Sell Your Jewelry is a complete guide to starting a jewelry business. This book includes all you need to know to establish your company, build a customer base, and develop a profitable business selling your handmade jewelry. Written in plain English, the concepts are easy to understand and apply, regardless of your level of experience. In addition to the basics of running a business, this book teaches secret tips to ensure your success. For instance, did you know that jewelry business owners can
Sell Your Jewelry: How to Start a Jewelry Business and Make Money Selling Jewelry at Boutiques, Fairs, Trunk Shows, and Etsy.
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Review by bfangela for Sell Your Jewelry: How to Start a Jewelry Business and Make Money Selling Jewelry at Boutiques, Fairs, Trunk Shows, and Etsy.
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This book is the best I’ve found for starting a jewelry business. It contains all the basic information, like setting up a business, buying low cost supplies, and creating a look and feel. But it also explains how to grow your business and be successful. It explains how you can increase the prices of your jewelry without hurting sales and how you can be more successful by setting goals. It tells you how to find customers, how to approach boutiques, and what to do when things do go as you planned.
The author has an MBA and her business expertise shows. The book is packed with helpful information that can be used for years.
I have really enjoyed this book and would recommend it for anyone interested in selling their jewelry.
Review by E. A. Lovitt for Sell Your Jewelry: How to Start a Jewelry Business and Make Money Selling Jewelry at Boutiques, Fairs, Trunk Shows, and Etsy.
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My sisters make and sell jewelry, and I was wondering whether this book could help them promote their products. They’ve tried eBay, but that’s been a pretty spotty market. Stacie Vander Pol, the author of this book has an MBA and sixteen years of experience in sales and marketing, plus a passion for jewelry-making so she seemed like the perfect guide for my sisters.
This is not a book on how to create jewelry. Stacie assumes her readers already have a product they would like to sell. Nor is it a magical guide to spinning jewelry into gold. You could substitute `dollhouse furniture’ or `leather goods’ in the title and still be able to use 70% of the book. It’s basically a guide to starting up a small, portable business, although there is jewelry-specific information such as directions on constructing a theft-proof ring display.
The author’s discussion of demographics and presentation is very useful. One of my sisters created a line of tubular vinyl bracelets that sold very well in Los Angeles, but bombed out in rural upstate Michigan. If she had read Stacie’s chapter on “Know Your Customer” the shiny vinyl bracelets would have stayed in California.
Parts 1 and 2 of “Making the Sale” are packed with techniques and resources for marketing your jewelry, including a section about Etsy.com, the website where “people from all over the world bought and sold handmade merchandise. Today, Etsy sells half a million items a month for an annual sales revenue of more than $84 million.”
Another suggestion for making sales is to emulate Tupperware© or Mary Kay© by holding parties at home, or selling at your workplace.
“Sell Your Jewelry” is a succinct, useful guide with everything from the tax deductions jewelry-makers can take, to a list of “Gem and Jewelry Suppliers and Expos.” I am definitely buying copies for my sisters.
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Review by Elda Rae for Sell Your Jewelry: How to Start a Jewelry Business and Make Money Selling Jewelry at Boutiques, Fairs, Trunk Shows, and Etsy.
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This book definitely earns five stars. It is easy to understand, inspirational, and great for people who want to sell their jewelry. I felt like she was walking me through it in person. I’ve been unsure for a while about starting a business, and after reading this book, I feel confident and inspired to go ahead and go for it. I found this book extremely helpful.
The chapters are outlined below:
1. A Jewelry Business
2. Style and Niche
3. Know Your Customer
4. Professionalism
5. Pricing
6. Presentation
7. Making the Sale (part 1)
8. Making the Sale (part 2)
9. Your Business
10. Lower Costs and Higher Profits
11. Business Operations
12. Tax Deductions
Appendix of Gem and Jewelry Suppliers and Expos
Review by C. Yarborough for Sell Your Jewelry: How to Start a Jewelry Business and Make Money Selling Jewelry at Boutiques, Fairs, Trunk Shows, and Etsy.
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I was really excited about reading this book… mostly because I wanted to hear what it had to say about selling your jewelry on [...] and other websites. Overall, the book was good, lots of useful info. But when it came to selling jewelry on a website, I felt it was lacking… There were maybe only a few pages dedicated this type of selling. There were also a few grammatical errors (which really annoys me) and there was no conclusion at the end of the book – it just stopped after the final chapter on taxes. I would have liked it to have re-capped the main topics a little.
I was excited to see the gem show list at the back of the book, but was disappointed when it only listed two. I actually work for a company that travels and works these gem shows – we travel to many more shows than just the two listed. For beginner jewelers, who couldnt afford to travel to Tucson for the largest gem show in the world, I felt there needed to be more wholesale shows listed around the country. Here are the gem shows that I travel to every year:
Asheville Gem Show at the Asheville Civic Center(early Jan. & late Oct.)
Tucson Gem Show -This show takes over the entire city! (1st two weeks of Feb.)
Minneapolis, MN at the Ramada Inn across from the Mall of America (early April & late Sept.)
Franklin, NC Gem Show at the Watauga Festival Grounds(early May & late July)
Springfield, Mass.- Martin Zimm Expos (mid-Aug.)
Denver, Co – The Great American Gem Show (2 locations) (mid-Sept.)
I also want to mention that if you do plan on going to your first wholesale show that it can be very overwhelming. Don’t buy the first strand of stones you see – there are always vendors willing to make deals. A couple of my favorite vendors are Lilly’s Bead Box & SII Findings – both have great deals and will treat you right. Each has a website and Lilly’s also has an etsy store.
Hope this helps!
Review by Sam A. Banton for Sell Your Jewelry: How to Start a Jewelry Business and Make Money Selling Jewelry at Boutiques, Fairs, Trunk Shows, and Etsy.
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This book is fantastic, it covers business licenses, how to find the best craft fairs, how to name your business, where to sell your jewelry… you name it! This book will be of great value to anyone in the jewelry business.
I wish I could say which section was the most helpful, but I think even the appendix of jewelry suppliers alone made the book worth the price. The information on pricing was fantastic. And just the little tips on how to make a few more sales were quite valuable. I was also intrigued by the chapter on increasing the efficiency your business. This is something I had never thought about before, but so much time (and money) is wasted by duplicating efforts, or making things harder than they need to be. For instance, I didn’t realize that I could set up a US Postal Service account on my home computer, print out the postage label on my printer, and have my mail man pick it up. This alone is going to save me several hours a week.
I highly recommend the book. If you are starting a business, it will point you in the right direction. If you already have a business, it will give you a lot of help on smaller details that will make a big difference.
The author is a jewelry person, but she also has an MBA. She knows what she’s talking about, and she offers a little more inside scoop on the business tricks to making this work. I’m really glad I found this book.