Nifty Promo Control Panel for Zazzlers

Nifty Promo Control Panel

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Feedback from regulars is amazing. I hope you enjoy its benefits, too, whatever way makes sense for you to use it.

New feature added in this V3 release: now you can combine multiple feed sources (up to 3) for many tools - see the "Advanced options" section under "More options". Not many will need it but if you do, it's invaluable.

Here's the list of promoting options:

A scheduler that works in conjunction with IFTTT (IfThisThenThat) to promote your products automatically
Two different types of slideshow pages you can share on social media
Individual product sharing from a slideshow - streamlined for
- Pinterest
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Zazzle Forum
- Email sharing
  - Send to customers
  - ...or to autopost blogs
Collection sharing by email
- Five layout templates
- Templates for 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 product images
- Perfect for sending design sets to customers
- ...or to autopost blogs!
Share a slidehsow page to social media
There's a button you can click to display a QRCode for your slideshow sharer page. It's intended for you to screengrab and use in your promotional material artwork
Grid-based page promoting
- Share a product grid page to social media
  There's a button you can click to display a QRCode for your product grid sharer page. It's intended for you to screengrab and use in your promotional material artwork
- Print out a "live" catalog for events / art fairs / car and grocery store windows, too!
Generate HTML code for pasting into websites and blogs
- Static Product Grid - pure html
- Live Product Grid - html and javascript
- Live-print Catalog - with QRCode
- Live Slideshow - html and javascript
- Horizontal Scroller - pure html
- Vertical Scroller - pure html
- Slider - pure html
- Linkify text - pure html

Note that Nifty's share-by-email is so much better than Zazzle's (which has been known to include their ref id on some links). Clean design, no extra faffle, so you promote only what you want promoted, not Zazzle!

Got questions? Get in touch on Nifty's Zazzle forum topic.

NB The sharing buttons you see on this page are for sharing this Nifty Promo Control Panel page.

featured collections for affiliates to consider

Get your Zazzle collection featured here learn more...

Old illustrations from encyclopedias and scientific books of animals, plants, maps, ornaments and others. More than 190 items. High quality, high prices, high earnings. :o)

Retro Colourful Cushions Pillows with the entire Alphabet on them

Whole alphabet is featured on this Nature Wilderness Lovers collection of cushions, which feature nature in all forms. The back of each cushion has a graphic of mountains and the words Into The Wild

Share from a collection of very classy sweet and not so sweet products for lovers and lost loves, because the heart wants what the heart wants!

A couple of dazzling shoe designs, perfect for any occasion!

A few face mask designs you can wear to keep yourself safe..

A collection of cute leggings with designs that I made myself

This Lil Love Monster - Valentine's Day collection is filled with toddler t-shirts declaring the wearer to be a cute little love monster.

A small selection of different Valentine's Day designs for the one you love including personalized gifts and custom photo presents for an extra special touch

elegant dripping glitter dust and sparkle paint glam collection - all colors, styles, combinations and product types

custom senior class of 2021 merch - personalizable products for students to help cherish and celebrate the milestone of high school and college graduation

Kids aprons - cakes sprinkles animals/fish sushi art/pencils pizza & teddy bears

We're All in This Together - Corona Covid Related designs - T-shirts, Pins/Badges, Keyrings, masks and more!

Very cool collection of unique women's clothing! Bored of the norm? Check us out!

A variety of our most popular designs! Fashionable, fun and unique products to choose from!

Comfy Cushions and Pillows - Pimp your couch, sofa and bed and cuddle up :-)

Christmas Greeting Cards, with two brand new editors picks! Includes everything from 2020 humor, quarantine bingo and cynic xmas cats to personalized photo and custom holiday recipe share cards

Christmas Cloth Face Masks and Clear Face Shields. From funny Rudolph masks with bright red noses and Santa beards, to gorgeous winter wedding blooms, juvenile xmas trees & dripping holiday glitter

a variety of gift wrapping paper in rolls and sheet form. includes christmas, hanukkah, covid themed, retro graphics, photo templates, name templates, gift tags, ribbon, and more

holiday themed attire and other wearable gifts, for everyone in the family

a wide range of holiday greeting cards, including some of Zazzle's top sellers

acrylic, ceramic, and silver metal holiday ornaments for everyone on your list

Remember the year 2020, the year of the lockdown, and celebrate Christmas with this commemorative collection

lots of customizable photo gift ideas for best friends: from puzzles to Christmas tree ornaments, from wall clocks to air fresheners

A collection of products, gifts, accessories. A funny dragon wishes all your sweetest dreams come true. Gifts, t-shirts, party supplies for anyone, for any occasion

Blooming sakura flower - cherry blossom decorated prints, gifts, home decor for anyone. Pink and blue colors

Step 1: Getting the products to work with

This step is all about telling Zazzle what you want to work with in your promotion session / campaign.

Once you're happy with your choices and the products you get as a result, you can then move on to step 2, doing the promotion using them.

Note that whenever you make a change and hit enter or click outside the box, the results are updated right away.

Store or Collection id

Pot luck source:

Your store id is the one used in your Zazzle store url. One of our store urls is www.zazzle.com/store/hightonridley and so our store id for it is hightonridley

If you leave Store Id blank, then products will be pulled from the Zazzle marketplace instead.

Working with products in Zazzle collections

When you want to pull from a particular collection, you'll need the collection id. It's the number at the end of the collection url.

For example, here's a collection url www.zazzle.com/collections/bestselling_invitations-119790471480538912

To pull from that collection, use collections/119790471480538912 in the box. That's it, you'll now have the contents of your collection to work with. If you made changes to your collection very recently, you'll need to wait for Zazzle to reindex it.

Note that with collections, Zazzle ignores some of the choices you could otherwise use. See each choice's help to see if it applies.

Advance to 50/50 referral sharing with your referral id

Your referral id and associate id are the same thing. One has to be provided, so until you give yours, mine will be used. If you've got an up-to-date subscription, yours will be used on all links

Your search word / phrase

This can be a single word or a group of words to make a phrase, separated with spaces. Don't use quotes or other special characters. What you give is passed to Zazzle for interpretation, so their rules apply as to what you can use here and how it works.

To exclude products, use a dash (minus) in front of a word (no space between the dash and the word). For example christmas -ornament

Ignored when pulling from collections.

How many to request ("pull") from Zazzle

This allows you to limit how many you get back when there are plenty available. The maximum size (limit imposed by Zazzle) is 120 when you don't use a collection. When you do, Zazzle limits it to 247, even if more are available in the collection.

Ignored by the nIFTTTy Scheduler, which has its own settings for how many to schedule.

Save your current settings by bookmarking this link:

Bookmarking is how you "save" your settings. All the options that you set using this control panel become encoded in the link given.

When you bookmark the link, those encoded settings are included. This means that when you visit the bookmark later, those settings get used as the initial choices in the form.

This is here just for your convenience. What you do with it is up to you.

More options

Product background colour

This is used in (virtually!) all products except those using in-situ displays.

Although you can use this to match the theme of wherever they're going to end up being displayed, white is still probably best (ffffff).

I say "virtually", above, because one or two of the older products seem to ignore this setting and always display on a white background.

Which page of results for your selection

According to Zazzle's terminology, the number of products you request is called the "page size". Where the number of matching products is greater than this, you can request which page number of results you want.

Check the box to show the product tags at readable size in the grid on this page

Advanced options

Zazzle's department id finder Limit results to this department number Limit results to this category number Use this promo code on all links

Sort type (popularity, date created, best selling...)

Sort direction (descending is most-to-least and newest-to-oldest)

The pinning/sharing date is automatically added to the tracking code. It's in USA format (mmddyy) by default.
Check the box to use the UK date format (ddmmyy) instead.

Multifeed setup

Get your monthly subscription

Get on our Nifty ToolZ and Tips newlsetter

see a list of all stores submitted to Nifty's pot-luck database

Step 2: Choose your type of promoting

In Step 1 you set up the options that will be used to get products from Zazzle when you promote.

Make sure you have before promoting in this section.

In this version you can share slideshows of the matching products, share individual products, share a product grid page or you can generate html for your own blog / website for scrollers, sliders, product grids and slideshows.

A note about tracking codes

Make a nIFTTTy Share Scheduler

Learn more about the scheduler:

Share a slideshow page

Share individual products with Speed-Sharers

Pin products to Pinterest with Auto-Pinners

Share / print a product grid page

Give a title for the product grid display page

Use how many characters of the product description?

Give a tracking code for its links

Click the button below and you'll be able to share your product grid page when you get there.

If you're going to share by email: make sure you replace the "Note" contents with what you want to see above the image in the email. Send to yourself before sending to an autopost blog for the first time so you know what it looks like!

If you want to start the Product Stager with a template loaded and its placeholders auto-filled with your pulled products, choose a template first, then click the button.

Social media:
Template:

Use the graphic in your marketing material - works well on the backs of business cards

Embed this product grid sharer in a post on the Zazzle Forum with this bbcode

when you copy, it's put on your clipboard ready for pasting

Print

Click the button below and you'll be able to print your live-print catalog when you get there.

What's a live-print catalog?

It's one that includes an easy way for a potential customer to get from the printed catalog to this online version. You see, on the printed version there's a QRCode link to the online version (the one you're about to print). And as you'll see, all designs are linked to their product page on Zazzle, of course.

Most mobiles' inbuilt camera apps (iPhones, many Android-based ones) will automatically 'see' the link in the QRCode and offer to open it in the mobile's browser. That makes it so easy for your potential customers to actually buy. If they'd prefer, they can instead type in the short bit.ly link that's also included.

So get ready to extend your reach hugely when you take one to an event / art fair or put a print in your car window, the window of a friendly grocer and so on.

Note that printing works best in Chrome and others but not so good in Firefox

Get widget code for embedding in other sites

These tools produce code for you to paste into your web pages.

Make for a free WordPress site (the slider won't work on a free one, unfortunately)

Once you've got your code, if you like, you can test it out on the jmarshall.com html test page. Get your code, below and paste it where it says.

Product Grid widget code:

Get the Scroller html widget code

Get the Slider html widget code

Linkify Text

Linkify your text. Turn text into links to product grids or slideshows of the products you set up in Step 1 or to individual products you choose from the picker.

Paste in the text you want to create links for. Then just select the text you want to be a link and click the relevant button. Of course you'll need to have chosen the products to work with in Step1. They are used for Product Grid and Slideshow sharing as well as to populate the individual product picker.

If you need different products for your next link, just redo Step1. If all you need to change is the search term, you can use the box for it here. Just type in what you want and click away from it (or press enter). After a moment you'll see the resulting products.

When you've finished linkifying, copy and paste into your blog / website.

One final point. When you use the Individual Product Picker for the first time, you'll see a stylesheet being included. Once you've finally copied and pasted everything into your blog / website, that's what performs the magic image display when you hover over a link.

Linkify options

If you're linking either to a Product Grid page or a Slideshow page, Linkify uses the options from the 'Share a product grid page' tool (title, length of description text included) or the 'Share a slideshow' tool (slideshow title).

The tracking code used in all links is the one you add here, though.

Give a tracking code for the html code links

Save you scrolling, change the Step1 search term used

Uses pure html and gives you copy-and-paste html for blogs and more.

First you paste in the text of the paragraph you're want linkified in the box below.
next, you select in that box the text you want linkified
then hit the button corresponding to the type of link you want added.

Individual Product Picker

When you copy, it's put on your clipboard ready for pasting.

NiftyGridzPro Shortcode Builder

This is for the NiftyGridzPro WordPress plugin. It generates the shortcode-and-options using a separate helper page:

News

About News

Every time there's a change to this Nifty tool we'll announce it here. Whenever there's a new announcement, the previous one you saw will be shifted into the history.

If we need to, we'll update the current announcement instead of making a new one.

If you've hidden the news until there's a new announcement, you won't see updates. If you want to check for updates to the existing announcement from time to time, start the tool with this ?shownews=yes (and nothing else) immediately after the .html up in the address bar.

If you don't use the tool for a while, you may miss some announcements entirely and they won't be in your history - but that's ok, just visit the Facebook group linked below if there's a new feature you need help with :)

The buttons give you full control over what's displayed in this panel or whether the panel itself is displayed at all, with an option to keep it hidden until there's a new announcement.

One final point: we'll also show you here if there's a general announcement about Nifty that we think you need to see - but it won't be added to your history for this tool.

If you need help about any announcement made, visit the NiftyToolZTips and Support Facebook group and ask there. To see an explanation of this tool, visit the Nifty Product Stager page on our site.

Dec 2020

Nifty Promo Control Panel

Step 1: Getting the products to work with

Marking as special

Working with products in Zazzle collections

Department number

Category number

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Step 2: Choose your type of promoting

Share the collection

Share by email