The Home Jewelry Business
Success Resource
your guide to a profitable
jewelry making business
Welcome! Home Jewelry Business Success Tips is your resource for discovering and sharing new ideas for selling handmade jewelry.
 How to start a jewelry business. |
New ideas and strategies for selling jewelry online. |
Tips for jewelry shows and home jewelry parties. |
Selling jewelry wholesale, consigning to shops, galleries. |
Please Share Your Jewelry Business
Tips, Ideas, and Stories
I welcome you to share your jewelry business tips, strategies, ideas, and stories here!
I also invite you to join in our brainstorming, problem-solving discussions about What's Stopping Your Jewelry Business.
This is a friendly, creative place for inspiration and learning.
You'll also receive a valuable permanent link back to your website each time I post something you send in. :)
If you'd like to receive email updates on new techniques for selling handmade jewelry, you can subscribe to my free, twice-a-month newsletter, Jewelry Business Success News.
And for quick gems of home jewelry business advice, tips, news, and updates that you won't find anywhere else, you'll enjoy making regular visits to our popular Jewelry Business Blog.
Looking for specific jewelry business information? There's a ton of it here! You can search this site or browse through a complete listing of all 1,000+ of our articles in the sitemap.
I add new posts here regularly, with information on jewelry home parties, photographing and scanning jewelry, creative jewelry sales, making your own jewelry tags and earring cards, setting up and maintaining your own successful jewelry website, cheap jewelry display ideas, professional looking jewelry packaging, consigning and wholesaling jewelry to shops and galleries, handling taxes, permits and other business matters, and more.
I even tell you about all the mistakes I've made in my own jewelry business, and how you can avoid them.
I'm also pleased to bring you excellent in-depth articles by knowledgeable guest authors, on topics like selling jewelry on Etsy, choosing the right jewelry tools and supplies, jewelry business website design, pricing jewelry, setting up a jewelry studio, working with customers, and insuring your jewelry business.
If you're just beginning to sell your handmade jewelry, I extend a very warm welcome to you as you begin your jewelry journey!
Also, no matter how long you've been selling your work, you'll be inspired and motivated by our series of Jewelry Business Success Stories - interviews with jewelry artists and other small business owners who generously share how they've achieved their dreams in the world of handcrafted jewelry.
Please contact me if there's any topic you'd like to find here, if you have any corrections or additions to the information here, or if you want to leave feedback or suggestions for improving this website.
And if you're wondering how I come up with all this jewelry info, you can read about me.
How did this Home Jewelry Business Success Tips website - published by a work-at-home mom - manage to become one of the top 1% of the most visited sites on the Web? Read my website success story - anyone can achieve it.
Now pour yourself a cup of coffee or herb tea, pull up a chair, and prepare to be inspired here!
Here are descriptions of the main categories of articles in this site. Nearly all of these pages have links to several related articles - you can wander around here for days!
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Ideas for displaying jewelry, with projects, tips, and photos for developing your own successful jewelry display.
Tips for packaging jewelry professionally to enhance your customers' experience and encourage repeat jewelry sales.
Selling jewelry online in all sorts of ways, from your own jewelry website or blog to Etsy, eBay, and beyond.
Success tips for profitable jewelry shows. Art and craft show success tips, eliminating competition from other jewelers, and organizing your own profitable shows and parties.
Profitable jewelry home parties - everything you need to know about selling your work at jewelry parties and home shows.
Tips for photographing jewelry with scanners and digital cameras for professional looking photos. Easy tips for using photo editing software for the finishing touch on your jewelry photos.
Marketplace sites like Etsy, eBay, Artfire, Dawanda, 1000 Markets, etc. - and how to sell more jewelry there.
Jewelry business website tips for selling jewelry online.
Pricing your jewelry can be one of the most confusing aspects of your business. Learn how to determine the jewelry prices that are profitable for you and suitable for your market.
A series of home jewelry business management articles to help you painlessly navigate issues of taxes, finances, banking, insurance, accounting, pricing, business licensing, and law.
How to sell jewelry on eBay successfully, including secrets of good auction listings, online auction selling strategies, and more.
Public relations and marketing are ongoing needs for your jewelry business. Here's a collection of success tips for promoting your business and marketing your jewelry.
Success tips for selling jewelry wholesale and on consignment through shops and galleries. Strategies for production, marketing, pricing, and record-keeping in the jewelry business-to-business world.
Success tips for increasing sales to boost your jewelry business income. How to accept credit cards, offering gift certificates, making add-on sales, building your customer base, and more.
Your jewelry business profits from unusual sources can really add up. Here are some less common ways to make money with your jewelry business.
How you can contribute to the greater good with your jewelry business - tips for jewelry fundraisers, charity jewelry, awareness jewelry, and other ways to help good causes with your jewelry business.
Share a story about your jewelry or your jewelry business - and enjoy the stories shared by other jewelry artists!
Let's remove your jewelry business roadblocks and get you on your way to achieving your jewelry business dreams. The most common causes of a stalled jewelry business, and how to resolve them.
A collection of jewelry business success stories, told by the artists themselves, detailing their experiences on the road to making a living with jewelry art.
Important jewelry business security tips - including copyrights, insurance, appraisals, and protecting yourself from theft, scams, fraud, loss, and other hazards.
Jewelry making tutorials, tips, and techniques from jewelry artists.
Tips for teaching jewelry making workshops and classes - a fun and rewarding way to supplement your jewelry business income.
Bead and jewelry supplies - information about jewelry tools and jewelry making supplies to help you make informed decisions when you buy.
Jewelry publications, jewelry making books, jewelry magazines, jewelry-making DVD's - recommendations for your personal jewelry library.
Should you start a home jewellery business? Guest author Ken Sutton reviews challenges such as competition, building and maintaining a website, accepting payment, and advertising.
Please submit article of original content to be published in Home Jewelry Business Success Tips or Jewelry Business Success News.
Submit your jewelry business tip or jewelry making tip to the Jewelry Business Blog.
Find out what jewelry customers really think! Here they share their experiences with shopping for handmade jewelry - and tell jewelry artists what would make them buy more jewelry.
My website success story - how my site became more successful than I could ever imagine.
Tips for different ways of cleaning jewelry to keep it sparkling! Find out which stones are fragile and need special care.
A useful gemstone lore listing of common stones. I've written this as a copyright-free piece that you can adapt to your needs.
A list of Internet jewelry making forums, where you can find answers to specific questions, discover new supply sources, help other jewelry artists, and make great friendships.
Jewelry Business Blog has new posts with tips, information, questions, answers and news about jewelry business and jewelry making.
Privacy policy and other legal information for Home Jewelry Business Success Tips.
FTC disclosure statement for Home Jewelry Business Success Tips.
Jewelry business tips from your questions and answers. Your jewelry making business FAQ.
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