1. Sell More Jewelry at Shows,
   Fairs, and Festivals this Year

2. New Jewelry Business Tips and Techniques:
   - 5 insightful new jewelry business articles
   - 3 new jewelry display / packaging ideas

3. Sell More One-of-a-Kind Jewelry

4. Share Your Article, Project, Tip, or Photo -
   and Get a Valuable Link to Your Website

5. Your Profitable Jewelry Business:
   Building Your Jewelry Business Around Your Strengths and Interests

6. Neat Jewelry-Related Website:
   Seedlings: Jewelry Because

7. How to Sell More Jewelry Online

Got jewelry shows this year?

Sell more of your jewelry with the secrets you'll learn in my book, Ultimate Guide to Your Profitable Jewelry Booth.

Don't wait to discover hundreds of things you can do to sell your jewelry like crazy at shows, fairs, and festivals. Invest in this 176-page, step-by-step resource before your next show:

1. Jewelry in a Can!
   Don't miss Kari Anderson's nifty way to package jewelry - in a lovely reusable container that also reminds customers of your business.




2. Combining My Passions for Unique Jewelry
   Ann Nolen shares how she discovered her fantastically unique jewelry niche for a customer base she knows very well.




3. Collecting Email Addresses from Your Customers
   Paige offers easy tips for collecting emails to keep customers updated on your jewelry events and specials - an important way to grow your jewelry business.




4. Fireplace Screen Jewelry Display
   See how Lisa Schmitz turned a thrift-store fireplace screen into a stunning jewelry display.




5. Handling Requests for Free Jewelry
   What do you do when friends and family ask for free pieces of your handmade jewelry? Chelsea Clarey has eight terrific solutions for turning these requests into a win-win situation.




6. A New Twist on Picture Frame Necklace Displays
   See Debbie's clever system for storing, transporting and showing her jewelry at home parties - on beautiful displays she can set up and take down in no time.




7. Computer Security for Your Jewelry Business
   Computer security should be an integral part of your online jewelry business. Rita Juhlin shares easy tips and two simple, free programs to make your computer and files more secure.




8. The Reality of Selling Jewelry Online
   Please share your tips and comments for Barbara, whose website sales haven't been what she hoped - and who wonders whether customers need to see her work in person before they buy it.

The new Home Based Jeweler's Showcase blog is an excellent, free opportunity to promote your jewelry business.

It's also a fantastic place to find other jewelry artists to network with, trade blog content or comments with, promote each other's work, etc. I know a good many of the artists who have listed their businesses on the Home Based Jeweler's Showcase - and I can promise you they're true gems!

Rita Juhlin, founder and publisher of the Home Based Jeweler's Showcase blog, reports that the day after the blog got listed, it received over 1500 page views - a LOT of traffic for a brand new site.

Rita adds, "Get on the bandwagon, you jewelers - we want this party to rock and roll!!!  Be sure you sign up as a follower; that helps get all of us traffic too. I want to thank you all for all your kind words, thank you’s and verbal smiles. I am really enjoying the emails too.  Our network will only get bigger and better!"

To get listed - please email Rita, at HomeBasedJewelers @ gmail.com .

To sign up as a follower - scroll down to the bottom of the Home Based Jeweler's Showcase where it says "Followers", and add yourself by using the Google Friend Connect button.

Sell your jewelry to customers who are VERY willing to buy your unique handcrafted pieces - again and again. This is the main way I sell my own jewelry now.

You'll find everything you need to get started selling your own jewelry this way, in my book Secrets of a Handcrafted Jewelry Shopping Service.

Invest in this 115-page, easy-to-read guide now, and make this your best jewelry selling year ever:

Share your own jewelry business article, tip, project, or advice - and build traffic to your website at the same time. You can also include any photos you have that illustrate your contribution.

When I publish your contribution, you'll receive a free permanent link to your website from my site - and your content will be read by thousands of people in the jewelry industry. My guest authors report a significant flow of traffic coming from their links on my sites!

From personal experience, I believe you can sell a lot more jewelry simply by building your business around your unique strengths and interests.

For example, my natural tendency is to focus my attention and energy intensely on one person at a time, rather than participate in a group.

I'd rather go out for lunch with one friend than go to a party. And if I do go to a party, I usually spend most of my time having deep conversations with one person at a time.

So it's not surprising that although I like selling my jewelry at shows and parties, I LOVE selling jewelry one-on-one at private showings. It enables me to take my time to work with customers individually, giving them my full attention.

It's much more personal, and it's a perfect fit with my natural tendencies for relating to people.

In all aspects of my jewelry business, I find that I'm much more efficient and successful when I choose to do things I'm good at and love doing.

And conversely, I'm the Queen of Procrastination and Unfinished Tasks when it comes to things I don't like and am not good at doing!

So I focus on making conscious decisions about everything in my business, to make sure that I'm continually building it around things I love.

Whenever I'm faced with a choice, I stop and consider all the options - then choose the one that makes me feel the best.

I think it's made my business more successful, and definitely more fun.

And isn't "having fun" one of the main reasons you started your jewelry business? :o)

Today's neat site is Seedlings: Jewelry Because.

What do I love about this site? In addition to great jewelry, artist Sharon Paradiso has a clean, simple, beautiful page design.

Sharon has also done something else I love - she's put up a home page of her own, and from it she links to her Etsy shop, her blog, her Twitter and FaceBook accounts, her Etsy team blog, etc.

That way her customers and fellow jewelers can always find Sharon at her Seedlings: Jewelry Because home page - and she's free to switch to a different storefront, other social networking sites, etc., without losing any traffic to her site - just by changing the links to the rest of her Web presence.

No matter how you sell your jewelry online, you have to do your own marketing if you want to make sales.

Using the step-by-step strategies you'll learn in my book, Social Networking: Sell Your Jewelry Online the New Way, you can easily develop your own online customer base, without competition from other jewelry artists.

Invest in this 192-page, step-by-step resource now:

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