Inspiri-art-and-craft.com At Inspiri Art and Craft, you’ll find in-depth information on running a home craft business. This site includes tips about where to sell your art, how to create craft show displays and how to promote and manage your craft business.  This site is run by a lovely woman from my home town of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada and is a great example of another successful SiteBuildit (SBI!) Site.

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When I first picked up Jewelry Selling Secrets I was a little skeptical.  I guess I’m a little gun-shy and the marketing looked a little too slick.  How intimidating!

But as I started to go through the material, I started to really enjoy it and there is some really useful stuff in here.

It was a really easy read and talked about a number of things that I’ve never seen spoken of anywhere else in the jewelry selling niche.

What I really liked was that Kameron is a business woman and thinks about things from a selling perspective.

My favorite part was here detailed information on how she marketed to the stars. Sure, it cost her up front, but if you can get celebrities photographed with your jewelry and you can get some press, wouldn’t that totally be worth it?

I’d always wondered before how people did that.

So that was the book. It had enough good content to be worth the $47 cost for a serious jewelry maker who wants to do more than dabble on Etsy.

It was great advice for the average jewelry maker who has absolutely no clue how to approach shops, how to create a focused business strategy, and how to get the most bang for their marketing efforts. Read the rest of this entry

How to Sell More Jewelry Directly from Your Blog

copyright by Rena Klingenberg

Your blog is an excellent tool for selling your jewelry online. In fact, many jewelry artists sell their work exclusively from their blogs. Read the rest of this entry

Book Review

This collection of 101 more great jewelry selling techniques is a compilation of 101 of David Weiman’s best “5 Minute Tips” from Jewelry Selling Insights.

About the Author:

Dr. David Weiman (a.k.a. Dr. Dave) is the longtime marketing director for Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist and Step by Step Beads, and editor/ publisher of Jewelry Selling Insights, an email based monthly subscription newsletter for handcrafted jewelry sellers. Read the rest of this entry

The Jewelry Business-Owners Guide to Selling Jewelry On the Internet:

Social Networking – Selling Jewelry Online the New Way

You probably already know Rena Klingenberg if you’ve been researching jewelry business information for awhile.  She is probably the top internet expert on jewelry businesses, ans she’s really nice besides.  A stay-at-home Mom like myself, she earns her living on the internet much the same way I do. Read the rest of this entry