two best micros. But then no sales yet this month - summer slowdown there too?

I have a very small micro portfolio compared to most of you, and they are no-people images, so I believe this also explains my humble results in micro, and perhaps the type of images I have (photos and illustrations) suit better the public at Zazzle.

Just wanted to update my Zazzle progress. I added a few more products and designs, in addition to the "horned sperm" character (thanks, Sean). So far I've got a couple of small button sales and 1 iPhone case. I did some twitter promotion, but nothing major.

For the time and effort put into setting up the store and doing some light promotion, I'm of the opinion that Zazzle just isn't worth it. I'm going to leave the store alone for a while and see if anything happens, but I'm not expecting this to ever become comparable to any of the microstock sites I'm on.

If you're not willing to put some real time and effort into it, yeah, it's not worth it.  You make money from micro but how much time and effort have you put into that?  Years!  You set up a store, add 50 products and expect to make anything decent?  Your store looks very boring, you don't have designs spread across as many products as you can and you never really gave it a chance.

Check my store out if you want:

http://zazzle.com/sunnymars*

I've put in a fair bit of work but I'm nowhere near where I want to be and am still working on it.  Everything I have done though has paid off and fairly quickly. 

I'm not really trying to convince you to keep at it because the less shopkeepers there are, the better it is for me but I just can't believe you gave up on it so quickly.  I know a lot of shopkeepers there that do Zazzle for a living and only Zazzle so it's no "mickey mouse" thing as lagareek said above.  It's a real earner but you have to put some work into it like everything else (inlcuding microstock) and you have to promote yourself or have other shopkeepers promote you.  50% of my sales come straight from the MP and the other 50% are from referrals.  If you have decent products, people will refer them.  I do a lot of promoting and make a fair whack of my earnings through that as well.  Some people there only promote and make 15% of every sale.  That's more than your 10%.

Cheers!

Sunnymars, they way you've arranged your store, all those icons and sections, was it plain HTML or the advanced editor? Very cool.

Sunnymars, they way you've arranged your store, all those icons and sections, was it plain HTML or the advanced editor? Very cool.

madelaide, it's a mix of both.

I decided to give Saatchi a go with some of my more "artistic" efforts.  Quite like the site and they have some great content, just hope they sell something one day.

http://www.saatchionline.com/sharpart

nice ones - good luck!