Complaints about Zazzle as an alternative to Cafepress are plentiful but a lot of tshirt entrepreneurs put up with the failings because Zazzle picked up the ball Cafepress dropped with regards to volume bonuses. However Zazzle does appear to be working to make things better for people who want to open and run storefronts there.

One of the biggest complaints in the past was that their method of creating products was time consuming and laborious without a bulk creating tool. Well, that changed in December when Zazzle announced that it was releasing a new bulk product creating tool:

Quick Create Up to 100 Products at Once

Now you can create up to 100 products simultaneously from your own template or one of Zazzle’s default templates. We have developed a simple 3-step product creation wizard that saves you a lot of time when you want to apply a single design to multiple products.

Together with the Zazzle Bulk Edit feature on your Public Products page, it keeps getting easier to manage your products. Look for the Quick Product Create tab on your products page or try Zazzle’s new Quick Product Create now.

I have played with the tool a couple times and found it to be a little buggy, creating blank products for some unknown reason, but it certainly helps to get products into the marketplace quicker. That is something that helps not just shopkeepers but Zazzle as well and it certainly makes their site much more friendly to serious entrepreneurs.
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J.J. Jackson is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. and Cafepress “Top Shopkeeper”. He has been selling t-shirts on-line since 2004 and is the owner of the T-Shirt Entrepreneur, a site dedicated to helping people get involved in the T-shirt Economy. He is also the owner of Funny When Wet T-shirts, American Infidel Tshirts, Uber Gamer T-shirts as well as many other online t-shirt and gift stores.