1. Exciting New Markets for Your Handcrafted Jewelry

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

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

4. Your Profitable Jewelry Business:
   Interviewing Other Jewelry Artists for Your Blog

5. Neat Jewelry-Related Website:
   Bead Man

6. Sell More Jewelry at Shows, Fairs, and Festivals

Do you prefer to make one-of-a-kind jewelry? If so, I'll show you how to find people who want what you make - and who can afford to buy it.

Don't miss out on these prime opportunities to sell your jewelry to customers who are VERY willing to buy your unique handcrafted jewelry – 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 newest ebook Secrets of a Handcrafted Jewelry Shopping Service.

A reader named Frances says, "There's a great tip in almost every single sentence of this book. I keep re-reading it and finding new gems of info."

Invest in this 115-page, easy-to-read guide now, and be prepared to sell more of your jewelry this December and beyond:

My readers have been sending me so many great articles and tips that not all of them could fit in this issue! If you've sent me an article that didn't make it into this issue, keep an eye out for it in the next issue.

Thanks for sharing your experiences with us!

1. Lessons Learned: Organizing Your Own Jewelry Open House
   After Kathy Reading spent a lot of time, money, and effort organizing a jewelry open house and "one stop holiday extravaganza", what do you think happened? By Kathy Reading.




2. Jewelry Display Colors
   Jeffrey Miller always used black table covers and black velvet jewelry displays - until his wife Alicia taught him a thing or two about jewelry display colors. By Jeffrey Miller.




3. Pricing, Art, and Karma: She Works Hard for Her Money
   Pricing and accepting money for your work is one of the hardest tasks for many creative people. Carolina Gonzalez offers this new perspective on pricing, art, and Karma. By Carolina Gonzalez.




4. Inexpensive Banner for Jewelry Booth
   Want a great looking banner for your booth, but don't have the money to have one made? Make one on your computer! By Kathi Ader.




5. Easy Picture Frame Earring Display
   The day before an art festival, Michelle Heath discovered her earring turn-table had lost the screws and nuts to hold it together. With only hours to go, she created a new earring display. By Michelle Heath.




6. How the New Lead-Containing Jewelry Law Affects Your Business
   Regardless of where you live, California's Lead-Containing Jewelry Law affects you if sell jewelry online to anyone in California. Here's what you need to know. By Rena Klingenberg.

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!

We all love to read interviews of other jewelry artists. It's nice to "meet" them, discover their art, and learn how and why they work they way they do.

A lot of jewelry bloggers post really great interviews with other jewelry artists - and it's something you might want to consider doing too, if you aren't already.

Interviews are also a win-win situation for both the artist and the blogger. The artist gets publicity and links to his or her website, and the blogger gets extra traffic from people linking to and sharing the interview around the Web.

Idea: You and another jewelry artist could interview each other, and then each of you could link to your interview on the other person's blog.

Here are some tips for getting really great interviews of other jewelry artists via email:

• Don't email the same generic list of questions to every artist you interview. Take the time to come up with unique questions for each artist - and I promise you'll come away with a much better interview.
• When you interview someone, the better your questions, the better their responses will be. One of the best ways to come up with great interview questions that result in meaty responses is to really study your interviewee's website, blog, products, and any publications ahead of time.
• Ask questions that let the artist share his or her interests - passions - beliefs - areas of expertise - dislikes - experiences - unique viewpoints - unique products - talents - innovations. This can trigger really inspiring responses from an artist.
• Is there any area where this artist has experienced struggle or conflict? It's fascinating and educational to see how other artists approach and overcome obstacles.
• Is there something about this artist or her work that ties in with a current event or trend? A "newsworthy" angle can bring in a lot of traffic to your published interview.
• If this artist does any charity work or fundraising, be sure to mention it in the interview - and include a link to where people can donate, contribute, or support this work.
• Ask the artist if you may use a couple of images of his or her jewelry. Anyone reading an artist interview is very interested in seeing photos!

Thanks to your research, your interview will yield some inspiring, informative content for your readers to enjoy and share.

For examples of jewelry artist interviews, you can see my Jewelry Business Success Story Interviews.

Our neat site this week belongs to the Bead Man. Although the Bead Man primarily focuses on providing jump rings for chainmaille projects, he also has a cool and timely tutorial for making bead-and-wire ornaments and snowflakes.

Another useful how-to is Bead Man's simple and excellent tutorial on soldering.

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

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