1. Exciting New Markets for Your Handcrafted Jewelry

2. New Jewelry Business Tips and Techniques:
   Six great new articles

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

4. Featured Article:
   Your Jewelry on Stage

5. Neat Jewelry-Related Website:
   Fairs and Festivals

6. Get Ready to Profit from Your Fall Art & Craft Shows

Discover a way to sell your jewelry to customers who are VERY willing to buy from you – again and again. It's the main way I sell my own jewelry now.

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A reader named Malika says,

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1. CAD Jewelry Design - Building a Successful Fine Jewelry Business from Home
   CAD jewelry design creates computerized jewelry images that look absolutely lifelike - even though the pieces may never physically exist. Cristina Acevedo describes how CAD design can help you reach new jewelry markets.




2. Path to a Jewellery Business
   Join Liz Caplen on her journey from jewellery hobby to jewellery business - including helpful lessons learned along the way.




3. Display and Packaging Tips for Home Jewelry Parties
   Try these jewelry display and packaging ideas from Janis Robinson, who combines beads, dance, and rubber stamps into the jewelry business of her dreams!




And from my NEW, improved
Jewelry Display Ideas site:

4. Mosaic and Wood Jewelry Displays
   Kerry Collett shares four of her gorgeous, unique mosaic and wood jewelry displays, and how she made them (she says they're easy!). Don't miss these beautiful photos.




5. Portable Jewelry Display Case - Tutorial
   Make this breathtaking, portable jewelry display case by recycling a box and adding clever altered-art-style touches. A tutorial by Carolina Gonzalez.




6. Electronic Picture Frame with Jewelry Photos
   Don't miss this clever tip from Jeff Tully. This is an easy, high-tech way to display a slideshow of your work when you do shows or jewelry parties.

Share your own jewelry business story, 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 website - 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!

If your town has a local Little Theatre that puts on plays, it may provide an opportunity for your jewelry business.

One of my friends works with our town's Little Theatre. For each play, my friend is involved in getting the necessary props to set the scenes for that particular show.

The theatre company gives her a budget to work with for each play, and she goes through the script to see what the playwright describes for the setting in each scene. She has to pay attention to the era, location, and other details in the script, so she can get the most accurate props possible to fulfill the playwright's vision.

Then she goes around to antique shops, thrift shops, garage sales, etc. to accumulate the various items described.

But of course plays need more than props. They also need costumes, which is where a wonderful opportunity lies for jewelry artists - because costumes often include jewelry.

Although jewelry for plays is usually faux or costume jewelry that looks real, the design opportunities could be great creative fun. And you'd have lots of potential for making good connections and spreading the word about your business.

An especially valuable benefit to you would be that your name and jewelry business contact info would be printed in the play's printed theatre program, where it will be read by everyone who attends the play.

And who attends plays?

In my community, the majority of theatre-goers are people toward the wealthier end of the economic scale.

They love to support their local arts, and they can afford to purchase jewelry. That's a top-notch, ready-to-buy customer base for your work.

If this sounds interesting and your community has a Little Theatre, call and see if you can set up a meeting with the person in charge of costumes (in some theatres, it's a different person for each play).

Of course, you'd have to be willing to create faux jewelry that's within a certain budget and looks like what the playwright describes the characters wearing. You'd also have to be willing to share creative control of the jewelry designs to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the costume director.

However, you'd still be paid for your jewelry, and you'd have the fun of seeing your jewelry on stage. Also, the contacts and exposure you'd gain could be very valuable to your business.

You may also have one other opportunity as a result of being the play's jewelry designer: You may get to have a jewelry trunk show in the theatre lobby before and after each performance of the play.

Our local theatre includes a solo art exhibit/sale (usually paintings or photography) in the lobby during the run of every play.

If you're the play's jewelry designer, it shouldn't be hard to gain permission to do a classy jewelry trunk show before and after each performance, especially if you make it known that you're donating a portion of your sales to the theatre!

Our neat site this time is an extremely useful tool for anyone interested in selling jewelry at shows and festivals. It's the Fairs and Festivals Calendar, a "shows, fairs, and festivals finder" with detailed lists of events, including:

• Name and date of event
  
• City and exact location of event
  
• Event contact information
  
• Event website URL (if applicable)
  
• Description of event
  
• Size of event
  
• What type of vendors they are taking applications for - crafts, art, food, musicians, commercial, etc.
  
• How many vendor spaces are available
  
• How much the vendor spaces cost
  
• Deadline for applying for space
  
• Whether the show is juried.

This calendar is an excellent place to start your research when you're wondering which shows or craft fairs to apply for.

Got jewelry shows this Fall? It's the best, most profitable time of year for selling jewelry.

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