Can turning down jewelry orders actually be a good thing for your business? When I first started selling my handmade jewelry, I never turned anyone down. I needed the money, and I didn’t have much of an established customer base. So unless the project involved skills or tools I didn’t have (and couldn’t acquire quickly), [...]
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Many jewelry suppliers seem to carry the same items we’ve seen elsewhere, and it’s hard to find anything temptingly unique there. Luckily, BeadShop carries wonderfully different jewelry making supplies, with an especially tempting array of earthy, ethnic components – including antique beads. Janice Parsons, owner of BeadShop, has kindly offered my readers a 10% discount [...]
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Do you struggle with writing your jewelry descriptions, brochures, flyers, e-mail newsletters, website pages, blog posts, and other text for your jewelry business? If so, I highly recommend Chelsea Clarey’s one-on-one writing workshops for handmade sellers. Chelsea is a jewelry artist, as well as being a certified writing tutor and experienced freelance author. She knows [...]
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by Sam Ryder of NexusMaille The price of silver has just skyrocketed in the past few weeks: Looking at the price per gram in which I purchase my supplies, I calculated that if it were to continue at this rate, a bracelet made at the end of the year will cost $50 more in raw [...]
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In 1913 Suzanne Beyer’s great-uncle, Art Hadley, invented the expansion bracelet – a jewelry device that revolutionized the modern watchband. Although he was a bit of a family “black sheep”, his invention and jewelry company netted a fortune which he left to his children after his death. But nearly a century after his expansion bracelet [...]
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Where I live, at the end of a phone call or conversation people often say “Have a blessed day!” It’s always spoken wholeheartedly – the person who says it truly desires that your day will be blessed, regardless of their spirituality or yours. And you know what? I always feel very blessed after hearing it. [...]
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Collage and mixed-media artist Shelley Lane Kommers had the unpleasant surprise of happening across an Etsy shop that had blatantly copied her own Etsy business and products. See Shelley’s blog post, Rising Above the Copycats, on how the discovery of her imitator gave Shelley insights into her own precious gifts.
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