Enamel and Fine Jewelry?
I recently answered a question about enamelling and I thought I would share it here. If one person has a question, then others would too right?
Here it is: Question about enamel…?
I have started making jewelry & only like using good quality stones, esp when using 14k gold. Why did I just see a bracelet for $4500 in 18k gold, with enamel charms? Doesn’t enamel fade or scratch-Please tell me about enamel & why it’s used with solid gold.
Here was my answer: Read more…
How to Make Jewelry Website Launched!
- Hemp Jewelry Making knots and projects – including a video
- A Wire Jewelry intro with lots more to come
- A page devoted to Earrings (my favorite jewelry to make!)
Jewelry Business Success Tips: Getting the Word Out
- Mailing list marketing – by email
- Mailing list marketing – by postcard
- Put up flyers around colleges and universities
- Do craft shows and other events
- Wear your jewelry and give out your business card to anyone who compliments you
- Do home jewelry shows
- Create an online shop (like Etsy, or your own website) and promote it like crazy on your business cards, flyers, email marketing campaigns, etc.
- Sell your jewelry locally in shops, galleries and clothing boutiques
- Put tags on all your jewelry with your business name, contact info, website, etc on it
- Teach classes in your home
- Teach classes at your local community centre
- Team up with other crafty people and create a promotional team to increase your reach.
- Write articles about gift buying, jewelry buying, etc. and submitthem to e-zine directories and free content sites
- Put your business on T-shirts for your kids to wear
- Put a bumper sticker on your car
- Put your business cards in library books at the library
I love the one about putting your business cards in library books. I picture jewelry designers everywhere scurrying through libraries willy-nilly, surreptitiously poking their business cards into books right under the noses of the library police.
Spread the love. Share your own ideas in the comments!
Free Jewelry Making Resource for Metalsmithing Newbies
I’m having a pretty crappy day today. My head hurts, I am feeling really exhausted and worn out. My third cup of coffee for the day. I needed some cheering up and I started goofing around on the net and I found this resource.
It didn’t cheer me up, but maybe it’ll cheer somebody else up. If you want a free jewelry making guide with metalsmithing techniques, check out Creative Texture Tools. This site offers products for Metal Clay users, but also offers some freebies on the right sidebar. Creative Texture Tools™ – Hard to find Texture Tools for Metal Clay
I downloaded the free e-book (Jewelry Maker) written by the shop owner. It looks well written, and hey, it’s free right?
Enjoy. I’m going to get some Tylenol (no advertisment here, just a hurty head).
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:
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It saves you from booth selling and all the costs and equipment entailed in that method selling
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Her method allows you to keep 100% of RETAIL sales (rather than the 70% or 50% that you get from wholesaling or consignment.
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You don’t have to give a percentage or give jewelry to a home party hostess so you don’t lose anything there.
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Everything is casual and low-key (great for the more reserved Jewelry Artist. I know there are lots of us out there!)
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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… Read more…
