Zazzle Expands Product Offering and Platform, Launches Pre-Designed and Customizable Profile Cards
Zazzle Expands Product Offering and Platform, Launches Pre-Designed and Customizable Profile Cards
Consumers Choose from Innovative and Unique Line of Custom Profile Cards Available in Three Sizes including Skinny, Chubby and Traditional Business
Redwood City - January 14, 2008 - Zazzle (https://www.zazzle.com), the only on-demand retail platform to offer billions of products that ship in 24 hours, today announced the expansion of its product offering with the launch of pre-designed and customizable Zazzle Profile Cards™. The line extends Zazzle's reach into custom business cards with more than 1,500 pre-designed, as well as customizable business card templates. Card options are available in three sizes: skinny, chubby and traditional business. Users are able to easily design their cards and choose from 11 paper finishes including seven premium – from Gold to Pearl to Platinum – and three standard, including Cream and Eggshell. All cards come with free two-sided printing and full color, and are shipped in 24 hours. There are no set up fees, up front charges or minimum order quantities.
The unique line showcases the continued technological and product innovations to come from Zazzle. The user experience to design and create a variety of cards exemplifies the overall Zazzle offering consumers have come to expect. Users go to categories and then create their cards with pre-designed templates, or they can go to create and start fresh with a customized design of their own. In addition, the profile card platform is one more way for the extensive Zazzle designer community to showcase its works and sell their original artwork, logos and designs on cards.
"Bridging traditional business cards – with updated styles, endless design possibilities and the online world of social networking – into the physical realm is an exciting proposition," said Jeff Beaver, co-founder and chief product officer of Zazzle. "We are very excited about this product launch and feel the line is especially powerful for our hundreds of thousands of artists, designers, bands, and other sellers who can now use the cards to further promote their online identities and Zazzle products while at music gigs, art shows, business meetings, conferences and other events."
Profile cards come in three sizes: skinny, chubby and traditional business. The three sizes further allow users to express themselves in their own personal style.
Skinny cards are smaller profile cards that can easily fit in your pocket and are a personal identity card geared toward social networking users. In addition to designing their own or ordering from pre-designed templates, consumers ordering skinny profile cards can also use Zazzle's innovative functionality to automatically capture data from their MySpace or Facebook accounts to create a replica of their online profile, offline. The chubby cards are larger than traditional business cards – similar to baseball trading cards – and are great for consumers and sellers who want a bigger canvas for their designs.
The business cards are traditional, high quality, custom cards geared toward the business professional. Capturing the look and feel of traditional business cards, the line was developed with technology in mind. Whether designing their own or ordering from the pre-designed templates, consumers are also able to import their LinkedIn data automatically to make reconnecting with old friends or colleagues offline a mirror of their online profile. Through a single click, anyone with an online profile can easily preview and buy their own profile cards, automatically populated with their information. Unlimited further customization is then possible by uploading images, choosing templates, fonts, colors, media options, and more.
Fun to use, skinny cards come in a patent-pending ejector package to highlight their unique size and shape. A box of skinny cards with ejector starts at $6.95 for a pack of 20 cards. If buying in bulk, pricing is $2.00. The traditional business cards start at $16.95 for a pack of 100 and when buying in bulk, pricing is $4.52. Chubby cards start at $18.95 for a pack of 100, when buying in bulk the price is $5.05. For those consumers looking for premium paper, the cost starts at $1.00 and will vary depending upon the size of card chosen and quantity ordered.
"We are very excited about this product launch and to be entering this market with the widest product offering from the onset. In developing the line, we wanted to provide consumers and businesses with the most comprehensive offering available. By extending the current options with Zazzle's on-demand retail platform, our 24 hour production capabilities, as well as the variety of templates, card selections, infinite color choices, competitive prices and more, we offer our customers the deepest offering with infinite options," said James Heckman, chief strategy officer, Zazzle.
About Zazzle
Infinite and Instant, Zazzle is the only on-demand retail platform for consumers and major brands, offering billions of retail quality, one-of-a-kind products, most of which are produced within 24 hours. With the largest library of customizable digital images from world-class brands, Zazzle enables content owners to unlock their entire libraries of content, making it available for purchase and customization by consumers. Through Zazzle's innovative on-demand retail and technology platform, users can instantly create, customize to fit their personal style, purchase and sell a near infinite array of products online. The company launched in 2005 and is based in Redwood City, California. For more information, https://www.zazzle.com.
©2008 Zazzle.com Inc., all right reserved. Zazzle, Zazzle Profile Cards, and Skinny Cards are registered trademarks or trademarks of Zazzle Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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