Get the Facts on What Makes Sense and What’s a Waste of Time

Is Etsy a good idea?  Surprisingly (or not so surprisingly if you’ve been banging your head against the wall doing the web shop thing), Etsy as a company makes a killing, but jewelry makers don’t get much if any of that sugar.

How about blogging, Facebook, and other popular promotion strategies.  Are they working?  Are they a waste of time?  What is a jewelry seller who wants results to do?

Learn why web shops like Etsy don’t work for the average jewelry maker, get the facts on other popular strategies, and how the heck to make your jewelry business more successful with the Results Report.

It’s free when you subscribe to my Handmade Results Success News Newsletter so go get it now.

Best,

Christine Gierer

P.S.: Already a member? Download the Results Report Again. It’s been newly updated for 2010 to include some interesting facts about social media too. You might be surprised to know what the real results are… Download the Results Report again now.

This is what happened after I sent out that September newsletter.  I received a huge amount of email.  It was the biggest newsletter response EVER.  And i just had to share one exchange I had with a very nice woman who didn’t agree with me at all.

“I’m Making Jewelry in my Jam Jams” ISSUE 5,  Part 2,  SEPTEMBER 2009
It’s Not Your Fault

Hey

If you’ve been trying to sell jewelry online and it hasn’t been
working out, it’s not your fault.  It really isn’t.

Some key information isn’t being shared, and I’m not just talking
about on Etsy either.

(I really didn’t want to go back into this, but here I am.) Read the rest of this entry

You know, this whole Handmade Results things really came about because I kept getting questions about how to start a jewelry business.  It’s been the most commonly asked question on my website How-to-Make-Jewelry.com.

The only reason I even tried to answer the question in the first place was that I promised my “I’m Making Jewelry in My Jam Jams” newsletter readers in August that I would answer a question on the next newsletter in September. Of course, being the last minute girl I am, I was stuck looking for what to answer.  So I thought I would just answer whatever was the most common.  Hence the big “idea”.

So here’s the newsletter article that started it all, and the followup newsletter where  I respond to someone who takes issue with many of my wild claims.

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