Jewelry Business Guide

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Your Home Jewelry Business - Creatively Profitable

Your home jewelry business can provide income from many sources, when you creatively market your handcrafted jewelry and related products and services.

Home jewelry parties, art/craft shows, wholesaling and consigning to shops, custom work, teaching jewelry workshops, marketing your work online, selling jewelry-making components, writing jewelry publications and tutorials ....

It's all about finding niches and needs that you can fulfill creatively with your jewelry business and your specific skills and talents.

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How to Have a Profitable Jewelry Home Party

Jewelry parties hosted in someone's home are one of the most profitable and flexible ways to sell your work. Here's how to profit from this hot jewelry selling venue:
Jewelry Home Party Success Tips
How to make maximum profits selling your jewelry at a jewelry home party. How to keep booking more parties. Alternative jewelry home shows.
Great Jewelry Party Invitations
Create tempting jewelry party invitations that bring in a high percentage of guests.
Write an Irresistible Jewelry Party Brochure
Tips for writing a strong jewelry party brochure that makes potential hostesses say, "yes!" to a jewelry home party.
Start a Home Jewelry Party Business
Thinking about starting a home jewelry party business? Here's your complete, step-by-step guide to profitable jewelry parties. Includes tips for popular new kinds of jewelry parties.
Squidoo Lens on Jewelry Parties
A one-page resource of jewelry party links.

How to Sell Your Jewelry Successfully at Art / Craft Shows

Profitable Jewelry Shows
Tips for profitable jewelry shows, eliminating competition from other jewelers, and organizing your own profitable shows.
Ultimate Guide to Your Profitable Jewelry Booth
Learn how to sell your handcrafted jewelry like crazy at shows, fairs, and festivals.
How Much Jewelry Inventory Do You Need for a Show?
How many pieces of jewelry do you need to stock your jewelry booth for a show - and what styles and price ranges? Here's what I've learned from my own experiences at jewelry shows.

Sell Your Jewelry in Shops and Galleries

Insider secrets for selling handcrafted jewelry wholesale and on consignment through shops and galleries. Strategies for breaking into wholesaling without getting in over your head.
Selling Jewelry Wholesale and on Consignment
Strategies for production, marketing, pricing, and record-keeping in the jewelry business-to-business world.
Approaching Shops and Galleries with Your Jewelry
How to set appointments with shop owners and make professional jewelry presentations.
Mass Production Strategies for Wholesaling Jewelry
Wholesaling jewelry sometimes means mass-producing multiples of the same pieces. Issues involved in wholesale jewelry production runs at home, paring down production time and costs, and a solution for temporary employees.
Jewelry Consignment Agreement Samples
Jewelry consignment agreement examples, and points to make certain are covered. The importance of a good consignment contract.
Pros and Cons of Consigning Jewelry to Shops and Galleries
Important considerations and tips for consigning jewelry to shops and galleries. How to protect your jewelry that's on consignment.
Selling Jewelry via Mail Order Catalog Companies
By selling jewelry through catalogs, a home jewelry business with the right product can quickly rack up huge sales. However, there are many pitfalls. Here's what you need to know before taking this step.
Do You Need Terms & Conditions When Wholesaling Jewelry?
What you need to know about terms and conditions, and where to get an idea of what your terms should cover.

Photographing Jewelry

Sharp, clear, professional-looking photos are a must for selling your jewelry online. Try these tips for taking jewelry pictures:
Photographing Jewelry
Tips for photographing jewelry for professional looking digital images. Easy tips for using photo editing software for the finishing touch on your jewelry photos.
Scanning Jewelry
Complete guide to using your computer's scanner to take jewelry photos.
Easy Jewelry Photography with the $15 Photo Studio
How to create and use a cheap jewelry photography studio to take better pictures of your work.
Editing Jewelry Photos
Basic photo editing tips and tricks to make the most of your jewelry images.
How to Photograph Jewelry
An easy tutorial for clear, beautiful jewelry photos.
Free Photo Sharing Websites
A variety of clever ways you can use free photo sharing websites to help promote your jewelry.

Jewelry Displays and Packaging on eBay . . .

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Highly Recommended Jewelry Business Guides

Get an edge over your competition with these in-depth guides:

Jewelry Business Success News
Get the success secrets thousands of jewelry artists read twice a month
... delivered to your email for FREE.
Ultimate Guide to Your Profitable Jewelry Booth
Learn every success tip, strategy, and secret I've discovered over the past several years of selling my handcrafted jewelry at shows.
Secrets of a Handcrafted Jewelry Shopping Service
Unlock the secrets of selling your jewelry in a profitable new way. This is a wide-open field with tons of opportunities for selling your handmade jewelry. It's the main way I sell my jewelry now.
The Jewelry Blogging Success Guide
Get 260 jewelry blog post topic ideas, 123 bonus blog post starters, 7 ways to get more comments, 33 ways to get traffic - and much more in this complete guide.
Guide to Profitable Jewelry Home Parties
Absolutely everything you need to know to sell your jewelry in a profitable home jewelry party business - including how to get more parties scheduled, new party formats, business forms, invitations and hostess incentives, and more.
Jewelry Selling Insights
Subscribe to Dr. David Weiman's outstanding monthly ezine, filled with insider tips on marketing and selling jewelry.

Recommended for Your Jewelry Library . . .

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Rena's Websites

Jewelry Making Journal
Thousands of creative ideas for making and selling jewelry - plus a friendly jewelry community!
Jewelry Business Success News
Get the success secrets thousands of jewelry artists read twice a month
... delivered to your email for FREE.
Jewelry Business Blog
Rena Klingenberg's blog - insights and tips for taking your jewelry business to the next level.
Jewelry Books
The jewelry business bookstore and more.

More Jewelry Business Resources I Recommend

Rings and Things
Outstandingly helpful jewelry supplier.
Monsterslayer Jewelry Supplies
Another fantastic jewelry supplier, with monstrously good prices on Swarovski crystals, Bali silver, and silver wire.
Jewelry Displays
Creative, cheap, and innovative jewelry display ideas - whether you want to make your own displays or buy ready-made ones.
Trade Show Booth Tips
Ideas and tips for small business trade show success. Includes booth display tips.
Trade Show Booth Guide
Arm yourself with a these trade show insider secrets - you'll spend a fraction of what your booth neighbors are paying for everything, and wind up having a far more profitable show.
Trade Show Tips
Try these trade show tips for successful displays, powerful graphics, secret savings on used booths, and more. Learn what to be prepared for, how to cut deals, and how to protect yourself from trade show scams.
Jewelry Parties - The Success Guide
Everything you need to know for putting on profitable home jewelry parties and jewelry-making parties.

New Jewelry Display and Packaging Ideas

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Jewelry Business Strategies

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    An excellent jewelry resource guide!
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    Great lens! Thanks for all the wonderful info! Annie~
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    Nice lens. Thanks for sharing your tips,ideas, strategies,resources regarding jewelery business with us. I like these all.
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    Awesome lens, love the great ideas,Fantastic selection
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    Nice lens, thanks for the Guide, its very helpful
  • AccessoryWholesaleInc Jan 28, 2009 @ 7:22 pm | delete
    This site is a wealth of information for anyone in the jewelry business. The lens shows you have certainly done your homework and have plenty of experience to back it up. Five stars!
  • ArtsyTartsyJewels Dec 26, 2008 @ 5:55 am | delete
    This lens is very helpful and informative. 5 *!

    - Candice of Artsy * Tartsy * Jewels
  • ArtsyTartsyJewels Dec 26, 2008 @ 5:55 am | delete
    This lens is very helpful and informative. 5 *!

    - Candice of Artsy * Tartsy * Jewels
  • LauraKay Oct 21, 2008 @ 8:19 pm | delete
    Hey, great lens... it's like having a little mini-index to all your jewelry making articles! Very useful! Thanks!
  • aridesigns Oct 10, 2008 @ 6:31 pm | delete
    thank you so much Rena - your newsletter and lens has been a great source of information!
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    Really a great idea. Home Business is IN because the wife/husband have lots of time taking good care of their love ones.
  • totalhealth Jun 10, 2008 @ 1:01 pm | delete
    great lens and great ideas. really helpful for those who want to start a new business.
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    Your lens is awesome. But, I must thank you sooooo much for what you have given me. I subscribed to your newsletter years ago. I had just began making jewelry for fun. You opened the whole world of the internet to me. You...Rena. Before I knew nothing, except how to have an email account! Thank you!!!!
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    Great lens Rena! I've enjoyed looking through it and your other lenses.

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