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.

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

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

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

Your associate / 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.

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.

Ignored when pulling from collections.

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.

How many to request

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, Nifty limits it to 240 .

Ignored when pulling from collections.

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.

Ignored when pulling from collections.

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 (by popularity or by date created)

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.

New! Multifeed setup

Get your monthly subscription

Get on our Nifty ToolZ and Tips newlsetter

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

Increase your exposure: Share what you create on the Zazzle Show Me forum topic I've set up specially for it. Search engines find stuff in there!

Make a nIFTTTy Share Scheduler

Learn more about the scheduler:

Share a slideshow page

Share individual products

Share / print a product grid page

Get widget code for embedding in other sites

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

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:

Jan 24 2019: The live product grid widget and live slideshow widget have been withdrawn. Alternatives were being looked into to replace the withdrawn YQL service which they relied on but none could be found.

Feb 7 2019: In better news, the Society 6 CPanel is reborn!

Nifty Promo Control Panel

Step 1: Getting the products to work with

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

Make a nIFTTTy Share Scheduler

Why would you want to use it?

Which version?

What do you get?

Share a slideshow page

Share individual products

Share / print a product grid page

Share

Print

What's a live-print catalog?

Get widget code for embedding in other sites

Product Grid widget code:

Get the Scroller html widget code

Vertical Scroller only

Get the Slider html widget code

Preview

Linkify Text

Linkify options

Individual Product Picker

NiftyGridzPro Shortcode Builder

For widget product display only (grids, scrollers & sliders)