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 Start a Jewelry Business
- Easy but important legal and financial steps for setting up your successful home jewelry business. How to choose and register your jewelry business name, get your business license / permit, get your resale tax number, handle the IRS, and open your jewelry business bank account.
- Pricing Jewelry
- Pricing your jewelry can be one of the most difficult aspects of your business. Learn how to determine the jewelry prices that are profitable for you and suitable for your market. Includes jewelry pricing formulas and more.
- Overcoming Shyness in Selling Your Jewelry
- Do you dream of selling your jewelry, but need to overcome shyness first? Here's how I conquered my shyness and got my jewelry business going.
- Business Tips for Teenage Jewelry Artists
- If you're a young jewelry artist, you have some great opportunities to sell your work and start your jewelry business. Here are ideas and success tips to get you started.
- Jewelry Gifts Under $20 - a Profitable Market Niche
- The under-$20 jewelry gifts market is a very profitable niche to serve. Here's what you need to know to create a line of low-priced, high-profit jewelry items that sell well regardless of the economy. Learn how some jewelry artists earn their entire booth fee plus a tidy profit - just from their under-$20 jewelry gift items. This is a huge success tip for jewelry shows and parties!
- Creating Your Own Jewelry Business vs. Copying Someone Else's
- Why originality makes your jewelry business better, and how to make your business and your designs unique.
How to Have a Profitable Jewelry Home Party
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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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 cutting-edge secrets of selling your handcrafted jewelry. My own free newsletter, filled with new jewelry marketing ideas, delivered to your email box twice monthly.
- 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.
- 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.
- Introduction to Marketing and Selling Jewelry
- Discover how to create a successful jewelry marketing plan based on your strengths and interests.
- Jewelry Selling Insights
- Subscribe to Dr. David Weiman's outstanding monthly ezine, filled with insider tips on marketing and selling jewelry.
- The Jewelry Selling Answer Book
- Jewelry marketing and selling questions answered authoritatively by Dr. David Weiman, marketing director of Lapidary Journal and Step-by-Step Beads.
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer)
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The Encyclopedia of Jewelry-Making Techniques: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to Traditional and Contemporary Techniques
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Jewelry Making: Tips and Tricks of the Trade
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Rena's Websites
- Home Jewelry Business Success Tips
- Thousands of tips for marketing your handcrafted jewelry
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- Get the cutting-edge secrets of selling your handcrafted jewelry. My own free newsletter, filled with exciting new jewelry marketing ideas, delivered to your email box twice monthly.
- Jewelry Display Ideas
- Discover new jewelry display ideas and unique packaging tips for handcrafted jewelry.
- Making Jewelry Now
- Ideas, tips, and projects for making jewelry - right now!
- Jewelry Business Blog
- Creative new business tips and resources for jewelry artists.
- 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.
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AccessoryWholesaleInc wrote...
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!
Posted January 28, 2009
ArtsyTartsyJewels wrote...
This lens is very helpful and informative. 5 *!
- Candice of Artsy * Tartsy * Jewels
Posted December 26, 2008
ArtsyTartsyJewels wrote...
This lens is very helpful and informative. 5 *!
- Candice of Artsy * Tartsy * Jewels
Posted December 26, 2008
LauraKay wrote...
Hey, great lens... it's like having a little mini-index to all your jewelry making articles! Very useful! Thanks!
Posted October 21, 2008
aridesigns wrote...
thank you so much Rena - your newsletter and lens has been a great source of information!
Posted October 10, 2008
beachbum_gabby wrote...
Really a great idea. Home Business is IN because the wife/husband have lots of time taking good care of their love ones.
Posted June 16, 2008
totalhealth wrote...
great lens and great ideas. really helpful for those who want to start a new business.
Posted June 10, 2008
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!!!!
Posted June 07, 2008
Art-You-Can-Wear wrote...
Great lens Rena! I've enjoyed looking through it and your other lenses.
Diana
Posted May 02, 2008
DazzlingDesigns wrote...
Super jewelry resource! Here's 5-Stars! Please feel free to stop by my Custom Handcrafted Jewelry lens. Thanks, Donia
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Posted April 30, 2008
Thanks to lens. You have give us fine touch of jewelery business from home too...... through online. From home, jewellery shopping is well deserved from this lens. The Sales Inventory Software is software which is used for the sale of the inventory used in the day to day transactions of the business.
Posted April 22, 2008
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Great lens! I am enjoying your latest e-book and spent the evening creating my first lens on cloisonne jewelry!
Posted April 07, 2008
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