Today's Best

On Zazzle, there are shops of differing sizes. Some shops only have 100 items while others have several hundred thousand items.

Although my store was small and boutique-ish my designs were trendy. By the spring of 2012, I was getting several TBA's a day. TBA's are Today's Best Award.

This is how other designers found my store. This is also how other designers found my designs. This is how I began to lose sales.

After a few months I would do a search of one of my items in the Zazzle marketplace and find Zazzle had gone so far as to create a category for it unto itself.. only my item was not the only one in search, hundreds were..copied.

I would check the other designs that had been copied from my design and they were always created AFTER mine was. None of them were created before my item was designed.