Teaching Jewelry Making Workshops

Teaching jewelry making workshops or classes is a wonderful way to earn some extra money if you love making jewelry of any kind.

It's a fun and easy market niche, where you work for yourself and share what you love most.

Here's what you need to know for successfully setting up, publicizing, and teaching jewelry making workshops. To help you get started, I'm also including ideas for projects to teach and places to hold your classes.

People are exploring arts and crafts like never before, and they're signing up for workshops on everything from photography to calligraphy, from oil painting to quilting.

And there's a BIG demand for jewelry-making workshops!

Lots of people are thrilled with the idea of creating jewelry, but they don't want to invest in all the tools and supplies until they've tried it - and they don't know how to design and construct jewelry on their own, or where to begin.

Attending a jewelry workshop is perfect for the most people who want to learn to make jewelry! They can experiment with a new art form, create something beautiful to wear, and enjoy socializing all at the same time.

For you, the jewelry artist, teaching jewelry making workshops is easy, a lot of fun, and a great way to earn some extra money from your business.

The time you put into teaching is usually flexible; you can schedule as many classes or workshops as you wish.

If you sell your finished jewelry, teaching is a good way to keep money coming in during the leaner times of year, when people tend to buy less jewelry. You can even decide to limit your workshops to only those months of the year when you're not busy selling your own jewelry at shows.

In teaching jewelry making workshops, you'll meet some very nice people who are excited about your area of expertise, and many of them will also want to purchase your finished jewelry.

The more you teach, the more people will ask you to teach. They'll want to make more jewelry, or have you put on a workshop for a group they're in, or do a jewelry-making session with their Girl Scouts.... The opportunities tend to snowball once you get started.

You probably won't run out of workshop ideas, because your students will always let you know what they want to make next, or someone will have heard about your through the grapevine, and contact you to ask if you can teach them how to make something special.

There are also a lot of opportunities to take your jewelry classes in other directions. Someday you may find yourself teaching jewelry making:

• at a community college or tech school
• on a cruise ship
• at a recreation / activities center
• at home parties
• at children's birthday parties
• at a rehabilitation center
• in an active retirement community
• at national event like the Bead & Button Show
• at a craft store, beading store, or art gallery

The sky is the limit! You may even wind up teaching jewelry-making by writing magazine articles and books, or by creating videos or downloadable jewelry tutorials.

Here are some tips for getting off to a successful start in this rewarding market niche:

Teaching Jewelry Classes for Fun and Profit
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Are You Ready to Be a Beading Instructor?
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Finding Jewelry Workshop Students
How to locate people who are eager to learn what you can teach them about jewelry making. Finding jewelry workshop students is the first step for successful workshops.

Profit by Helping Other People Make Jewelry
How I got started teaching jewelry making classes and workshops - and ideas for some popular projects.

Choosing a Jewelry Workshop Project to Teach
How to choose a great jewelry workshop project, including project ideas to get you started.

Girls' Birthday Bracelet Beading Parties
Success tips for a birthday bracelet beading party. Learn how to get started in this popular, profitable birthday party niche.

Luxe Jewels - kits for teaching jewelry making parties
Luxe Jewels' kits have added a new facet to guest author Lanie Ketcherside's jewelry business - combining jewelry making parties with jewelry trunk shows.

Help Your Students Make Their Own Holiday Gifts
People love take care of their holiday shopping by making jewelry gifts. Here are some tips for offering this type of jewelry class.

Preparing for Your Jewelry Making Workshop
Keys to preparing for a jewelry workshop for maximum attendance and maximum success. Follow this get-ready plan, and then relax.

Teach Jewelry Classes with "Something Extra"
Make your jewelry classes spectacular with Michelle Buettner's tips for providing that something extra for your students.

Success Tips for Teaching Jewelry Making Workshops
Try these jewelry workshop teaching tips for successful, enjoyable classes.

Details That Add Value to Jewelry Workshops
Ideas for little details that add value to jewelry workshops. Professional touches like these will make students rave about your jewelry making classes!

Teaching Jewelry Classes to Students at Different Skill Levels
Tips for attracting students of the appropriate skill levels and promoting your workshops.

Seven Ways to Make Your Jewelry Workshops More Profitable
Charging your workshop participants a fee isn't the only way to profit from teaching a jewelry workshop. You can earn multiple streams of income from your classes by offering additional products and services that are of interest to your students.

Creating and Selling Jewelry Tutorials
Discover how downloadable jewelry tutorials have dramatically increased website traffic and profits for two jewelry artists - and how they automate their entire jewelry tutorial sales process.

Interview with Eni Oken
The creator of extraordinary jewelry tutorials shares how she develops her lessons - and how she's incorporated them into her successful, multi-faceted jewelry business.

Sell Jewelry Tutorials on Etsy
By selling jewelry tutorials on Etsy, Janice Abarbanel adds another stream of income to her jewelry business - and helps other jewelry artists learn a skill without taking time out from her own work.

Jewelry Kits and Tutorials
Jewelry kits, tutorials, and workshops can be a new stream of income for your jewelry business. Janice Lam explains how she got into filling the needs of the "want-to-be-a-jewelry-artist" market.

Questions and Answers About Teaching Jewelry Classes / Workshops
Questions, answers, and tips about teaching jewelry-making. Post your questions here, and contribute tips and answers to help others.

I wish you many successful and fulfilling jewelry making workshops and classes!

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