Jewelry & Beading

Jewelry Booth Business Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Timothy Payn) — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:54:00 +0000

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JEWELRY BOOTH BUSINESS GUIDE

For the best guide available on the net, click on the link above.

A well organised jewelry booth needs a business license, insurance and an idea about pricing for maximum profitability. Insurance and the license are mandatory, while the prices can be changed from show to show or even during the event itself. Regulations vary in different states but these can be easily checked with an up to date guide.

Learn also about how to negotiate the best possible deal on insurance quotes. Every cent is important. And ensure that it actually provides adequate cover. There are few things worse than having a claim made for which you cannot deliver.

Then think about how to price the wares on your jewelry booth. You may be surprised about how much you can get away with. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Never forget that. What may have taken you six or seven hours to make may take a smaller revenue than a quick thirty minute job. Impulse buys can make an awful lot of difference in your takings. It is well worth considering a range of cheap manufactured products for customers who are looking for a low priced present for a particular occasion.

Your point of sale or check out can create a strong impression if well executed. Mull over the advantages of cash, check and credit card transactions. Bear in mind that card merchants will charge a percentage of everything they process. Make it clear what you do and do not accept as a form of payment and make it easy for the client to identify where they should pay. [Sara Mayes]

Jewelry Booth Business

noreply@blogger.com (Timothy Payn) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:15:00 +0000

Jewelry booths need proper management. It really is as simple as that. Making money at jewelry booths is an issue that really must be addressed.

Try the Jewelry Booth link at the top left hand corner of this page for a definitive guide. Alternatively, click on the title of this post above.

We have all struggled to make good jewelry and then most of us have found them hard to sell. I know, having had a jewelry booth myself. My sister has a great beading business that she runs from home. By the way, she also has three very lively boys to watch over and take care of each and every day.

As stated, jewelry booths are a much misunderstood subject. I'll get back to my sister shortly, but I must confirm first that anyone can find a good profit doing what they want to do with jewelry making booths. And that is exactly the way it should be for anyone doing something creative with their brains and hands.

Personally, I salute anyone with the passion and enthusiasm to produce something artistic. Many people will ask us exactly what we think we are doing and question whether we are wasting our own time and their time. Jewelry making should never be relegated and persecuted like that.

That's why Rena Klingberg, a jewelry business expert, has woken up to how to help jewelry artists and actually bothered to write a book about how to set up and run your own jewelry making business. Let me know if you think she is wrong about her ideas, but I truly believe that you will find that they stick and work, time and time again.

She has extensively sold her handcrafted jewelry at numerous shows across the States. Her experience should not be lightly ignored. I don't necessarily want to argue her corner, but she does have some extremely strong thoughts. Her experience is also very compelling. She has displayed and sold her jewelry making at shows, festivals and fairs all over the place.

Rena's book The Ultimate Guide to Your Profitable Jewelry Booth includes pretty much everything she has understood about squeezing the maximum turnover and profits out an independent online jewelry store and a physical jewelry booth.

Initially she tried selling her jewelry at jewelry shows and it wasn't a particularly successful enterprise. It was incredibly heart-breaking, tiring and led to a general sense of no hope. Fortunately, she persevered and can now expand on the highs and lows of such an experience. More importantly, she can impart, to anyone who cares to know, the things to follow and the things to avoid in a jewelry making business. Experience is not something to be scoffed at.

In spite of her setbacks, Rena continued with jewelry booths and found ways of turning a profit. Let me quote her:

It was frustrating to put so much effort into getting ready for a show, and spend an entire day in my booth - and then come home with only a small profit after expenses.
But I didn't give up. I persevered, trying new things, observing successful artists, and applying the lessons I learned from each show.

Through trial and error I gradually developed a more professional - and far more successful - approach to selling my handcrafted jewelry at shows.
As I began to use and refine my new winning approach, I experienced a big increase in my booth traffic, jewelry sales, and the money I earned at each show.
In a recent juried show of 40 artists, my jewelry booth was unfortunately located on the second floor of the venue, instead of on the main floor where most of the action was (including several other jewelry artists).

But despite my less-than-prime booth location, my sales accounted for 1/8 of the total sales for the entire show.

Now that kind of experience really is dreadful but she has plenty of inspirational stuff to show you in practical and sensible language about how you can make a great success out of your jewelry booth. That is a good beginning.

She can also show you how to start out on jewelry making and how to set up in business. She touches on issues such as sales taxes, business licenses, insurance, pricing, transactions, profitability, finding the right jewelry shows, presenting your booth to maximum effect, and plenty more.

I would only encourage you to keep going with jewelry making booth and also to look into how to run an effective jewelry booth. Try the Jewelry Booth link at the top left hand corner of this page for a definitive guide.

Battery Reconditioning

noreply@blogger.com (Timothy Payn) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:39:00 +0000

Reconditioning old batteries is pretty straightforward with the right equipment and the necessary know-how.

Reconditioning batteries requires little skill, once you know how.

This guy, who calls himself The Battery Geek, can show anyone how to recondition old batteries and restore them to full power. It could be simply for your own personal use, for friends and family, or you might even choose to charge for your battery charging skills (if you'll excuse the pun).

An excerpt of what the Battery Geek has to say is shown below, but if you want to jump straight to his fully detailed battery reconditioning account, just click here.

Anyway, this is what the Battery Geek is all about:

Recently, he discovered a simple technique that transformed a totally dead battery into a new performing battery which tested at 100% of it's charge capacity.

First of all, let him go back back to the beginning and set the background. He is a certified electronic technician in the biomedical and industrial fields. He worked in the research department of a company that developed pacemakers and implantable defibrillators.

He has also been employed at NASA and worked at Texas Instruments. He has 15 years experience in the electronics and electrical fields. So he has some grasp of theory. In fact, he's a geek by most people's standards.

So then he decided that what he really needed to do was work for himself so that there was no limit to how much money he could make. That's when he started his internet business. He started off selling Bosch and Skil tools on the internet. He noticed that there was a large market for batteries.

Rechargeable batteries allow the user to be free from cords that restrain and limit them to move around. Especially where there are no power outlets.

We live in an increasingly more portable society. Everything is going cordless, cell phones, power tools, iPods, Blackberries just to name a few. And all these cordless devices need rechargeable batteries. The market is huge!

Anyone can now also learn how to recondition automotive batteries, motorcycle batteries, marine batteries and motorized wheelchairs.

In addition, these batteries have a limited lifespan. There are only so many times that one can charge, use and recharge them. Often times the battery can burn out the charger and people just think that the charger is bad only to find out when they get another charger that the battery burned that one out too.

Click here for more from The Battery Geek.

Learn how to recondition rechargeable batteries - Keeps a battery healthy and can extend the run time of your batteries.

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