Wednesday 11 December 2013

Zaps - now for Amazon Goldbox and more

Zaps - let's get promoting
So I've been continuing the development of tools for my Zaps toolbox and have recently added a few more bits and pieces.

One lets you create a Zap for drawing searchable products from Amazon's Gold Box daily deals. It uses your Amazon affiliate id in the links and, as usual, the deals can be shared on social media and posted to blogs.

It's a great way of providing something of value to you visitors / followers and gives a great excuse for them to keep coming back for more.

As a user of Zaps myself, I've been getting various blogs up to speed over the last couple of weeks or so. As well as drawing them from the  Zazzle Market Place, I've been touting for products for them from storekeepers on the Zazzle forum. They've been great and have happily been tagging their gear as requested.

Unrelated to that - I've noticed some storekeepers who aren't sticking to the Zazzle rules for the descriptions and tags, either stuffing them with irrelevant keywords or making each one a pitch for their entire store. To counter this I'm testing my development version of Zaps to filter out all items from stores that do that.

I've posted a warning about it on the Z forum post. Who knows, it may make a slight dent! If I was a storekeeper who did that and knew that no user of Zaps (once I roll out that feature) will post any of my products, I'd start to do something about it!

comments, likes, +1s, tweets are always welcome! :)

Initial Love Necklace

A gorgeous design. What would it look like with your initials? Click to personalize it and customize it with the different available styles.


tagged with: initial necklace, boyfriend and girlfriend necklaces, monogram, monogram necklaces, fun, trendy, bright, black, white, pink, love, love necklaces, relationship, dating, miscellaneous

Add your initial along with the one you love. Customizable font and font color.

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Carina Nebula, Star Forming Gas-cloud Sculpture Stretched Canvas Prints

A gorgeous best-selling design. Click to personalize. How would it look with your name or monogram?


tagged with: billowing interstellar gas clouds, awesome hubble images, star forming activity, carina nebula, amazing space sculpture, star nurseries, stellar winds, young hot stars, gas cloud sculpture, hrbstslr cnbigc

Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A beautiful space photograph featuring the 7500 light year distant Carina Nebula. This Hubble image shows rich, interstellar gas clouds feeding the formation of new stars. As a proto star forms, the gas clouds get dragged to its surface and some gets emitted as tight jets of material travelling at hundreds of miles per second. These in turn help sculpt the gas clouds into weird and grotesque shapes, some looking like strange worms, swimming through space.
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image code: cnbigc

image credit: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) and ESA

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Amazing Fractal Editions iPhone 4 Cover

An amazing iPhone Case design featuring a beautiful fractal. Click to personalize / customize.


tagged with: abstract, abstracts, geometric, fantasy, fractals, glitz, awesome, cool, hipster



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Polo Pony and Rider with Dancers - Happy Birthday! Gift Wrapping Paper

Featured Product!

A gorgeous design. Click to customize and personalize. Maybe you'd like to see your name or initials on it?

who do you know that would like one of these? A special design by HightonRidley,
another talented creative from the Zazzle community!


tagged with: dancers logo, happy birthday, dancing motifs, fun dance motifs, polo pony, chukka, arena polo, field polo, plopny, hrfptraz

Fantasy series Fun birthday wrapping paper - featuring a silhouette of a polo pony and rider. On a background of party confetti there are zany dancers, too, all adding to the fun of a birthday celebration.
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Dachshund Puppies Postcard

Cute Alert!

What a cute puppy design this is! Maybe you'd like to see your name or initials on it? Click to customize and personalize.

sometimes it's difficult to choose what to feature from amongst the fantastic designs on Zazzle. I finally settled on this great design by KaleenaRae,
another talented creative from the Zazzle community!


tagged with: dachshund, puppies, doxie, wiener dog, cute, adorable, puppy, dog

Dachshund Puppies postcard

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Funny English bulldog Christmas card!

Cute Alert!

What a cute puppy design this is! Maybe you'd like to see your name or initials on it? Click to customize and personalize.

sometimes it's difficult to choose what to feature from amongst the fantastic designs on Zazzle. I finally settled on this great design by JeffandJess,
another talented creative from the Zazzle community!


tagged with: english, bulldog, english bulldog, bull, dog, dogs, puppy, puppies, cute, cutest, funny, wholesale, bulk, cheap, christmas, merry, card, holidays, 2012

Customize this here or fill in at home- put a smile on everyone's face. Featuring our silly English bulldog, Dallas!

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Eye Glasses Fake Nose Mustache Disguise Tie

A fantastic tie design. Maybe you'd like to see your initials / monogram on it? Click to personalize and see what it looks like.


tagged with: funny,words,slogan,slang,novelty,disguise,humor,mustache,glasses,gag,word,slogans,phrases,saying,sayings,crazy,cool,word play,play,fun,chic,urban,vintage,retro,dark,black,rude,offensive,insult,trendy,quote,quotes,nose

Eye Glasses Fake Nose Mustache Disguise - Funny Novelty Gag Absurd Chic Urban Trendy Slogans Funny quotes, buzz words, trendy slogans, Absurd sayings, crazy slang words, cool word play, humor, fun offensive, mildly rude, retro and vintage chic urban designs from sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties and current events.

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Orion Nebula and Trapezium Stars Posters

A gorgeous best-selling design. Click to personalize. How would it look with your name or monogram?


tagged with: wallart, awesome astronomy images, orion nebula, emission nebula, trapezium stars, emission nebulae, dust clouds, hot young stars, star nursery, hrbstslr ornebcsfr, new born stars

Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous picture from the deep universe featuring the bubbling, seething mass of gas and dust that is the Orion Nebula, 1500 light years away and the closest star-forming region to us. The nebula is a star nursery in which there are birthing, new-born, young and adult stars. Look carefully in the brightest central region and you'll see the Trapezium, four of the most massive stars in Orion.
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image code: ornebcsfr

Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

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