How To Start Your Own Home Based Jewelry Making Business

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How To Start Your Own Home Based Jewelry Making Business

Are you creative? Do you love to make crafts and show them off
to your friends? Does everyone rave over your crafts and say
you should sell them? Then maybe you should consider jewelry
making! Making jewelry is not only fun, it is really very easy
to do and can bring nice profits. It just takes some
creativity, and a little skill. In fact, you could easily start
your own jewelry making business!

There are many great books available with instructions and
ideas for jewelry making. There are also numerous web sites
where you can learn how to make your own jewelry and get lots
of ideas.

When you first start out you will probably want to follow
instructions in a book or on a web site until you get the hang
of it - but after a while you should let your creativity take
over and design your own jewelry styles. You can get all of the
supplies that you need for making your own custom designed
jewelry wholesale through sources online. Be sure to order from
a site that sells jewelry making supplies in bulk so you will
always get the best prices. You can buy low cost costume
jewelry supplies as well as real sterling silver and gold.
Everything that you could possibly need can be purchased
online.

After you have made a few unique jewelry pieces, you should
show them to your friends,co-workers and family members. Ask
for their honest opinions and listen to what they say to
improve on your skills. You might be surprised at how many of
these people want you to make pieces of custom jewelry for
them!

At this point you many want to try some other outlets for your
custom made jewelry. Craft shows are always popular, especially
the larger shows held around Christmas and major holidays.
Attendance is usually high during these shows and people are
looking for gift ideas. Be sure to display your custom jewelry
attractively on a black or red velvet background board and have
some sort of lighting to make it shine and glitter to attract
your customers eye. Let them pick it up and examine it easily.
Greet them when they walk up to your display but don't be pushy
and just sit back and let them ask the questions. Being too
anxious to close the sale can cause the customer to feel
uncomfortable and leave without buying. Print out some business
cards on your computer and be sure to have a stack of them
sitting where they can easily be accessed by potential
customers. If you want to do custom orders be sure to say so on
the cards. If things go well you should at least make a few
sales and also gain some customers from your business cards.

Next you may want to try a consignment store to sell your
custom made jewelry. I would recommend a nice quality women's
clothing consignment store for your first attempt. Take several
of your best selling items in and approach the owner and offer
to leave them on consignment. Many consignment stores have a
contract for you to sign and will state exactly what percentage
of the sale they will take. Try to negotiate some space on the
counter where customers check out to display your custom
jewelry items. It is the very best place in the store to place
items that people may impulsively purchase and is one of the
highest exposure areas. If you are successful in this first
store then you will have more confidence to approach other
small stores to sell your items.

Email your local newspaper fashion editor and suggest that they
might want to do a feature on custom made jewelry. They are
usually eager to explore new possibilities for a story idea and
may be willing to do a feature on your business. Place yourself
where ever you can get some exposure for your business. Donate
a few items to a fund raiser. Present your child's teachers
with jewelry gifts. Wear your custom made jewelry where ever
you go and take business cards with you because you are sure to
get comments from potential customers.

You might even want to set up a web site to take orders for
your jewelry.There are web sites that will let you have a free
store setup. One is ecrater.com. You may want to try ebay or
other online auctions to sell some custom jewelry also.

Soon you may find yourself well known all around town for your
custom made jewelry and be busier making it than you ever
dreamed possible!

About the Author: Sandra Kennedy operates a website
http://www.photojewelrymaking.com that sells wholesale photo
jewelry making supplies. She is a part time instructor of
jewelry making classes.