1. Exciting New Markets for Your Handcrafted Jewelry

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

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

4. Your Profitable Jewelry Business:
   How to Sell More Jewelry During Next Year's Holiday Season

5. Neat Jewelry-Related Website:
   I Shop Indie

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

7. Looking for Good Places to Sell Your Jewelry?

Don't miss out on these prime opportunities 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.

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

A reader named Mindi says,

"I would never have thought of customizing my jewelry for the business gift market, the way you teach it in your book. My heart started pounding with excitement over the possibilities in this!"

Invest in this 115-page, easy-to-read guide now, and be prepared to sell more of your jewelry this Fall and Holiday shopping season:

1. Prevent Tarnish on Your Jewelry Inventory
   I would much rather prevent tarnish on my jewelry than have to clean each piece before every showing! Using even one of these tarnish prevention tips will mean less jewelry cleaning. By Rena Klingenberg.




2. How to Sell More Jewelry This Holiday Season
   19 strategies for selling more of your jewelry during the next 9 weeks.




3. Louvered Door Jewelry Display
   Louvered doors make a great standing backdrop for hanging jewelry displays. See Laurie Lynne's nifty setup.




4. Simple and Elegant Earring Display Rack
   With minimal wire work, you can make these graceful earring displays for your booth, designed by Beth Millner.

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 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!

This is sort of "Part 2" of my blog post I've linked to above (How to Sell More Jewelry this Holiday Season).

It never hurts to think ahead, so here are some things you can do between now and next October to increase your sales for next year's holiday shopping season:

• Have one or more "Early Bird Christmas" shows next summer; many people actually prefer to do their shopping that early if they find the right things to buy.
• Offer a free gift to all customers who do their holiday shopping with you before Halloween (thereby freeing your time for accepting more orders during November and December).
• Add all of this year's new holiday customers to your mailing list so you can notify them of your shows and specials next holiday season.
• Optimize your website for local search, to build your local customer base. People are increasingly "pre-shopping" by searching the Web for local products and businesses before they leave home; take advantage of this trend and you'll have new customers coming to you.
• Visit some Fall / holiday shows or festivals that you're considering being in as a jewelry vendor. Check them out this year for traffic, vendor balance, etc., to see whether they're likely to be worth your time and effort next holiday season.
• Read my article, Plan Ahead for Your Own Holidays When You're a Jewelry Artist - Since November and December are two of the busiest months for jewelry artists, it's helpful if you can prepare for your own holidays ahead of time. Not only will you be able to take care of more jewelry orders, but you'll also enjoy a much nicer holiday season on a personal level, with far less stress.

Our neat site this week is LoungeLuxe - a directory of a small collective of indie artisans.

(By the way, if you've been hearing the word "indie" a lot and wonder what it means, it's short for "independent". As in, the majority of people reading this newsletter are indie jewelry artists / designers.)

Anyhow, LoungeLuxe showcases a nice balance of various products designed by creative minds. It's a very attractive site, and all of the work shown there is well styled and photographed. Step into LoungeLuxe for a bit, and enjoy the eye candy!

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

Sell more of your jewelry with the secrets you'll learn in my downloadable ebook, 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:

Check the U.S. Fairs and Festivals Calendar, a comprehensive listing of shows, fairs, and festivals with detailed lists of events.

Or see the Canada Fairs and Festivals Calendar.

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