Welcome to all of our new sellers! We’re glad that you’ve chosen to join the Zibbet Community of sellers and wish for you much success here. We understand that moving from one venue to another, or getting started with your first online shop at any venue, requires learning the ins and outs of the system. As the huge increase in information requests that we’re experiencing in Support shows, you have lots of questions and we’re more than happy to answer those questions. To help you along in the learning process, today I’d like to encourage you to get to know your Zibbet shop as an exploratory experience. Find that button on your mouse that opens things and start clicking. Below you’ll find some fundamental information about your shop to help you get started. After you’ve read through this brief introduction, let the clicking begin!
The base of operation for your shop is your My Zibbet page. This page is where you’re automatically taken when you log in to your Zibbet account with your username and password. Remember that passwords are case sensitive so make sure Caps Lock isn’t turned on when you’re trying to log in. My Zibbet contains links to all of the features available to you, whether your shop is Basic or Premium. These links are found in a column on the right hand side of the page and are accessible from whatever page you’re working on in My Zibbet. If you have a Basic shop and you click on a link for a Premium feature, you’ll receive an error message in a box with a light yellow background.
You’ll find the links divided into these groups:
GENERAL This section contains links to information about your account.SHOP SET-UP As the name implies, look in this section for links to areas where you set up your shop.LISTINGS The Listings section is where you create and manipulate your item listings. This is also where information about sold items is accessed.PROMOTE contains links to promotional tools available to you.BUYING OPTIONS Sellers are also buyers. This section contains links to records related to your buying history.Now that you have an introduction to your shop, start exploring! And please ask questions. You’ll find a discussion specifically for this purpose on Zibbet’s Community Hub titled Get to Know Your Zibbet Shop. While you’re welcomed to post questions and comments here, linking answers to questions works much better over on ZCH with it’s nesting reply feature.
Best wishes for much success on Zibbet!
Vicki is committed to assisting her fellow Zibbeters improve their shops for successful online selling. She is the owner of five Zibbet shops: LOC Design Studio, Papa Spivey’s Trunk, A Stitch and a Prayer and Think Like a Fish. You can follow Vicki on Twitter and through her LOC Design Studio blog.
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This week’s Fantastic Five, Autumn Ambience shows you just a few of the delightful handmade products I found on Zibbet by searching for Autumn, Harvest, and Fall Colors.
Judy writes the ‘Fantastic Five‘ column where she features 5 Zibbet items every week. She is the owner of four Zibbet shops: Portable Graffiti Graphics, Portable Graffiti buttons, Proofreader, and Wild Goose Chase vintage, crafts and supplies. You can follow Judy on Facebook.
This week Zibbet is very excited to introduce you to Debbie and John of Thunder Rose Leather from outside Sedona, Arizona. Debbie and John make handmade buckskin leather handbags, pouches and bead work.They have been working with leather and beads for more than twenty years. All their creations are custom made. You can choose colors and styles. You will also find adorable buckskin baby moccasins.
John and I are a husband and wife team working from our home in a small community outside Sedona, Arizona. For over 20 years now we have been making quality handmade buckskin leather goods and beadwork, all the way from small leather pouches to custom designed leather handbags. We are so grateful to do what we love. We also have a beautiful daughter, four grandchildren and a sweet dog (fur baby) that we adore. When we aren’t creating and shipping and promoting ourselves and others we spend our time in our small organic garden enjoying the beauty of nature and life.We really enjoy making beautiful, functional, wearable art for our customers. It makes us smile when we hear back how much they love their new handbag or whatever they have purchased.John and I have both been influenced and inspired by some of our artist friends who have completely mastered their art. They are friends who have become famous at their trade. They always encourge us to follow our dreams and never give up and when we come across an artist block just to work our way out of it.
We love our small garden and being able to give a helping hand or a warm smile to someone, be it online or just a passerby.We really enjoy helping fellow artists anyway we can. We always like to encourge others the way we were encouraged.We both do alot of promoting others on social media and I have two blogs that I feature artists on.We both really love the community and the warm welcome we received when we joined.The site is very user friendly. It’s great being able to ask questions and receive a quick response.I am not real sure what to say here.I guess I would have to say more places to promote and share pictures and share one another on the site. We are still learning our way around.We promote our work on social media. Facebook is one where we have our own Facebook group for all handmade artists and we encourage everyone to share one another, not only is it good Karma but it benefits artists to be seen in more places.We also are members of many other promotion groups. We are on Google+, and I have two blogs where I promote others and our business.
Do your best to have a full store. Go inside the community and make your name and brand known to everyone. Be sure to always leave links to your Zibbet store. Promote others, it is good Karma.living in a community of like minded artist friends.
The Zibbet Community Hub has been really busy with Zibbet shopkeepers sharing ideas, getting help, offering help, and volunteering to help promote Zibbet.
October is here, time to shop for all those frightful, scary, creepy decorations, halloween party goods and costume accessories.
This week Zibbet “flew” to Los Angeles, California to interview the lovely Ramona Hall who creates beautiful handmade women’s jewelry, lamp work jewelry, beaded necklaces, dangle earrings, and beaded bracelets in timeless styles for the confident, fun-loving woman who deserves the best.Ramona Hall Jewelry is well stocked with over 250 listings in her Premium Zibbet shop.Please enjoy the interview, leave Ramona a comment, and then use the Share Tools so others can read it, too. Please spread the Zibbet Love!
I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. I left home at 18 to join the U.S. Marine Corps, which is where I met my husband. We have been married for 44 years and have two grown daughters and three granddaughters. I live near my grown children in Southern California with my husband and our three big dogs. Prior to my retirement a year ago, I worked for 30 years as a School Psychologist and in private practice as an Educational Psychologist. The greater part of my career was spent in helping students overcome learning problems in school.I have no ‘off’ switch. I have been very involved in community organizations, fund raising for breast cancer groups, traveling, reading, writing, gardening, babysitting graddaughters, and working hard to make my online shops successful.
I started making jewelry when my younger daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 37. She ended up having two mastectomies over a two year period, with a total of 10 surgeries altogether, including the reconstructions. I began making simple bracelets to help me deal with the stress and anxiety. I found that I could completely turn off my worries when my hands were busy making things. My daughter has been cancer free for almost 4 years but I continue to make jewelry because it’s now my obsession.I generally admire people who are compassionate towards others and who are tolerant of individual differences. But if I had to pick just one person it would have to be my mother. She raised four children alone, one of whom had Down Syndrome. Like most of us, she was not perfect but she did the very best she could despite a lack of education and a life of poverty.
I love to travel. Some of my favorite trips have been to Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Mediterranean. I’ve also had many great trips throughout the U.S. As a family, we have had some wonderful times traveling down both U.S. coasts.I like the fact that it’s still small enough that my area is not saturated. But I also like the warmth and friendliness shown to newcomers. Also, there are great seller tools like being able to list in multiple sections, sales mode, and 
I promote through word of mouth, shows, business cards, Facebook, Pinterest, and Wanelo.Well, I haven’t sold much so I’m reluctant to give advice to folks who have been here a lot longer and who have many more sales. As for myself, I work my shops every day. I treat it like a job. I schedule time for listing, time for communicating with other sellers, and time for creating new things. I try to read about new ideas and techniques in jewelry making and apply those ideas to new designs.As content with life as I am today. Wouldn’t that be great?!
As a long-time blogger (over 10 years, ha!) I can tell you that that while the technology and accessibility of blogs has come leaps and bounds; the foundations of sharing on a blog hasn’t changed.
Guest contributor Martiel Beatty is a graphic and fiber artist, expert blogger, art coach and GIMP Wizard. She is the founder of Sewmantra and Co-Founder and Coach of Dream Your Success. She holds degrees in Anthropology, French and Drafting and has been working in fiber arts since 1986 and graphics since 1998. She lives and works in her home studio outside Washington, D.C.
Birchart is an amazing new shop on Zibbet owned by Carey McLean who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.He uses fallen Birch Tree Bark to create Native American Spiritual tools. Carey says, “Birch is known as the miracle tree; the tree of wisdom and reflection. Hearty and elegant, it is a pioneer of the forest, an ecological beacon reflecting the longer lived hardwood forests that will follow. Independent, it grows where no other tree will. Polyvalent, it presents numerous medicinal, nourishing and decorative properties.After reading his interview, you really must read the information in his shop as well as his interesting profile page.Please enjoy the interview, leave Carey a comment, and then use the Share Tools so others can read it, too. Please spread the Zibbet Love!
Born in Montreal half Mohawk and half Irish. I was always attracted to ways I could express myself.Birch Art became a creative result of my spiritual awakening and my need to manifest and maintain gratitude towards nature and life, incessantly thankful of its redeeming and inspirational resources.Answering a friend’s request to cut down one of his birch trees, the sight of red sap flowing profusely triggered sudden feelings of unjustified destruction of life.Remorse initiated the need to give a purpose to this end and the tree itself became a media to redemption and rebirth.Through research and meditation, I found interest in Native Indian spirituality who’s foundations worship nature and all life forms.Furthermore focusing on Birch itself, the discovery of its numerous properties became an endless source of inspiration and my creative skills were used as tools to channel this elegant tree’s energy as well as my own mystical beliefs.By trade I am a journeyman interior systems installer.
(Retired due to Chronic Pain)I hope to help someone who needs something in their life, that can help them, whether it’s a Dream Catcher, Medicine Shield or Mandela that I create if the individual chooses to use it as a spiritual tool that may inspire or give them something special that will or can better their life or themselves.My Wife Gudrun, she has such a positive outlook on life, and always finds the good in each individual. She also supports me 100% in my art and creativity. She is also a great listener.
Right now my main passion is my art.I am a Big Montreal Canadians Fan. (NHL Hockey team).I personally played hockey till I was 40. I am also passionate for good food.Everyone seems so positive and friendly; also Zibbet seems like a helpful communityWho viewed and favored my items.I don’t have a set marketing program quite yet.I sell at least 10 items a week on eBay. When I ship my products I send a pamphlet out advertising Zibbet on my Flyer.I am looking to advertise on facebook.I am new to this on-line selling and at times find it very labor intense. I create for my soul and did not want to throw it away by mass selling.
In 3 months I have sold over 70 items on ebay, 3 on Etsy and I have had my 1st sale on Zibbet in 2 weeks. Etsy has not been successful at all, I have had over 2000 hits with over 900 favorites and only 3 sales, 2 sales to the same person.My hope is that Zibbet would be my primary shop as it is quite reasonable to be a vendor.Ebay costs an arm and a leg and there is hardly any profit left to the vendor. I don’t feel that I should be charged a commission on shipping which happens at Ebay.I am new to this on-line selling so at this time I do not have any helpful hints.All I can say is people at Zibbet are quite friendly and helpful, so I will be using the recourses Zibbet has to offer.I would like just to be known as a person with integrity and offers tools to people how are looking for harmony, prosperity and health in their lives.
All of the new and returning Zibbet sellers have brought many questions to Zibbet Support recently. I thought I’d share quick answers to what I’ve determined to be our top five FAQs of late to help get answers out more quickly. Scanning recent Support tickets, here are questions that I’ve answered frequently:
When I try to log in to my new account, I get an error message that says I don’t have permission to access that area. What does this mean? This situation usually is caused by an interruption during the sign up process. This problem is easy to solve by Support. Let us know that you’ve encountered the permission message and we’ll assign the missing permission to your account. Please note that in order to log in to your Zibbet account, you must correctly enter your username and password. Usernames are not case sensitive but passwords are. Double check to make sure that Caps Lock isn’t turned on on your keyboard when you’re logging in.
All communication between Zibbet and our buyers and sellers is by way of email. When you open a seller account, you’re asked to enter an email address in two places, one for contact and the other to connect your Zibbet account to your PayPal account. The address can be the same for both, or different–that’s up to you. Part of setting up your seller account is confirming your contact email address. Notifications of sales on your account and messages sent within the Zibbet message system as well as messages sent directly from Zibbet Support, are sent to this address, making confirmation of your email address extremely important. This step insures that you’re able to receive messages sent from Zibbet to the contact email address listed on your account. If you’re not receiving messages from Zibbet, here are some troubleshooting tips for you to try:
If your email address changes, make sure that you update the contact email address on your account. You can do this on your Account Info page in your My Zibbet.Changing your contact email address will not automatically change your email address on Zibbet’s weekly newsletter mailing list. To change this address, click the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter that you’ve received. On your ‘Manage Your Email Subscriptions and Profile’ page, click the ‘Edit Profile’ link in the lower right hand corner of the page.If your PayPal email address changes, make sure to change this in your Zibbet account as well. You can do this on your Payment Method page in your My Zibbet.When you send a message to support@zibbet.com, please send from the contact email address listed on your account. This helps us identify your account so that we can better assist you.