Monthly Archives: December 2009

Protected: How to Make An Easy Ring: Happy Holidays for Email Subscribers!

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Affiliate Advice: FTC Rules and Regulations

The new FTC rules for affiliate marketing mean that anyone who gets a commission for referring customers to products needs to disclose their affiliate status. This means that everyone needs to tell visitors to their websites, blogs, on forum posts, on twitter, etc.   that they will get a commission if someone buys a product [...]

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Understanding Your Online Jewelry Customer

The Key to Online Jewelry Marketing: How to Think Like Your Online Jewelry Customer Why the heck doesn’t anyone want to buy what I’m making? Everyone I know tells me I should sell these beautiful handmade jewelry pieces, but nobody is buying them! Is it because the market is saturated? Is it me?

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Housekeeping: Stop Those Comment Notification Emails

Some of the posts on this website get A LOT of comments.   You may have subscribed to get notified by email when new comments were added to a post without realizing that you’d get inundated with emails. What to do if you no longer WANT to get annoying email about comment posts: At the [...]

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What’s Your Proof This Will Work, Lady?

Here’s a question that I’m sure is on everyone’s mind: What the Heck Do You Know, Anyway? I’ve been receiving a few veiled (and blunt) questions about where my successful jewelry website is if I know so darned much.

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Beginner Jewelry Photography Checklist

Beginner jewelry photography has a pretty steep learning curve. You should have seen my first attempts! Blurry horrible wretched things they were. When You Think Your Camera Is Crappy… When you start out, you might have blurry horrible wretched pictures too.   You might be wondering, “Is it my camera?”

Posted in Jewelry Marketing, Jewelry Photography | Tagged | 7 Comments

Handmade Results Lessons Starting (Finally)

Short and Sweet. Officially taking Premium and Premium Plus Coaching Members starting at 12 Noon, Thursday, December 10, 2009. We’ll only be offering 100 Premium Memberships (premium level lessons) and 30 Premium Plus Coaching Members. The sign up page will have active “sign me up” links after 12 Noon, December 10. Hope you get one [...]

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I’ve Come a Long Way in Two Years, Baby!

Posted December 8, 2009 It’s been two years and a month since I launched my first “real” website.   I call it “real” because it’s the first one that ever went anywhere. I tried my hand at blogging and ebay-ing and etsying before, but all of it went nowhere.   No traffic, no visitors, no [...]

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