Use a Personal Shopper Model to Jumpstart Your Home Jewelry Business Success

Secrets of a Handcrafted Jewelry Shopping Service - EBook Review

Wouldn’t you like to learn how to skyrocket your home jewelry business success? What Jewelry Artist wouldn’t! I found a really mind opening E-book by Rena Klingenberg, Home Jewelry Business Expert and really-nice-lady.

What makes her book so earthshaking?

Rena has devised a really fascinating and low-key way to sell handmade jewelry that does the following:

• It saves you from booth selling and all the costs and equipment entailed in that method selling
• Her method allows you to keep 100% of RETAIL sales (rather than the 70% or 50% that you get from wholesaling or consignment.
• You don’t have to give a percentage or give jewelry to a home party hostess so you don’t lose anything there.
• Everything is casual and low-key (great for the more reserved Jewelry Artist. I know there are lots of us out there!)
• AND her system details how you can make some real money selling One-of-a-Kind pieces and sets to the wealthier customer.

Okay, enough with the gushing.

I love e-books. I sort of feel like they are a guilty pleasure because I can buy them online and get them immediately. If you’ve never bought an E-book before, you really must try it. I recently bought Rena Klingenberg’s book entitled, “Secrets of a Handcrafted Jewelry Shopping Service “.

For those who don’t know, Rena Klingenberg has been writing home-jewelry business success articles for some time, and has been a guest author on The Jewelry Sweet Spot as well.

I initially didn’t think that her book would interest me. For some reason I thought it was about shopping for jewelry for people and never connected the fact that it would be my own jewelry I would be selling.

Rena book really gives you new insight into an alternative method of turning your passion into a profitable business. It offers a step by step system for creating a home jewelry business success based on a “personal shopper” model.

If you love one-on-one contact with clients, making one-of-a-kind and commission pieces…

The author let’s you in on the primary way she earns money in her handcrafted jewelry business.

Rena’s gift and jewelry consultant angle on selling is an ingenious one for jewelry designers who enjoy one-on-one contact with clients, make one-of-a-kind and commission pieces, who are good at matching jewelry to clients wardrobes, and are looking for a low overhead method of marketing their jewelry and still command retail prices. This business model is underused by the handmade jewelry industry and should you chose to adopt it, you will probably have no competition.

Great advice for anyone who wishes to sell their jewelry part-time in a casual way…

Even if you aren’t interested in becoming a personal jewelry consultant, there is some great advice for anyone who wishes to sell their jewelry part-time in a casual way. I think this part of the book is what really appealed to me because generally my own jewelry gets sold this way. She goes into detail about how to do a casual trunk show with your kids teachers, at a friends workplace, at a friend’s house, or in the park. Selling jewelry this way takes all the work out of selling and is less formal than a home jewelry party. There are also practically no costs involved; you don’t need to advertise, take a cut in the pricing as for wholesale or consignment selling, no booth fees, and no free jewelry for home jewelry party hostesses.

Students and moms: Part-time income from jewelry making?

A very good resource and a great investment for anyone interested in getting into jewelry making, especially as a part-time business. I think this model would work especially well for stay-at-home-moms looking to make some extra money within the home, while their children are at school, or for students who can show their jewelry casually to classmates and peers at their favourite hangout, cafeteria, during a break in their classes, or in their common rooms in their dorms.

Warning about this book:

I always try to find the downside when I do a review but Rena writes so well, is so easy to read, so concise, and so frigging thorough! that I can’t find anything bad to say about this book except that I found the title a little bit confusing. Otherwise Kudos to Rena!

I can’t recommend this book enough.

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