September 15, 2007
Start Your Successful Jewelry Business
Tip! High polished sterling silver jewelry has no plating on the jewelry at all and is particularly popular with engravable items or for people who are allergic to certain metals such as nickel. The jewelry is polished by machine without additional raw material cost.
Do you think that you might like to start earning some extra money at home, but have no idea as to just how to get started?
Thanks to the internet, it’s much easier now than it’s ever been to start your own business.
There are many wholesalers who sell their gorgeous jewelry at amazing prices as compared to retail prices. Look for jewelry to sell anywhere that you think you can find it. I know of a particular store in my area, that sells off it’s gorgeous jewelry once a month for a dollar a piece. If that ever happens in your area, you should purchase as much of it as you can afford.
If you’re not interested in selling your wares to retail outlets, there’s always the option of setting up your own website. Setting up your own website can be an economical way of getting your business off the ground, but be mindful of your costs while you’re in that process. It can very quickly get expensive to begin selling online. Some of the costs involve getting pictures taken of your goods (which can be numerous and expensive if you’re having an actual photographer take your pictures), domain registration and hosting, shopping cart program, etc.
Tip! Finally, take not of all the other expenses that is related to your jewelry making. This could include the rent of the stall in the trade fair you joined, or the website maintenance expenses, or the telephone charges you got from calling contacts.
A better idea for getting your fashion jewelry business off the ground would be to get set up on ebay! Ebay is a wonderful way to start out with your own business, regardless of what that business might be. It doesn’t matter what you’re selling, there’s bound to be a market for it on ebay. I started out selling my goods on ebay, and even though I’ve been selling fashion accessories for about 5 years, I still sell on ebay because I have customers from all over the planet. If I were to open a physical store for my products, the cost would be astronomical as compared with what it cost me to set up on ebay, and my sales would basically be limited to whatever
foot traffic came by my store. Ebay does away with that problem.
Finding reputable wholesalers to order your product from is a snap. Check out your local phone book, or alternatively, are many online. Most of my wholesalers are nowhere near where I live, but I order my product from online catalogs, and have it shipped to my home.
Tip! Some silver jewelry has a black antique look to cater to certain consumers. These items are processed by putting the jewelry into chemical solution to oxide the silver before polishing and the pricing is similar to that of high polished ones.
I absolutely love what I do, and I tell other stay at home moms about it as often as I can. It’s easy, and it allows me to make some really good money while still being able to be here for my children.
Diana M.
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Diana Milani is a stay at home mother of 2. She has owned her own successful businesses for 5 years, and says that she would “never go back to working for someone else”. Learn how to start a business that you love at http://startyourfashionjewelrybusiness.blogspot.com.









